The Honolulu Advertiser's president and publisher, Lee Webber, is retiring after 40 years with Gannett, which sold the paper in spring to the owner of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the rival daily Gannett sold when it acquired the Advertiser in 1992.
Having failed to sell the Star-Bulletin, owner David Black merged the two dailies. Star-Bulletin Publisher Dennis Francis then became publisher of the merged Star-Advertiser.
Webber moved to the Advertiser in 2007, after serving as president and publisher of Guam Publications and president of Pacific Media Inc. for 14 years. In all, Webber spent 32 years in Guam with Gannett.
Winner of many top publishers' awards, Webber was named a Gannett Top Ten Publisher several times and earned six Gannett President's Rings.
Webber was general executive of USA Today International Asia/Pacific Region from 1989 to 1993 and director of operations for USA Today International Asia/Pacific Region from for several years before that. He worked with the USA Today Asia launch team. Until 1983, Webber held several executive positions with Guam Publications, including marketing director, director of community relations and circulation manager.
Before joining Gannett in 1970, Webber served with the Marines in Vietnam. As publisher, he helped re-establish the Guam USO in the 1990s.
In addition to involvement in numerous community organizations, Webber was an archery coach for the XXV Olympiad in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992.
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