John Newby Named Publisher of the Muskogee Phoenix

John Newby has been appointed publisher ofThe Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix.   Newby comes to the Muskogee Phoenix from The Times in Ottawa, Ill. where he served as publisher. He has worked in the newspaper industry since 1990. He is the North American Board president of the International News Media Association.   Newby began his newspaper career as a circulation district manager at the Omaha World-Herald in Nebraska. He continued up the management ladder in audience development, sales and marketing there and at newspapers in Iowa and Utah before joining the Small Newspaper Group in Moline, Illinois, in 2002. He was promoted to publisher of the group’s Ottawa Times paper in 2007.