By: Editorial Staff
JOHN MADIGAN, president and CEO of the Chicago Tribune Co., has withdrawn as a candidate for the board of directors of the Associated Press.
A Tribune Co. spokesman said that Madigan wishes to devote his full attention to the company. He will be replaced by Gene Bell, vice president of Copley Newspapers, as a candidate for the AP board. Following is the new list of nominees, listed alphabetically:
Bell, who is also president and CEO, San Diego Union-Tribune; Judith W. Brown, editor, New Britain, Conn., Herald; W. Stacey Cowles, publisher, Spokane, Wash., Spokesman-Review; Larry Franklin, president and CEO, Harte-Hanks Communications, representing the Wichita Falls (Texas) Times Record News; Stephen Hamblett, chairman, CEO and publisher, Providence Journal Co.; Joe Hladky III, president and publisher, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Gazette; Peter A. Horvitz, president and CEO, Horvitz Newspapers, Bellevue, Wash., Journal American; Reid MacCluggage, editor and publisher, New London, Conn., Day; Burl Osborne, publisher and editor, Dallas Morning News; Lissa Walls Vahldiek, vice president and COO, Southern Newspapers Inc., representing the Baytown (Texas) Sun.
From memberships in cities under 50,000 population, the following two candidates were nominated for one seat:
R. Victor Dix, vice president, Dix Communications, Wooster, Ohio, Daily Record and Fred Paxton, president and CEO, Paxton Media Group, Paducah (Ky.) Sun.
Incumbent directors whose current terms expire April 29 are Brown, Hamblett, vice chairman Ruth S. Holmberg (chairman, Chattanooga Times), David Laventhol (editor-at-large, Times Mirror Co.), Osborne and David J. Wichard II (chairman, Greenville, N.C., Daily Reflector).
Holmberg, having served the maximum three terms, was not eligible for renomination. Laventhol and Wichard chose not to stand for re-election.
The election will be held at the AP annual meeting on April 29 in New York City.
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