Steve Traud Named Director of Audience Development for The Star Beacon

Steve Traud has been hired to serve as the director of audience development for the Star Beacon in Ashtabula, Ohio. He comes to the Star Beacon with a long history in newspaper circulation, starting in 1973 at the Courier-Journal in Louisville, Ky.   He has worked as a home delivery manager, district manager, circulation director and division manager at various newspapers in Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee and for the last five years he served as circulation sales director for the Evansville (Ind.) Courier and Press.