Teubner to retire as E&P publisher p. 3

By: Editorial Staff

D. Colin Phillips, Christopher Phillips named co-publishers
FERDINAND C. TEUBNER, publisher of Editor & Publisher magazine and secretary-treasurer of Editor & Publisher Co. Inc., has announced he will retire in February after 33 years with the company.
He will be succeeded by general manager D. Colin Phillips and operations manager Christopher Phillips, who will become co-publishers and, respectively, treasurer and secretary. Both were elected to the board of directors.
Colin Phillips will oversee the advertising, marketing and research areas of the company and will continue to direct Ampersand, the company's online information venture. Christopher Phillips will be in charge of general operations, production and circulation.
The editorial department continues to operate under the supervision of president and editor Robert U. Brown.
The Phillips brothers, originally from Houston, are Brown's grandsons.
"I have been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to have been with Editor & Publisher and to become its publisher. It has been a great life, and I have met and worked with many wonderful and interesting people," Teubner said.
"Back when I was promoted to advertising manager, replacing a person who retired after many years with E&P, I remember a lot of people telling me how great it was to now have a young person with young ideas in charge of the advertising department. I have been thinking a lot about what they said recently and realize that I am no longer the young person, and it might be a good time for a young person with young ideas to replace me ? and for me to go and start doing those things 'I'm going to do when I retire.' "
Brown said, "After working closely with Ferd for 33 years, since he joined our sales department in 1962, it is difficult to imagine his not being here. His contribution to E&P over the years has been invaluable, especially during the last 16 years as publisher. I personally have appreciated his steady hand on the throttle during the good times and bad. The rest, relaxation and freedom to travel that he seeks has certainly been well earned."
Teubner joined E&P as an advertising salesman in February 1962 and was promoted to ad manager three years later. In 1969, he was elected to the board and in 1976 was named general manager and elected treasurer. He has been publisher since 1978.
A native of Philadelphia, Teubner attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated from the Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism in Philadelphia. He served in the Air Force during World War II and was a representative for a commercial art and photo studio before re-entering active military service during the Korean War.
After the war, Teubner returned to Philadelphia, where he was an account executive and later vice president of a sales promotion agency. He left the firm for a staff executive post with the American Association of Advertising Agencies in New York City. He also worked as a New York-based magazine publishers' representative.
In 1992, the International Newspaper Marketing Association presented Teubner with its prestigious Silver Shovel award in recognition of his longtime service to newspaper marketing.
Teubner and his wife, Ruth, live in Montville, N.J. Their daughter, Janell Teubner-Crispyn, is news director of WHLI-AM in Long Island, N.Y., and a former E&P advertising sales representative.
Colin Phillips, who graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, started at E&P in 1990 as assistant to the publisher. He assumed responsibility for accounting operations later that year.
In 1991, he was promoted to research manager and was in charge of the Editor & Publisher Year Book, Editor & Publisher Market Guide and other annual directories. He was named general manager in 1993. Over the past two years, Phillips has also led the development of the Ampersand service, which is scheduled to be launched early next year. Before joining E&P, he worked for Prudential-Bache and in the news department of WTVF-TV, the CBS affiliate in Nashville. He currently resides in New York City.
Christopher Phillips started in the E&P production department in 1992 after graduation from the University of Texas at Austin. He was appointed photocomposition manager the same year. In 1993, he was elevated to operations manager, with responsibility for production and systems. He also makes his home in New York.
The Phillips brothers oversaw E&P's conversion from paste-up to electronic page composition and redesign in 1992, as well as the creation of the company's CD-ROM directories.