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Tribune Media Net Names Lee Jones SVP/Sales and Marketing
CHICAGO, August
23, 2006 -- Tribune Media Net (TMN), the national advertising sales organization for Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB) and its major-market newspapers, today announced that Lee Jones has been appointed senior vice president/sales and marketing, effective September 1. He succeeds Dana Hayes, who today was named senior vice president/sales for Tribune Interactive.
"Since joining TMN last year, Lee has
done a terrific job managing our largest sales region," said
Ken DePaola, Tribune Media Net president and senior vice
president/advertising for Chicago Tribune Company. "His
leadership qualities and sales experience, combined with
great team-building skills and strong relationships with
national advertisers, make him the ideal choice to guide
TMN’s overall sales and marketing activities."
Jones began with Tribune Media Net in August 2005 as vice president/Eastern Region Sales, leading TMN’s New York sales office and managing teams focused on national advertisers. Prior to TMN, he served four years as vice president/publisher of G+J USA’s Inc. and Fast Company magazines. Before that he was vice president/publisher at Ziff Davis Publishing and held senior management roles with Entrepreneur Media, Newsweek and Hearst Business Communications.
"I’m looking forward to my expanded
role with TMN and Tribune Publishing," said Jones. "We’ve
put together an excellent sales team that includes talent
from outside the newspaper industry. Our emphasis continues
to be on delivering creative and cost-effective solutions
for national marketers."
Jones earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California, majoring in business.
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Tribune Media Net is the national advertising sales organization for Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB), one of the country’s top media organizations with businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting. Tribune reaches more than 80 percent of U.S. households and is the only media company with newspapers, television stations and websites in the nation’s top three markets. In publishing, Tribune operates 11 leading daily newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Newsday, plus a wide range of targeted publications. The company’s broadcasting group operates 25 television stations, Superstation WGN on national cable, Chicago’s WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Popular news and information websites complement Tribune’s print and broadcast properties and extend the company’s nationwide audience. |
