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Tribune Interactive Appoints Two Executives
to Lead Efforts
CHICAGO,
September 13, 2006 -- Tribune
Interactive, a subsidiary of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB) today
announced that Brigid Kenney has been named senior vice president/network
operations, and Dick Malone has been named senior vice president/local
market operations. Both will assume their new positions with
TI immediately.
"These appointments enable Tribune Interactive
to strengthen the organization as we move to take advantage
of significant online growth opportunities," said Tim
Landon, Tribune Interactive president. "Brigid and
Dick bring enormous experience to these positions and are
ideal choices to help lead TI’s team going forward."
As SVP/network operations, Kenney will
oversee TI’s
current network businesses which include CareerBuilder.com,
Apartments.com, and Cars.com. She will also be responsible
for the early stage start-up operations of new ad and content
networks. Kenney was promoted to senior vice president/general
manager at TI in 2005; she was appointed general manager
in 2004. Prior to that, she held positions of increasing
responsibility with Tribune Interactive.
As SVP/local market operations, Malone
will be responsible for TI’s current local business
operations. He has served as senior vice president/general
manager of Chicago Tribune Company since 2003, and assumed
additional operational responsibilities at Tribune Publishing
in 2006. Malone joined Tribune Company in 1979 and has
a long history of successfully managing large operations.
During the last year, he has been increasingly involved
with interactive planning.
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TRIBUNE (NYSE:TRB) is one of the
country’s top media companies, operating businesses
in publishing, interactive and broadcasting. It reaches
more than 80 percent of U.S. households and is the only
media organization with newspapers, television stations
and websites in the nation’s top three markets. In
publishing, Tribune’s leading daily newspapers include
the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Baltimore
Sun, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel and Hartford
Courant. 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.
Tribune Interactive, a subsidiary
of Tribune Company, manages the interactive operations
of major daily newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune, Newsday and their associated websites.
Its national network sites owned with partners include
CareerBuilder.com, Cars.com, Apartments.com, ShopLocal.com
and Topix.net. With more than 50 websites overall, Tribune
Interactive ranks among the nation’s leading
news and information networks. The sites attract more than
14 million unique visitors per month. |
