Posted on 12/27/2005 9:45:28 PM PST by LdSentinal
NEW YORK - Les Goodstein, president and chief operating officer of the Daily News, has joined News Corp., owner of the rival New York Post, as a senior vice president, the Post’s publisher announced Tuesday.
In the new position, Goodstein will be responsible for new business development and advise the Post and other News Corp. divisions, said Paul Carlucci, chairman of News America Marketing and publisher of the Post.
The Daily News’ publisher, Mortimer Zuckerman, told the newspaper’s staff in a statement Tuesday that he would announce “major new leadership appointments” next week, including that of chief executive officer. Fred Drasner retired as CEO and co-publisher in September 2004.
The Daily News also lost editor-in-chief Michael Cooke earlier this month. Cooke will start next month as a vice president with the Sun-Times News Group in Chicago.
Goodstein, who has been at the Daily News for 28 years, starts his new job on Jan. 3.
“The challenges in the media business are many, and the opportunities for this bold, savvy, innovative organization are limitless,” said Goodstein. “I look forward to working with Paul to seize the tremendous opportunities that lie ahead, give our customers what they want, and further accelerate our growth.”
Carlucci said of Goodstein: “Not only is he a superb businessman and manager, but his marketing and promotional abilities have stood out above the rest in a very tough New York media market - the most competitive in the world.”
Goodstein, 54, has been president and chief operating officer of the Daily News since January 2000. He joined the newspaper in 1977 and moved up through the ranks in advertising sales. He was appointed executive vice president and associate publisher of the Daily News in 1995, overseeing advertising and circulation.
News Corp.’s media assets include Twentieth Century Fox studios, newspapers in Britain and Australia, satellite broadcast television companies and the HarperCollins book publisher.
According to figures compiled for a six-month period ended Sept. 30 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the New York Post was the nation’s seventh-largest newspaper, with 672,731 papers sold daily and 425,279 on Sundays, behind the Daily News’ fifth-largest circulation of 688,584 daily and 781,375 on Sundays
Is this in any way akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?
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