Well, that was quick. After severing ties with former publisher Joe Pepe last week, the Scripps Corporation said a new publisher would be announced within “weeks.” They beat that deadline, at least, by naming George H. Cogwell III the new CA publisher Thursday.
According to a short Scripps press release on the CA website, Cogswell has most recently served as publisher of the Ventura (California) County Star.
Here’s Cogswell’s executive profile from Businessweek.com:
George H. Cogswell, III has been President and Publisher of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News of Ew Scripps Co., The. since February 1, 2005. Mr. Cogswell serves as President of BRV, Inc. He serves as President and Publisher of the Star of The E. W. Scripps Company. He served as Director of Circulation and Marketing Services for the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers in Florida of EW Scripps Co. Mr. Cogswell moved to Abilene after serving two years leading the circulation and marketing efforts for the three Scripps Treasure Coast newspapers – The Stuart News, The Tribune in Fort Pierce and the Press Journal in Vero Beach. He served as circulation director of the Scripps-owned Wichita Falls (Texas) Times Record News from 1997 to 2000. Before joining The Ew Scripps Co., Mr. Cogswell worked from 1993 to 1996 for Freedom Communications, first at Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers newspaper in Fort Pierce (before it was acquired by Scripps) and then at Freedom”s Colorado Springs (Colo.) Gazette Telegraph. He served as an Assistant Circulation Director and then circulation director for The Tribune before accepting the position of subscriber sales and retention manager in Colorado Springs. Mr. Cogswell began his newspaper career in 1985 as a district circulation manager at the Middlesex News in Framingham, Mass. From 1986 to 1993 he held various positions in the circulation department at the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram & Gazette and served as circulation director for The Call in Woonsocket R.I. Mr. Cogswell is a graduate of the Scripps Leadership Institute.
