Register Star publisher to retire
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:43am Anna Derocher
Our publisher, Fritz Jacobi, announced his retirement this morning. Scott Bowers, our former controller and Springfield Journal-Register publisher, will be our new publisher. Tom Lasley, our marketing development director, will serve as general manager. Bowers, who will be based in Springfield, will split his time at Rockford and the Capitol.
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1. Rick Ram | July 24th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
How fitting the new publisher is a former comptroller. We all know newspapers are ruled not by good journalism or a sense of public service, but by the almighty dollar. I think the days of journalists being in charge of newspapers are long gone.
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