PNJ Names New Publisher

January 13, 2014

Gannett Co., Inc. announced today Terry Horne has been named president and publisher of the Pensacola News-Journal.

Horne had been publisher of the East Valley Tribune in Arizona and general manager of 1013 Communications, which offers digital services in Phoenix, Dallas and Houston. Previously, he was CEO and president of the Orange County Register from 2007 to 2011. He is returning to Gannett, where he served as vice president of community newspapers for The Arizona Republic from 2004-2007.

“Terry has a rich history as a media executive, is passionate about community journalism and understands the role digital plays in connecting with our customers,” said Robert Dickey, Gannett’s U.S. Community Publishing president. “We’re excited to have him return to Gannett and engage in the vibrant Pensacola community.”

Horne has also worked with Swift Newspapers in Reno, Clarksburg Publishing in West Virginia, Thomson Newspapers, and Knight-Ridder, where he started as a staff writer for The Wichita Eagle in Kansas, having been inspired to pursue journalism by the Watergate scandal and coverage.

He received his BA in journalism from Wichita State University and an MS in mass communications from Oklahoma State University. He is married with six children.

Comments

10 Responses to “PNJ Names New Publisher”

  1. BPD on January 15th, 2014 7:39 pm

    They still print that fish wrapper?

  2. Reader on January 14th, 2014 10:43 pm

    SouthEscambia.com?

    It was mentioned in a comment below and was clickable on my phone…..guess what…it does exist!!! It just leads back to NorthEscambia.com. Maybe they will expand one day. Sure hope so!

  3. mic hall on January 14th, 2014 10:23 pm

    Nothing is going to repair the damage done to the PNJ but the ONLY possibility, and its still unlikely, would be to put the entire paper online in the form of the current layout with clickable articles. Not going to happen but it could save the paper if the cost per month was not too high. Of course some better reporting would be a boost but just plugging in articles from out of the area will do nothing to save the paper.

    What we, the people of the south end, need is a SouthEscambia.com or maybe Pensacola-GulfBreeze-Beach.com to replace the mullet wrapper.

    NorthEscambia is great but we need more south end coverage.

  4. Anne on January 14th, 2014 11:11 am

    Real newspapers don’t use Facebook to monitor free speech so we already know this is another puppeteer.

  5. Bob Dandridge on January 14th, 2014 10:18 am

    from ex PNJ Subscriber,
    Now maybe the PNJ can get in touch with the conservative NW FL. Conservative blood is definitely needed here. Maybe take a lesson from NorthEscambia while he’s at it. You know increase article accuracy and other stuff.

  6. Ben on January 14th, 2014 8:22 am

    Now that the PNJ has sold their building, I expect they’ll be running operations out of a van down by the river.

  7. OldMan on January 14th, 2014 5:26 am

    Couldn’t have said it better, coming from someone who ‘had to make a donation’ to get through a CC land use vote.

  8. Reader on January 13th, 2014 10:05 pm

    Funny thing here….I think north escambia reported this before the PNJ. It won’t be in the PNJ until tomorrow.

  9. Welcome on January 13th, 2014 10:04 pm

    Welcome to Pensacola. Get out there are meet everyone and figure out which behinds to kiss, which people must approved your stories before they run and who pulls the puppet strings on the PNJ.

    In the meantime, the masses will cotinue to get our news from north escambia, rick’s blog and the tv station’s website. The news journal is an important part of pensacola’s history, but not pensacola’s future.

  10. Ex-reader on January 13th, 2014 4:13 pm

    “in the vibrant Pensacola community”

    Is that the one with a murder rate higher than Miami? Or the one with backroom political deals, constant fueds between a city and county? A “model” mayor and his upside of florida, or just the downside of Florida the rest of us live in?

    Another publisher out of touch with our community.

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