MediaNews Group Names New Publisher At El Paso Times
The El Paso Times is under new leadership with today’s retirement of publisher Ray Stafford.
Stafford had been the newspaper’s publisher since 2006. His replacement, Sergio Salinas, starts today.
Salinas also been named president and chief executive officer of the Texas-New Mexico Newspaper Partnership, according to a report on the Times’ Website. The partnership operates seven newspapers in New Mexico.
Salinas has more than 25 years of experience in newspapers, including a stint at the El Paso Times from 1982-’83 as the assistant circulation director. He has also held management positions at the Dallas Morning News and at the San Antonio Express-News.
Salinas retired from the newspaper business in 2006 to start a consulting firm, Salinas & Associates. The firm’s goal was to help companies solve their media and marketing concerns, according to a 2006 San Antonio Express-News story on Salinas’ retirement from the newspaper.
Salinas said in the 2006 San Antonio Express-News article that he was looking forward to stepping away from day-to-day management of a single entity.
?I have seen the media and marketing landscape evolve at a rapid pace these past 10-plus years and am finally in a position to step away from the day-to-day management of a single entity and focus my energies instead on helping others navigate their way through the accelerated change taking place all around us,? Salinas said in the 2006 article. ?I have been very blessed throughout my career and am excited about the opportunity to be an objective voice, helping others find answers to some very challenging questions.?
Other Professional and Personal Highlights of Salinas
-During his years in Dallas, he served on the Board of Directors for the Newspaper Federation of America and also volunteered for the United Way of Dallas, the Downtown Improvement District, the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce and Dallas Concilio.
-He served on the YMCA Board of Directors in San Antonio and was active in the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber. He has been a board member with the San Antonio Symphony and Blue Star, an arts organization.
-A bum knee means Salinas can no longer ski or play racquetball, but he is too stubborn to give up basketball. He trained and rode in the MS 150 bike tour, according to his 2007 Punch Sulzberger Fellows bio at Columbia University’s Journalism School.
Read the full El Paso Times article here.
Read the full 2006 San Antonio Express-News article here.
