Newsday Publisher Resigns
Timothy Knight resigned Wednesday as publisher of Newsday in Melville, N.Y. In a note to staff, he explained, “Now is the right time to let others move our business forward.”
Newsday reported the move and the note on its Web site late Wednesday.
Knight will be replaced by Terry Jimenez, publisher of amNewYork, a free New York City daily, Tad Smith, president of Cablevision Systems Corp.’s local media unit, announced.
Knight had been publisher for five years.
Newsday supplied this context: “His departure comes at a time when Newsday, like most major newspapers, is struggling with declining circulation and advertising revenue as some readers get their news from the Internet and other electronic sources, and advertisers follow them.
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