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DATE: THURSDAY, February 21, 1991                   TAG: 9102210566
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

NORFOLK NEWSPAPERS GET NEW PRESIDENT

Frank Batten Jr., associate publisher and vice president of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, will become president and publisher of the newspapers.

The promotion, effective June 1, was announced by John O. Wynne, president of Landmark Communications, parent company of the newspapers.

Batten, 32, is the son of Frank Batten Sr., chairman of Landmark Communications. He will replace Robert D. Benson, who will retire after a 26-year career with Landmark newspapers, during which he was president of the Roanoke Times & World-News and The Greensboro News and Record.

Batten has been associate publisher since 1989. He was publisher of The News-Enterprise in Elizabethtown, Ky., and a reporter in the London bureau of The Associated Press. Batten was also a reporter and advertising salesman at the Roanoke Times & World-News.

A Norfolk native, Batten graduated from Dartmouth College and earned a master's of business administration degree from the Colgate Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. - Associated Press 


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