
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 4, 1994                    TAG: 9406040239 
SECTION: BUSINESS                     PAGE: C12    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT 
DATELINE: 940604                                 LENGTH: Medium

LANDMARK'S NEW CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER NAMED

{LEAD} Douglas B. Fox, a Times Mirror Co. executive, has been named chief operating officer of Landmark Communications Inc., the Norfolk-based parent of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star.

Fox, whose hiring was announced Friday, will begin with Landmark June 20. He will also have the title of president of Landmark's newly formed Publishing and Video Group, which will include the company's newspapers, specialty publications, television stations and cable networks.

{REST} Also on Friday, Landmark announced that Carl Mangum, president of the company's Landmark Newspapers unit, will retire this summer after 36 years with the company.

Since 1992, Fox has been corporate vice president-marketing for the Los Angeles-based Times-Mirror's Newspaper Group. He joined that media conglomerate in 1987 at the Newsday newspapers in New York, serving as vice president-marketing and then president and chief operating officer for those newspapers.

Prior to joining Times-Mirror, Fox had worked in managerial and executive positions for two consumer-products companies, Procter & Gamble Co. and Tambrands Inc. Prior to moving to Times-Mirror, he had been vice president-marketing for Tambrands.

John O. Wynne, president and chief executive officer of Landmark, said Fox's ``wealth of experience in newspaper management, marketing, and consumer and product management . . . will be tremendous assets to our many businesses.''

Mangum's retirement will close a career that began when he joined the Pilot as a classified-advertising salesman. He rose through the ranks to become the Pilot's ad director and then, in 1980, president of both the Pilot and Ledger. In 1990, he was named president and publisher of Landmark's Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record newspaper. In 1992, he was promoted to president of Landmark Newspapers.

In recent years, Mangum has also helped organize Landmark's companywide continuous-improvement program.

Landmark Chairman Frank Batten praised Mangum as ``an exceptionally able manager who sets high standards for himself and the newspapers. In a wide variety of assignments he improved every organization he led.''

Landmark publishes eight daily newspapers, 31 non-daily newspapers and numerous specialty publications, including Chicago Magazine and Antique Trader Weekly. Other holdings include The Weather Channel and The Travel Channel cable-TV networks and two CBS-affiliated TV stations in Nashville, Tenn., and Las Vegas.

Landmark, which had 1993 revenues of $436 million, employs 4,400, including 1,800 in Hampton Roads. by CNB