CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Two senior executives and corporate officers at Evening Post Publishing Co. are retiring, company chairman Pierre Manigault announced.
President and chief operating officer Travis O. Rockey retires June 30 while Roger A. Berardinis, the company’s chief financial officer, will retire at the end of the year.
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Rockey has been with Evening Post Publishing for 30 years, becoming chief operating officer in 2000 and being named president in 2009. Berardinis joined the company in 2001 as corporate director of finance. He was named CFO in 2008.
Ron Owens, the company’s vice president of finance, will succeed Berardinis and also become senior vice president of finance and accounting. He also will join the corporate board.
CEO John P. Barnwell also announced several promotions in conjunction with company changes taking effect July 1.
Terry Hurley will become president of a new division that includes the company’s television business, online operations and marketing services company.
Evening Post operates 13 stations, about half in Montana, with others in Arizona, California, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas. Hurley, based in St. Paul, Minn., also will join the board and become a senior vice president.
Pamela J. “P.J.” Browning, publisher of The Post and Courier, will become president of the newspaper division and a corporate senior vice president.
Browning will keep her publishing duties and oversee the company’s other daily papers – the Aiken Standard and the Salisbury (N.C.) Post – and nine weeklies in the Community Newspaper Group; and the shared services, newspaper marketing and Evening Post Books divisions.
Paul Sharry, corporate director of human resources, is being promoted to senior vice president.
