Eric Grilly, president of Denver-based ap interactive, will leave to take a job as president of Philly .com.
Philadelphia Media Holdings LLC, the publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, owns Philly.com.
“The opportunity was too good for me to pass up. I am an operator. This gives me a chance to go back and run something,” Grilly said Friday.
Philadelphia Media is working on a $2 million redesign of its various websites, which Grilly said will be one of his first tasks.
Media News chief operating officer Steve Rossi will oversee the search for Grilly’s replacement. ap interactive is the online division of Denver-based Media News Group Inc., the nation’s fourth- largest newspaper publisher and owner of The Denver Post.
Grilly, 36, joined Media News in 1999 and became vice president of interactive media at The Denver Post. In October 2000, he was put in charge of all interactive operations for ap.
Grilly is the son of Gerald Grilly, a former publisher of The Denver Post who retired as chief operating officer at MediaNews in August 2006.
Eric Grilly plans to start his new position April 9.
Staff writer Aldo Svaldi can be reached at 303-954-1410 or asvaldi@denverpost.com.
