DANBURY, Conn.-
Newspaper executive John Dunster has been named publisher of The News-Times of Danbury, according to Denver-based ap, which owns the paper.
Since 1999, Dunster has been the senior vice president of marketing for The Advocate of Stamford and Greenwich Time, Tribune Co. newspapers that are being sold to Gannett Co.
Interim News-Times publisher Art Cummings has been named editor of the paper. Interim editor Jacqueline Smith has been named editor of The Greater New Milford Spectrum, a weekly that is also owned by ap.
ap, whose other local holdings include the Connecticut Post and six Brooks Community newspapers in southern Fairfield County, bought the Danbury and New Milford papers from Alabama-based Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. about a month ago. The News-Times reported that the deal was worth more than $75 million.
Dunster, 48, who will be the fourth publisher of The News-Times in two years, said he hopes to bring stability. He was the Northeast advertising manager for the Los Angeles Times for three years in the late 1990s.
