LOS ANGELES—Edward R. Moss has been named president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, a unit of Denver-based ap.
Moss will also assume the role of publisher of the Daily News of Los Angeles, one of nine Southern California papers in the group. He succeeds John McKeon.
The new position is a homecoming of sorts for the 30-year newspaper veteran who most recently was publisher of the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio. Moss began his career in Los Angeles at the Valley News and Green Sheet as it was transforming into the Daily News in the 1970s.
Moss, 52, has also held executive positions at Media General Inc., Freedom Communications Inc., 21st Century Newspapers Inc. and the Tribune Co.
Moss said his goals include increasing local news and advertising, something he was able to do at the Akron Beacon Journal even as population in the area was decreasing.
“I think what’s exciting is this is the most dynamic market in the nation,” Moss said. “Our solutions need to include print and online.”
Moss is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in mass communications and advertising. He and his wife have six grown children.
Besides the Daily News, the Los Angeles Newspaper Group includes the Redlands Daily Facts, the Daily Breeze in Torrance, the Long Beach Press-Telegram, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, the Pasadena Star-News, the Whittier Daily News, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and the San Bernardino Sun.
