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Sun's parent company announces new CEO

June 04, 2007

Franklin Dunn Schurz Jr. has announced his retirement as chief executive officer of Schurz Communications Inc. effective June 30. He will remain the company's chairman of the board.

SCI's board of directors has named Todd Franklin Schurz to serve as the company's president and CEO effective July 1.

Based in South Bend, Ind., Schurz Communications Inc. is a diversified privately owned media company. The company publishes 13 daily newspapers in medium and small markets with a combined circulation of nearly 235,000. It also publishes eight weekly newspapers, phone directory and shopping guide publications. It has five television subsidiaries, 13 radio stations, two cable companies, and a printing company.

In Kentucky, its properties are The Winchester Sun, the Advocate-Messenger in Danville, The Interior Journal in Stanford and The Jessamine Journal in Nicholasville.

Schurz Communications has a presence in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Dakota and Virginia.

Prior to taking over as president of SCI, Franklin D. Schurz Jr. had been editor and publisher of the South Bend Tribune and the Hagerstown, Md., Morning Herald and Daily Mail.

Todd Schurz was born in San Francisco and is a 1983 graduate of Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and economics. He received his master's degree from The Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania in Marketing and Management.

Prior to joining SCI in 1989, he worked for the Times Journal Company in Springfield, Va. and for the New York Daily News during graduate school.

At SCI, he worked at the South Bend Tribune, WSBT television and radio stations, and WDBJ television in Roanoke, Va. before being named president and publisher of Associated Desert Shoppers in Palm Desert, Calif., in 1991. In 1995 he was named president, editor and publisher of the South Bend Tribune. He was named vice president of technology and business development at SCI in 2000 and took on a joint assignment of president and general manager of WSBT Television in 2002. He was named president and chief operating officer of SCI on Nov. 1, 2005.

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