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Executive suite: At Cox Newspapers in Atlanta, Brian Cooper has been named executive vice president; previously he was chief operating officer of Cox Ohio Publishing and general manager of the Dayton Daily News, a job he'd held since August 2004. Earlier, Cooper had been senior vice president of Cox Newspapers. A Dayton native, Cooper joined the Daily News in 1984 and moved to corporate headquarters in 1987. ... At The Hearst Corp. of New York City, Steven DeLorenzo has been named vice president and controller; previously he was assistant treasurer and assistant corporate controller, based at the Hearst Service Center in Charlotte, N.C. DeLorenzo joined Hearst in 1984 and earlier was with the company now known as KPMG. Also at Hearst, Alfred Gatto has been named vice president of The Hearst Corp. and general manager of the Service Center; previously he was resident controller in Charlotte and director of the center. Gatto joined Hearst in 1980 and has held a variety of corporate finance jobs. These are all in reaction to the announced Dec. 31 retirement of Thomas Hughes, vice president and controller of the company and general manager of the center. Hughes was the key executive responsible for moving Hearst's finance and data processing operations out of midtown Manhattan to Charlotte in 1991 and has been in charge of the Service Center ever since. He joined Hearst in 1971 and earlier spent a decade (save three years in the U.S. Navy) with Deloitte & Touche. ... At Belo Corp. of Dallas, Anna Nicodemus has been named vice president of internal audit; previously she was audit director at Electronic Data Systems (EDS). A 19-year EDS veteran, Nicodemus also served as audit manager, audit supervisor and audit team leader. ...

Publisher: At the Oakland Press in Pontiac, Mich., Kevin Haezebroeck has been named publisher; previously he had been publisher of the Macomb Daily of Mount Clemens, Mich. (both are 21st Century/Journal Register Co. papers), a job he'd held since August. A 20-year veteran of the news business, Haezebroeck has been with Journal Register since 1999 and preceding Mount Clemens, served as publisher of the Morning Journal in Lorain, Ohio. ...

Maine's main circulators: At Maine's Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, Steve Infinger has been named director of operations; previously he was regional production manager of Virginia's Charlottesville Daily Progress. Earlier in his career, Infinger did a 13-year stint in packaging and distribution at Florida's Tampa Tribune. ... At Maine's Lewiston Sun Journal, Mike Theriault has been named circulation director; previously he had been assistant circulation director, a job he'd held since 1997. Theriault is a 15-year veteran of the paper. ...

North Carolina editors: At the Fayetteville Observer, Brian Tolley has been named executive editor; previously he was assistant managing editor of The State in Columbia, S.C. Tolley had been with The State since 1998 and earlier was an editor at the Palm Beach Post in Florida and editor and reporter at The News-Journal in Daytona Beach, Fla. ... At the Goldsboro News-Argus, Renee Carey has been named editor; most recently, she was editor of Georgia's Griffin Daily News, a job she held for four years. Carey started her career at Ohio's Ironton Tribune as a reporter, and worked her way up to become managing editor. ...

Gannett's New York editors: At the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, Calvin Stovall has been named executive editor; previously he was managing editor of the News Journal in Wilmington, Del., a job he's held since 2001 (both are Gannett papers). A 32-year newspaper veteran, Stovall has worked at the San Jose Mercury News, The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., the Detroit News, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J., and the Indianapolis Star, where he was managing editor. ... At The Observer-Dispatch in Utica, Jon Broadbooks has been named editor; previously he was executive editor of Mississippi's Hattiesburg American (both are Gannett papers). Broadbrooks joined Gannett in 1993 after working as a reporter and college instructor. He has worked for papers in Bluefield, W.Va., Chattanooga, Tenn., Houston, Texas, Jackson, Miss., and Montgomery, Ala. ...