During he worked at magazine publisher Rodale where he helped launch the start-up website Rodale. Here is the text of a news release distributed this morning:. Stephen A. Rogers, Editor and Publisher of The Post-Standard, announced today that the planning for the new company is underway and its debut is scheduled for Jan.
The new model seeks to adapt the journalistic excellence of The Post-Standard and syracuse. A smaller version will be available for single copy sales the other four days in Onondaga County. The Syracuse Media Group will review the single copy program carefully and may decide to eliminate it before or by the end of next year. Leadership change to take place later this year. There is no doubt that change must occur sooner rather than later.
Our brands will remain strong, we will maintain our commitment to quality journalism and we will invest in the growth of our digital skills and platforms.
Coincident with the leadership change, it was also announced that Stephen A. Rogers would assume the role of Chairman of Syracuse Media Group. In his new role, Rogers will continue to represent the paper in the community, will serve on the editorial advisory board and act as an advisor to Kennedy. Rogers will continue in his current role as Publisher and Editor of The Post-Standard through the end of the year. Business model changes in development; key support services to be provided by Advance Central Services Syracuse.
Another integral component of the new business model is the formation of a second new company, Advance Central Services Syracuse. It will provide important support functions such as production, distribution, purchasing, accounting and human resources for Syracuse Media Group. The new company will work to optimize these functions and seek new opportunities to generate revenue from services and legacy investments.
The Post offered fresh viewpoints that appealed to many of Syracuse's wealthier and more influential residents who invested in the new newspaper. At the end of , Palmer left the Post, and the editorship was turned over to William A. In , Walter E. Gardner arrived in Syracuse, bought a one-third interest in the Post, and became its editor and publisher. By , the Courier had stopped publishing in the morning and became an afternoon newspaper. That left the ideologically allied Post and Standard - the two remaining morning newspapers - competing for the same readers.
Realizing that together they could produce a better and more profitable paper, the owners of the Standard and the Post began merger negotiations. Heading the new company was James J. Belden, president of the Post, and Francis Hendricks, president of the Standard. Belden was president of the new company and Hendricks the vice president.
The combined newspaper operated out of the Post's newer offices at E. Genesee St. In , The Post-Standard began publishing a Sunday edition. However, the Sunday newspaper didn't catch on, and within a year it stopped.
An attempt to bring it back in also failed. In , the Sunday edition was brought back and stayed. In , Jerome D. Barnum, a local high school student, was hired to report local school news. A few years later, he resigned and enrolled in Cornell University.
Barnum returned to the paper a few years later and went to work in The Post-Standard's business department and quickly became advertising manager. In , he bought Gardner's 33 percent share of the company and became the new publisher.
Remaining publisher for 27 years, Barnum oversaw The Post-Standard's growth in the early first half of the 20th century. Under Barnum, the mission of the newspaper was driven more by news, rather than a political agenda. In , S.
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