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HOUSTON, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert D. Cravaritis has been named Executive Vice President of Sales for Houston Chronicle Media Group, a Hearst Corporation company. He will office out of the Houston Chronicle building in downtown Houston. The announcement was made by Mark Aldam, president of Hearst Newspapers. Cravaritis will focus on the sales direction and daily operations of the auto, real estate, recruitment, and local/major retail sales groups. Cravaritis will...
HOUSTON, Dec. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chron.com, the flagship website of the Houston Chronicle Media Group and Houston's most-read local news site, has topped more than one billion page views for the year. The site, which crossed the billion threshold this morning, also saw significant gains in unique visitors, announced Andrea Mooney, executive producer and director of digital content for HCMG. The number of unique users for 2012 is on pace to exceed 110 million, up 32% from...
HOUSTON, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Houston Chronicle Media Group announced today that veteran operations executive Michael H. Sacks will join the company as vice president of operations. In this newly created role, Sacks, reporting to the publisher, will manage day-to-day processes and execution of operations from prepress through transportation. Sacks joins the Chronicle from the Tribune Company, where he has served since 2006, most recently as VP of operations. There he...
HOUSTON, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Free cars, lunches with senior leadership and challenging, unbureaucratic environments are some of the perks cited by employees at companies named Houston's Top Workplaces by the Houston Chronicle. More than 900 staffers representing the winning businesses, selected by employee surveys, were honored last night at a gala. For the third straight year, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. came out on top in the large employer category. Employees praised the...
HOUSTON, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Houstonians love to shop. Houston leads the nation in retail sector job growth and over-indexes the US population in every major consumer category - particularly luxury automotive, travel, fashion and furniture. With those readers in mind, the Houston Chronicle Media Group is launching Style, a premium weekly publication devoted to timely local coverage of fashion, design, beauty, travel, cuisine and luxury lifestyle topics. The...
HOUSTON, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of Houston's increasing diversity, the Houston Chronicle has launched a new website, LaVozTx.com, aimed at providing relevant, engaging Spanish-language content to the city's growing Latino population. LaVozTx.com is a vibrant, locally focused online source for news, sports, entertainment, video stories and photo galleries relevant to Hispanic culture and lifestyle. The site also offers Spanish translations of pertinent stories...
HOUSTON, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Steve Proctor, an award-winning journalist who has served as managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle since 2009, will assume the same position at the Houston Chronicle beginning June 18. The announcement was made Monday by Jeff Cohen, editor of the Houston Chronicle. Proctor, 54, will report to Cohen as the second-in-command in the newsroom and will be responsible for the daily and Sunday content that is distributed in the newspaper, on...
HOUSTON, May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Houston Chronicle today announced new leadership in the areas of Spanish-language publishing, marketing and communications. Joining the Chronicle is Alejandro "Alex" Sanchez, who will serve as general manager and publisher of La Voz, the company's Spanish-language newspaper, and vice president of marketing and advertising for the Chronicle. Sanchez joins the Chronicle from the Dallas Morning News, where he served as general manager of...
HOUSTON, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- More Houstonians are interacting with Houston Chronicle products, including the printed newspaper, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations' March 31, 2012 FAS-FAX report, released Tuesday, May 1. The Chronicle's daily circulation increased 6.8 percent, while Sunday circulation increased 2.8 percent year-over-year. According to the latest Scarborough Newspaper Penetration Report, the Houston Chronicle's audience increased across print and...
By Stewart M. Powell, Houston Chronicle Jul. 17--WASHINGTON -- Two days after telling an online town hall meeting that NASA had "failed us miserably" and "wastes a vast amount of money," Houston Rep. John Culberson said Thursday he was weighing legislation to overhaul the structure of the space agency responsible for about 20,000 Houston-area jobs. Culberson, a blunt-spoken conservative from a heavily Republican westside district, said his proposal would slash NASA headquarter's...
