Hickey Is Headed for the Denver Post
Maurice (Moe) Hickey, publisher of the Detroit News, will become editor and publisher of the Denver Post after transfer of ownership to MediaNews Group.
The sale of the Post by Times Mirror Co. is expected to close on Dec. 1.
Hickey, 53, spent the past 24 years as an executive with Gannett Inc., the largest newspaper publishing group in the United States, most recently as publisher of the Detroit News.
Hickey will have “a substantial ownership interest” in the Post, according to William Dean Singleton, president of MediaNews.
As publisher, Hickey will succeed Richard T. Schlosberg III, who announced last month that he will remain with Times Mirror as a senior executive in its newspaper operations. Schlosberg has been publisher since 1983.
David Hall, editor of the Post since 1984, announced Thursday that he also will leave after the transfer of ownership, and will remain with Times Mirror in a senior editorial capacity.
Hickey served as planning publisher for USA Today, the national daily newspaper launched by Gannett in 1982.
He also has been publisher of the Gazette-Journal in Reno, Nev., and of Gannett newspapers in Lansing, Mich.; Rockford, Ill., and Rochester, N.Y.
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