P.M. BRIEFING : New Publisher for Miami Herald
Knight-Ridder Inc. today named Detroit Free Press Publisher and Chairman David Lawrence Jr. as publisher and chairman of its flagship newspaper, The Miami Herald.
Robert J. Hall, Free Press president, will succeed Lawrence as publisher and chairman of the Detroit newspaper. The appointments are effective Sept. 1.
Lawrence, 47, has headed the Free Press during its struggle for a cost-cutting joint operating agreement with The Detroit News. The Supreme Court said in May it would review the joint operating agreement request, pending since 1986. Lawrence came to the Free Press as executive editor in 1978 and has been publisher and chairman since 1985. He previously was executive editor of the Charlotte Observer.
Hall, 44, was promoted to president in May to succeed Jerome Tillis.
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