Brian C. Kokes Named Los Angeles Times Director, National Advertising
[Originally issued March 21, 2005]
LOS ANGELES, March 24, 2005 Brian C. Kokes has been named director, national advertising at the Los Angeles Times. He will be responsible for all aspects of national advertising planning and sales, reporting to Todd Brownrout, senior vice president, advertising at The Times.
Kokes has been a senior advertising executive for more than 16 years with extensive experience in sales and marketing in the newspaper industry. Most recently, he was national advertising director at the San Francisco Chronicle since 2003. He joined the newspaper in 2000 as national advertising manager.
“I am delighted to have Brian join the Los Angeles Times advertising team,” said Brownrout. “I am convinced that both our customers and national advertising staff will enjoy working with him.”
Kokes began his career in newspaper advertising sales in 1989 at The Sacramento Bee as account manager. In 1993, he joined The Fresno Bee and rose through the ranks from local retail territory manager to major national accounts sales manager. In 1998, he was named major accounts sales manager at the Contra Costa Newspapers and was promoted to retail advertising manager at the Contra Costa Newspapers in 1999.
Kokes earned a B.S. degree in history and journalism from the University of Oregon.
The Los Angeles Times, a Tribune Publishing company, is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country and the winner of 35 Pulitzer Prizes, including five in 2004 the second-largest yearly total in the history of the awards. The Times publishes five daily regional editions including the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Orange and Ventura counties, the San Fernando Valley, and an Inland Empire edition covering Riverside and San Bernardino counties as well as a National edition. Additional information about The Times is available at www.latimes.com/mediacenter.
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