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Josh O'Connor named Vice President of East Sound Operations

5.2.08

Sound Publishing President Manfred Tempelmayr has announced the appointment of Josh O’Connor as Vice President of East Sound Newspaper Operations. O’Connor will assume this post on June 1st and will work out of the Bellevue Reporter office. He will oversee the Reporter newspaper group and the Marysville/Arlington newspaper group. When Sound completes the acquisition of the Enumclaw Courier Herald and the Bonney Lake Courier Herald in the next week he will assume responsibility for those newspapers.

O’Connor has been with Black Press Ltd, the parent company of Sound Publishing, for the past ten years and has extensive experience in advertising, marketing and communications in the print industry. He was most recently Publisher of the Abbotsford News and Mission Record and had operational responsibilities for the Abbotsford Press Center. The Abbotsford News is the one of the largest newspapers within the Black Press organization. His past experience includes Sales Manager at the Richmond Review and Automotive Sales Manager at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. He holds degrees in Marketing, Communications, and Executive Management.

O’Connor enjoys contributing within his community and has held several positions with non-profit associations.

Sound President, Manfred Tempelmayr, says he is “very pleased to have O’Connor join our staff. He is dynamic and aggressive. In addition to being an excellent communicator he is very strong in revenue and sales development.”

Sound Publishing, Inc. is the largest publisher of community and suburban newspapers in Washington and is also one of the area’s largest commercial web printers. The company operates 30 community and suburban newspapers, two monthly business journals, and 18 Little Nickel and Nickel Ads weekly shoppers throughout Washington and Oregon. Sound also operates web printing facilities in Everett and Bainbridge Island.