Bruce Hartmann named new president of Chattanooga Publishing Company

Bruce Hartmann addresses the staff of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.

Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press

Chattanooga Publishing Co. has announced the hiring of a new president, Bruce Hartmann.

Hartmann comes to Chattanooga from Knoxville, where he was chief revenue officer and vice president of sales and marketing for the E.W. Scripps Co.'s publishing division, working with newspapers from California to Florida. Before that he spent more than 20 years at the Knoxville News Sentinel, beginning as advertising director and rising to the position of president and publisher.

Hartmann will lead the company, which publishes the Times Free Press.

Hartmann succeeds Jason Taylor, who left in July and is now president and publisher of The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss., and regional president of Gannett Co. Inc.'s U.S. Community Publishing East Group.

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