Review-Journal names former USA Today head as publisher

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Craig Moon has been named publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the newspaper has announced.

Moon, 65, is the former president and publisher of USA Today and executive vice president of Gannett Newspapers. Since leaving USA Today in 2009 he has been a newspaper industry consultant.

Moon lives in Tennessee but said he will move to Las Vegas.

Jason Taylor, publisher of the newspaper since July, will remain with former owner GateHouse Media in an executive capacity, GateHouse CEO Kirk Davis told the Review-Journal staff.

Moon spent 30 years with Gannett. Today he owns Lake Norman Publications, a group of five community newspapers and a magazine based in Charlotte, N.C.

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