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© ( 2001 - 2012 ) Heinz Kunis

Gregory Kunis St.Petersburg Times

MARCH 9 - 16 // COPYRIGHT 1997 THE ST  PETERSBURG TIMES

Changing of the Guard at IM

 

THE ST PETERSBURG TIMES

 

Lloyd Donaldson, publisher and one of the founders of The St Petersburg  Times, steps aside this week, nearly four years after the first edition of the  paper - then a weekly called The St Petersburg Press - hit the streets.

Donaldson, 33, will be replaced by Derk Sauer, head of Independent Media, as  publisher. Independent Media, publisher of The Moscow Times, purchased The St.  Petersburg Press last year and relaunched it in April 1996 as The St. Petersburg Times.

"I'm really proud of what we've done with the paper, but I'm ready for a new  challenge," Donaldson said Monday. He said he would remain in St. Petersburg for  the immediate future and was in the midst of negotiations for a job as a  consultant on the Russian media.

Sauer is also publisher of The Moscow Times and lives in Moscow. In St.  Petersburg, day-to-day affairs will be handled by Grigory Kunis , 29, who has  been promoted from sales and marketing director to managing director of The St. Petersburg Times.

Kunis was one of four original partners who founded The St. Petersburg Press. The other two partners, who have been silent partners for most of the paper's existence, were Dmitry Smirnov, who runs Atlas, a St. Petersburg travel agency, and Jim Vierengel, an American who now lives and works in New York.

The idea for the paper was Donaldson's, and he and Vierengel worked on it together and then recruited Smirnov and Kunis. But two months after the first issue came out May 11, 1993, Vierengel had to return to the United States when his father fell ill.

Before coming to St. Petersburg, Donaldson worked as a free-lance journalist for English and Australian newspapers, reporting from London, Bosnia and  Croatia.

In late 1995, Donaldson and Kunis opened negotiations with Independent Media. The Press was relaunched April 23, 1996, as The St. Petersburg Times.

Donaldson is from New Zealand, Kunis from St. Petersburg. Donaldson said that while the switch from a foreigner to a Russian in charge of the company might look significant from the outside, he and Kunis had been running the company jointly for many years.

"Most people have always just seen my name at the top, but what they do not know is that most, if not all, of the decisions in the company have been taken  by us together," Donaldson said of Kunis.

The St. Petersburg Times' plans for 1997 include improving coverage of  business and of the local community and taking the newspaper from twice a week  to four times a week, possibly in September.

Meanwhile, Independent Media's flagship, The Moscow Times, marked its fifth year of publication this week, and with it a change in editorial management as Geoff Winestock replaced current editor Marc Champion.

Champion, 34, took over as editor of The Moscow Times in May 1994, at the departure of the founding editor Meg Bortin. Prior to that Champion had served  as the news editor of The Moscow Times as well as a reporter for the British daily The Independent in Washington, the Balkans and Moscow.

Winestock, also 34, has served as managing editor of the paper for the past 10 months and before that was a foreign correspondent in Russia, business editor of The Moscow Times and a reporter for The Melbourne Age in Australia. He is married with one child.

Sauer welcomed the fifth anniversary of the paper's first issue on March 8, 1992. The newspaper was founded as a twice weekly 16-page paper and went daily in October 1992. It is now Moscow's only daily English-language newspaper.

On the change of editors at The Moscow Times, Sauer said, "Under Marc's  leadership, the paper has matured into a very authoritative voice. I think he  did an excellent job. We are very happy that Geoff will replace him and we  intend to keep on expanding and improving the paper."

During the three years Champion has edited The Moscow Times, it has grown from an average of 16 pages a day to 32 pages and has added weekly business  review and lifestyle sections. The Moscow Times Index, a leading indicator of the Russian stock market, has become a feature of the paper's improved business coverage.

Champion has decided to leave The Moscow Times to return to writing, but will remain in Moscow.

Independent Media also has a range of Russian-language periodicals including the business weekly Kapital and the magazines Cosmopolitan, Playboy, Harper's  Bazaar and Good Housekeeping. It owns Skate, an Internet and financial  publishing company.

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