THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION APPOINTS KEY ADVERTISING LEADERS

ATLANTA – Aug. 25, 2010 – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has appointed three key leadership positions to their advertising sales team, effective immediately.

Allen Dunstan as senior director national sales. Dunstan brings more than 35 years of advertising, marketing and sales experience to the AJC, and will be based in New York. He will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to help facilitate profitable sales growth among national accounts. Dunstan joins the AJC from Newspapers First where he was vice president of the eastern region and company financial team leader for Newspapers First. Prior to that, Dunstan spent 14 years working various roles within Media Networks Inc., a division of Time Inc. Dunstan is an active member in The Advertising Club in New York, Financial Communications Society, Advertising Women of New York, 212NYC, and is an alum of Susquehanna University.

Eric Myers as senior director of sales will oversee the major accounts, recruitment, auto and real estate sales teams. Myers most recently served as the advertising director for the St. Petersburg Times. Myers joined the Times in June 1999 as an account executive. In 2002, he began managing the advertising team that launched the Brandon Times, an edition of the St. Petersburg Times. In 2007, Myers was named the advertising manager for the St. Petersburg Times, overseeing many regions and products of the Times, including national/major retail and tbt* Tampa Bay Times. Before joining the Times, Myers had worked for advertising agencies in Wisconsin and Chicago as well as newspaper and magazine publishing organizations in Colorado. Myers originates from the Chicago area and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh with a bachelor's degree in Journalism.

Mindy Buckalew has been promoted to senior sales and product planning manager, and will provide revenue analysis for future AJC products and sales initiatives. Buckalew joined the AJC in 2006 as a financial analyst. Through various roles, she helped develop the business case for Evening Edge, led all revenue analysis for the newspaper redesign project, and transitioned the AJC to revenue-based rate structures for customers. Prior to joining the AJC, Mindy was a senior accountant for Impact Innovations and a financial analyst for Vista III Media. Mindy grew up in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio and is a Kennesaw State University alum.

“I’m delighted to have these seasoned sales professionals join our renewed effort to serving the needs of our local and national advertising customers, said Moya Neville, senior vice president, advertising sales. “Their leadership and experience, combined with the strength of the AJC’s products and a robust market like Atlanta will energize our sales teams and enable us to provide even greater value and results for our advertisers.”

Dunstan, Myers and Buckalew will all report to Moya Neville, senior vice president, advertising sales for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

About The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the leading source — both in print and online — of news, information and advertising for metropolitan Atlanta, reaching a total print and online audience of nearly 2.2 million people each week. Every month, nearly 2.3 million unique visitors access the newspaper's Web sites, including ajc.com and accessAtlanta.com. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is part of Cox Media Group, a publishing, digital media and broadcasting subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises.

About Cox Media Group

Cox Media Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises, is an integrated broadcasting, publishing and digital media company that includes the national advertising rep firms of Cox Reps. With $1.8 billion in revenue, the company operations include 15 broadcast television stations and one local cable channel, 86 radio stations, four metro newspapers and more than a dozen non-daily publications, and more than 100 digital services. Additionally, CMG owns and operates Valpak, one of the leading direct marketing companies in North America. For more information about Cox Media Group, please check us out online at www.coxmediagroup.com.

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