News execs calls it quits
Friday, January 18th, 2008George Riggs, former publisher of the Contra Costa Times and the San Jose Mercury News, has resigned his post as top executive of California Newspapers Partnership, the three-company group that owns most of the Bay Area’s papers. Riggs got his start as an ad salesman for the Hattiesburg American…Sam Hall has departed The Demopolis Times in Alabama. He joined the paper as publisher in 2006 after a stint with the Mississippi Democrats as communications director. He previously worked at The Scott County Times in Forest and as the Houston Times Post.
