The following excerpt was sent out from ironmountaindailynews.com:
Ray King (Photo: Terri Castelaz/Daily News)
Ray King, retail sales manager at The Daily News, has been named the newspaper’s new publisher.
The longtime Iron Mountain resident succeeds Corky DeRoeck, who retired Friday.
King first joined The Daily News in 1998 as a circulation district manager. After stints at two other businesses, he returned in 2011 as a sales associate in classified advertising.
He took over as retail sales manager in The Daily News’ advertising department after DeRoeck was promoted from advertising manager to publisher/advertising director in early 2016. In 2020, King began overseeing the ADvertiser’s ad sales as well.
King will also assume the roles of advertising director and general manager for Powers Printing, which prints The Daily News along with the Daily Press in Escanaba, The Mining Journal in Marquette and the Daily Mining Gazette in Houghton.
“I’m excited,” King said of the new position. “There’s going to be a learning curve in the beginning until I get some experience under my belt.” He added that a seasoned management staff at The Daily News “will help to make my job as easy as possible.”
Said King, “My door is open. If people want to call and voice an opinion, I’ll listen.”