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Keith J. Kelly

Keith J. Kelly

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Gannett board picks firm to help search for new CEO

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Keith J. Kelly
Published Dec. 6, 2018, 11:01 p.m. ET

Headhunting firm Egon Zehnder was picked by the Gannett board to search for a successor to CEO Robert Dickey.

Dickey, 61, said Wednesday that he planned to step down on May 7, 2019.

He’s had a rough tenure as he wrestled with wrenching changes in the industry. Dickey became CEO in 2015 and successfully oversaw the spinoff of the broadcasting division into a company called Tegna.

He bought online market ReachLocal for $156 million to increase the digital push. But he also added the Milwaukee Journal parent company Journal Media Group for $280 million and North Jersey Media Group for $40 million in 2016.

He instituted the USA Today Network as a way to integrate its flagship paper more closely into the other 109 papers owned by the nation’s largest newspaper chain.

Locally, he instituted deep and controversial cuts at the Westchester and Rockland newspapers and the North Jersey Media Group, which includes The [Bergen] Record.