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Oklahoma news executive to succeed Steever as Gazette publisher

By 11/27/2018 | updated 7 years ago
Dan Steever, publisher of The Gazette (Gazette file)

Chris Reen, former president of The Oklahoman Media Co. and publisher of The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, will become president of The Gazette in February, and, after a three-month transition period, will succeed Dan Steever as publisher. 

Steever, who has been The Gazette’s publisher since 2012, plans to return to the East Coast in May to be closer to his children and extended family.

The announcement was made Tuesday by Steever, Reen and Ryan McKibben, president and CEO of Denver-based Clarity Media Group, which owns The Gazette and Colorado Politics.

Reen will join The Gazette Feb. 1 as president; he’ll oversee the newspaper’s advertising, circulation and marketing operations and will report to Steever.

After Steever leaves in May, Reen will add the duties of publisher to his responsibilities.

“Chris has an impressive breadth of industry experience and will be an outstanding leader of The Gazette. We’re excited to have him on board,” McKibben said. “We thank Dan for his years of leadership – not only at The Gazette, but in the Colorado Springs community – and wish him and his family the best moving forward.”

During Steever’s tenure as Gazette publisher, reporter David Philipps won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for The Gazette’s “Other Than Honorable” series, an examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses.

Dan Steever, publisher of The Gazette (Gazette file)
Chris Reen, former president of The Oklahoman Media Co. and publisher of The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, will become president of The Gazette in February, and, after a three-month transition period, will succeed Dan Steever as publisher. (Doug Hoke, The Oklahoman)
Colorado Springs Gazette photographer Michael Ciaglo, left, is congratulated by President and Publisher Dan Steever Monday, April 14, 2014, after the announcement that Gazette reporter David Philipps won the National Reporting Pulitzer Prize for The Gazette’s “Other Than Honorable” series. Ciaglo was the photographer on the project. The series expanded the examination of how wounded combat veterans are mistreated, focusing on loss of benefits for life after discharge by the Army for minor offenses. (Mark Reis, The Gazette)
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