Publisher named

Circulation executive Rick Szabrak has been named publisher of the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette and the Chillicothe Gazette.

Effective Wednesday, Szabrak will succeed Greg Ptacin, 64, who is retiring after 28 years as a publisher. Ptacin has been the publisher at Lancaster since 1992 and at Chillicothe since 2002.

Both newspapers are owned by Gannett Co. The Eagle-Gazette has a circulation of 14,000, and the Chillicothe Gazette, 15,000.

Szabrak, 31, has worked in the circulation departments of several Gannett newspapers and last year was appointed circulation director of the company’s Newspaper Network of Central Ohio.

Source: Associated Press