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SPECIAL EDITION Turn over to see more photos. Friday, January 13, 2017 Publisher Greg Stevens retires LOCAL NEWS FREE AT LAST Red Bluff Daily News (CA) - November 2, 2016 Publisher, ad director to retire in January Staff report Red Bluff >> Daily News Publisher and Advertising Director Greg Stevens Tuesday announced he will be retiring from the newspaper effective early January 2017. "I'm honored to have had the opportunity to lead the Daily News team for the past 8-plus years," Stevens said. "is has been a challenging and rewarding final chapter of a 45-year career in community newspapering, which began in 1971 in Southern California, then Hawaii, Napa, Oregon and finally Eureka and Tehama County." Stevens, 71, joined the Daily News in August of 2008. "For about the past year I've been thinking about other things I'd like to do, while I still have my health and a lot of energy," Stevens said. "is summer, aer the most recent visit from a happily retired friend I've had since the sixth grade, I decided to give 90 days notice to Digital First Media in early October." Stevens and his wife, Marcy, plan to remain in their Dairyville home and con- tinue to be moderately active in the community, especially in Red Bluff Rotary and the club's community events and projects. "As news of my closing this professional chapter spreads locally and within the network of professional and personal friendships I have maintained over past decades, I expect to be surprised," Stevens said. "I believe some pathways only open up once you make yourself available to walk them. I am retiring as the senior man- ager at the Daily News, likely not retiring entirely from the working world and the application of my marketing and leadership experience within it." Daily News Circulation Manager Kathy Hogan has accepted the new position of operations manager, and will be the newspaper's new senior manager. Stevens said he will miss his colleagues at the Daily News but looks forward to indulging in musical and artistic pursuits, helping Marcy with her Meyer lemon farm and improving his conversational Spanish. A trip to Pacific Mexico is planned in February with a collection of close friends. Red Bluff Daily News (CA) - August 9, 2008 Daily News welcomes new publisher Staff report Greg Stevens, 63, has been named publisher of the Daily News in Red Bluff beginning Monday. Stevens comes to Tehama County aer 18 months as pub- lisher of the Times-Standard in Eureka. Both operations are properties of California News- papers Partnership, the largest publisher of newspapers in the state. "I'm looking forward to learning what the citizens and businesses of Red Bluff and Tehama County need, and determining how the Daily News can help," Ste- vens said. "I knew former publisher Steve Baker a little from my time in Oregon, and of course more recently from meetings within CNP. From what I hear, this was the direction Steve was headed, so I'm probably the right guy to take it from here." A 37-year newspaper industry veteran, Stevens joined CNP in early 2007 aer 10 years as publisher at e World, a six-day, 12,000 circulation daily newspa- per in Coos Bay, Ore. During his tenure in Coos Bay, Stevens participated in the acquisition of two weekly newspapers in near- by coastal communities. He was also very active in community improvement and business development projects. Stevens co-founded the Coos County Methamphet- amine Abuse Taskforce in 1999, served as president of the (Oregon) Bay Area Chamber of Commerce in 2001 and was named Chamber Member of the Year in 2002, aer launching weekly networking lunch meet- ings for Chamber members and a "Welcome, Neigh- bor!" organization for area newcomers. Under his leadership in Coos Bay, e World devel- oped a flight of more than 30 "community partnership publications," affording a voice for groups, organiza- tions and good causes, supported by advertising from their memberships and the community. From 2002 to 2007, Stevens served as an appointed member of the South Coast Development Council, the regional public-private economic development partnership. Prior to his decade as publisher in Coos Bay, Ste- vens worked 13 years in Napa for Scripps League Newspapers, first as assistant publisher/ general manager of the Napa Valley Register, and later serving as vice president of Northwest Operations overseeing other newspapers in California, Oregon and Wash- ington and finally chief marketing officer for Scripps League. Stevens has been an active Rotarian since 1988. He served as president of Napa Sunrise Rotary in 1991. Stevens started in the newspaper business in the early 1970s as an aspiring cartoonist. His hobbies include playing ragtime piano and ukulele, hiking and camping and, most recently, hot air ballooning. Stevens and his wife Marcy have been frequent visi- tors to the north central state over the years, spending time with friends in Orland and vacationing, camping and attending hot air balloon rallies in the Shasta area. e couple and their two rat terriers are settling in to a home in Dairyville. Stevens can be reached at 527-2151, Ext. 105 or by e-mail at gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com

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