Grant Gibbons has been announced as publisher of The Journal, in New Ulm, Minnesota, and The Independent of Marshall. He will be replacing Greg Orear, publisher since 2016. Orear has taken a publishing position with a newspaper group in Missouri.
Gibbons, 57, will be relocating to New Ulm from Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he worked as regional circulation manager for the Fort Dodge Messenger since 2000.
As regional circulation manager for the Ogden Newspapers in the area, Gibbons has traveled and worked with papers in New Ulm, Fairmont and Marshall in Minnesota and in other upper Midwest states.
