Editor & Publisher Magazine (E&P) has selected as their 2023 Publisher of the Year Leonard Woolsey, president of Southern Newspapers and publisher of the company’s Galveston County Daily News. Monday’s announcement was made live at the America’s Newspapers’ Senior Leadership Conference in Chicago. Woolsey was among numerous reader-generated nominees evaluated by a committee of E&P’s editorial department.
Mike Blinder, E&P publisher, took to the stage during a lunchtime awards program, knowing that Woolsey was in the audience of 150 plus media executives and revealed the selection by presenting a large mock-up poster depicting Woolsey on the magazine’s November 2023 cover.
