{"id":876,"date":"2019-07-16T01:50:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=876"},"modified":"2019-07-16T01:50:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:50:33","slug":"brian-burns-the-publisher-of-the-ledger-media-group-announced-monday-he-will-be-leaving-on-july-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/07\/16\/brian-burns-the-publisher-of-the-ledger-media-group-announced-monday-he-will-be-leaving-on-july-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Burns, the publisher of the Ledger Media Group, announced Monday he will be leaving on July 25"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Brian-Burns.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-877\"\/><figcaption> Brian Burns <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brian Burns, the publisher of the Ledger Media Group, announced Monday he will be leaving his position as of July 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Media Group publishes The Ledger, the News Chief, and other local publications. Burns, 45, became the publisher in January 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burns said he\u2019s leaving\nto start his own digital technology company for magazines and newspapers in the\nTampa Bay area. He is developing a phone app that can capture print images and\nuse them to deliver additional content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Doughton, the retired\npublisher of the Gainesville Sun and Ocala Star-Banner, also GateHouse\nnewspapers, will serve as interim publisher until Burns\u2019 successor is hired, Burns\nadded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Burns said he would\ncontinue to follow Polk through The Ledger from his Tampa home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI look forward to seeing\nThe Ledger grow within the community as our journalists work tirelessly each\nday to inform the citizens of Polk County,\u201d Burns said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Burns, the publisher of the Ledger Media Group, announced Monday he will be leaving his position as of July 25. The Media Group publishes The Ledger, the News Chief,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}