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Weekly Division Group Publisher and Grant-Iowa-Lafayette Shopping News General Manager, Steve Fisher announced Brian Stuart, Grant-Iowa-Lafayette Shopping News Sales and Marketing Director, effective September 14.

“We’re very excited to have someone with Brian’s experience at the Shopping News,” Fisher said. “I’m confident that Brian has the expertise to help our employee-owners build better value and solutions for our advertising customers.” 

Brian comes to us most recently from the Daily Chronicle in DeKalb, Illinois where he learned the ropes of working in a rural community.

Prior to the Daily Chronicle, Brian gained experience in the suburban Newspaper market of Chicago at Life Newspapers (now a Gateway publication).  At Life Brian took on progressively more responsible positions with the organization, starting as assistant classified manager in 1991 and moved in to the role of classified manager and later classified advertising director. As classified ad director Brian led the merger of five separate newspaper classified departments, as Liberty newspapers acquired and merged publications in the suburban Chicago market. 

After 10 years with the Life Newspaper organization Brian took on the role of sales manager for the Wednesday Journal company in Oak Park, where he assisted with the launch of a new newspaper called Chicago Journal, and led the category selling effort for three weeklies and the Chicago Parent Magazine.  Brian also gained bi-lingual market experience as national accounts manager and sales manager for a weekly 200,000 circulation Spanish language newspaper in Chicago.  

Brian is excited about working in the Tri-state area.

Brian and his wife, Diane, have been traveling to the tri-state area for many years and look forward to settling here. They are the parents of four adult children and several grandchildren.  They love the outdoors and the many experiences which the tri-state area offers. In their spare time they like to rehab old vintage homes. Brian is an oil painter and Diane enjoys working in stained glass.