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Times chairman to lead newspaper group
© St. Petersburg Times, published May 10, 2000 Andrew E. Barnes, chairman and chief executive of the St. Petersburg Times, today becomes chairman of the Newspaper Association of America. The industry group represents more than 2,000 newspapers in the United States and Canada. Barnes was elected to the one-year term Tuesday during the association's annual convention, held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Orage Quarles III, publisher of the News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., was elected vice chairman. "The newspaper industry is both stronger and more important than many in America understand," Barnes said. "I propose to try to make it clear that informed citizens need newspapers." The non-profit group focuses on issues such as readership, operations, marketing, diversity and public policy affecting the $57-billion newspaper industry. In an era of consolidation by giant media chains, the national organization will be led by the chairman of one of the last independent metropolitan newspapers. A native of New York City, Barnes joined the St. Petersburg Times in 1973. He was named editor and president of the newspaper in 1984, and became chairman and CEO of its parent Times Publishing Co. in 1988. Barnes relinquished the titles of editor and president to Paul Tash in February but continues as chairman and chief executive. Barnes, 60, also is chairman of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the non-profit educational organization that owns the Times Publishing Co. In addition, he is a member of the Pulitzer Prize board and a past chairman of the American Society of Newspaper Editors Ethics Committee. A graduate of Harvard University, Barnes spent the early years of his newspaper career at the Providence Journal in Rhode Island and the Washington Post. He served two years in the Army and studied urban change in Africa and Europe during an Alicia Patterson Fellowship. In his role as chairman of the industry organization, Barnes succeeds William S. Morris III, chairman and CEO of Morris Communications Inc. in Augusta, Ga.
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