Scott Schurz Jr. named to new role with Schurz Communications

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Scott Schurz Jr. has been promoted to the position of vice president of human resources and corporate development for Schurz Communications, effective July 1. He will retain some of his duties under his former position as vice president of corporate development and add some other responsibilities previously handled by the late Marty Switalski.

Schurz, who previously served on the SNPA Board of Directors, began his employment with Schurz Communications, Inc. (SCI) in 1993 as a sports writer for The Herald-Times in Bloomington, Ind. In June 1994, Schurz became an advertising executive at the Associated Desert Shoppers in Palm Desert, Calif. He returned to South Bend, Ind., in February 1995 where he held various sales, circulation and management positions for SCI, the South Bend Tribune, WSBT-TV, WSBT-AM and WNSN-FM. He assumed the role of general manager for special publications at the Tribune in February 2003. Two years later, in January 2005, Schurz became assistant publisher at The Advocate-Messenger in Danville, Ky.

Schurz was named editor and publisher of The Advocate-Messenger in June 2006, and he assumed responsibility for all Schurz properties in Central Kentucky on January 1, 2007. Besides the Danville newspaper, those properties include two weeklies, The Interior Journal of Stanford and The Jessamine Journal of Nicholasville, and another daily, The Winchester Sun.

His corporate responsibilities have included the SCI board of directors, the SCI Acquisition Committee, the SCI Governance Committee, the SCI Audit Committee and the SCI Strategic Planning Task Force, of which he has served as chairman. He is a member of the Schurz Family Council and has served as chair of the Family Employment Committee. Schurz was president and director of Advocate Communications Inc., a subsidiary of SCI, and president and officer of the Advocate Brass Band. He has been both the in-house NAA Partners Program process guardian and the in-house United Way chairman at the South Bend Tribune.

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