Former C-J publisher to lead Times-Union

Posted March 19, 2012

A former publisher of The Topeka Capital-Journal has been named president of the Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union Media.

Mark Nusbaum, whose newspaper career began as a copy clerk in Topeka in the 1970s, will assume his new duties immediately, the Jacksonville newspaper reported Monday on its website.

Nusbaum was named publisher for the Capital-Journal in 2004 and left last year to become vice president of operations for Morris Publishing Group, which owns the Capital-Journal, Times-Union and other publications and websites.

Nusbaum, 55, joined The Capital-Journal news staff as a copy clerk while in high school. He joined the staff full-time after graduating from Washburn University in 1977 and served as a reporter, copy editor, business editor, managing editor, advertising director, executive editor and publisher. From 1999 to 2004, he served as publisher of the Morris-owned Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal.