Cincinnati native new BJ publisher

Cincinnati native Mark Cohen, 57, chief operating officer and vice president of operations of Seattle-based Pioneer Newspaper Group, will become Beacon Journal publisher Nov. 18.



Mark Cohen

Cohen started his career as a sales executive with the Cincinnati Enquirer before becoming a Thomson Newspapers division manager and vice president, Florida Times-Union advertising and marketing director in Jacksonville and vice president of advertising for more than 100 weeklies and six dailies in the Boston market for GateHouse Media.

Cohen and wife Michelle have two adult children who live in Indianapolis and Jacksonville Beach, Fla.



Cohen replaces Andrea Mathewson, who retired in September after six years at the helm of the newspaper and Ohio.com. She had a 36-year career at the newspaper and was its first female publisher, succeeding Edward Moss.

The BJ’s first publishers were C.L. Knight and his son, John S. Knight, who founded Knight Newspapers, Inc.

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