Ex-PD publisher to run Philly newspapers

Former Plain Dealer publisher Terry Egger has been named publisher and CEO of Philadelphia Media Network, the parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com.

Egger succeeds Gerry Lenfest, who owns the company, as publisher.

Before the PD, Egger was an executive at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and in Tucson, Arizona.