Gannett CEO Dubow resigns, cites medical reasons

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Craig A. Dubow, 56, who has been Gannett’s CEO since 2005, began his second medical leave in two years on Sept. 15. (He’s been dealing with back and hip problems.) Gannett Blog reports the departing exec stands to collect as much as $37.1 million in retirement and disability benefits. President and chief operating officer Gracia C. Martore, 60, succeeds him. She tells the New York Times that the company will continue to focus on its digital strategy, which she says accounted for 21 percent of the company’s total revenue. “We’re going to be on every platform that the consumer wants to access that information on.” She wouldn’t comment on whether Gannett will lay off more workers in the near future, noting that it’s still “a little too early to handicap where the economy will be for 2012.”