Gilroy
– After 12 years as executive editor of the Morgan Hill Times,
Gilroyan Walt Glines, 56, will put his three decades of newspaper
experience to work as director of circulation, sales and operations
for the Dispatch and its two sister papers in the area.
Gilroy – After 12 years as executive editor of the Morgan Hill Times, Gilroyan Walt Glines, 56, will put his three decades of newspaper experience to work as director of circulation, sales and operations for the Dispatch and its two sister papers in the area.
Glines’ promotion to the head of a three-paper, customer service department involves the oversight of delivery and sales in addition to the marketing of the Dispatch, Morgan Hill Times and Hollister Free Lance.
“In accepting this new assignment, Walt will play an even more important role as part of our senior management team,” said Publisher Steve Staloch, who is also the chief operating officer for Mainstreet Media Group, LLC, the newspaper company which owns the three local papers. “We share the same expectation, which is to build quality circulation. Reaching more readers will be Walt’s number one objective.”
Glines lives in Gilroy with his wife Gayle, who works as a recreation supervisor for the city’s community services department. They have one son, Ben.
Glines started at the Dispatch in 1968 as a sports writer while attending Gilroy High.
“That’s when they still paid by the word,” he joked.
After graduating from University of California Santa Cruz in 1971, Glines returned to the paper as a sports writer, eventually moving on to the positions of sports editor and city editor at the Dispatch before taking over as head of the Morgan Hill Times. Glines helped the publishing company earn its first award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for his spot news reporting on gambling raids by local police.
“You never get tired of the news side,” Glines said, but he looks forward to the new position. “Managing the circulation department for all three newspapers will be a different kind of challenge. We have three first-rate newspapers that do an excellent job of telling our readers about the community where we live.”
Marcus Hibdon, city editor at the Hollister Free Lance for the last 14 months, will replace Glines as editor at the Times.
