Brian C. Kokes Named Los Angeles Times Director, National Advertising
25 March 2005 - 7:46AM
PR Newswire (US)
Brian C. Kokes Named Los Angeles Times Director, National
Advertising LOS ANGELES, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Brian C. Kokes
has been named director, national advertising at the Los Angeles
Times. He will be responsible for all aspects of national
advertising planning and sales, reporting to Todd Brownrout, senior
vice president, advertising at The Times. Kokes has been a senior
advertising executive for more than 16 years with extensive
experience in sales and marketing in the newspaper industry. Most
recently, he was national advertising director at the San Francisco
Chronicle since 2003. He joined the newspaper in 2000 as national
advertising manager. "I am delighted to have Brian join the Los
Angeles Times advertising team," said Brownrout. "I am convinced
that both our customers and national advertising staff will enjoy
working with him." Kokes began his career in newspaper advertising
sales in 1989 at The Sacramento Bee as account manager. In 1993, he
joined The Fresno Bee and rose through the ranks from local retail
territory manager to major national accounts sales manager. In
1998, he was named major accounts sales manager at the Contra Costa
Newspapers and was promoted to retail advertising manager at the
Contra Costa Newspapers in 1999. Kokes earned a B.S. degree in
history and journalism from the University of Oregon. The Los
Angeles Times, a Tribune Publishing company, is the largest
metropolitan daily newspaper in the country and the winner of 35
Pulitzer Prizes, including five in 2004 -- the second-largest
yearly total in the history of the awards. The Times publishes five
daily regional editions including the Los Angeles metropolitan
area, Orange and Ventura counties, the San Fernando Valley, and an
Inland Empire edition covering Riverside and San Bernardino
counties as well as a National edition. Additional information
about The Times is available at http://www.latimes.com/mediacenter.
DATASOURCE: Los Angeles Times CONTACT: Martha Goldstein of Los
Angeles Times, +1-213-237-3727, Web site:
http://www.latimes.com/mediacenter
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