SouthComm reorganizes editorial roles

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SouthComm Inc., the parent of NashvillePost.com and other regional niche publications, announced today that NashvillePost.com Editor Geert De Lombaerde and Business Tennessee Editor Drew Ruble have been named respectively the editors of the Monday and Thursday editions of The City Paper.

The two veteran journalists will continue in their current roles while succeeding Clint Brewer, who had been with the paper since March 2006.

"Clint has done a tremendous job raising the standards of news journalism in Nashville. I regret that our new model did not have a place for his talents long term," said SouthComm CEO Chris Ferrell. "In the present economic environment, we continue to look at making our cost structure as efficient as possible while refining our model of delivering compelling business, political, legal and arts content. Moving Geert and Drew into these new roles will help our two weekly papers develop unique voices that will better serve our readers."

De Lombaerde has been editor of NashvillePost.com since January 2008 after a stint in health care public affairs at Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock. Prior to that, he spent almost a decade with American City Business Journals, first as an award-winning finance reporter for the Business Courier in Cincinnati, then as managing editor and editor of the Nashville Business Journal. He is a native of Belgium and a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Ruble has been editor of Business Tennessee, a controlled-circulation magazine distributed to nearly 30,000 senior-level business, political and civic leaders across the state, since 2005.

Prior to being named editor, Ruble produced dozens of the magazine's cover stories, in the process earning a silver award from the Alliance of Area Business Publications for his body of work. He is a graduate of Ohio University and has a master's of fine arts degree from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.