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01/29/2015

Sue Clark-Johnson, former Gannett executive, dies at 67

From USA Today

Sue Clark-Johnson, a longtime fixture in the newspaper industry who once led Gannett Co. Inc.'s community news division, has died at age 67 after a short illness.

Known as a visionary, motivator, consensus builder and consummate multitasker, Clark-Johnson died early Wednesday at a Scottsdale, Ariz. hospital.

She started her career as a reporter at a small newspaper in upstate New York and quickly moved up corporate and industry ranks.

Clark-Johnson and her husband, Brooks Johnson, maintained a home in the Phoenix area after she was promoted from The Arizona Republic to the suburban Washington headquarters of Gannett Co., Inc., then returned after she retired from that position, living in Paradise Valley.

Her career in the newspaper business spanned more than 40 years and culminated in her being named the first female head of the newspaper division of Gannett, parent of The Arizona Republic, azcentral.com and roughly 170 other media businesses around the nation. She held that post, at Gannett's headquarters, from 2005 to 2008.

She was elected to serve as the chairwoman of the Newspaper Association of America, an industry group of publishers and executives, for 2007-08.

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