Record is assigned a new publisher

January 4, 2010, Times-Union sales and marketing vice president, Ron Davidson, took the reins as publisher of the St Augustine Record. Two weeks later, on January 19, 2010, Florida Publishing Company succumbs to bankruptcy under the ownership of Morris Publishing Group, LLC.

Just three-years later, in February, Davidson announced his retirement. Today, Davidson’s predecessor, former Record publisher, Derek May, says that Times-Union finance and strategic planning vice president, Delinda Fogel will replace Davidson on Monday morning, June 3rd.

May, Davidson, and now, Fogel, have all have made their way to St Augustine from the Jacksonville newspaper — skipping over the Record’s 67-year-old editor, Peter Ellis, for promotion. The Record has not been printed in St Augustine since the operations locally were shut down and moved to Jacksonville in 2009.

Fogel has been employed at the Times-Union in Jacksonville since 2008, according to May; who added, “She is also a certified public accountant.” However, a quick check of the records of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation indicates that Fogel is not licensed to practice public accounting in Florida; where she has lived for the past five years.

The 48-year-old step-mother and her husband David, who is a Canadian citizen living in the United States on a permanent visa, purchased a $400,000 home in St Johns Golf and Country Club on September 18, 2009. May says that Fogel, her husband, and step-son “intend to move closer to the central part of St Augustine”.