{"id":140213,"date":"2010-01-05T10:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=9309"},"modified":"2010-01-05T10:30:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:30:57","slug":"tribune-company-appoints-geoffrey-melick-as-senior-vice-president-of-its-healthcare-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/140213","title":{"rendered":"Tribune Company Appoints Geoffrey Melick as Senior Vice President of Its Healthcare Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Marketing Veteran Leads Advertising Efforts and New Product Development In Healthcare Sector<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9340\" title=\"geoff_melick_tribune_company\" src=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/geoff_melick_tribune_company.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"244\" \/>Tribune Company today announced the appointment of Geoffrey Melick as SVP\/Health, responsible for developing advertiser solutions and new advertising and marketing products related to the healthcare industry.<\/p>\n<p>He will also oversee Healthkey.com, the company&#8217;s website devoted to healthcare issues.  Melick&#8217;s appointment is effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Spending related to healthcare issues, products and services is exploding, and our newspapers, television stations and websites need to be getting an increasingly larger share of it,&#8221; said Randy Michaels, Tribune&#8217;s chief executive officer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Geoff has tremendous talent and experience and will lead our efforts to develop better targeted advertising and marketing solutions related to the healthcare industry.&#8221; <span id=\"more-9309\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Melick joins Tribune from Corbett Accel Healthcare Group (CAHG), an Omnicom Company, where he served as EVP\/Interactive Marketing and eInnovation.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as managing director at Kinect Interactive Digital Communications, where he was responsible for the development of multi-channel strategies and the creation of online and digital communications.<\/p>\n<p>Melick has extensive experience in developing online advertising and marketing products and was one of the founding members of McCann Erickson&#8217;s Interactive Group in 1989.  While at McCann Interactive, Melick was a member of the MIT Media Lab, one of the leading interactive think tanks in the world.<\/p>\n<p>In 1995, he left McCann to found Two Way Communications, focused on pharmaceutical, financial and eCommerce marketing.  His clients at Two Way Communications included Eli Lilly, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson &amp; Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tribune has great brands offering a unique opportunity to create world-class advertising and marketing solutions for healthcare clients trying to reach a variety of audiences across different media platforms,&#8221; said Melick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the last couple of years Tribune has developed some very innovative advertising approaches for healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies and consumers\/patients&#8211;but there is a lot of opportunity to do even more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Tribune Company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRIBUNE <\/strong>is America&#8217;s largest employee-owned media company, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting. In publishing, Tribune&#8217;s leading daily newspapers include the <em>Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Sun Sentinel <\/em>(South Florida)<em>, Orlando Sentinel,<\/em> <em>Hartford Courant, Morning Call <\/em>and <em>Daily Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s broadcasting group operates 23 television stations, WGN America on national cable and Chicago&#8217;s WGN-AM.  Popular news and information websites complement Tribune&#8217;s print and broadcast properties and extend the company&#8217;s nationwide audience.<\/p>\n<p>At Tribune we take what we do seriously and with a great deal of pride. We also value the creative spirit and nurture a corporate culture that doesn&#8217;t take itself too seriously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0zIr1bJTAxnB1O7Iv-SLma3oc8o\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0zIr1bJTAxnB1O7Iv-SLma3oc8o\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0zIr1bJTAxnB1O7Iv-SLma3oc8o\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/0zIr1bJTAxnB1O7Iv-SLma3oc8o\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=w23rspIKLX0:1XQb63m4Jxk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=w23rspIKLX0:1XQb63m4Jxk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=w23rspIKLX0:1XQb63m4Jxk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=w23rspIKLX0:1XQb63m4Jxk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/w23rspIKLX0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marketing Veteran Leads Advertising Efforts and New Product Development In Healthcare Sector Tribune Company today announced the appointment of Geoffrey Melick as SVP\/Health, responsible for developing advertiser solutions and new advertising and marketing products related to the healthcare industry. 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