Industry Movement

Al Autry has succeeded Stephen Bernard as senior vice president of advertising at the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee. Autry had previously served at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., as its senior vice president of advertising.

Stephen Bernard is McClatchy’s vice president/advertising. He had previously been the Sacramento (Calif.) Bee’s senior vice president of advertising.

Dave Boden, the former vice president of marketing and advertising at the Cumberland (Md.) Times-News, is the publisher of the Mineral Daily News-Tribune in Keyser, W.Va.

Slone Cansier, who had been the advertising manager at the Murray (Ky.) Ledger and Times, is the publisher of the News-Democrat & Leader in Russellville, Ky.

Kent Johnson is the vice president of local retail and classified advertising for Orange County Register Communications in Santa Ana, Calif. He had previously served as advertising sales director at the Times-Media in St. Cloud, Minn.

Paul Smurl has been named vice president of advertising at The New York (N.Y.) Times. He had previously been executive director of strategy and planning at the newspaper.

Alex Villoch has returned to the Miami (Fla.) Herald as its senior vice president of advertising. She had been named president and CEO of the Zoological Society of Florida.