Eddings named publishing director for Dolan

Posted: 6:00 pm Mon, November 29, 2010
By Tom Linthicum

Christopher A. Eddings, publisher and president of The Daily Record, has been named director of publishing operations for The Dolan Company, owner of The Daily Record.

In his new role, Eddings will oversee the company’s business and legal newspaper and electronic publishing platforms throughout the country. He will continue to be headquartered in Baltimore with The Daily Record.

“The job is to grow our publications – in print and online – and to grow our people, something I love doing,” said Eddings, noting, “I’m not going anywhere. When I came to The Daily Record and Maryland, my family and I found a home. But I’ll probably be seeing more airports than I have in the past as I work with other Dolan Company publications.”

Eddings will be responsible for publishing operations in 21 markets across the country, which are supervised by three group publishers. Eddings has served as Law Group publisher for Dolan since 2003, in addition to his day-to-day duties in Maryland. With his increased responsibilities, he will continue to report to Mark Stodder, Dolan Company executive vice president for business information.

“Chris has been an outstanding and creative leader for our company in Baltimore and nationally,” said Stodder. “He is a mentor to many and plays a vital role in the industry.”

Eddings, 61, was named publisher of The Daily Record in 1997.

He is a member of the boards of the Greater Baltimore Committee, the Downtown Partnership Management Authority and Humanim. He also serves on the Baltimore Workforce Investment Board and the Maryland Civic Literacy Commission.

A New England native, Eddings started his newspaper career in 1973 in the classified advertising department of Maine’s Lewiston Daily Sun and Evening Journal. He progressed through other sales and general management positions at two New England newspaper companies before becoming publisher of Massachusetts’ 16-newspaper North Shore Weeklies company in 1988.

The following year, he became CEO of another Massachusetts company, Beacon Communications, then owned by the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1991, he joined The Stars and Stripes in Germany as the first civilian general manager since World War II, charged with restructuring that organization following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and subsequent down-sizing of American troop strength in Europe. He came to Maryland after a stint as publisher of the daily Conroe Courier in Texas.

Eddings is a past president of the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association and of American Court and Commercial Newspapers and currently serves on the board of the Public Notice Resource Center.