In announcing Hallion’s appointment, Mark E. Aldam, publisher of the Times Union commented: “This promotion recognizes Kathy’s leadership role in transforming the Times Union into a multi-media sales organization, fully integrating interactive solutions to complement the audiences the newspaper reaches for advertisers.”

Hallion has spent most of her career at the Times Union in jobs of increasing responsibility in the sales departments of the newspaper during the past 27 years. She was promoted into management of the retail zone sales operations in 1992. Since then, Hallion has held leadership positions in both retail and classified advertising departments, most recently becoming advertising director in 1999 after rejoining the Times Union following a three-year tenure with The Hartford Courant, where she also held several advertising leadership positions.

The Times Union is the leading daily newspaper covering New York’s Capital Region. In addition to the daily and Sunday newspaper, the Times Union, publishes Capital Region TU and many specialty publications. The Times Union also offers SourceLine, a telephone information service, timesunion.com and knick.net Internet services, DirectTU direct marketing services and hosts several major trade shows and events. The timesunion.com Web site has been named the best American online newspaper in its circulation class by the Newspaper Association of America.

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