Dow Jones unit consolidates ad production

Dow Jones Local Media Group is consolidating the ad production of all of its local newspapers at The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass., the publisher said last week.
The decision covers all of DJLMG’s community papers, which include The Record in Stockton, Calif., the Portsmouth (N.H.) Herald, the Cape Cod Times in Hyannis, Mass., and the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y.
Some 40 jobs will be created at The Standard-Times, although an undisclosed number of workers will lose their posts at the other newspapers.
The Times-Standard said DJLMG executives decided to consolidate, rather than outsource, ad production because they wanted better control over how ads were created.
Kevin Wright, advertising services manager at the Cape Cod Times, will oversee the new unit.