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Bob Williams, publisher of the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis, is leaving his position to become publisher of The Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale.

Both companies are subsidiaries of Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises Inc., which also owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Williams has been publisher of the Suburban Journals since 2007. Before that, he was Lee’s corporate director of sales and development and advertising manager for the Missoulian in Missoula, Mont. He spent a decade with Gannett Co. Inc. before joining Lee in 1998. Williams, who is married with four grown children, graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in advertising paydayloans.

Greg Veon, Lee’s vice president for publishing, said Williams was selected after a nationwide search for a new publisher.

Williams will be replaced by Tom Wiley, a Lee executive now in charge of the Suburban Journals and Daily Journal in Park Hills.

The current publisher of the Illinoisan, Dennis DeRossett, is leaving the paper to become executive director of the Illinois Press Association.

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