{"id":114982,"date":"2015-01-28T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T04:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/habrat-leads-ballantine-ad-sales\/"},"modified":"2015-01-28T21:13:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T04:13:33","slug":"habrat-leads-ballantine-ad-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/habrat-leads-ballantine-ad-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Habrat leads Ballantine ad sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cd42eebf-5e09-41dd-ae6d-835774f649ba&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cd42eebf-5e09-41dd-ae6d-835774f649ba&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cd42eebf-5e09-41dd-ae6d-835774f649ba&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cd42eebf-5e09-41dd-ae6d-835774f649ba&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"337\" height=\"509\" alt=\"Habrat\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Habrat<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Habrat will serve as vice president of sales for the newspaper division of Ballantine Communications Inc.<\/p>\n<p>He most recently worked as regional sales director for Hagadone Corp., which owns daily and weekly publications in northern Idaho.<\/p>\n<p>From 2005 until 2013, Habrat was advertising director for The Free Press in Mankato, Minn., also serving as the regional sales and marketing vice president for parent company Community News Holdings Inc. CNHI owns dozens of community newspapers throughout the East, South and Midwest.<\/p>\n<p>Habrat has overseen online newspaper advertising, event marketing and print advertising for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgressive media companies are working very hard today to super-serve a community\u2019s core readers \u2026 with content that is smart and makes them smarter, surprises and delights and is a vigilant watchdog in the community,\u201d Habrat said in a prepared statement. \u201cToday we are providing that important content through multi-channel services. Given that reality, the sales and marketing products we provide and our team\u2019s expertise must be \u2018future-proof.'\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a challenging but exciting time to be in sales and marketing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An avid rock climber and water skier, Habrat was educated at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Habrat is married to his wife, Amy, and has four children, ages 11, 14, 22 and 25.<\/p>\n<p>Ballantine Communications\u2019 newspaper division includes the Dolores Star, Cortez Journal, Mancos Times, Durango Herald and Pine River Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habrat will serve as vice president of sales for the newspaper division of Ballantine Communications Inc. He most recently worked as regional sales director for Hagadone Corp., which owns daily and weekly publications in northern Idaho. From 2005 until 2013, Habrat was advertising director for The Free Press in Mankato, Minn., also serving as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-114982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114982"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=114982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}