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Citizens' Voice publisher to retire in August, Scott Lyentt named successor
 
 

From The Scranton Times
 

Citizens' Voice publisher Robert Manganiello has announced plans to retire as publisher Aug. 31, 2004.

He will remain with the The Voice in an advisory capacity through spring 2005. A new publisher, W. Scott Lynett, will take the helm of The Citizens' Voice Sept. 1.
Manganiello, publisher of the paper since 1997, announced his decision to the paper's employees Oct. 2.
He had planned to retire in 2000 but remained in the post at the request of Times-Shamrock after the sale of The Citizens' Voice. The Voice had previously been an employee-owned newspaper.

Prior to becoming publisher, Manganiello served 12 years as general manager of the paper. He helped guide the newspaper through several phases of internal reorganization and external growth. He was the first original Voice employee to fill the publisher's role. 
He began his career at The Sunday Dispatch in Pittston and later worked at the Scrantonian Tribune and the Wilkes-Barre Publishing Co.

Scott Lynett, son of William R. Lynett and Linda Kehrli, will be the first of the Lynett-Haggerty family's fourth generation to take a major management position with the company.

Lynett is in his final year of a management training program that Times-Shamrock implemented to prepare the next generation to assume leadership roles. Now working at The City Paper in Baltimore, he worked in The Voice's advertising department during most of 2002.
"Scott has a very diverse background in business, the law and management assignments within our company. He is a people person and we're looking for him to build upon the great achievements of Bob Manganiello and the employees of The Citizens' Voice," Edward Lynett said. 



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