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Bill Marcil Jr. named chief operating officer of Forum Communications Co.

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Bill Marcil Jr. has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Forum Communications Co.

FARGO, N.D. – Bill Marcil Jr. has been named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Forum Communications Co., which publishes The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead.

Marcil will continue in his role as publisher of The Forum.

“The election of Bill as chief operating officer has been in our succession plans for a number of years,” said William C. Marcil, chairman of the board of Forum Communications Co.

“Bill is the fifth-generation publisher of the family-owned Forum,” he added. “The (Marcil) family’s committed to a locally owned newspaper company, and this succession will enable us to do that.”

Lloyd Case remains president and chief executive officer of Forum Communications.

Forum Communications Co. President and CEO Lloyd Case

The board also re-elected company vice presidents heading divisions:

- Paul Amundson, vice president of digital.

- Dennis Hall, vice president of commercial printing.

- John Hajostek, vice president of finance.

- Steve McLister, vice president of newspapers.

- Mark Prather, vice president of broadcast.

Dennis Hall

Paul Amundson

Steve McLister

John Hajostek

Mark Prather

As the diversity of divisions and delivery platforms indicates, “we’ll deliver the information any way the consumer wishes to receive it,” William Marcil said.

Forum Communications Co. is a multimedia information company based in Fargo. Forum Communications Co. owns dozens of newspapers, websites and television and radio stations in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Former FCC publisher inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame

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Noel Hamiel

Longtime newspaperman and former Forum Communications Co. publisher Noel Hamiel will be inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame on April 27 at Cedar Shore Resort, Oacoma.

Hamiel will be honored during the 130th convention of the South Dakota Newspaper Association. He becomes the 103rd member of the Newspaper Hall of Fame.

Hamiel retired as publisher of Forum Communication Co.’s The Daily Republic in Mitchell, S.D., in 2007 after 35 years in the newspaper business. He began his career in 1972 at the Huron Plainsman as a sportswriter. He also worked at the Brookings Register, Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kan., the Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan and the Cincinnati Post.

When he retired from newspapering in 2007, Hamiel took a position with the South Dakota Community Foundation, where he works with communities statewide in philanthropic development.

“We are humbled to honor someone who has made huge contributions to the newspaper business in our state,” said SDNA President Lucy Halverson, publisher of the Lyman County Herald, Presho. “Noel Hamiel has had a positive, powerful impact not only on the newspaper industry in South Dakota, but throughout our state as well.”

Through his years as a journalist, Hamiel won numerous awards for editorial and column writing. He was president (twice) of the South Dakota Associated Press Managing Editors group and served on the SDNA Board of Directors.

He was named a Lusk Fellow at South Dakota State University in 2007 for outstanding service to journalism and received the SDNA Distinguished Service Award in 2009.

Hamiel served in the South Dakota Legislature from 2008 to 2010. As a freshman representative, he successfully sponsored a bill to require transparency for certain no-bid contracts in government. He served as co-chairman of the Governor’s Wage Study Task Force and as chairman of the South Dakota Board of Education.

Hamiel and his wife, Janet, have been married for 38 years. They have three grown children and four grandchildren.

Marcil retiring as Forum’s publisher and company CEO; will remain board chairman

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Bill Marcil Jr., William C. Marcil

FARGO, N.D. – William C. Marcil, publisher of The Forum for the past 41 years, will step down on Dec. 1 and hand the reins to his son, Bill Marcil Jr.

WDAY video: Handing over the reigns.

The 74-year-old Marcil is relinquishing his role as publisher and CEO but will remain chairman of the board of Forum Communications Co., The Forum’s parent company. Marcil made the announcement this morning.

In another change, Lloyd G. Case, the company’s president and chief operating officer, on Monday also was named CEO and will remain in that position until 2013, when he too will retire.

William Marcil called the changes “a milestone in the history of this company.” “When you’ve got a family owned business and you’ve got a child that’s capable of coming back and running the business, it just makes everybody feel really happy in the family,” he told Forum employees, Marcil Jr. and Case at his side.

William Marcil became The Forum’s publisher on Nov. 1, 1969, succeeding his father-in-law, Norman D. Black Jr.

With his appointment, 46-year-old Bill Marcil Jr. will become the fifth-generation family member to serve as publisher of The Forum.

He was a photography intern at The Forum in 1987 and served as the newspaper’s general manager from 1997 to February 2000. Later that year he was named development director for Forum Communications.

Lloyd Case

Bill Marcil Jr. has been away from the newspaper’s day-to-day operations for seven years while running his own business, but he said he’s a voracious newspaper reader and has continued to follow industry trends closely.

He said he’s thankful for the opportunity his father and mother, Jane, have given him.

“I’m excited about it. I’m excited about our future and where we’re going,” he said.