Mark Aldam became publisher of the Times Union in March 2006. He was formerly senior vice president/chief operating officer of the Hartford Courant, owned by the Tribune Company. Aldam joined the Hartford Courant in 1994 as advertising director and was named senior vice president/chief operating officer in 2005. Prior to that, he spent almost four years as senior vice president/general manager of the newspaper. Over the course of his career at the Courant , Aldam held positions overseeing sales, marketing, and advertising. Before going to Hartford, he served as chief financial officer/assistant treasurer of Eagle Publishing Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where he is from originally.

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Listen to Aldam discuss how to keep the paper's audience.
Length: 24 sec