{"id":2222,"date":"2014-01-10T22:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2014-01-13T22:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T22:09:21","slug":"tony-ronzio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/tony-ronzio\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 93: Director of News & Audience for the Bangor Daily News Tony Ronzio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong>\u00a093
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0December 28
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Tony Ronzio
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Anthony \u201cTony\u201d Ronzio, Director of News & Audience for the Bangor Daily News<\/a>,\u00a0grew up in Rhode Island.\u00a0\u00a0He graduated with a\u00a0bachelor\u2019s degrees in magazine journalism and history from Syracuse University.\u00a0 In 2001, after a short stint as a freelance writer, Ronzio moved to Maine to start as Assistant Editor at the VillageSoup in Camden.\u00a0 Ronzio described himself to Stevoe as an Ocean Stater by birth and a Mainer by choice.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left)\u00a0host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe recently sat down with Director of News & Audience for the Bangor Daily News Anthony “Tony” Ronzio (right) to discuss media in Maine.<\/p><\/div>\n

After five years with the VillageSoup, Ronzio joined the Sun Journal in Lewiston, as Editorial Page Editor.\u00a0 He then became Editor and Publisher, first for the Kennebec Journal and then for the Morning Sentinel.\u00a0 Ronzio helped Maine’s oldest daily newspaper (the Kennebec Journal) through a period of significant transition, which included the sale of their headquarters and move into newer, modern offices.<\/p>\n

After leaving as chief executive of MaineToday Media\u2019s two newspapers in central Maine, Ronzio joined Sun Media Group, which owns The Sun Journal and The Forecaster.\u00a0 Here he was the New Media Director, and was in charge of online audience and revenue development.<\/p>\n

In January 2013, Ronzio became Director of News & Audience for the Bangor Daily News.\u00a0 In this position, Ronzio guides the long-term development of the BDN as it expands and its ability to provide engaging coverage to readers across multiple formats.\u00a0 He is also responsible for running the 55-person newsroom and their growing network of contributors, as well as their new digital and print products.\u00a0 Ronzio described for Stevoe that in his current role he has one foot in a traditional editor\u00a0role, and one foot in a digital, analytics role.<\/p>\n

MaineFocus<\/a> is Bangor Daily News\u2019 new journalism and community engagement project. It has become their flagship public service journalism project.\u00a0 It addresses drug abuse, domestic & sexual violence, and economic stagnation in Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods recently welcomed the Director of News & Audience for the Bangor Daily News Anthony “Tony” Ronzio to the studio. The two talked all about Maine news and the changing landscape of journalism in the digital age. Ronzio also told Stevoe about a new project from Bangor Daily News called “MaineFocus” and how it offers continuous coverage on the important issues facing Maine communities. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}