Forum Communications names vice presidents

Forum Communications Co. has appointed four employees to vice president.

Paul Amundson is vice president interactive. He has been with the company since 1987 and created i29, an Internet access business, in 1989.

Amundson helped launch online initiatives for the entire company in 1996, which include more than 50 newspaper and broadcast Web sites in a four-state region.

He is a Minnesota State University Moorhead journalism graduate and has a business degree from the University of Minnesota Crookston.

John Hajostek has been named vice president finance.

Hajostek, chief financial officer for FCC, has been with the company since 2002.

A graduate of St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minn., Hajostek was formerly controller for W.W. Wallwork Inc. and corporate controller for Transwest Inc.

Dennis Hall is vice president commercial printing.

With 35 years in the newspaper industry, Hall has worked in nine different newspaper markets in the Midwest.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, River Falls, Hall was previously director of operations and daily newspapers for FCC and publisher of the Worthington Daily Globe, Worthington, Minn.

Forum Communications Printing has four printing plants in Fargo and West Fargo, Detroit Lakes and Wadena, Minn.

Mark Prather has been named vice president of broadcast.

A graduate of Wayne State College, Wayne, Neb., in broadcast communications, Prather has been involved in television and radio broadcasting for 34 years.

Prather was named general manager of broadcast operations for FCC in 1990.

“These division titles will help our public more clearly understand the divisions of our multi-faceted company and make it easier for them to navigate through our organization,” said Lloyd Case, FCC president and chief operating officer.

Previously, Steve McLister, formerly publisher of the Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune and general manager of The Forum, was named vice president of newspapers.

The Forum and The Jamestown Sun are

both owned by Forum

Communications Co.

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