Announcement: Chronicle Names Veteran News Executive as Its New Publisher

The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., the parent company of The Chronicle of Philanthropy, has announced that Mireille Grangenois will this month become the organization’s new publisher. Ms. Grangenois is an advertising, marketing, and public-relations executive who began her career as a reporter.

Ms. Grangenois, currently a managing director at the Burson-Marsteller public-relations firm, has wide experience in the news business, both online and in print. She served previously as vice president for advertising at The Sun, in Baltimore, where she also was vice president for marketing and interactive media and general manager of its Web site. Before working at The Sun, she was an advertising executive at Washington Post Newsweek Interactive and at The Philadelphia Inquirer.

At Burson-Marsteller, Ms. Grangenois is responsible for its multicultural practice. Her clients include the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the United Negro College Fund, and Hampton University.

Ms. Grangenois is a 1978 alumna of New York University.

In recent years, Ms. Grangenois has served on the boards of several cultural, civic, and academic organizations, including the University of Maryland’s journalism school, the Lincoln Theater, in Washington, D.C., and the Center Stage Theater, in Baltimore.

In addition to the two newspapers and their associated Web sites and other online services, The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc. produces the Arts & Letters Daily Web site, newsletters for trustees of colleges and other nonprofit organizations, and live and online events for people in higher education and the nonprofit world.