{"id":17635,"date":"2010-09-05T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T23:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17635"},"modified":"2010-09-11T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T03:22:21","slug":"gannett-goes-to-bnqt-for-biz-dev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17635","title":{"rendered":"Gannett Goes To BNQT For Biz Dev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bnqt_logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bnqt_logo.jpg','popup','width=124,height=121,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bnqt_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"97\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Bnqt Logo\" \/><\/a><strong>Rudd Davis<\/strong>, founder of action sports advertising network <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnqt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BNQT<\/a><\/strong> and former <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JDK<\/a><\/strong> worker, has <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/USA-TODAY-Announces-prnews-1926333772.html?x=0&amp;.v=1\" target=\"_blank\">apparently been tapped<\/a><\/strong> to head up <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today&#8217;s<\/a><\/em><\/strong> business development and digital development and this has caused <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=123&amp;aid=190028\" target=\"_blank\">Poytner Online media columnist Rick Edmonds<\/a><\/strong> to wonder what it all means in his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=123&amp;aid=190028\" target=\"_blank\">Biz Blog<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How does it happen that two young execs from USA Today&#8217;s BNQT action sports site are now in charge of all business development and digital development? Does success in covering dirt-biking and skateboarding translate to building a broad digital domain?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Rick. Could it be that after trying (and failing) to run a media business with the usual subjects they&#8217;ve finally realized that those wacky kids building that action sports business may actually understand how media works in a digital space? This move may be one of the first good decisions Gannett has made in years. Congrats, Rudd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=123&amp;aid=190028\" target=\"_blank\">Poynter.org<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudd Davis, founder of action sports advertising network BNQT and former JDK worker, has apparently been tapped to head up USA Today&#8217;s business development and digital development and this has caused Poytner Online media columnist Rick Edmonds to wonder what it all means in his Biz Blog: How does it happen that two young execs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17694,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17635\/revisions\/17694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}