Paula Downey

Paula Downey is the classified director for Media General, Inc., based in Richmond, Virginia, and is responsible for classified advertising strategy across Media General’s three divisions of publishing, interactive media and broadcast.  Ms. Downey was formerly the regional ad director for Media General’s community newspaper group in Northern Virginia.  She was the classified advertising manager at the Richmond Times-Dispatch for eight years and managed the online advertising staff for timesdispatch.com for two years prior to the creation of the Interactive Media Division of Media General in 2001.  Ms. Downey joined the Times-Dispatch in 1978.  She is a past president of SCAMA, and has been active in the NAA’s Classified and New Media federations.