Lloyd Schermer Retires as Lee CEO

Lloyd G. Schermer has retired as chief executive of Lee Enterprises Inc., a Davenport, Iowa-based chain of newspapers and television stations.

Schermer, 64, who had been chief executive since 1973, will remain as chairman. He is succeeded as chief executive by Richard D. Gottlieb, 48, who had been president and chief operating officer.

Schermer has been a leader in the newspaper industry. He is the immediate past chairman of the American Newspaper Publishers Assn., the professional association of the nation’s newspaper industry. He also was chairman of the National Advertising Bureau and continues as a director of that organization. He also is a member of the board of visitors of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.