Steve Wilhite is the CEO for the new group, John Driscoll, is senior vice president, Chief Brand Officer. Driscoll said the changes
formalize efforts to cross-sell the print titles and their Web sites with Jumpstart's network of sites like Consumer Guide and Vehix. Car ads are down 47.5% in print in 1Q, per Publishers Information
Bureau.
Through July, Car and Driver's ad pages fell 20.7 percent to 451, per the Mediaweek Monitor (rival pub Automobile was down 34.1 percent, to 289). "Things have been paralyzed a little bit with what's been going on in Detroit," Driscoll said.
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