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Industry mag lets publisher go

TORONTO – Publishing and sales veteran Grenville Pinto is now on the market. Until late last week, Pinto was the publisher of cable industry trade magazine Mediacaster, but his position was eliminated by the company and July 31st will be his last day.He was hired as sales manager in February of 1999 and was soon promoted to publisher. Prior to that, Pinto was in sales with the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. The magazine and its companion web site has been struggling for a while, but the timing of Pinto's departure is somewhat of a surprise since the magazine had only just...