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Gazette announces new leadership appointments

HOUGHTON — Two people with decades of experience in local media have been named to leadership positions at the Daily Mining Gazette. The Daily Mining Gazette leadership has announced that current Advertising Director Yvonne Robillard has been promoted to general manager and former Managing Editor Mark Wilcox has returned to the updated position of Community Editor.

Both began their new duties this week.

Robillard is a lifelong Copper Country resident and a graduate of Calumet High School. She began as a telemarketer with the Copper Nugget in 1988 and soon moved to the outside sales department. When the Copper Nugget merged with the Gazette in the mid 1990s, she became a Daily Mining Gazette sales representative, a position she held until she was promoted to advertising director in 2006.

“The Gazette has been an important part of my life for such a long time,” Robillard said. “I am excited to begin a new chapter with this Copper Country institution.”

Robillard is a member of the Keweenaw ATV Club and also the Keweenaw Dirty Girls ATV Club. She enjoys traveling, ATV riding, camping with family and friends in the summer and snowshoeing the Copper Country in the winter. 

Wilcox has more than four decades as a print and broadcast journalist in the Upper Peninsula. He came to the Daily Mining Gazette in 2004 and over the next decade served as features editor, sports editor, news editor and in 2013 became managing editor. Prior to returning to the Gazette, he served as a news writer at Michigan Technological University and executive director of the Isle Royale and Keweenaw Parks Association.

Wilcox said there have been some significant changes since he was last at the paper, but the most important things have not changed.

“What hasn’t changed is the commitment the Gazette has to serving the people, communities, businesses and industries of the Western Upper Peninsula and the role it plays in the lives of our residents,” he said.

Wilcox’s work has been recognized by the Associated Press and the Michigan Press Association. A native of Rock, Michigan, Wilcox is an alumnus of Northern Michigan University and is active in community activities including the Michigan Tech Theatre Company, the Michigan Tech Concert Choir and the Yooperleles community ukulele group. Wilcox and his wife Maryann have two grown children and six grandchildren. They live in Houghton.

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