Alex Sanchez has been promoted to publisher of Al Día. He was hired in August of 2007 as president and general manager of the Dallas Spanish-language daily, which is a sister publication of The Dallas Morning News.
Before joining Al Día, Alex was VP and general manager at LBI Media, in Dallas-Fort Worth. He has previously worked at Univision and Telemundo in Dallas, Miami and Los Angeles.
He succeeds Gilbert Bailón,who left the paper in October to become editorial page editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.