"I think the worst is behind us," said Cathleen Black, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association.

The American Newspaper Publishers Association announced today that Cathleen Black would leave her position as publisher of USA Today to become the association's president and chief executive.

But Hearst has fought for a place in the top rank of publishers under the direction of Cathleen Black, its magazine president for the last decade.

That prescription for coping with new electronic competition came from Cathleen Black, the president of the Newspaper Association of America, the national publishers group, which is holding its annual convention here.

The celebrities were selected "to prove to the advertising community that important people read our newspaper," said Cathleen Black, the publisher of USA Today, a Gannett newspaper.

She successfully avoided an accidental face-off between Cathleen Black and Kate Betts.

The president of Hearst Magazines, Cathleen Black, is a woman, he noted, as is the chief executive of Time Inc., Ann S. Moore.

Cathleen Black stepped down as New York City schools chancellor on Thursday at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's urging.

"We believe it is very, very good news," said Cathleen Black, the president of the Newspaper Association of America, the publishers' trade group.

Before Carole Black became president of Lifetime in 1999, she and Cathleen Black (who are not related) talked about taking the Lifetime name to another media platform.