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Munster, IN-based Shari Karasek as Regional Director of Human Resources
About the Company
The Times Media Co. is the news and information leader in Northwest Indiana. We have the largest news gathering and sports staff in the Region, and we inform residents 24/7 through the daily Times of Northwest Indiana newspaper, a bustling website, www.nwi.com, apps and an e-edition. Times` staffers work out of bureaus in Crown Point, Valparaiso, Portage, and the main office in Munster. The Times also has a statehouse correspondent in Indianapolis, covering the Northwest Indiana delegation and issues important to the Region. The Times is both the Region`s watchdog and its partner. We strive to follow the money, policies and government actions closely, and we report on public safety and human interest issues throughout Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties. We also partner with organizations to help the community in many ways. In addition to the daily newspaper, Times` products include Inspired Living, Get Healthy and InBusiness magazines, and a monthly Your Family special section. We offer other special sections throughout the year, including the Progress editions published each March and the Best of the Region section. The Times Media Co. holds signature events in the Region, including the 20 Under 40 banquet, the Business and Industry Hall of Fame luncheon and the One Region luncheon. Among our recent initiatives is the Community Civility Counts campaign in partnership with the Gary Chamber of Commerce, and our history website, nwi.com/history, that launched at the start of Indiana`s Bicentennial year. The One Region initiative has worked in recent years to improve the quality of life and bring Region interests together.
About the Person
Shari Karasek is the Regional Director of Human Resources at The Times Media Co. and three other Lee locations in the Midwest. Karasek will continue to handle human resources for her hometown Lee newspaper and media company, The Journal Times, in Racine, according to Times Media Co. Publisher Chris White. She also will handle that job for two Lee media companies in Iowa: The Courier, in Waterloo/Cedar Falls and the Globe Gazette, in Mason City. Karasek started her career with Lee Enterprises as an entry-level human resources assistant at The Journal Times. She was appointed human resources manager there in 2002, overseeing the personnel function for 170 employees. In 2008, she became a regional human resources director for Lee, taking on responsibility for several media outlets and advertising enterprises in addition to The Journal Times. In 2011 she took on human resources for several more of Lee`s Wisconsin locations. For more than a decade, she served in various leadership roles in Leadership Racine, a nine-month program designed to recruit promising leaders and help prepare them for positions of public influence and decision-making. Karasek met her husband, Scott, at The Journal Times and together they have raised two children. Today, she derives some of her greatest satisfaction volunteering at the nursery of her church, Evangelical United Methodist.
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