The Intelligencer
WHEELING, W.Va. — Forty-three years ago, Perry Nardo began a career that would see him ascend from an advertising sales representative at The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register to a regional publisher overseeing several newspapers in the region.
Along the way he would craft his own unique leadership style that saw him both demand and receive the best from himself and his employees. That’s no surprise given his passion for coaching and lifting up others — a passion that runs deep in his family.
Nardo’s newspaper career came to its conclusion on Friday when the longtime general manager of the Wheeling newspapers and also regional publisher for The Ogden Newspapers marked his final day on the job.
“I feel so privileged to have spent a career working with such great people here at The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register — individuals who were fully committed to their craft and to making this community a better place,” Nardo said.
“My greatest memories will always be about those I worked with and the communities we served. It was my calling and I’m so proud of all the work we did to help provide Ohio Valley residents with the most important news of the day.
“Every day our team did something great, and that doesn’t happen without really good people. As I look back over the past 40 years, the team I worked with was so important not only to my success, but the success of the newspapers and these communities. That’s what I’ll miss the most — my team.”
Nardo, a Key, Ohio native, Bellaire St. John High School and Ohio University graduate, began his career in August 1981 as an advertising sales representative in Wheeling. He worked that role until the end of 1986, when he accepted the advertising director’s position at The Southwest Times in Pulaski, Virginia. In early 1988, Nardo became publisher of the Radford News Journal in Radford, Virginia, followed by being named advertising director of The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Virginia, in February 1989.
He returned to the Upper Ohio Valley in February 1990 as publisher of the Wetzel Chronicle and Tyler Star-News. He returned to Wheeling in 1993 as The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register’s retail advertising manager, and in 1996 was named the newspapers’ advertising director. He assumed his current general manager’s role in June 1999, and in 2018 became a regional publisher for The Ogden Newspapers.
