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JACK HAIRE HAS BEEN busy since he exited Time Inc. in a management shake-up at the end of 2005 that effectively cleaned out the old guard and left Chief Executive Ann Moore with her own team. Mr. Haire, who had held a succession of top jobs under Ms. Moore's predecessor, Don Logan, started a media consulting firm. Haire Media Ventures advised a range of companies, including CNET Networks, which was sold to CBS Corp. for $1.8 billion.
But when the offer came to take over Parade, the middle-of-the-road Sunday supplement carried in 475 U.S. newspapers, including the New York Post, Mr. Haire jumped.
As chief executive of Parade Communications, a unit of Advance Publications Inc., Mr. Haire would get to run his own company. And working for the Newhouse family-owned Advance, he would not be subject to...