Farrow joins The Meridian Star as Sales Manager

Published 7:00 pm Saturday, January 7, 2017

 Mandy Farrow joined The Meridian Star family on Jan. 3 as Sales Manager.

Farrow comes to Meridian after two years as ad director at The Carthaginian, a weekly paper in Carthage. She brings in experience in media sales at four other newspaper groups, including two dailies in Texas.

“I’m excited to be in Meridian and back at a daily newspaper,” Farrow said. “I look forward to working with our customers. There is no better feeling than when you help someone with an ad campaign and then return to the business and see the campaign was successful.”

“We are pleased to have Mandy join our team,” said Alexander Gould, publisher of The Meridian Star. “Her experience and energy will allow us to meet and exceed our business partners’ expectations.”

Prior to joining the Carthaginian, Farrow worked at The Neshoba Democrat in Philadelphia as its ad director. Before that, Farrow worked for American Consolidated Media – a cluster of five newspapers – in  Corpus Christi, Texas. She was advertising director from 2006-2009 at the Palestine Herald in Palestine, Texas. She began her newspaper sales career in 2000 with the Tyler (Texas) Morning Telegraph, a daily newspaper.

Farrow is married to Frankie Farrow, who is store manager at Fred’s Pharmacy in Philadelphia where they reside. The couple has five children ranging in age from 24 to 3, along with one grandchild. Their children are Memory, Wesley, Christian, Hunter and Hayden. Ember is the couple’s grandchild.

The Farrows are huge football fans of Mississippi State and the Dallas Cowboys.

Farrow attended Trinity Valley Community College in Palestine and is a native of nearby Lindale, Texas.

Farrow can be contacted at 601-693-1551, ext. 3206 or at mfarrow@themeridianstar.com.

Also joining The Star is reporter Whitney Downard, who covers law enforcement, mental health, public safety and general news assignments. Born and raised in Utah, Downard moved to New York in high school and attended college at St. Bonaventure University where she studied journalism/mass communication and Spanish. Downard has experience as the production director of the campus radio station and co-editor of the campus yearbook. She also wrote for the campus newspaper and two online campus publications: the Intrepid and the Convergence. Her previous experience includes an internship with Forbes writer Rob Sczcerba, with radio station Cities 97 in Minneapolis, MN and RVSA Advertising in her hometown of Binghamton, New York. She can be contacted at 601- 485-1255 or at wdownard@themeridianstar.com.