Ken Berry, The Honolulu Advertiser's director of specialty publications and a 38-year veteran of Hawai'i's newspaper industry, has accepted a job with the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee.

Berry will leave next month to become the director of target marketing for the Times Free Press. He will report to Jason Taylor, another Advertiser executive who recently resigned as senior vice president of advertising and marketing to become the president of the Chattanooga operation.

Berry came to Hawai'i in 1970 as editor of West Hawaii Today. In 1976 he joined the Sun Press, and in 1984 founded MidWeek. He worked with the Army to create the Hawaii Army Weekly in 1987.

Joining The Advertiser in 2002 as its special projects director, he upgraded its nonsubscriber product, Island Weekly, and was involved in the launch or redesign of an array of products including Dining Out, Homescape, TV Week, Auto Shopper and community People newspapers.

Berry's wife, Karen, The Advertiser's national accounts sales executive, also will join the Times Free Press as a territory advertising manager.