 James M. Moroney III, Chairman
Publisher and CEO, The Dallas Morning News
Dallas, Texas
Jim Moroney has served as executive vice president of A.H. Belo since December 2007 and continues to serve as publisher and chief executive officer of The Dallas Morning News, a position he has held since June 2001.
Previously, Jim held several executive positions with Belo, including president of Belo Interactive Inc. from its formation in May 1999 until June 2001, and as executive vice president of Belo from July 1998 through December 1999, with responsibilities for finance, treasury, and investor relations. Jim also serves on the boards of the Cistercian Preparatory School in Dallas and the State Fair of Texas. |
 Robert M. Nutting, Vice Chairman
Publisher and CEO, Ogden Newspapers Inc.
Wheeling, W. Va.
Bob Nutting is publisher and CEO of Ogden Newspapers Inc., a family-owned diversified media company headquartered in Wheeling, W. Va. that was founded by his great-grandfather in 1890. He is only the fourth person to lead the company in its 121 year history. In addition Bob serves as chairman of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Bob is a past president of the West Virginia Press Association. He also serves as chairman of the board of The Linsly School, and as a board and executive committee member of Bethany College. He is past chairman of the West Virginia Independent Colleges and Universities. Nutting is a passionate conservationist and supports various environmental programs. He currently serves as vice chairman of the Nature Conservancy’s West Virginia chapter, and is a former chapter president and current member of Trout Unlimited. In addition, Nutting serves on the board of directors at the Carnegie Natural History Museum in Pittsburgh. He is a licensed commercial pilot and flight instructor, an avid fly fisherman and skier. |
 Robert J. Dickey, Secretary
President, Gannett U.S. Community Publishing
McLean, Va.
Bob Dickey was named president of the Gannett U.S. Community Publishing Division, formerly Newspaper Division, in February 2008. Previously he served as senior group president of the Pacific Group and chairman of Phoenix Newspapers Inc. from 2005 to 2008; president and publisher of The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, Calif., from 1993 to 2005; and group vice president of the Pacific Group, 1997 to 2005. Bob began his career with Gannett Company Inc. 21 years ago as retail advertising manager in Reno, Nev. He became advertising director in 1990. In July 1993, Bob rose through the ranks to president and publisher of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs. In 1997, Bob became a Gannett Group vice president for the Pacific Region and was named senior group president in September 2005. His many accomplishments with Gannett include 2005 Manager of the Year, two consecutive Publisher of the Year awards in 1998 and 1999, Publisher’s President’s Ring awards 1997 through 2002 and 2004, and President’s Ring and runner-up Ad Director of the Year in 1992. |
 Donna Barrett, Treasurer
President and CEO, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.
Montgomery, Ala.
Donna Barrett assumed her role as president and chief executive officer of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. in January 2006. Previously she held the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer. In addition to her duties at CNHI, Donna is active in the newspaper industry and serves on the boards of directors of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, The Associated Press and the American Press Institute. |
 Michael E. Reed, Past Chairman
CEO, GateHouse Media Inc.
Fairport, N.Y.
Michael E. Reed became chief executive officer of GateHouse Media Inc. in February 2006. He was formerly the president and chief executive officer of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. and had served in that capacity since 1999. Michael served as CNHI's chief financial officer from 1997 to 1999.
Prior to that, he worked for Park Communications Inc., a multimedia company located in Ithaca, N.Y. Michael currently serves on the board of directors for the Associated Press and he is also the chairman of the Audit Committee for the AP. He is currently a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Alabama's College of Communication and Information Sciences and is a member of the Grady College Journalism School's Board of Advisors.
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 Mark Newhouse, American Press Institute Chairman
Advance Publications Inc.
New York, N.Y.
Mark Newhouse is executive vice president of newspapers for Advance Publications in New York City. Previously he has worked in various capacities at Advance newspapers in Queens and Staten Island in New York, and in Portland, Ore., Harrisburg, Pa. and Newark, N.J.
Mark served on the board of the Audit Bureau of Circulations from 1995 to 2004. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University.
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 Michael G. Abernathy
Landmark Community Newspapers
Shelbyville, Ky.
Michael Abernathy is president of Landmark Publishing Group and Landmark Community Newspapers, LLC (LCNI). Michael has been president of LCNI since 2001 and was executive vice president before moving into his current position. He assumed his role as president of Landmark Publishing Group in November 2008. Landmark Publishing Group includes four metropolitan daily newspapers – The Virginian-Pilot, The Roanoke Times, The Greensboro News & Record and The Annapolis Gazette. LCNI has 56 paid community newspapers in 13 states. Michael has been with Landmark Media Enterprises for more than 25 years, beginning his career as an advertising account executive for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. He has held numerous positions in advertising and production management and was general manager of the Targeted Publishing Division. |
 Mark E. Aldam
Hearst Newspapers
New York, N.Y.
Mark E. Aldam became president of Hearst Newspapers in 2011. He was named executive vice president/deputy group head in 2010, with oversight of eight Hearst properties. He joined Hearst in 2006 as publisher of the Times Union in Albany, N.Y., serving three years in that capacity. Prior to that, he was senior vice president/chief operating officer of the Hartford (Conn.) Courant. |
 Rosanne Cheeseman
Erie-Times News
Erie, Pa.
Rosanne Cheeseman became president, publisher and CEO of the Erie Times-News in October 2008. She joined Lee Enterprises in 1998 as a regional sales manager for the Lee Group. She was promoted to corporate director in 2000 and to advertising director at the North County Times in 2002. Rosanne began her career in advertising at the Edgerton Reporter in 1986 where she sold advertising in niche publications and managed projects and sales representatives in five states. In 1995, she joined Insiders Publishing as a regional manager and was promoted to national advertising director in 1997. |
 Maria Eugenia Ferré Rangel
GFR Media
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Maria Eugenia Ferré Rangel was named president of the Ferré Rangel group in 2001, and has served as chief editor and president of the board of directors of Primera Hora and El Nuevo Día since 2006. She serves on the board of directors of Banco Popular Inc., and Popular Inc., and is president of the Luis A. Ferré Foundation and fiduciary of the editorial board of the University of Puerto Rico. Maria has a bachelor’s degree in history and hispanic studies from Amherst College in Massachusetts and a master’s degree from Boston University. |
 Michael Fiorile
The Dispatch Printing Co.
Columbus, Ohio
Michael Fiorile became president and chief operating officer of The Columbus Dispatch in January 2008. He has been president of The Dispatch Printing Company since January 2005. Fiorile joined the company in 1994 as president and CEO of The Dispatch Broadcast Group, overseeing all television, radio and cable operations, including WBNS-TV and the Ohio News Network, WTHR-TV and SkyTrak Weather in Indianapolis, WBNS-AM/FM radio stations and Radio Sound Network. Since 2003, Fiorile has overseen all sales operations for The Dispatch Printing Company and its media affiliates. |
 Doug Franklin
Cox Media Group Inc.
Atlanta, Ga.
In January 2009, Doug Franklin became executive vice president, newspapers, for the Cox Media Group, a new umbrella organization combining Cox Newspapers, Cox Television and Cox Radio, in addition to being named publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Upon further restructuring of the Cox Media Group in August 2009, Doug was named executive vice president, responsible for digital operations and Valpak, and for regions of radio, television, and newspapers. Prior to his move to Atlanta, Doug served as publisher of Cox’s Palm Beach Post. He also has served as president and chief executive officer of Cox Ohio Publishing and publisher of the Dayton Daily News. Franklin joined the company more than 30 years ago as a door-to-door circulation solicitor for Dayton Newspapers and also worked at its Springfield News-Sun and Longview (Texas) News-Journal. |
 Clark C. Gilbert
Deseret News
Salt Lake City, Utah
Clark Gilbert is the president and CEO of the Deseret News Publishing Company and Deseret Digital Media. The Deseret News is Utah’s longest running business and one of the nation’s fastest growing newspapers, both in print and online. Deseret Digital is one of the largest targeted media networks in the country. It manages the commercial Web properties of the Deseret Media Companies: DeseretNews.com, KSL.com, DeseretBook.com, MormonTimes.com and LDSChurchNews.com. Prior to DDM, Gilbert was an associate academic vice president at Brigham Young University–Idaho, where he oversaw the university’s online learning and distance education initiatives. He was also a professor of entrepreneurial management at the Harvard Business School, where he published numerous award-winning articles on media innovation. |
 Michael Golden
The New York Times Co.
New York, N.Y.
Michael Golden was appointed vice chairman of The New York Times Company in October 1997. He was also elected to the company’s board of directors that same year. In March 2009, Michael added to his portfolio the responsibilities of president and chief operating officer for The New York Times Company Regional Media Group.
Michael served as publisher of the International Herald Tribune from November 2003 to January 2008. From 1997 to 2003, he served as chief administrative officer for the company. Previously, Michael served as the Company’s vice president for operations development from January 1996 to 1997. He was executive vice president and publisher at the company’s Tennis magazine from October 1994 to January 1996. Before that, he served as executive vice president and general manager of the Company’s Women’s Publishing Division from September 1991 to October 1994. The Times Company sold its Women’s Publishing Division in 1994. Michael earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in 1971 and a master’s degree in education in 1974 from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa. He earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1977 and a master’s degree in 1984 from Emory University in Atlanta, where he achieved membership to the national honorary business fraternity. |
 Christian A. Hendricks
The McClatchy Co.
Sacramento, Calif.
Christian A. Hendricks became vice president, interactive media, for the McClatchy Company in 1999. He joined the company in 1992 as advertising manager, marketing, for The Fresno Bee, and the following year became its marketing director. In 1994 he was named manager of technology for McClatchy, and held this position until 1996 when he was promoted to president and publisher of Nando Media, McClatchy's Internet publishing company. He remained there until taking his current position in 1999. In 2004, Christian assumed the additional role of president of Nando Media, which was renamed McClatchy Interactive in 2005. Christian was named New Media Pioneer in 2003 by the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Federation. He has served on the federation's board and various NAA committees. |
 Stephen P. Hills
The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
Stephen Hills has served as president and general manager of The Washington Post since September 2002. In February 2008, he became president and general manager of Washington Post Media, a world-class, multi-platform news brand that has the highest combined market penetration in print and online of any top-10 metropolitan newspaper. Stephen joined The Post as an advertising sales representative in 1987 after working as a business intern in 1986. He served in a progression of increasingly responsible positions in advertising and marketing before becoming vice president of advertising in 1993. In January 2001 he was appointed vice president of sales and marketing, overseeing the circulation, advertising and marketing departments. He also oversees the niche publishing operation, Greater Washington Publishing. Prior to joining The Washington Post, Stephen covered sports for the San Mateo Times in 1981. In 1982 he and a partner created and launched The Bay City Business Journal, a regional business publication. Before that, he was director of sales and marketing at ITB Inc. in Emeryville, Calif., from 1981 to 1982, and was a sales representative for the Fuller Brush Company in 1979 in San Francisco. Stephen graduated from Yale University in 1981 and received a master’s degree from Harvard Business School in 1987. |
 Tony W. Hunter
Chicago Tribune Co./Tribune Publishing
Chicago, Ill.
Tony Hunter is president, publisher and CEO of Chicago Tribune Company, a media and business services company with a print and digital portfolio including the Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, RedEye, Hoy, TribLocal and Chicago Magazine. Recognized for leading a far-reaching culture change and fast transformation of a traditional newspaper company into one of the nation’s most diversified innovative media entities, Hunter often is asked to speak on turnaround management. Since taking over the company's leadership in September 2008, Hunter has overseen a strategy to diversify into digital media and business services channels while also reasserting Chicago Tribune’s role as leading citizen of Illinois. Hunter previously served as senior vice president/circulation and operations for Chicago Tribune, a position he took in 2007. He was responsible for circulation, production and technology as well as marketing strategy, customer acquisition/retention, manufacturing and distribution. He secured an unprecedented distribution agreement with the Sun Times News Group to distribute the cross-town rival Chicago Sun-Times. As Chicago Tribune's vice president/operations from 2003 to 2007, he led two major expansions at the newspaper's near-west side "Freedom Center" printing plant: to expand color printing capacity and improve the targeting of preprinted advertising inserts. Hunter joined Chicago Tribune in 1994 as manager/circulation planning and analysis. During his tenure in circulation, he led development of the pricing and distribution strategies for the RedEye launch. Prior to joining Chicago Tribune, Hunter worked for the Audit Bureau of Circulation from 1984 to 1994, serving as Director of Field Auditing-Newspapers and a variety of auditing positions. A native of Calumet City, Illinois, Hunter holds a MBA in leadership and organizational development from DePaul University and a BA in accounting, business administration and economics from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
 Mark H. Jackson
Dow Jones & Co.
New York, N.Y.
Mark Jackson is the chief legal officer of Dow Jones & Company, reporting directly to chief executive Les Hinton. Before his appointment as executive vice president and general counsel in December 2007, he was associate general counsel of HarperCollins Publishers. Prior to joining HarperCollins, Jackson was a partner in the litigation department of the Manhattan law firm of Squadron, Ellenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld, where he worked from 1985 through 1997. In private practice, he represented a broad array of media interests in the newspaper, magazine, book publishing, motion picture and television industries. Jackson also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Literacy Partners, Inc., a not-for-profit organization devoted to teaching reading to adults living in New York City who are functionally illiterate. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Cornell Law School (both cum laude). |
 Mary E. Junck
Lee Enterprises Inc.
Davenport, Iowa
Mary Junck became president of Lee Enterprises in 2000, chief executive officer in 2001 and chairman in January 2002, and also serves as chairman of the Executive Committee of Lee’s board of directors. She joined Lee in 1999 as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Mary previously held senior executive positions at the former Times Mirror Company. As executive vice president of Times Mirror and president of Times Mirror Eastern Newspapers, she was responsible for all newspaper operations in the region, including Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, the Hartford Courant, The Morning Call, and Southern Connecticut Newspapers. Mary also had responsibility for Times Mirror magazines and StayWell, Times Mirror’s consumer health company. She held that position from 1997 until she left the company in 1999. From 1993 to 1997, Mary was publisher and chief executive officer of The Baltimore Sun. From 1990 to 1992, she was publisher and president of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, where she had served as president, general manager and senior vice president since 1985. Mary received a bachelor’s degree in English from Valparaiso University in Indiana and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
 Michael Klingensmith
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minn.
Michael J. Klingensmith is publisher and CEO of Star Tribune Media Company LLC with overall responsibility for all news and business operations of the company. Klingensmith, a native of the Twin Cities, joined the Star Tribune in January 2010 after spending most of his more than 30-year career in publishing with Time Inc. in New York City. Within Time, Inc., Klingensmith held various management positions, including general manager of Time Magazine and CFO of Time Inc. He was the co-developer of the concept for Entertainment Weekly and became its founding publisher in 1989, leading the magazine through its launch and emergence as one of the company’s most profitable titles. In 1998, he was named president of Sports Illustrated, where he helped establish the highly profitable SI.com online business. In 2001, he became executive vice president at Time Inc. He left the company in 2008 and was a managing director of AdMedia Partners, a New York mergers and acquisition advisory firm, prior to joining the Star Tribune. |
 Marshall N. Morton
Media General Inc.
Richmond, Va.
Marshall N. Morton is president and chief executive officer of Media General Inc. Media General is a publicly owned, diversified communications company with interests in newspapers, broadcast television stations and interactive media. Marshall joined Media General in 1989 as senior vice president and chief financial officer. He was elected vice chairman in 2001 and also continued to serve as chief financial officer until his election to his current position in July 2005. Marshall has served on Media General’s board of directors since 1997 and is a member of the executive committee. From the time of his graduation from Darden until joining Media General, he served in a number of financial capacities with West Point Pepperell, including those as corporate vice president and controller. Marshall currently serves on the boards of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation, the Science Museum of Virginia Foundation, Maymont Foundation, the Darden School Foundation at the University of Virginia and the Richmond Metro American Heart Association. Marshall is a 1970 graduate of the University of Virginia and was awarded a master’s degree from its Darden School of Business in 1972. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War as a hospital corpsman on the USS Intrepid. |
 Gregory J. Osberg
Philadelphia Media Network Inc.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Gregory J. Osberg is publisher and chief executive officer for Philadelphia Media Network, Inc., which owns The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com. Prior to his time at Philadelphia Media Network, Inc., Greg served as president and CEO of Buzzwire, where he led the mobile media company’s development of a new business model to deliver news and other content on the mobile Web. He has spent 30 years in the news business, including leadership positions with The Washington Post Company, CNET, and U.S. News and World Report. While at The Washington Post Company, Greg was the president and worldwide publisher of Newsweek and Newsweek.com, where he re-launched Newsweek.com. He was at Newsweek from 2000 to 2008. During that time, Greg managed a strategic partnership with MSNBC.com and MSN that resulted in Newsweek.com becoming the world’s largest newsmagazine website. In 2005, he received Adweek’s Executive Team (Publisher/Editor) of the Year award. Prior to The Washington Post Company, Greg was the president of CNET, where he dramatically increased advertising revenue, resulting in the organizations first year of profitability. Before arriving at CNET, he served as associate publisher at Newsweek from 1990 to 1997 and held senior advertising positions at US News & World Report and Chilton Publishing. Greg earned his degree from Colorado State University and is a member at The Global Leadership Council at The College of Business. |
John Paton
Digital First Media Inc./Journal Register Co./MediaNews Group Inc.
New York, N.Y. In January, John Paton was named chief executive officer of the Journal Register Company, one of the largest news and information companies in the United States with more than 300 print and online products serving 14 million Americans each month. He is the co-founder of impreMedia LLC, which he and his partners built into the largest news and information company serving the U.S. Hispanic population. John, who started his career as a copyboy and rose through the editorial ranks, was named Editor & Publisher's Publisher of the Year in 2009 - in recognition of his efforts to transform a legacy news company into a modern multi-platform news company. He was named "Media All-Star" in 2005 by AdWeek magazine's Marketing y Medios, and in 2006 was the first non-broadcast executive to be named the Hispanic Media Executive of the Year by HispanicAd.Com at the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies' annual conference. Since the mid-90s, John has been directly involved as a senior executive, board member or advisor in more than $3.6 billion in media transactions and financings involving both private and public companies. A media executive for more than 30 years, he has been responsible for newspaper and online operations in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. John is a graduate of Ryerson University's journalism program and successfully completed the Finance for Senior Executives program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. In 2006 his alma mater Ryerson University honored him with their Alumni of Distinction Award. John serves on the board of directors of the Journal Register Company and Postmedia Network, and is a member of the board of advisors of the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. |
 David M. Paxton
Paxton Media Group LLC
Paducah, Ky.
David M. Paxton became president and chief executive officer of Paxton Media Group LLC on Jan. 1, 2000. He joined the company in April 1991 as chief financial officer.
Prior to joining Paxton, David worked for Morgan Stanley and Co. Inc. for 18 years, where he was responsible for business development, client coverage and execution of merger and acquisition, financing and real estate assignments for the firm’s corporate clients. He also worked in the corporate finance, syndicate and asset management areas of J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons Inc., a regional investment bank. David holds a master’s degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College. |
 Chuck Peters
The Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Chuck Peters is the CEO of The Gazette Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a local media company serving eastern Iowa primarily through The Gazette newspaper and KCRG-TV9, an ABC affiliate, along with numerous niche print and online products. Chuck is a lawyer by training, but he spent a decade in the appliance business, five years as president of Amana Refrigeration and until 1998 served as vice president, administration, of Maytag. He was the chief executive officer of Breakthrough, an Iowa City start-up software and consulting company engaged in developing effective early literacy programs for school systems. Chuck is active in many civic and charitable organizations. He has been a director of Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust since its formation in October 2001, and was named its chairman in 2006. |
 Charles V. Pittman
Schurz Communications Inc.
Mishawaka, Ind.
In August 2002, Charles V. Pittman was named senior vice president of publishing at Schurz Communications Inc., a communications media holding company and publisher of the South Bend Tribune and eleven other daily papers.
Charles began his career with Lee Enterprises as publisher of the Herald & Review in Decatur, Ill., in 1996, and became vice president of the former Lee Central Newspaper Publishing Group in 1997. He became publisher of the Quad-City Times in 1998, with additional responsibility for the Muscatine Journal, Thrifty Nickel and other Lee operations in the region. Before joining Lee, Charles was new media advertising manager at the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina and a general executive in Knight-Ridder’s corporate executive training program. For seven years before that, he was classified advertising manager for the Times Publishing Co. in Erie, Pa. He also served three years as marketing and promotion director at Erie and wrote a weekly sports column.
Charles holds a master’s degree from Gannon University in Erie and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State, he was an Academic All-American and a Football All-American. |
 Douglas K. Ray
Daily Herald
Arlington Heights, Ill.
Douglas K. Ray was named publisher of the Paddock Publications’ Daily Herald in 2009. He became general manager of Paddock Publications in 1998, president and chief operating officer a year later and CEO in 2002. Ray joined Paddock Publications’ Herald newspapers as a reporter in 1970. In 1990, Ray was honored as the Southern Illinois University journalism department's alumnus of the year. Several years before being named publisher, Ray was named Editor & Publisher magazine's 2006 Publisher of the Year for his excellence leading the company. Today, Paddock Publications operates not only the Daily Herald but also the weekly bilingual journal Reflejos, the local-news website dailyherald.com and a host of specialty publications. |
 Michael Romaner
Morris Communications Co. LLC
Augusta, Ga.
Michael Romaner founded Morris Communications’ Division of Online Services in 1995 as the Internet publishing support arm for Morris business units. Later, as the division began selling technology, consulting and development services to other companies across the country, it was re-established as Morris DigitalWorks and Michael became its first president. Today, MDW continues to provide technology and publishing solutions to Morris businesses and supports dozens of local, regional and national websites, many having won major awards for their leadership in the field. But MDW also provides software and web-development solutions to many major U.S. media companies, as well as leading companies in Brazil, Australia and Canada. In addition to being an NAA board member, Michael has served as a president of the NAA’s New Media Federation. He served as chairman of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium and is currently on its executive committee. He has also served on the advisory boards for the American Press Institute’s Media Center and Editor & Publisher Interactive. |
 Steven J. Smith
Journal Communications Inc.
Milwaukee, Wisc.
Steven J. Smith is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Journal Communications Inc. Steven was elected chief executive officer in March 1998 and chairman of that year. He was president from 1992 to 1998, and added the title of chief operating officer in 1996. Steven has been a director since May 2003 and is a member of the executive committee. He was a director of Journal Communications Inc.’s predecessor company since June 1987. Steven is also a director of Badger Meter Inc., where he is chair of the employee benefit plans committee and a member of the audit and compliance committee. |
 Timothy E. Stautberg
The E.W. Scripps Co.
New York, N.Y.
Timothy E. Stautberg, senior vice president/newspapers at Scripps, served for three years as the company’s senior vice president/chief financial officer and for nine years as vice president of corporate communications and investor relations. He joined Scripps in 1990 and held various positions at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver before moving to the Record Searchlight in Redding, Calif., as general manager. |
 Caroline Little
President and CEO, Newspaper Association of America
Arlington, Va.
Caroline H. Little is president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America, the industry’s largest trade organization. Prior to being named president in September 2011, she served for four years as CEO, North America of Guardian News and Media Ltd., where she oversaw all U.S. operations, including digital news media properties guardian.co.uk and ContentNext Media Inc. (operators of PaidContent.org). Before that, Caroline was publisher and CEO of WashingtonPost Newsweek Interactive, where she led the division to its first year of profitability and integrated WPNI with other units of The Washington Post Company. From 2000 through 2004 she served as COO, managing all WPNI product development, technology, sales and marketing activities. She started at The Washington Post Company in 1997 as vice president and general counsel of WPNI, representing the company’s Internet division and advising clients on corporate, financial, editorial and intellectual property matters. Caroline has served as deputy general counsel for several publications, including U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, and Fast Company. She began her career in 1986 as an associate in Arnold & Porter’s Washington D.C. office. Caroline is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, and has served as a director at the American Press Institute, chair of the Online Publishers Association, and a member of the Internet Advertising Bureau Board of Directors and of Google’s Publisher Advisory Council. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University and holds a law degree from the New York University School of Law. |