Lucy Talley-Chapman

Lucy Talley-Chapman began her career in newspaper advertising in 1979 at The Ledger in Lakeland, Florida, a subsidiary newspaper of The New York Times. She held positions in every division of the advertising department while at The Ledger including telephone sales, recruitment sales, classified manager, retail manager and advertising director. In 1995, Ms. Talley-Chapman accepted the position of Director of Advertising for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina. She was promoted to General Manager in 2000, responsible for advertising, marketing, finance, circulation, new media, HR, IT and newspaper production operations. She is the President of Mid-Atlantic Newspaper Advertising and Marketing Executives and is on the advisory board for the American Press Institute. She has served on the board of directors for the Classified Federation of the Newspaper Association of America and was a board director for Southern Classified Advertising Managers Association. She is a board member of the Metro Chamber of Commerce, serves on the Economic Outlook Board and is the vice-chair of the Metro Chamber's Power of Partnership task force. Ms. Talley-Chapman has two daughters, Trina Talley, a middle school honors mathematics teacher and a graduate student at University of South Florida and Nicole Chapman who is a junior at Summerville High School in Summerville, SC. In her spare time she enjoys golf, scuba diving, boating and traveling with her husband, Ed. Lucy, Nicole, Ed and their 4 cats reside in Summerville, SC.