Mary Nesbitt

Ms. Nesbitt is managing director of The Readership Institute at the Media Management Center, which was formed in 1999 by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) and the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE). The Institute, housed at the Media Management Center (MMC), focuses on action-oriented research and development projects that will help newspapers build sustainable readership. Ms. Nesbitt has worked with MMC since 1998, directing the women in newspaper management project and working with ASNE, NAA and the McCormick Tribune Foundation on the task force that led to the formation of the Institute.

For nearly a decade, she worked for The London (ON) Free Press as city editor (1988-92) and associate editor (1992-96). She also taught in the graduate school of journalism at the University of Western Ontario. Before entering journalism, Ms. Nesbitt taught English language and literature at a school near Chechester in Sussex, England; and English as a second language to francophones in the Canadian armed forces. She has a B.A. degree with honors from the University of Toronto and an M.A. degree in journalism from the University of Western Ontario.