Stephen Gray

Steve Gray began his journalism career at his family’s newspaper, The Monroe (Mich.) Evening News, in 1972. He rose from reporter to city editor and then to editor, winning awards for reporting, editorials and columns. While remaining as editor he handled increasing company management responsibilities, becoming president of the Monroe Publishing Co. in 1994. As CEO, he led the company’s conversion to employee ownership and the creation of an award-winning culture of employee involvement. He also led the diversification of the company’s business model through numerous new publications, products and services. In 1997, he was named managing publisher of The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, where he launched numerous new online, syndication, partnership and multi-media strategies that reached millions of new readers, viewers and listeners. He was named managing director of API’s Newspaper Next project in September 2005. He is a former president of Inland Press Association, the Michigan Press Association and the Michigan Associated Press Editorial Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.