API Board of Directors

Chairman Thomas A. Silvestri
President and Publisher, The Richmond Times-Dispatch

On Jan. 1, 2005, Mr. Silvestri became president and publisher of The Richmond Times-Dispatch, Media General's second largest newspaper.

Since January 2002, Mr. Silvestri has served as president of Media General Inc.'s community newspaper division. He is responsible for 20 daily newspapers and more than 25 weeklies in five Southeastern states -- Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and northern Florida -- as well as Virginia Business, a statewide magazine.

Mr. Silvestsri was named a vice president in September 2000 and a senior vice president in April 2001 after serving for two and a half years in the pioneering role as director of news synergy and Newsbank editor at the Richmond-based company, whose mission is to become the leading provider of news and information in the Southeast.

A journalist for more than 25 years, Mr. Silvestri is a former deputy managing editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he moved through a series of front-line editing and management positions, helped create three news departments and several stand-alone sections, and launched a training program that attracted national attention for its breadth and reality-based approach. While he was the senior editor for business news, the paper's business section was judged best in the state by the Virginia Press Association and one of the best sections in the country by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Before joining The Times-Dispatch, Mr. Silvestri was a reporter and editor for the Gannett Westchester (N.Y.) Newspapers. He is an advisor to the Virginia Press Association where he helped create the Virginia Writers' Workshop. He is a past president of the Virginia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He has a master's degree in business administration from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he is past president of the Business School's alumni board, and a bachelor of arts in literature and communications (minor in accounting) from Pace University in New York, where he was the editor of the student newspaper, new morning.

He has been a discussion leader at more than 40 API seminars. He has attended one: Business and Economic Coverage (1990).

Vice Chairman Robert J. Weil
Vice President/Operations The McClatchy Company

Mr. Weil has been vice president, operations of McClatchy since September 1997 and now oversees 14 daily newspapers in the Northwest, Midwest, Southeast and Texas. He oversees the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska; the Idaho Statesman; The Olympian, The Bellingham Herald, The (Tacoma) News Tribune and the Tri-City Herald in Washington; the Belleville News-Democrat in Illinois; The Wichita Eagle in Kansas; The Kansas City Star in Missouri; the Centre Daily Times in Pennsylvania; the (Biloxi) Sun Herald in Mississippi; the (Columbus) Ledger-Enquirer and The (Macon) Telegraph in Georgia; and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas. He was named to his position after 17 years as a newspaper publisher.

Mr. Weil joined McClatchy as publisher of The Fresno Bee in 1994. From 1992 to 1994, he was president and chief operating officer for Persis Media, a privately held company with newspapers in Washington and Tennessee. Mr. Weil held other senior management positions with Persis and Gannett Co. from 1973 to 1992.

Treasurer Charles V. Pittman
Senior Vice President for Newspapers Schurz Communications

Mr. Pittman joined Schurz Communications in August 2002. Prior to that, he was Lee Enterprises' corporate vice president for newspapers and publisher of its flagship newspaper, the Quad-City Times. Before joining Lee Enterprises in 1996 as publisher of the Herald & Review in Decatur, Ill., he worked at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, first in the production division and later as new media advertising manager and general executive of Knight Ridder's Corporate Executive Training Program. He worked for seven years as classified advertising manager for the Times Publishing Company in Erie, Pa., and for three years as marketing and promotion director there.

After graduating in 1970 from Pennsylvania State University, where he was a football and academic All-American, Charles played professional football for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Baltimore Colts. He holds a master's degree in business administration from Gannon University in Erie. Charles has attended four API seminars: Revenues and Costs: Total Newspaper Management (2000), Leadership, Innovation and Change (1992), Classified Advertising Executives (1983) and Promoting the Daily Newspaper (1983).

P. Mark E. Aldam
Senior Vice President Hearst Newspapers

Mr. Aldam is senior vice president of Hearst Newspapers with responsibilities as group publisher for eight daily newspapers and six Connecticut weeklies. Aldam's management purview includes the Times Union, Connecticut Post, The Advocate, Greenwich Time, The News-Times, Huron Daily News, Midland Daily News, Edwardsville Intelligencer and six weekly newspapers in Fairfield County, Conn. From March 2006 to February 2009, Aldam was publisher of the Times Union in Albany, N.Y.

Mr. Aldam was formerly senior vice president/chief operating officer of The Hartford Courant, owned by the Tribune Company. He joined The Hartford Courant in 1994 as advertising director and was named senior vice president/chief operating officer in 2005. Prior to that, he spent almost four years as senior vice president / general manager of the newspaper. Over the course of his career at The Courant, Mr. Aldam held positions overseeing sales, marketing and advertising. Before going to Hartford, he served as chief financial officer / assistant treasurer of Eagle Publishing Company in Pittsfield, Mass.

Peter Bhatia
Executive Editor, The Oregonian

Mr. Bhatia joined The Oregonian in Portland as managing editor in 1993 and helped lead the paper's conversion to a team-based newsroom structure. Previously, Mr. Bahtia was executive editor of The Fresno (CA) Bee, managing editor of The Sacramento (CA) Bee, editor of The York (PA) Dispatch and Sunday News, managing editor of the Dallas Times Herald, deputy managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner and a reporter and editor of The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington.

In April 2003, he assumed the presidency of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Previously, he was chair of ASNE's Ethics and and Values Committee, helping to lead its work on newspaper credibility, was program chair for its 1999 convention in San Francisco and co-chair of the ASNE magazine, The American Editor. He served two terms on the board of directors of the Associated Press Managing Editors organization and four times as a Pulitzer juror and has been an editor on six Pulitzer Prize-winning projects.

A native of Pullman, Washington, he is a graduate of Stanford University and served on the board of directors of the Stanford Alumni Association. In Portland, he is past chair of the board of directors of the Albertina Kerr Centers for Children and he chairs the board of his son's school.

David H. Black
President Black Press Ltd.

Mr. Black received an Engineering degree at UBC in 1969 and an MBA at Western in 1971. In the early 1970s he worked for Crown Life Insurance Company and Torstar Corp. In 1975 he moved to Williams Lake, British Columbia to purchase a small newspaper from his father.

Mr. Black is president and owner of Black Press, the largest private newspaper publisher in Canada. Black Press has over 158 newspapers and 14 regional web press operations. The company has grown tremendously over the past 35 years. Company operations are located mainly in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington State, Hawaii and Ohio.

Mr. Black has worked extensively for volunteer organizations within his communities. In the past he has been president of his Rotary Club and chaired the Northern British Columbia Winter Games. From 1987 to 1989 he chaired the Victoria team that won the rights to the 1994 Commonwealth Games for Victoria and Canada. From 1991 to 1996 Mr. Black served as the founding Chairman of the Board of Advisors for the University of Victoria Faculty of Business. From 1994 to 2001, he served as a Director of Pacific Sport, a trust which manages the $15 million sport training fund generated by the Commonwealth Games. Pacific Sport has created a number of national sport training centres for Canada's top athletes.

Within his industry, he has served as President of the British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspaper Association, as a Director of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and as a Governor of the Canadian Newspaper Association. For three years he served as the Chair of the B.C. Progress Board and was also appointed to the B.C. Competition Council.

In 2007, Mr. Black was recognized as Distinguished Entrepreneur of the Year by the University of Victoria Faculty of Business. In 2008, he was honoured with the Margaret Hennigar Award for Exemplary Leadership in recognition of his contribution to, and support of, community journalism in Canada. In 2009, he was inducted as a business laureate into the Junior Achievement Hall of Fame which recognizes business leaders for their business excellence and enduring contributions to our province and country.

Susan S. Davidson
Senior Vice President, Atlanta Journal and Constitution

Ms. Davidson assumed her new duties as senior vice president of human resources at the AJC in February, 2009. She was previously the vice president of human resources for Cox Newspapers, Inc. Since joining Cox Newspapers in 1989, she became the human resources director for the Austin American-Statesman in 1990, overseeing all aspects of human resources for over 1,100 employees. In May 1999, Ms. Davidson accepted the vice president of human resources at Cox Newspapers Inc., where she was responsible for the HR needs for over 15,000 employees in 17 daily newspapers and 26 weeklies and shoppers. Two community papers in Texas, The Lufkin Daily News and The Daily Sentinel Nacogdoches, reported to her as well.

In the years prior to her position at Cox Newspapers, Ms. Davidson was a teacher and self-employed consultant. As an independent consultant, her largest projects were with the American Heart Association (Texas affiliate) and the Austin Civic Orchestra. She has been a member of several industry newspaper committees and boards, and received the Media Human Resources Association (MHRA) Catalyst Award in 2002.

Ms. Davidson is a native of California and received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. She is also certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) by the Society of Human Resources Management.

Ms. Davidson currently resides in north Fulton County, Atlanta, with her husband Jeff Talmadge, who is an attorney and singer/songwriter. She is the proud mother of a daughter and two sons and enjoys rowing and gardening in her leisure time.

She has attended API seminars: Senior Executives Retreat (metro markets) (2003) Newspaper Next - Workshop (2007) and Learning Newsroom - Workshop (2007).

Andrew B. Davis
President and Executive Director, The American Press Institute

Mr. Davis took over as President and Executive Director of API in December, 2003. He was previously director of innovation and business development for the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. A brigadier general in the Marine Corps Reserve, Mr. Davis took leave from the Media Management Center between July 2001 and July 2003 to serve as director of Marine Corps Public Affairs at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.. Prior to joining the Media Management Center, Mr. Davis was president of Chicago Sun-Times Features, Inc., a division of The Sun-Times Company, and of Performance Media, a custom publishing division he conceived and developed into a multi-million-dollar venture. He also was vice-president of the Sun-Times Company. He holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in English literature from Princeton University and a master's degree with distinction in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School. For 10 years he was group publisher and newspaper operations vice-president of Pioneer Newspapers, a 41-newspaper group based in suburban Chicago. He is married to Margaret Bergan Davis, a consultant to nonprofit organizations for fundraising and strategy. They have two daughters.

Mike Gugliotto
President Pioneer Newspapers

Effective January 1, 2009, Mr. Gugliotto was named president and chief executive officer of the media company. Mr. Gugliotto succeeded David Lord, who became vice chairman of the company. He had been vice president and COO for Pioneer since 2001.

Mr. Gugliotto graduated from Colorado State University in 1981 with a degree in Technical Journalism. His work history included working as an Account Executive and Copy Writer for Bernard Hodes Advertising/Denver and Schey Advertising/Houston. He also did freelance writing for numerous clients. 1981-1984. before coming to Pioneer Newspapers, he worked at the Fort Collins Coloradoan as Major Accounts Manager and Retail Advertising Manager from 1984-1987; worked at the Loveland Daily Reporter Herald (Colo.) as Advertising Director from 1987 - 1992; at the Longmont Daily Times-Call (Colo.) as Vice President of Advertising for Lehman Communications (Three daily and three weekly newspapers) from 1992 - 1996 and at the Longmont Daily Times-Call as Vice President and General Manager and also served on the editorial board and company board of directors from 1996 - 2001.

He currently serves on the board of directors for CAC - Certified Audit of Circulation, the Inland Press Association (and the committee chairman of Inland's group executive meeting) and the NAA's newspaper marketing committee. Also serves on the advisory board for the University of Washington's Communication Department. He recently completed a three-year term on the board of directors for the Washington Coalition for Open Government. While working in the above positions, he has served different communities in numerous capacities through work with Rotary, Sertoma, Junior Achievement, United Way, and several Chambers of Commerce.

Caroline Diamond Harrison
Publisher, Staten Island Advance

Ms. Harrison worked as a reporter at the Staten Island (N.Y.) Advance in 1984 and 1985. She joined the New Orleans Times Picayune in November 1986 as an executive trainee, working in all departments of the newspaper. In February 1989, she joined the Patriot-News Company, Harrisburg, Pa, becoming General Manager in September 1990. Ms. Harrison returned to the Staten Island Advance in 1999 as General Manager, and in April of 2004 she was named Publisher.

She graduated from Staten Island Academy in 1982 and from Dartmouth College in 1986. She is a member of The Newspaper Association of America and an active member of its Public Policy Committee and Technology Committee. She is on the Board of Directors of the Staten Island Children's Museum, Staten Island Academy, and the Richmond County Savings Bank Foundation.

Arne L. Hoel
Chairman of the Board, Swift Communications, Inc.

Mr. Hoel has served as president and chief executive officer of Swift Communications, Inc., since 1996. He first started with the company in 1988 as the controller. Prior to joining Swift, he worked as a certified public accountant with Ernst & Whinney for three years and with Peat, Marwick for two years in Sacramento, Calif. Presently, he is a member of the board of directors of Swift Communications, Inc., an acting associate of Vistage, US Bank Advisory Committee, Inland Cost & Revenue Committee and the Reno/Sparks Chamber of Commerce Board, and he coaches youth soccer teams. Mr. Hoel holds a B.S. degree from California State University in Sacramento.

Gerould W. Kern
Editor Chicago Tribune

Mr. Kern was named vice president/editorial for Tribune Publishing in January 2004. Prior to his appointment, he served as editorial director of the publishing group from 2001 to 2003, directing initiatives aimed at improving journalistic quality while deriving greater value and efficiency from Tribune's scale.

As editorial director, Mr. Kern established a network linking the newsrooms of Tribune Publishing's 13 daily newspapers, increasing cooperation and the flow of content between them. The volume of shared Tribune content nearly tripled, becoming the fastest growing source of news in the publishing group. He also directed several companywide publishing initiatives including the personal finance section Your Money, which launched in January 2004.

Mr. Kern joined the Chicago Tribune in 1991. He directed the paper's suburban coverage as part of a major regionalization program and was named associate managing editor for metropolitan news in 1993. He was appointed deputy managing editor/features in 1995 and led the development of new sections and several major reporting projects. During his tenure, the Tribune's features staff won many national journalism awards including the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1999. He became the Tribune's associate editor in 2001.

Prior to Tribune, Mr. Kern served as managing editor and then executive editor of The Daily Herald in Arlington Heights, Illinois. He joined the newspaper in 1975. He is a member of the board of directors of the American Press Institute, the American Society of Newspaper Editors Foundation and KRT News Service. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Indiana University and has studied at the graduate level at Indiana University and the University of Chicago. He attended API's Executive Editors and Managing Editors seminar (1986).

Michelle Krans
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Development Gannett US Community Publishing Division

Caroline H. Little
CEO North America, Guardian News & Media

Effective January 1, 2009, Ms. Little was appointed chief executive with Guardian News & Media (GNM) for North America. She joined GNM's board in July as a special adviser on US expansion. She is based out of both New York and Washington.

Former WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive publisher and CEO, Ms. Little joined WPNI in 1997 as general counsel. She was promoted to vice president, administration and general counsel in 1998. She became senior vice president of business affairs and general counsel in 1999. She assumed the role of chief operating officer in April 2000, and was named president in April 2003. In January 2004, she became CEO and publisher.

Prior to joining Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Ms. Little was deputy general counsel at U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly and Fast Company (May 1993 to July 1997). While there, she was active in negotiating agreements with online service providers, licensing, multimedia syndication agreements and other areas involving circulation and marketing of the magazines. When Ms. Little worked at Applied Graphics Technologies and Applied Printing Technologies, she drafted and negotiated various financing and licensing agreements, joint venture agreements, software license agreements, production services agreements, asset purchase agreements, and other agreements for pre-press and printing companies.

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Caroline received a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1981 and received her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1986 where she graduated with honors. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Ms. Little is an active member of both professional organizations and the charitable community in Washington. She also serves as an Advisory Board member for The Posse Foundation, and is a Board member for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and the charitable group WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence). In addition, she is a trustee to Grinnell College in Iowa. She is also a member of the Young Presidents' Organization.

Joseph Lodovic
President, MediaNews Group, Inc.

Mr. Lodovic is President of MediaNews Group, Inc. MediaNews Group and its affiliates publish 46 daily newspapers in ten states with daily and Sunday circulation of approximately 1.8 and 2.3 million, respectively. In addition, MediaNews owns one television station, a CBS affiliate, located in Anchorage, Alaska, and 3 radio stations. MediaNews also operates a new media division, which hosts websites for all of MediaNews' media properties and invests in internet technologies which support its interactive media strategies.

He began his career in public accounting with Ernst & Young, joining MediaNews Group in 1986. He became Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1993 and was named President on February 1, 2001. He serves as 1 of 4 members of the management board of the Denver Newspaper Agency, a newspaper JOA in Denver, CO, and the Newspaper Agency Corp., a newspaper JOA in Salt Lake City, UT. He also serves on the board of the Newspaper Association of America. Jody is also a member of the American Institute of Public Accountants and the Texas Society of CPAs. In addition, he currently serves or has served on various committees of some of the above organizations. Jody also participates or has participated on boards and committees of various community organizations.

Dave Morgan
Entrepreneur Founder TACODA and Real Media

Mr. Morgan is a serial Internet entrepreneur, having founded and led two successful online advertising companies.

In 1995, Mr. Morgan founded Real Media, Inc., one of the first online ad networks and ad serving companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was purchased in 2007 and WPP. He served as Real Media's CEO until 2000 and its Chairman until 2001. After leaving Real Media in 2001, Dave founded TACODA, the pioneer of behavioral targeted online advertising, and served as its CEO until 2006 and its Chairman until it was acquired by AOL, LLC, a subsidiary of Time Warner (TWX) for $275 million in September of 2007.

After the sale of TACODA and until March of this year, Mr. Morgan served as AOL's Executive Vice President for Global Advertising Strategy, focusing on AOL's advertising strategy, its strategic partnerships, and communicating the company's value proposition to the market. In that role, he helped architect the AOL's new Platform-A ad network strategy.

In the early 1990's, Mr. Morgan served as General Counsel and Director of New Media Ventures for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, where he helped launch more than a dozen new media businesses. Before that, he was an associate in the corporate and litigation departments of the Philadelphia-based law firm of Duane Morris.

Mr. Morgan is a frequent speaker, writer, and commentator on advertising issues and is active in public policy issues relating to advertising and privacy. He is involved in a number of industry trade groups and serves on the board and executive committee of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB).

Mr. Morgan received a B.A. in Political Science from The Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and two daughters.

James Moroney, III
Publisher and CEO The Dallas Morning News

Mr. Moroney was named Executive Vice-President of A. H. Belo Corporation in November 2007 with responsibilities for its three newspaper operating companies in Dallas, Texas, Providence, Rhode Island and Riverside, California. He continues to serve as publisher and chief executive officer of The Dallas Morning News, a position he has held since June 2001. He had served as president of Belo Interactive, Inc. since its inception in May 1999 and is a member of A. H. Belo's Management Committee.

Mr. Moroney began his Belo career as a sales trainee at WFAA-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth. In 1985 he became local sales manager for WFAA and later that year was promoted to general sales manager of KOTV in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He returned to Dallas in 1989 as Belo's controller. Mr. Moroney was promoted to president and general manager of KOTV in Tulsa in January 1993. In November 1993 he became a vice president of the Broadcast Division. In January 1997, Mr. Moroney was promoted to president/Television Group assuming responsibility for the operations of all of Belo's television stations in 15 markets across the United States. In June 1998, he was named executive vice president of Belo, with responsibility for finance, treasury and investor relations.

Mr. Moroney has served on the board of the Television Bureau of Advertising and numerous civic organizations. He presently serves on the boards of Cistercian Preparatory School in Dallas, the State Fair of Texas, the Advisory Board of the College of Communications at the University of Texas and the Executive Committee of the Board of the Newspaper Association of America.

Mr. Moroney graduated from Stanford University in 1978 with a B.A. in American Studies. In 1983 he received his M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

María Eugenia Ferré Rangel
President and Chief Executive Officer, El Nuevo Día

Ms. Rangel is one of the youngest executives to lead a major circulation newspaper in the United States. The 34-year-old El Nuevo Día is Puerto Rico's largest daily with a circulation of 210,000 papers daily and 250,000 on Sundays. As the largest Spanish language daily in the United States, El Nuevo Día is 100 percent Hispanic owned and operated. It commands a leading share of the Puerto Rico advertising market and belongs to the Ferré Rangel Group of companies.

Ms. Rangel brought innovation and change throughout the company preparing the newspaper and its 965 employees for the increasingly competitive media market of the 21th century. She managed the transformation of the paper by using technology to modernize the operational processes in the production and circulation departments. Under her leadership the company has invested over $50M in a new printing press and supporting equipment to guarantee early home delivery of the paper to the existing subscribers and further expand the service throughout the island. Ms. Rangel has effectively reduced costs while being able to expand the advertising sales share of one of the largest and most competitive media markets in the hemisphere.

Ms. Rangel serves in the board of directors of the Ponce Museum of Arts, Pro Arte Musical, Cosecha de Puerto Rico and other not-for profit organizations. Previous to her appointment as president and CEO, she worked as vice president of administration and operations, assistant vice president of sales and marketing, and as director of community and corporate relations. With more than 11 years of working experience at El Nuevo Día in different capacities, Mariía learned the intricacies of the publishing business. Ms. Rangel is married with two children. She obtained a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish, and graduated from Holy Cross College. She completed a Master Degree in Communications at Boston University. María attended API's Advertising Executives seminar (1992).

Rex Rust
Co-President, Rust Communications

Mr. Rust is co-president of Rust Communications, a second-generation media company that owns 18 daily and 31 weekly community newspapers throughout eight midwestern states. In addition, Rust Communications has a minority ownership in 17 radio stations in Missouri and Illinois. Mr. Rust focuses on the company's corporate finance, acquisition strategy, shareholder relations and corporate governance. Prior to returning to the family business in 2000, Rex worked for two years in the mergers and acquisitions department of Smith Barney in New York; three years with the private equity firm Code, Hennessy & Simmons in Chicago; and three years with the private equity firm Colonnade Capital in Richmond, Va.

Mr. Rust graduated from Harvard University with honors in 1992 with a degree in economics. His studies included a semester abroad at the London School of Economics and three months of travel throughout Eastern and Western Europe.

Mr. Rust holds leadership positions in several local civic organizations in Cape Girardeau, Mo., including chairman-elect of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce and current president of the Southeast Missouri State University Athletic Booster Board. In addition, Mr. Rust is a board member of the Division of Youth Services for the State of Missouri, the St. Louis Children's Hospital Development Board, and the Inland Press Association. Mr. Rust is also active in the St. Louis chapter of the Young Presidents Organization.

Mr. Rust lives in Cape Girardeau with his wife Sherry and is a member of LaCroix United Methodist Church. He is a private pilot and avid sports enthusiast.

Greg Schermer
Vice President of Interactive Media, Lee Enterprises

Mr. Schermer joined Lee in 1989 and has led Lee's online expansion since 1998. He became a member of Lee's board of directors in 2000 and also served as corporate counsel from 1989 to 2006. Before joining Lee and returning to Davenport, he was a partner at the law firm of Hanson, O'Brien, Birney and Butler in Washington, D.C. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in Massachusetts and a juris doctorate degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1980. He serves on the boards of directors of CityXpress, the NAA Horizon Watch Committee, and the Associated Press Digital Committee. Among his community activities in Davenport, he is president of the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Inc., overseeing the Adler Theatre, and president of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra.

Jonathan Segal
President, Freedom Newspapers

Mr. Segal has been senior vice president of Freedom Communications Inc. and president of its Community Newspapers Division since 1999. Prior to assuming his current positions, he served as senior vice president and president of the Eastern Community Newspapers Division for eight years. Before joining the corporate staff, he served as senior publisher of Freedom's North Carolina newspapers and publisher of The Gaston (NC) Gazette for 10 years. He also was editor of The Free Press in Kinston, North Carolina, and worked in various circulation, advertising and editorial positions at The Brownsville (TX) Herald and The Gaston Gazette.

He is past president of the North Carolina Press Association and president-elect of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. Mr. Segal has 32 years of experience in the newspaper industry and graduated from the University of Texas with an honors degree in journalism.

Katharine Weymouth
Chief Executive Officer, Washington Post Media Publisher, The Washington Post

Ms. Weymouth is chief executive officer of Washington Post Media, a unit of The Washington Post Company that includes The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com, and publisher of The Washington Post. She was named to both positions in February 2008. She had been vice president of advertising for The Washington Post since January 2005.

Ms. Weymouth joined The Post in 1996 as assistant counsel. After two years, she moved to Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (WPNI), the online publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, as associate counsel. In 2000, Ms. Weymouth returned to the newspaper, where she served as the advertising department's liaison between The Post and WPNI. She became director of the advertising department's jobs unit in 2002 and was named director of advertising sales in April 2004.

She earned a BA magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1988 and a JD from Stanford Law School in 1992. Following law school, she clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for one year. She practiced law at Williams & Connolly in Washington, DC, from 1993-1996. Weymouth lives in Washington, DC, with her three young children, Madeleine, Beckett and Bridget.