Study Group: Newspaper Industry Experts(?)

Ralf Hirt is the Vice President- International at Glam Media, a Web 2.0 distributed media firm. He previously spent nine years at DoubleClick in New York, London, Sydney and Hong Kong as the Vice President- Operations and Strategic Partnerships, Senior Director- Publishers, Managing Director- Asia Pacific,...

Tracey Clanton is the Group Account Director at The TRUE Agency. TRUE is the Agency of Record for Nissan/Infiniti, and Countrywide Insurance. In her position as Group Account Director, Tracey directs all of the Marketing & Advertising activities for Nissan North America and the Countrywide accounts....

Gordon Borrell is the Chief Executive Officer at Borrell Associates, a leading research and consulting firm that focuses on interactive advertising for local media. He has 27 years of experience in media, ranging from newspaper reporting to media company executive overseeing newspapers, TV and cable...

Nigel Carr has been a senior partner at Ogilvy, New York, a full service ad agency, since 2005. He's an experienced brand planning & strategy advocate with extremely diverse experience working for new & established clients across a myriad of product categories. He's worked on national & global brands...

Louis Bilka is the President of Communications Two Group, a direct response consulting company. He is responsible for recommending and implementing mailing list, credit card inserts, newspaper inserts, space advertising, radio and television spot buying and informercials. Communications Two Group also...

Scott Whitley is Vice-President, Advertising at the San Diego Union-Tribune, a newspaper publisher. He has more than 30 years of experience in the newspaper publishing and advertising industry. Previously, he held the position of a classified director at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Advertising Mgr....

Richard Hine is a marketing consultant with more than 20 years experience in advertising and media. He works with clients inside and outside the media industry on branding and creative strategies, business and sales development. Through September 2006, he was VP/Marketing at The Wall Street Journal,...

Scott Fischer was a Division President at Freedom Communications, an $800 million revenue company with 8,000 associates in 28 states. He had full P&L responsibility for 14 newspapers across the Western United States generating $141 million in revenues. He was a member of the Corporate Operating Committee...