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Craig Forman

technology, media and telecom entrepreneur and executive

Craig Forman is a technology, media and telecom entrepreneur and executive. He is West Coast general partner of NextNews Ventures and former president and CEO of McClatchy Co., where he led the digital transformation and corporate restructuring of such businesses as The Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Charlotte Observer and newsrooms in 30 cities across America. Earlier, Forman headed Yahoo!’s News, Finance, Sports and media and information businesses, and was president of the consumer business at pioneering internet-access solutions provider EarthLink. He also served as a senior executive for Internet operations at CNN and TIME Inc. Forman began his journalism career as a foreign correspondent and Tokyo bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1991 as a member the Persian Gulf War coverage team. He was a senior researcher (Fall 2021 – Spring 2022) and Schuster Media & Technology Research Fellow (Spring 2021) at the Shorenstein Center, working on multidisciplinary approaches and solutions for the challenges facing local news and information.

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