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Kathleen
Newton is a fourth-generation newspaper person with 37 years in the
business. Before founding Northwest Media Consultants, she was
publisher and co-owner of Oregon Coast Newspapers, LLC, and operated
two newspapers in Tillamook and Lincoln counties in Oregon.
Prior to
that, she was publisher of a daily edition of The Press-Enterprise in
Riverside County, Calif., and also managed that company’s eight weekly
newspapers. From 1992-1996 she was publisher of three newspapers in the
Amador and Calaveras county areas of Northern California.
Previously,
Newton was features editor of the Modesto Bee, managing editor of Los
Angeles Times Syndicate, managing editor of ADWEEK Magazine West, and
an editor on the business desk at The Los Angeles Times.
Still
earlier, she handled all media relations for the School of Agriculture
at the University of California, Davis, where she worked closely with
faculty identifying newsworthy stories about their research, writing
press releases and organizing media events that attracted print and
broadcast coverage nationwide.
She has
written for newspapers and magazines around the world and has won
numerous awards for reporting and editorial writing, both in California
and Oregon.
Newton is a
graduate of Cal State Sacramento, with a degree in journalism, and
earned her MBA, with a specialty in marketing, from the Peter F.
Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University,
where she studied with Peter Drucker.
She was a
member of the board of directors of the California Newspaper Publishers
Association for eight years and was president of the Gold Unit at CNPA.
Since the
early 1990s, she has been active on boards of directors of economic
development agencies, including those in California and Oregon and has
been very active in the nonprofit sector. As president of the board
for Alternatives to Domestic Violence in Riverside County, Calif. – an
agency with a $2 million annual budget – she was responsible for
obtaining Congressional seed funding to help build a $2 million
shelter, child development and job training center for victims of
domestic violence. For that she was named Nonprofit Board Member of
the Year in Riverside County – a county of nearly two million people.
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