Craig Forman
{{Short description|Technology entrepreneur and journalist}}
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Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company.{{cite news |last1=Kasler |first1=Dale |title=McClatchy names new chief executive |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article128798744.html |publisher=The Sacramento Bee |date=January 26, 2017}} He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures, an early-stage private investment fund based in San Francisco. Forman has been a non-resident fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.{{Cite web|url=https://shorensteincenter.org/spring-2021-fellows-and-affiliates/|title=Spring 2021 Fellows and Affiliates Shorenstein Center|date=27 January 2021 |access-date=2021-01-29}}
Forman is also the author of Be Luckier in Life, a career guide for business success, published by Iver Publishing.{{cite book |isbn=978-0990004707 |title=Be Luckier in Life: 10 Simple Secrets That Will Change Your Future |last1=Forman |first1=Craig |date=4 October 2013 |publisher=Iver }}
Career
Forman has held senior positions at Yahoo!, Earthlink, Dow Jones, and Time Warner.
Forman worked at The Wall Street Journal as an editor in the London bureau{{cite news |title=Cecile S. Jourdan Wed To Craig Iver Forman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/01/style/cecile-s-jourdan-wed-to-craig-iver-forman.html |work=The New York Times |date=July 1, 1986}} and as Tokyo bureau chief,{{cite news |last1=Forman |first1=Craig |title=Covid Relief Bill Throws Lifeline to Transform Local News |url=https://niemanreports.org/authors/craig-forman/ |publisher=Nieman Reports |date=March 10, 2021}} among other positions. While based in London as the Journal's Deputy Bureau Chief, Forman was a member of the 1991 Persian Gulf War reporting team which later became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.{{cite web |title=Finalist: Staff of The Wall Street Journal |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/staff-49 |access-date=17 August 2023}}
After leaving The Wall Street Journal, Forman became a senior operating executive at Time Warner's CNN Group and Time Inc. divisions. He was also a member of the management team that took Infoseek public. As a vice-president at CNN Financial News, Forman led the team for CNNfn.com. As a vice president of worldwide development at Time Inc. New Media, Forman managed the internet businesses of Fortune and Money magazines while also serving as CEO of Thrive, a joint venture with AOL.{{cite web |url=http://www.ssrc.hku.hk/sym/97/forman.html |title=Craig Forman |accessdate=2009-03-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721092639/http://www.ssrc.hku.hk/sym/97/forman.html |archivedate=2011-07-21 }} Third Hong Kong Web Symposium He also played an influential role in helping Time Warner develop an independent internet strategy before its combination with AOL in 2000.{{cite web |url=http://www.namebase.org/sources/gV.html |title=Motavalli, J. Bamboozled at the Revolution. 2002|work=NameBase|accessdate=2012-01-20}}{{dead link|date=August 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Forman also served for four years as CEO and co-founder of Success Television LLP and MyPrimeTime Inc.,{{CC-notice|cc=bysa2|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081223163808/http://www.mediacenter.org/content/6080.cfm|author(s)=The Media Center}} a television production and venture-backed internet company. Forman and his team produced two business and lifestyle PBS television series, Great Entrepreneurs and Great Leaders, as well as broadband programming and an award-winning internet site targeted at baby boomers.
In March 2006, Forman joined EarthLink as its executive vice president, as well as president of its Access and Audience division and chief product officer.http://www.earthlink.net/about/leaders/forman.faces EarthLink: Our Leadership Team
Forman has served on a variety of public and private company boards. He was executive chairman at mobile app advertising network Appia Inc.{{Cite web |last=Theis |first=Michael |date=2015-03-09 |title=Digital Turbine completes merger with mobile app company |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/techflash/2015/03/digital-turbine-completes-merger-with-mobile-app.html |access-date=2022-08-08 |website=www.bizjournals.com}} and an investor and board member at several other startups in telecom, technology, and media.{{Cite news|url=http://recode.net/2015/04/26/tech-execs-fly-under-the-radar-at-washingtons-nerd-prom/|title=Tech Execs Fly Under the Radar at Washington's Nerd Prom|work=Recode|access-date=2018-04-17}} Along with colleagues Gordon Crovitz and Jim Friedlich, Forman co-founded and became a general partner at NextNews Ventures, an early-stage private investment fund which invests in media, technology and telecom startups. Forman was also executive chairman and a member of the board of directors of Where.com, a leading location-based mobile commerce company that was acquired by EBay Inc. in April 2011.{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/20/ebay-acquires-location-based-media-and-advertising-company-where/|title=eBay Acquires Location-Based Media And Advertising Company WHERE – TechCrunch|website=techcrunch.com|date=20 April 2011 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-17}}{{cite web |url=http://site.where.com/about/board-of-directors/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-06-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520233215/http://site.where.com/about/board-of-directors/ |archivedate=2011-05-20 }} Forman joined the Where.com board in 2009. Since 2012, Forman has been on the board of directors and served as the governance and nominating committee chair of Montreal-based local advertising company Yellow Pages Limited.
In October 2022, Forman joined the Council for Responsible Social Media project launched by Issue One to address the negative mental, civic, and public health impacts of social media in the United States co-chaired by former House Democratic Caucus Leader Dick Gephardt and former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey.{{cite news|last=Feiner|first=Lauren|date=October 12, 2022|title=Facebook whistleblower, former defense and intel officials form group to fix social media|publisher=CNBC|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/12/council-for-responsible-social-media-features-haugen-gephardt-hagel-.html|access-date=October 12, 2022}}{{cite web|title=Council for Responsible Social Media – Issue One|website=issueone.org|url=https://issueone.org/projects/council-for-responsible-social-media/|access-date=October 12, 2022}} In August 2023, Forman joined the Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI), a global policy research center, as its Executive Chair.{{Cite news |last=Fischer |first=Sara |date=August 22, 2023 |title=Exclusive: Media heavyweights form new research group to support free press |work=AXIOS |url=https://www.axios.com/2023/08/22/media-policy-research-group-free-press |access-date=August 30, 2023}}
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External links
- [http://www.successtelevision.biz/crfolethinan.html Innovation and New Media Speaker]
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Category:American male journalists