Jeffrey S Klein

Jeff Klein has held a variety of leadership positions in the public and private sector during his long career in the media industry. During his 15 years as a lawyer and executive at the Times Mirror Company, he served in a number of key senior positions, including President of the Los Angeles Times Valley Edition, CEO of California Community Newspapers, Inc., and General Manager, News of the Los Angeles Times. He was the cofounder and CEO of 101communications, a private-equity-backed, business-to-business publishing company with ten magazines, forty content web sites, and numerous trade shows and conferences, all serving the technology marketplace. He is currently Chairman of the Board of 1105 Media Inc., which purchased 101communications in 2006. This year, Jeff is “executive in residence” at the Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at USC. He also teaches a graduate course in media business strategies at USC’s Annenberg School. He has served as a board member of American Business Media, and numerous other nonprofits. He was Chairman of the Board of Meet Each Need With Dignity (MEND), the largest antipoverty center in the San Fernando Valley. Jeff also wrote a legal column for ten years for the Los Angeles Times and a business column for Folio, the trade journal on the magazine business. Jeff attributes much of his nimbleness in business to the training he received in Karma Pie, the original improvisational theatre troupe at the Claremont Colleges. Jeff has a law degree from Stanford, a Master’s in Journalism from Columbia, and graduated summa cum laude from CMC in 1975.