Mark G Contreras

Mark Contreras is CEO of Calkins Media, Inc. Prior to joining Calkins in late 2011, he was the head of the Scripps newspaper division (Senior Vice President/Newspapers) from 2006 to 2011. Before Scripps, he served five years as Senior Vice President of Pulitzer, Inc. Mark spent more than a decade with Capital Cities/ABC, Inc prior to its sales to the Walt Disney Company in the late 1990s. He was previously president and publisher of The Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Prior to The Times Leader, he spent five years at The Kansas City Star. He began his newspaper career as marketing services manager for The Oakland Press in Pontiac, Michigan. Mark earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in history from the University of Chicago. He has completed the advanced executive program at Northwestern University's Newspaper Management Center. He served as Chairman of the Newspaper Association of America from 2010 to 2011. Mark is former chairman of The American Press Institute. He is a board member of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts and is a trustee of the Scripps Howard Foundation. He is a 1998 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.