To protect and serve the common interests of its newsmedia members, to help members inform and thereby strengthen their communities, and to foster the highest ideals, ethics and traditions of journalism, a free press and the news profession.
To protect and serve the common interests of its newsmedia members, to help members inform and thereby strengthen their communities, and to foster the highest ideals, ethics and traditions of journalism, a free press and the news profession. The California News Publishers Association shall achieve its mission by engaging in conduct that will achieve the following purposes:
Meet Our
Chairman
Simon Grieve is publisher of Southern California News Group’s weekly Gazette Newspapers in Long Beach, The Beach Reporter in Hermosa Beach and Palos Verdes Peninsula News.
Chairman-Elect
Erik Cushman is publisher of Monterey County Weekly and has been with the newspaper since 1999.
Secretary-Treasurer
Emily Charrier is publisher of Sonoma Media Investments’ Petaluma Argus-Courier and Sonoma Index-Tribune.
Immediate Past President
Paulette Brown-Hinds is publisher of the Black Voice News and managing partner of BPC MediaWorks, which she founded in 2004.
Martha Diaz Aszkenazy is publisher of the weekly San Fernando Valley Sun and El Sol newspapers.
Director
Arturo Carmona is senior adviser at ImpreMedia’s La Opinión in Los Angeles.
Director
Dean Eckenroth is publisher of the Coronado Eagle & Journal and president of Eagle Newspapers, which also includes the Imperial Beach Eagle & Times.
Director
Richard Esposito is publisher of The Mountain Democrat in Placerville and chief operating officer for its owner, McNaughton Newspapers.
Director
Steve Falk is CEO of Sonoma Media Investments LLC, owner of the Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, Sonoma Magazine and several weekly publications.
Director
Will Fleet is the co-publisher of the Tracy Press.
Director
Norb Garrett is publisher of Picket Fence Media’s San Clemente Times, Dana Point Times and The Capistrano Dispatch.
Director
Jeff Glasser is vice president and senior counsel for the Los Angeles Times.
Director
Craig Harrington is publisher of The Intermountain News in Burney, Shasta County.
Director
Ron Hasse is the publisher of the Orange County Register and president of the Southern California News Group.
Director
Bill Johnson is publisher of the Palo Alto Weekly and CEO of Embarcadero Media.
Terri Leifeste is vice president and group publisher at Santa Maria California News Media, Inc.
Director
Julie Makinen is executive editor of The Desert Sun in Palm Springs and Gannett’s California state editor.
Director
Jack Mitchell is publisher of the Ledger Dispatch in Jackson, Amador County.
Director
Bill Nagel is the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Director
Hank Vander Veen is publisher of the Manteca Bulletin and group publisher of its weeklies, operated by Morris Multimedia Inc.
Michael Yamashita is publisher of the Bay Area Reporter and was the paper’s longtime general manager.
