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.
Chairperson-Elect
Emily Charrier is publisher of Sonoma Media Investments’ Petaluma Argus-Courier and Sonoma Index-Tribune.
Secretary-Treasurer
Julie Makinen is executive editor of The Desert Sun in Palm Springs and Gannett’s California state editor.
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
Erik Cushman is publisher of Monterey County Weekly and has been with the newspaper since 1999.
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 publisher of the Chino Valley Champion, Tracy Press and Patterson Irrigator.
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
Silas Lyons is executive editor of the Record Searchlight in Redding and regional executive editor of eight Gannett newsrooms in Northern California and Nevada.
Director
Bill Nagel is the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Director
Colleen McCain Nelson is executive editor of The Sacramento Bee and regional editor for McClatchy's California newsrooms.
Director
Hank Vander Veen is publisher of the Manteca Bulletin and group publisher of its weeklies, operated by 209 Multimedia.
Michael Yamashita is publisher of the Bay Area Reporter and was the paper’s longtime general manager.
