API Staff/Contact Info

Directions to API | Map Mailing Address: American Press Institute 11690 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, Virginia 20191-1498 USA Phone: 703-620-3611 Fax: 703-620-5814 Email: info@americanpressinstitute.org

They are frequently invited to speak or moderate discussions at industry conferences, they are often quoted in industry magazines and newsletters and they write for a wide range of trade and general interest publications.

If you would like to invite a member of API's executive staff to speak at an event, please contact API's director of marketing, Elaine Clisham.

Andrew B. Davis took over as President and Executive Director of API in December, 2003. He was previously director of innovation and business development for the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. A major general in the Marine Corps Reserve, Davis took leave from the Media Management Center between July 2001 and July 2003 to serve as director of Marine Corps Public Affairs at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.. Prior to joining the Media Management Center, Davis was president of Chicago Sun-Times Features, Inc., a division of The Sun-Times Company, and of Performance Media, a custom publishing division he conceived and developed into a multi-million-dollar venture. He also was vice-president of the Sun-Times Company. He holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in English literature from Princeton University and a master's degree with distinction in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School. For 10 years he was group publisher and newspaper operations vice-president of Pioneer Newspapers, a 41-newspaper group based in suburban Chicago. He is married to Margaret Bergan Davis, a consultant to nonprofit organizations for fundraising and strategy. They have two daughters.

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Joined API as an associate director in 1986. Named director of programming in 1997; assumed personnel responsibilities in 1999. Researches and designs circulation and executive-level seminars. Grew up in a weekly newspaper family. Spent 13 years working for daily newspapers as a reporter and editor in Michigan, Florida, Illinois and Wisconsin, including The Capital Times in Madison. Introduced to API by her father, Thomas Riordan, who was a discussion leader in the '70s. Loves musical comedy, travel and attending her sons' Little League and hockey games, although she could do without the 4:30 a.m. ice times. Considers being called a Cheesehead a high compliment.

Joined API in February 2005. She is a certified public accountant with more than 20 years experience in audit and financial management. Prior to joining API, she was vice president for finance at Pact, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that carries out social and economic development programs for developing countries around the world. Born and raised in the Philippines, she graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor's degree in Science major in accounting from the University of Santo Tomas and a Master of Business Administration from De La Salle University, both in the Philippines. She ranked among the top 20 in the Philippine CPA Board Exam and worked with SGV & Co.--one of the premier audit firms in Asia. She came to the United States in 1991 and took the U.S. CPA Board Exam while awaiting the birth of her first child. She loves to travel and enjoys gardening.

Joined API in February 2003. Has 25 years' experience in newsroom, circulation and advertising departments of newspapers of all sizes, niches and frequencies, plus three years as marketing/research manager at New Jersey Press Association. Gets love of newspapers from her grandmother and grandfather, who worked in the production department at various New York City newspapers and would use the linotype machines to write letters to her during her childhood overseas. Got her undergraduate degree in English from a newly coeducational Princeton University and her master's in business administration from Northeastern University in Boston. Classical choral singer who has performed with various groups in venues worldwide as a way of feeding her other passion, international travel. Enjoys cycling, sculling, and skiing. Still has a house in a part of New Jersey that doesn't have an exit number.

Noel joined API in 2007. He has more than 10 years' experience in e-commerce and technology, and has a passion for applying new technology to traditional business channels. Prior to joining API he worked for Follett, the largest wholesaler and retailer of college textbooks and apparel in the world, where he helped the 120-year-old company cope with a rapidly changing market landscape. During his tenure there he spent much of his time exploring the impact of new technologies, the emergence of social networking and the trend of user generated content, and the application of these technologies in order to retain market share and develop new channels of revenue. Prior to working at Follett he was a long-time entrepreneur, having started or helped to start a company that consolidated and auctioned print advertising and a business-to-business portal helping specialty sporting goods retailers optimize their operations and supply chains. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from De Paul University. He is married and has a son.

Steve Buttry has spent 33 years in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and writing coach. He started in high school, covering sports for the Evening Sentinel in Shenandoah, Iowa. His career illustrates the evolution and constant change of the newspaper business. When he started out, the Sentinel was converting from hot lead to cold type. Decades later, he volunteered as content coordinator of the "No Train, No Gain" web site, which provides training materials to newspapers around the world. He played key roles in newsroom staff mergers resulting from the deaths of afternoon papers in Des Moines and Kansas City. As editor of the Minot (N.D.) Daily News, he oversaw the conversion from afternoon to morning publication. Before joining API, he was writing coach and national correspondent for the Omaha World-Herald. He has presented workshops in 30 states and Canadian provinces and his training materials have been translated into seven languages.

Mary Glick joined the executive staff at API in 2001. Previously, she was director of the journalism program at the State University of New York, College at Oswego, where she founded the Center for Community Journalism. She began teaching journalism in 1991 at California State University, Long Beach. In 1994, she was named Outstanding Journalism Educator by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Glick has held editorial positions for daily newspapers in Southern California, including posts as features editor for the Star-News in Pasadena, lifestyles editor for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers and copy editor for the Daily Report in Ontario. Before becoming a journalist, she was director of communications for Disneyland Hotel and partner in a small public relations agency. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from SUNY Oswego and a master's in communications from California State University, Fullerton.

Mark Mulholland's extensive media career provides a broad-based background of experience in sales, marketing and management across a wide range of markets and circulation sizes, at both corporate and field levels. Prior to joining API, he held advertising sales and management positions at news organizations in Virginia, North Carolina and Mississippi, he served as marketing director of the Roanoke (Va.) Times and then in that same role for the Chicago Sun-Times. He was corporate marketing director for Lee Enterprises in Davenport, Iowa; vice president /marketing director for WFLA-TV, Media General's Tampa, Fla.,-based television affiliate; and sales and marketing director for the Victoria (Texas) Advocate. He is a member of the International Newspaper Marketing Association and the NAA Display, Market Development & Promotions and Smaller Market Federations.

Mary Peskin
Associate Director
mpeskin@americanpressinstitute.org

Mary Peskin has 25 years experience in newsroom, advertising and marketing departments of newspapers small and large in the U.S., Europe and South America. Before joining API, she was Design Director of the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group where she designed and implemented more than 50 redesigns and new products. Peskin spent five years with advertising agencies before beginning her newspaper career with Star-News Newspapers in Wilmington, N.C., a New York Times affiliate, as promotions manager and advertising designer. After leaving NYTRNG in 2002, she became a principal of Fluent Media, a media consulting group. A North Carolina native, she is a Phi Kappa Phi graduate from the College of Design of N.C. State University and has served on the executive committee of the College of Design Foundation and board of directors of the Society for News Design. She loves golf, oysters, ACC sports, and shag music. She is married to Dale Peskin, co-director of The Media Center at API. They share three children and two cats. She attended API's Newspaper Design and Graphics seminar in 1983 and returned in 1989 as a discussion leader for the Newspaper Design and Graphics seminar speaking on Designing with Limited Resources.

Steve Gray started his newspaper career in high school as a part-time darkroom technician at his family's newspaper, The Monroe (Mich.) Evening News. After graduating from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1972, he started work as a full-time reporter. A few years later he became city editor, then executive editor, and, in 1980, editor. The newspaper won awards and so did he, for reporting, editorials and columns. While remaining as editor, he handled increasing company management responsibilities, becoming president of the Monroe Publishing Co. in 1994. As CEO, he led the company's transition to employee ownership and the creation of an award-winning culture of employee involvement. (The company is now 100% employee-owned.) He also led the diversification of the company's business model with numerous new publications, products and services. In 1997 he was named managing publisher of The Christian Science Monitor in Boston, where he launched numerous new online, syndication, partnership and multi-media strategies reaching millions of new readers, viewers and listeners. He remains vice-chairman of the Monroe Publishing Company board of directors, and he is a former president of Inland Press Association, the Michigan Press Association and the Michigan Associated Press Editorial Association.

Mike Reilley, a Lincoln, Neb., native, is a former newspaper reporter, having served for more than 10 years on the staffs of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, where he covered sports, business and news. He also was one of the founding editors of ChicagoTribune.com, overseeing online sports coverage and coordinating with the print staff. He taught reporting, editing, Web design and public relations classes full-time for more than three years at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Chicago. Reilley also completed a fellowship program at the online version of the Washington Post and served as copy desk chief of the Summer Olympics for America Online in 2000. Mike has an undergraduate degree in news-editorial journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master's degree in media management from Northwestern University.