Sacramento, Ca., USA - July 24, 2013, Sacramento, Ca., USA - The McClatchy Company, a news and information provider, announced the appointment of Craig I. Forman to its board of directors.
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Mr. Forman is a private investor and entrepreneur, a former media, technology and telecommunications executive and former Wall Street Journal bureau chief and foreign correspondent. He has held executive roles with Earthlink, Yahoo!, Time Warner, Infoseek, and Dow Jones.
Mr. Forman's last executive management role was with the Atlanta-based internet services provider Earthlink in 2009. He previously served as the vice president and general manager for Yahoo's media and information divisions, overseeing Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Finance.
Mr. Forman has led internet and new media divisions at Time Warner, was the vice president for product development and editor at the search engine Infoseek, and was the director and editor of international business information services for Dow Jones.
Since 2009, Mr. Forman has served as a director on a variety of public and private company boards. He is the executive chairman of the board of Appia, Inc., a Durham, N.C., based mobile-applications marketer and distributor.
Mr. Forman also serves on the boards of Coincident TV, LLC, a video technology company; MotiveCast, Inc., a social media and mobile gaming producer; Success Media, LLC, an online video training company; and Yellow Media, Inc., a Canadian publisher of print and digital business directories. Previously he served as executive chairman of WHERE, Inc., a mobile-advertising technology network acquired by eBay Inc. in 2011.
Mr. Forman began his career as foreign correspondent and editor for The Wall Street Journal. He worked as a deputy bureau chief in The Wall Street Journal's London bureau and later served as bureau chief in the newspaper's Tokyo bureau. In London, he was part of a Persian Gulf War team that finished as a finalist for the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting. ■