Director
Media
Management Center
Professor
of Media Management and Strategy
Kellogg School of Management and Medill School of Journalism
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j-lavine@northwestern.edu
John Lavine is the founding
director of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University.
He also holds appointments as a professor of media management and
strategy in the Kellogg School of Management and the Medill
School of Journalism.
Lavine regularly leads executive
seminars for the major media enterprises in North America, Latin
America, Europe and Asia. He teaches strategy to print, broadcast,
cable, and multi-media senior executives. He also founded the Inter
American Press Association's (IAPA) study of Latin American daily
newspapers in 1985 and annually directs the study and leads a major
management seminar in Latin America.
Before assuming his current post,
Lavine had an active career in both the academy and the media. For
more than 25 years he was publisher/editor of four daily and four
weekly newspapers in Wisconsin, and was an executive of an international
film company in London and the U.S. that did a great deal of work
for television. From the 1980s to 1994 he was president and publisher
of an international medical journal publishing company. From 1984
to 1989 he was the Cowles Professor of Media Management and Economics
at the University of Minnesota.
During his daily newspaper career,
he wrote regularly and won numerous state, regional and national
awards. He was president of the Inland Press Association and a leader
of its Cost and Management Study. From 1986 to 1992 he was president
of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.
He served as an officer and director of Wisconsin Indian Opportunities,
Inc. until 1993 and continues to serve in a variety of capacities
for a number of not-for-profit organizations.
Lavine has been a speaker
for numerous print, broadcast, cable, and multi-media companies
and associations.
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