Director Media Management Center Professor of Media Management and Strategy Kellogg School of Management and Medill School of Journalism

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.