Stephen E. Clark
 

Stephen Elliott Clark has been creating and building media properties his entire career. His professional titles over the years include newspaper reporter, magazine writer, financial analyst, project manager, and publisher, among others. But fundamentally he is an entrepreneur, whose varied accomplishments, in print and on-line, reflect his broad skill set and strong grasp of the rapid evolution in media. He founded Newbridge Media LLC in 2002, a year after he sold his seven weekly newspapers (Bergen County Newspapers, Inc.), to Macromedia, holding company of The Bergen Record, Hackensack, NJ. As founder and publisher of BCN (1994-2001), he created such titles as The Glen Rock (NJ) Gazette, The Village Gazette of Ridgewood (NJ) and The Mahwah News; he independently acquired the weeklies The Town Journal of the Saddle River Valley and The Wyckoff (NJ) News. All continue to be published.

A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Clark was previously a staff writer at Institutional Investor magazine (1986-1992), at that time a division of Capital Cities/ABC, and Thomson Financial Services (1992-1996), all in journalism and media-development capacities in New York City. He designed, launched and managed BondData-Corporate Service in 1992 for Thomson unit Technical Data, Boston. In 1999, as BCN publisher, he co-founded Guardian Digital and helped launch its news site, linuxsecurity.com; he sold his interest to the BCN IT administrator the following year. He began his career as a reporter for The Savannah (Ga.) Morning News (1981-1984) and for The Daily Journal of Caracas, Venezuela (1984-1986). As editor of The Islands Gazette, Savannah, Georgia, in 1984, he worked for Marjorie M. Scardino before her Gazette newspapers were sold. He has a B.A. from Tulane University in History & Latin American Studies. He and his wife Virginia live in Reston. They have four grown children.