Dale Peskin

Mr. Peskin was the executive director of New Directions for News, which merged with The Media Center in September 2003. Prior to joining NDN, he was a vice president of Belo, the Dallas-based media company, where he launched the company's initiatives in new media and media convergence. At Belo, Dale served as editor of Dallasnews.com and as an assistant managing editor of The Dallas Morning News. He was a founding officer of Belo Interactive, Belo's network of news Web sites. Earlier in his career, he was deputy managing editor of The Detroit News and The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, and managing editor of the Tribune Chronicle in Warren, Ohio. His awards include NAA's Digital Edge Award for Pioneering Online Journalism, the Sigma Delta Chi Award, and four Gold Medals from the Society for News Design. He was part of the team at The Detroit News that won the Pulitzer Prize. Mr. Peskin has attended five API seminars: The Sunday and Weekend Newspaper (1981), Executive Editors and Managing Editors (1987), Restructuring the Newsroom (1995), Online Media Management (1997), and The Publishers’ Forum (2004).