Stephen E. Clark
 

Stephen Elliott Clark has been creating, building and leading publishing enterprises his entire career. His three decades of accomplishment, in print and on-line, reflect his broad skill-set and strong grasp of today's revolution in communications and publishing. 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, focusing on funds management and pensions, at Institutional Investor magazine (1986-1992), at that time a division of Capital Cities/ABC, and Thomson Financial Services (1992-1996). All positions focused on journalism and media development, and were based in New York City. As product manager for TFS, 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 BCN IT administrator Dave Wreski the following year. He began his career as a reporter for The Savannah (Ga.) Morning News (1981-1984) and for The Daily Journal newspaper of Caracas, Venezuela (1984-1986). As editor of The Islands Gazette, Savannah, Georgia, in 1984, he worked for Marjorie M. Scardino and Albert Scardino before their Gazette newspapers were sold. He has a B.A. from Tulane University in History & Latin American Studies. He is fluent in Spanish and travels widely. He is currently an officer of The Society of The Cincinnati of The State of Georgia. He and his wife Virginia live in Reston. They have four grown children.