Stephen Clark
 

Stephen 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 understanding of the media revolution of our times. He founded Newbridge Media 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 acquired such publications as The Town Journal of the Saddle River Valley and The Wyckoff (NJ) News. All continue to be published.

Steve, a native of Washington, D.C., 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 that company’s news site, linuxsecurity.com; he sold his interest to BCN’s IT administrator the following year. Prior to moving to the New York area he worked 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 Albert and Marjorie Scardino before their Gazette newspapers were sold. He has a B.A. from Tulane University in History & Latin American Studies; he was sports editor and features editor of The Tulane Hullabaloo both years the college weekly won the Pacemaker Award, given by The Associated Collegiate Press to the best collegiate weekly in the nation. He is fluent in Spanish and he enjoys reading non-fiction and American history, writing about media and playing basketball. He has two teen-age sons, Will and James.