Edward B. Lasak, Chief Operating Officer of Stephens Media LLC
Lasak overseas daily publishing operations of Stephens Media LLC, which includes the Las Vegas Review-Journal and ten other daily newspapers. Prior to that, Ed was the Senior Vice President of Finance and Publishing Operations at the Press Enterprise Company where he led product and circulation expansion initiatives including the Press-Enterprise’s successful expansion into San Bernardino County and various expansions of the TMC and of La Prensa, the Company’s highly successful weekly Spanish language newspaper. He also had responsibility for the Company’s initial conversion efforts into online publishing and the successful startups of a weekly business publication and of an Internet Service Provider. Before joining The Press-Enterprise, Lasak was finance director/treasurer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for three years as it transitioned to private ownership. Prior to that, he spent 15 years with Tribune Company serving in several financial management roles at the Orlando Sentinel and its Sun Coast weekly newspaper division, and later as Chief Financial Officer at the (Palo Alto) Peninsula Times-Tribune where he also served as general manager of 11 affiliated weekly newspapers. Lasak started his career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen & Co. Additionally from 2008-2010, Lasak served as chairman of Inland Action, Inc., a non-profit, non-partisan community action group focused on improving the economic development and welfare of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Lasak earned his BS and MS in accounting from Illinois State University; he holds a CPA in California and Florida.
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