
Lisa DeSisto
CEO
Lisa DeSisto is the Chief Executive Officer for Maine Today Media which publishes The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, and The Coastal Journal.
Before joining MTM in November 2012, she worked in a variety of positions at The Boston Globe. Most recently, she served as Chief Advertising Officer for The Boston Globe and General Manager for Boston.com. She spent most of her career at The Boston Globe as the VP/General Manager of Boston.com directing the site’s development into the most visited local media website in New England. She joined Boston.com as marketing manager just two days after the site’s launch in 1995.
Before joining the Globe, she held marketing positions at The Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine and WRKO Radio.
In 2006, she was named Online Innovator of the Year by the Newspaper Association of America. Boston Magazine named her one of the Most Powerful Women in Boston.
While in Boston, she served on the executive committee of the Ad Club of Boston and on the board of the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston. She is a 1985 graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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Cliff Schechtman
Executive Editor
Cliff Schechtman joined the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram as Managing Editor in October of 2011 and became the Executive Editor in February of 2012.
A veteran editor with 30 years experience in investigative and community journalism, Cliff was hired from Newsday where he was associate editor of the metropolitan newspaper on Long Island, New York.
At Newsday since 2005, he held various positions including associate managing editor, where he was responsible for news, politics and business coverage.
Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief at the Cape Cod Times for nearly 10 years, where he was credited with sharpening the paper’s coverage and raising its profile across New England.
During his career, Schechtman guided many award-winning public service projects such as exposing the National Guard’s pollution of local drinking water supplies, proving safety negligence was injuring scores of passengers on the nation’s largest commuter railroad system and prompting a state supreme court to force a county sheriff to reveal his secret force of 200 deputy sheriffs.
In 2007, his public safety project for Newsday was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism.
He’s married to Ann-Marie Schechtman. They have two grown sons.
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