• What We Do

  • As the largest media company in Maine, MaineToday Media will target and deliver your message to the right audience in the most engaging way possible. We provide customized marketing solutions tailored specifically to meet your business goals. With the largest audience in Maine, the combined reach of our print and online products influence over 100,000 households and over 1.2 million unique visitors every month.

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MaineToday Media’s award-winning brands and services reach the widest audience in the state of Maine, providing business owners with a variety of media platforms including: print, digital, events, and mobile.

As experts in the local market, we’ll work with you to create a customized marketing plan for your business. MaineToday Media businesses and products include MaineToday Digital, The Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, The Coastal Journal, MaineToday.com, and MaineYellowPages.com.


Our Mission

MaineToday Media provides a trusted news and information source for local, state, national and international matters. We strive to inform and enlighten our readers with reporting and editorial content that enriches lives and challenges thinking. MaineToday Media provides an advertising platform that brings buyers and sellers together for the exchange of goods and services.

We are committed to delivering content by employing a variety of sources including traditional print products and emerging technology platforms. Our goal is to allow our readers to access our information in a manner of their choosing. Our content is produced and available throughout the world for people seeking information regarding the State of Maine and beyond.


Timeline

The Portland Press Herald has a rich history in Maine’s largest city, having been published continuously since 1921. In Central Maine, the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel also have a long publishing tradition. The three newspapers have been jointly owned for several decades. Previous owners included Guy Gannett Communications and Blethen Maine Newspapers. MaineToday Digital, a marketing agency specializing in new media, launched operations in September 2011.

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Recent Awards

Maine Press Association Better Newspaper Contest
General Excellence award for Daily Papers
The Portland Press Herald’s staff also won 50 other awards, including 20 first-place honors.

New England Associated Press News Executives Association competition
The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram won 15 awards, including five first places.

Associated Press Sports Editors
Maine Sunday Telegram’s sports pages placed in the top 10 nationally.

Leadership

Patrick Sweeney

Interim Chief Executive Officer

Patrick Sweeney joined MaineToday Media as Chief Financial Officer in June of 2011. He brings over 30 years of financial and general business management experience from industries as diverse as real estate property management and global testing and inspection services. Integration and remediation of management information systems in multi-location environments is one of his specific competencies.

Pat received a B.A. in Economics from Colby College and an MS in Accountancy from Bentley College Graduate School. He became a Certified Public Accountant in 1981.

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Steve Galligan

Chief Revenue Officer & President of MaineToday Digital

Steve is responsible for the acquisition and retention of all revenue including traditional print, online, digital and circulation.

Steve joined MaineToday Media in April 2011 and led the formation of MaineToday Digital. He returns to Maine after managing the central and eastern part of the state for NYNEX Yellow Pages in the early part of his career. After leaving the directory business, he transitioned into the online content world when he became the general manager of CitySearch in Boston. Other positions held by Galligan include senior divisional manager at Boston Globe Media; CEO of LocalTel, the largest community directory company in New England; and chief marketing officer of Global Directories, a leading directory publisher in the Caribbean.

When Steve is not looking for the best way to help local businesses meet their digital marketing needs, he prefers to spend his time kayaking anywhere in the waters between Stonington and Isle au Haut, or skiing at Sugarloaf. Galligan is a graduate of Boston College, where he played on the varsity lacrosse team.

He is married and has three daughters.

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Cliff Schechtman

Executive Editor

Cliff Schechtman joined the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram as Managing Editor in October.

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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Michael Ivancic

Vice President of Operations

Michael Ivancic joined MaineToday Media as the Vice President of Operations in February 2010. He has more than 25 years of experience in Newspaper Production Management. From 2000-2010 Mike worked with Freedom Communications as the Operations Director of The Gaston Gazette and The Shelby Star. Prior to that he held various progressive roles throughout his 14 years with Dow Jones at The Wall Street Journal.

Mike received his degree in Newspaper Production Management from the Rochester Institute of Technology, as well as a degree in Electrical Engineering Technology from Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, NY.

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Karen Dobbyn

Vice President of Human Resources

Karen Dobbyn is the Vice President of Human Resources for MaineToday Media. Most recently she had been Director of Human Resources for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. Prior to that she worked at The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts in several management positions where she was responsible for a number of departments including human resources and labor relations.

Karen is also an Advisory Board Member for the Salvation Army in Portland, a board member for the Bruce Roberts Toy Fund, and a board member of Maine Newspapers in Education.

Karen holds a B.A. in Social Welfare from Mount St. Mary College in Hooksett, NH. Her hobbies include hiking, gardening, reading and traveling. She lives in Cumberland with her husband and their son.

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Stewart Wright

Chief Information Officer

Stewart Wright spent the first six years of his career working for the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs, as the client systems lead engineer and global team manager. While there, Stewart spent the last year working with the Systems Division implementing their thin office solution.

From New York City, Stewart moved to Maine where he worked for a local technology consulting company as the team manager and solution architect. His primary responsibilities there, beyond managing the technical team, were to meet with the executive leadership of client companies, understand their business needs, and then devise and implement technical solutions to fix their problems.

Stewart joined MaineToday Media’s executive team as the Director of IT in March of 2011.

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