Who is Cole?
David M. Cole is the editor and publisher of NewsInc., the weekly newsletter on the business of the newspaper business, and proprietor of The Cole Group, where he is also the principal (and currently only) consultant. in October 2008, The Cole Group celebrated its 19th year in business.
The former assistant managing editor for systems of the San Francisco Examiner, during his 12-year career Cole was responsible for all newsroom computer systems (mostly under the title “systems editor”), ranging from on-line experiments in the early 1980s to developing desktop color separation systems by the end of the decade. In addition, Cole was the art director of the paper from 1985-86 (running two departments simultaneously), was an assistant news editor and makeup editor of the paper from 1978-79 and was a copy editor from 1977-78. Between 1984 and 1988 he ran The Examiner Poll, a public opinion survey.
In previous lives, Cole was an assistant music editor at Rolling Stone magazine and edited feed/back, the late California journalism review, from its founding in 1974 until 1984. In the early 1980s he was in show business, working nights in a low-level job with Jon and Anne Fox, the producers of the San Francisco International Standup Comedy Competition.
From 1989-2004, Cole was editor and publisher of The Cole Papers, a newsletter on technology, journalism and publishing. For more than a decade, Cole was a monthly columnist with Presstime magazine of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) and was a columnist with the NAA’s late TechNews magazine for nine years. In addition, he has been the U.S. contributing editor for Asian Newspaper Focus of Hong Kong, columnist for Australia’s GX Report, a contributing editor and columnist at Publish and Newspapers & Technology magazines in the United States and a contributing editor at Newspaper Focus of the United Kingdom. Further, he has been a contributing columnist to The Seybold Report and has written for MacWeek, PRE, Quill, Ideas, the PANPA Bulletin, newspaper techniques, Newspapers & Technology and other magazines as well as the NAA’s new media web site, Digital Edge.
A popular speaker and moderator, Cole has made presentations to the NAA (and its predecessor, the ANPA), the National Newspaper Association, the Digital Photography conferences, the Seybold conferences, the America East and America West conferences, the 1997 World Newspaper Congress in Amsterdam, the International Advertising Association’s 1997 European Regional Conference in Kiev, Ukraine, as well as numerous technology user groups and state press associations.
Cole has been a discussion leader at the American Press Institute, and was a lecturer at the Maynard Institute’s annual Management Training Center at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University from 1994-1996 and was also a journalism instructor at San Francisco State University from 1980-1985. Additionally, he has lectured on journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University. He moderated the Harris Seminar series on publishing technology throughout the 1990s. Cole was a panelist on the late cable-TV show Silicon Spin; he has been quoted extensively in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers and magazines around the world.
A member of the Society of Professional Journalists for more than 30 years, Cole has had long-term memberships in the National Press Photographers Association and the Society for News Design and served as a member of the executive committee of the board of trustees of the Junior Statesmen Foundation since 1999, while serving on the foundation’s full board since 1996.
Between 1995 and 2005, Cole was listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the West and starting in 2006 has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America.
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