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George Wilson is President and CEO of Newspapers of New England, Inc., a publisher of family-owned newspapers in New Hampshire, The Concord Monitor, The Valley News and The Monadnock Ledger, and, in Massachusetts, The Greenfield Recorder. He has resided in Concord, New Hampshire, with his wife, Marily, and been associated with the Concord Monitor, since 1962.
His career in journalism has involved every discipline of the business from advertising sales to reporting, editing, production and management. He was publisher of the Monitor in the 1970s and 1980s.
He currently is a director of Newspapers of New England, Inc.; The Washington Post Company; The Bakersfield (California) Californian; and The Associated Press.
Previously, he was either a director or president of The American Newspaper Publishers Association; The New England Newspaper Association; New Directions for News, a newspaper industry think tank; and the Newspaper Advertising Bureau. He is a recipient of the New England Yankee Quill Award for lasting contributions to New England journalism.
He is 60 and a native of Norfolk, Virginia. His education was at public schools in August, Georgia and Charleston and Aiken, South Carolina; Harvard College, B.A. in government, 1962; and Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development, 1974. | 