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Kevin Mowbray is a Lee vice president who became publisher of Lee's largest newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in 2006.
He also oversees all St. Louis operations, which include STLtoday.com, STL Distribution LLC and Suburban Journals, a group of 40 publications, including 31 separate newspapers with distribution of more than one million copies a week. He also has responsibility for The Times of Northwest Indiana, where he previously served as publisher.
He began his career with Lee in 1986 as an advertising sales representative in his hometown of Kewanee, Ill. He advanced to sales positions in Helena, Butte and Billings, Montana, before moving to Chicago as Lee’s national sales manager for corporate sales and marketing. In 1995, he joined the Lincoln Journal Star as advertising manager, where he served three years before becoming general manager at the Missoulian in Missoula, Montana, in 1998. In 2000, he advanced to publisher of The Bismarck Tribune in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he guided the newspaper to the 2001 Lee President's Award for Enterprise of the Year. In 2002, he was appointed vice president for sales and marketing, and in 2004 he became a vice president for publishing, with responsibility for 13 newspapers, also serving as publisher of The Times in Northwest Indiana. In 2005, Suburban Newspapers of America honored The Times as Newspaper of the Year.
He serves on the board of directors of the Newspaper Association of America and has participated in many civic and industry organizations. He is a journalism graduate of Western Illinois University. | 