Elaine Clisham

Elaine joined API in February 2003 as director of marketing, and took on targeted solutions responsibilities in 2008. She has 30 years' experience in newsroom, circulation and advertising departments of newspapers of all sizes, niches and frequencies, including community weeklies in New Jersey, the Village Voice and the New York Post, plus three years as marketing/research manager at New Jersey Press Association. She got her undergraduate degree in English from a newly coeducational Princeton University and her master's in business administration with a concentration in marketing and service operations management from Northeastern University in Boston. She lives in Washington, D.C., but still has a house in a part of New Jersey that doesn't have an exit number. She has attended API's Executive Development Program, and is a frequent speaker on API's landmark Newspaper Next research project.