Craig Forman

Craig Forman is an American entrepreneur, media executive, and former foreign correspondent who served as chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at NextNews Ventures, an early-stage private investment fund based in San Francisco. Forman has been a non-resident fellow at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Forman is also the author of Be Luckier in Life, a career guide for business success, published by Iver Publishing.

Career
Forman has held senior positions at Yahoo!, Earthlink, Dow Jones and Time Warner.

Forman worked at The Wall Street Journal as an editor in the London bureau and as Tokyo bureau chief, among other positions. While based in London as the Journal's Deputy Bureau Chief, Forman was a member of the 1991 Persian Gulf War reporting team that was finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.

After leaving The Wall Street Journal, Forman became a senior operating executive at Time Warner's CNN Group and Time Inc. divisions. He also was a member of the management team that took early search-engine Infoseek public. As a vice-president at CNN Financial News, Forman led the team for CNNfn.com. As a vice president of worldwide development at Time Inc. New Media, Forman managed the Internet businesses of Fortune and Money magazines while also serving as CEO of Thrive, a joint venture with AOL. He also played an influential role in helping Time Warner develop a viable independent internet strategy before its troubled combination with AOL in 2000.

Forman also served for four years as CEO and co-founder of Success Television LLP and MyPrimeTime Inc., a television production and venture-backed Internet company. Forman and his team produced two business and lifestyle PBS television series, "Great Entrepreneurs" and "Great Leaders," as well as broadband programming and an award-winning Internet site targeted at 35- to 54-year-old baby boomers. Forman is non-executive chairman of Success Television. "Great Entrepreneurs" was produced in association with WPBT, a PBS affiliate in south Florida.

From 2004 Forman headed Yahoo! Inc.'s, Media and Information division, including most of the internet portal's leading properties such as Yahoo! News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, as well as its Health, Weather, Education, Kids, and other news and information businesses.

In March 2006, Forman joined EarthLink Inc as its executive vice president and president of its Access and Audience division and chief product officer.

Forman has served on a variety of public and private company boards. He was executive chairman at mobile app advertising network Appia Inc., and an investor and board member at several other startups in telecom, technology and media. Along with colleagues Gordon Crovitz and Jim Friedlich, Forman co-founded and became a general partner at NextNews Ventures, an early-stage private investment fund, which invests in media, technology and telecom startups.

Forman was executive chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of Where.com Inc., a leading location-based mobile commerce company that was acquired by EBay Inc. in April 2011. Forman joined the WHERE board in 2009.

Since 2012, he has been on the board of directors and served as the governance and nominating committee chair of Montreal-based local advertising company Yellow Pages Limited (TSX:$Y).

In October 2022, Forman joined the Council for Responsible Social Media project launched by Issue One to address the negative mental, civic, and public health impacts of social media in the United States co-chaired by former House Democratic Caucus Leader Dick Gephardt and former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey.

In August 2023, Forman joined the Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI), as its Executive Chair. The organization is an independent global policy research center that seeks to encourage independent, sustainable media, maintain an open internet and foster informed public policy conversations.