❭ Leadership

Bob Nutting – CEO

Bob serves as president and chief executive officer of The Ogden Newspapers Inc. and The Nutting Company. He is chairman of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Pirates Charities, and chairman of Seven Springs Mountain Resort.

Bob has served as former chairman of the News Media Alliance, past president of the West Virginia Press Association,  former chairman of the West Virginia Independent Colleges, former chairman of The Linsly School in Wheeling, WV, and a member of the board of The Thacher School in Ojai, CA. Bob currently serves as vice chairman of the Nature Conservancy of West Virginia and as a board member of the Green Sports Alliance. He is also a licensed pilot, an avid fly fisherman, and a passionate conservationist.

Bill Nutting – Vice President

Bill is the vice president of The Ogden Newspapers, Inc. as well as all of The Nutting Company divisions and subsidiaries.

Bill served on the board of directors of the Associated Press from 2012 to 2021. He is a past president of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association and has previously served on other newspaper and media boards including the Inter-American Press Association and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Foundation. In academia, he served on the WVU Board of Governors from 2007 through 2016 including in the role of Chairman of the Finance Committee. In other areas, he has served as a director of the Security National Trust Company, Community Foundation of the Ohio Valley, and the Ohio Valley Industrial and Business Development Corporation.

Bill graduated from Harvard in 1983 and received a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 1986. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the West Virginia State Bar Association.

Cameron Nutting Williams – Chief Revenue Officer

Cameron joined Ogden Newspapers in 2011. Cameron is responsible for driving new revenue & growth initiatives across the company, including digital initiatives, new products and acquisitions. She serves as the Managing Director for TNC Ventures.

Cameron graduated from Williams College and has a M.A. from George Washington University’s School of Media & Public Affairs. She serves on the executive committee for America’s Newspapers board (President 2022-2023), and the America’s Newspapers Foundation, as well as Mutual Insurance Company (MIC), which provides liability insurance to the media industry. Cameron previously served on the Inland Press Association and West Virginia Independent Colleges & Universities boards.

Gus Glyptis – Chief Financial Officer

Gus joined The Ogden Company and its subsidiaries in November 2020. Gus currently serves as the Chief Financial officer and Treasurer.

Gus received his B.S. from West Virginia University in 1997 and his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business in 2003.

Mera Kutrovac – General Counsel

Mera joined The Nutting Company and its subsidiaries as General Counsel in 2019. Mera focused her legal practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions and governance, commercial real estate, and banking as a Member of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC from 2008-2019, and began her legal career at Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC in banking and real estate in 2007.

Mera received her B.S. from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce in 2004 and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2007.

John McCabe – Editorial Director

John began his journalism career with The Ogden Newspapers in 1996, when he was hired as a news reporter for The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register. He became city editor of those publications in 2001 and was named managing editor in 2007.

John took on a new role as an editorial director for The Ogden Newspapers at the beginning of 2017. John is based in Wheeling, WV, where he also continues to serve as managing editor of The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register. He provides editorial guidance to the company’s daily and weekly newspapers and also helps to coordinate special projects and coverage, both online and in print.

Michael Christman – Regional Publisher

Mike currently serves as a regional publisher and the president and chief executive officer of Fort Wayne (IN) Newspapers. Prior to taking the helm at Fort Wayne in 2006, he was the publisher of the Parkersburg News and Sentinel from 2000-2006 and the Salem News in Salem, OH, from 1999-2000.

Along with deep experience in the newspaper business, Mike was instrumental in the launch of the Ogden Directories, which now publishes over 60 directories in 11 states.

Scott Stanford – Regional Publisher

Scott Stanford is the group publisher for Ogden-owned Swift Communications, which includes newspapers in Vail, Aspen, Summit County, Steamboat Springs, Glenwood Springs and Granby in Colorado, as well as South Lake Tahoe and Truckee in California. He previously served as a publisher for Ogden in Fort Wayne, Indiana, (2019-22) and Lawrence, Kansas (2016-19). His newspaper career spans more than 30 years and also includes stints as a reporter, editor, advertising director and general manager at newspapers in Texas and Colorado.

Geordie Wilson – Regional Publisher

Geordie joined Ogden Newspapers with its purchase of The Frederick (MD) News-Post in 2017, where he has served as publisher since 2011. Still based in Frederick, he serves now as regional publisher for Ogden markets in Maryland, Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia.

Before coming to Frederick, Geordie was publisher of the Concord Monitor and the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, both in New Hampshire. He began his newspaper career as a reporter and an editor. Mid-career, he worked for several years in the technology industry.

Bob Pinarski – Group Publisher

Bob joined Ogden Newspapers in 2015. He is currently the group publisher for the Observer-Reporter (Washington, PA), Herald-Standard (Uniontown, PA) and The Dominion Post (Morgantown, WV). He also oversees SWC Realty with offices in Uniontown, PA, Williamsport, PA and Parkersburg, WV.

Bob started his newspaper career in 1990 after graduating from Marquette University with a degree in journalism and marketing.

Jeremy Speer – Group Publisher

Jeremy Speer is the Group Publisher of five Ohio papers — The Courier, in Findlay, the Sandusky Register, The Advertiser-Tribune, in Tiffin, the Norwalk Reflector, and Review Times, in Fostoria. He is a second-generation newspaper leader, and began his career as a sports editor and editor. He is a graduate of Central Michigan University.

Mike Bird – Group Publisher

Michael Bird is an Ogden Newspaper employee with 31 years of service. Bird started with Ogden Newspapers as commercial printing manager for the Jamestown Post-Journal and Dunkirk Observer in western New York in 1994. Bird then was named Publisher of weekly newspapers for Ogden Newspapers in Westfield, NY, the Westfield Republican, Mayville Sentinel and Erie, PA Greensheets. Later Bird went back to the Post-Journal serving as Circulation Director until about 2000. Bird moved on with Ogden Newspapers to become Publisher of the daily newspaper in Salem, Ohio, The Salem News, where he stayed for the next five years. Moving on after Salem, Bird became Publisher of the Daily Mining Gazette, an Ogden property, in the upper peninsula of Michigan in Houghton, MI until 2005. In 2006, he became Publisher of the Jamestown Post-Journal and regional Publisher of three other Ogden properties in Dunkirk, NY, Warren, PA and Westfield, NY and remains in that position today for the last 18 years. In 2023, Bird also became regional Publisher to six other Ogden Newspaper locations; The Daily Mining Gazette (Houghton, MI); The Daily News ( Iron Mountain, MI); The Daily Press (Escanaba, MI); The Mining Journal (Marquette, MI); The Alpena News (Alpena, MI), A production facility in Powers, MI; The Adirondack Daily Enterprise (Saranac Lake, NY) and the Lake Placid News (Lake Placid, NY). Bird lives in Jamestown,NY with his wife of 31 years with four children and three grand kids that also live in Jamestown.

Mike Kernik – Human Resources Director

Mike joined The Ogden Newspapers in April of 2001 as the human resources director.

His earlier career was spent in the coal industry, working for North American Coal, and then CONSOL for a combined 18 years, where he put his mining engineering background to use in a variety of safety, supervisory, and human resources capacities.

G. Ogden Nutting – Emeritus Publisher

Ogden is the publisher of The Ogden Newspapers. The company was founded by Ogden’s grandfather, H.C. Ogden, in September of 1890. Active in state and national journalism associations, he has served on the boards for the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association, the News Media Alliance, and the West Virginia Press Association, which in 1994 named him a life member “in appreciation for years of outstanding service” and in 2010 honored him with the Adam Kelly Premier Journalist award.