CEO Emeritus
Nancy Lane is the chief executive officer emeritus of Local Media Association and Local Media Foundation, non-profit organizations that work with over 3,000 local media brands (newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, digital sites & more), as well as several hundred R&D partners in the industry. LMA’s mission is to ensure a healthy future for local journalism, which is essential to a strong democracy, by reinventing business models for news.
She is a former recipient of the Borrell Award of Merit, presented each year to an executive who has done the most to foster innovation in the local media industry.
Lane served as LMA’s chief executive for more than 24 years. Under her leadership, some of the most important industry initiatives launched: Word in Black (led by 10 of the nation’s iconic Black publishers), LMA Covering Climate Collaborative (with 40+ news, science and academic partners), News is Out – a Queer Media Collaboration, The Meta Branded Content Project (over $100 million sold to date), the Lab for Journalism Funding (over $30 million raised to date), the Local News Fund (over $20 million raised for journalism projects) and dozens of other initiatives. She is a champion for diversity, equity, inclusion and press freedom.
Lane spent 13 years in the newspaper industry as publisher, ad director and senior level executive in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Missouri, running companies as large as $50 million, before taking over LMA in 2000.
She is a past president of the Villanova University Alumni Association and now serves on the dean’s advisory council for the college of liberal arts and sciences. She lives in St Augustine and Jacksonville Beach, Florida, with her husband, Dr. Shawn Burton, and their adorable dog Hugo.
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