Chicago News Cooperative Advisory Board
John A. Canning, Jr., Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, CNC Chairman of the Board
John A. Canning, Jr. is Chairman of Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC (“MDP”), which specializes in management buyout and special equity investing. MDP has raised investment funds with more than $18 billion in limited partner commitments from over 350 endowments, pension funds and other sophisticated investors.
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Michael Davies, AlphaZeta Interactive
Michael Davies is president and CEO of AlphaZeta, an interactive media agency. His career achievements include building information systems for Reuters, working as a producer for Classified Ventures and serving as chief technology officer for eBay real estate partner iBidCo.
Leslie S. Hindman, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Leslie Hindman is the president of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, the Midwest’s leading fine art auctioneers. For more than two decades she has remained a constant force behind high profile auctions of everything from contemporary paintings and fine jewelry to French
furniture and rare books and manuscripts.
Martin J. Koldyke, Frontenac Company
Martin Koldyke is former chairman of WTTW public television and founder of the Golden Apple Foundation honoring outstanding teachers. He is retired as chairman of Frontenac Company, a Chicago-based venture capital firm he founded in 1971.
Ann Marie Lipinski, University of Chicago
Ann Marie Lipinski formerly served as editor of the Chicago Tribune, where she won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. She is now vice president for Civic Engagement at the University of Chicago, overseeing creation of a new model for an urban research institution acting in partnership with its city.
Newton N. Minow, Sidley Austin LLP
Newton Minnow is past president of the Federal Communications Commission, best known for describing television as a “vast cultural wasteland.” He is currently senior counsel at the law firm of Sidley & Austin in Chicago.
James O’Shea, CNC Co-founder and Editor
James O’Shea is editor of the Chicago News Cooperative, is former managing editor of the Chicago Tribune and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. After completing a Harvard fellowship, he is finishing his third book, on the decline of the newspaper industry.
Peter Osnos, PublicAffairs, CNC Co-founder and Vice Chair of the Board
Peter Osnos, chair, is founder and editor-at-large of PublicAffairs books, specializing in journalism, history, biography and social criticism. Between 1966 and 1984, he was with the Washington Post, where he served as foreign and national editor.
Bruce Sagan, Hyde Park Herald, CNC Vice Chair of the Board
Bruce Sagan is owner and publisher of Chicago’s Hyde Park Herald. He purchased the paper, then 71 years old and failing, in 1953 and transformed it into a vital voice for its South Side community.
Dan Schmidt, WTTW
Dan Schmidt is president and CEO of WTTW, Chicago’s public broadcasting television station.
Dawn Sinclair Shapiro, Woodlawn Avenue Productions
Dawn Sinclair Shapiro is a broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker. She began her career with CBS News Sunday Morning and worked as a producer or writer for Tribune Broadcasting, CNBC, MSNBC, Dateline NBC and Chicago Public Radio.
Rishad Tobaccowala, Denuo Group
Rishad Tobaccowala is CEO of Denuo, a Publicis company, and a board member of VivaKi, which oversees all Publicis digital and media assets. Time magazine named him one of five “marketing innovators,” and he was appointed to Advertising Age’s Hall of Fame.
