LMA and LMF Announce New Board Members for 2025

Officers and new directors for the Local Media Association and Local Media Foundation boards of directors for 2025. have been announced:

Janis Ware, publisher, The Atlanta Voice, has been elected board chair of LMA. Janis began working for the nonprofit newspaper after college and took over the organization after the death of her father, J. Lowell Ware, in 1991. The Atlanta Voice has served Metropolitan Atlanta for nearly 60 years.

Tanisha Leonard, president of Pitch Black, a cultural marketing firm owned by Real Times Media, has been elected chair of the LMF board. She previously served as vice president of business development for the company.

Other LMA 2025 officers are:

• First Vice Chair: Toby Collodora, senior manager, engagement and retention, Star Tribune Media Company
• Second Vice Chair: Eric Barnes, chief executive officer, The Daily Memphian.
• Treasurer: Tracy Brown, chief content officer , Chicago Public Media.
• Secretary: Stephanie Slagle, vice president, chief innovation officer, Graham Media Group
• Immediate Past Chair: Tom Shaw, chief product officer, Shaw Media

Other LMF 2025 officers are:

• First Vice Chair: Catherine Badalamente, chief executive officer, Graham Media Group
• Treasurer: Janis Ware, publisher, The Atlanta Voice
• Secretary: Tim Franklin, senior associate Dean, John M. Mutz Chair in Local News, Medill School, Northwestern University
• Immediate Past Chair: Larry Lee, publisher/owner, The Sacramento Observer

Three new directors were also elected to the LMA board:

• Heather Gray, station manager, WRAL-TV/FOX 50, WILM-TV
• Ethan Holland, vice president, Draper Digital Media
• Imtiaz Patel, chief consumer officer, Gannett Media

Congratulations to our new directors and officers. We pride ourselves in attracting the most diverse boards in local media. We have a healthy mix of media types — newspapers, broadcasters, digital sites, academia, R&D — as well as gender, race/ethnicity, ownership structure (nonprofit, public, for-profit) and more.

We are stronger together, especially in difficult times. Our boards will work hard over the next year to address the many challenges facing our industry and more importantly, to seize opportunities that will result in a more sustainable future.

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