Mary E. Junck is the Chairman of the Board of the Company, Effective February 20, 2019, She joined Lee in 1999 as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. She became president in 2000, Chief Executive Officer in 2001 and Chairman in January 2002. She previously held senior executive positions at the former Times Mirror Company. She was responsible for the operations of Newsday, The Baltimore Sun (publisher and chief executive officer), the Hartford Courant, The Morning Call, Southern Connecticut Newspapers and St. Paul Pioneer Press (publisher and president). She also had responsibility for Times Mirror magazines and StayWell, Times Mirror's consumer health company. She was a member of the board of directors of The Associated Press from 2004 to 2017 and was chairman from 2012 to 2017. In October 2016, Ms. Junck became a director of Postmedia Network Canada Corp., a public company based in Toronto, Canada, that owns numerous newspapers and associated online platforms throughout Canada. Ms. Junck leads the Company’s Board and provides in-depth knowledge of the Company and the publishing industry, in which she has worked in executive and senior management positions for more than 30 years. Ms. Junck provides a valuable and unique perspective in Board deliberations about the Company's business, competitive landscape, strategic relationships and opportunities, senior leadership and operational and financial performance. As Chairman, Ms. Junck serves as an advisor to the Chief Executive Officer and provides overall leadership for the Board. Her key areas of focus include strategic direction and partnerships, financial matters and board management.
As the Chairman of the Board of Lee Enterprises, the total compensation of Mary Junck at Lee Enterprises is $959,905. There are 1 executives at Lee Enterprises getting paid more, with Kevin Mowbray having the highest compensation of $1,842,800.
Mary Junck is 72, she's been the Chairman of the Board of Lee Enterprises since 2019. There are 2 older and 23 younger executives at Lee Enterprises. The oldest executive at Lee Enterprises, Inc. is William Mayer, 80, who is the Independent Director.
Mary's mailing address filed with the SEC is C/O LEE ENTERPRISES, INCORPORATED, 4600 E. 53RD STREET, DAVENPORT, IA, 52807.
Over the last 21 years, insiders at Lee Enterprises have traded over $1,996,869 worth of Lee Enterprises stock and bought 476,469 units worth $2,731,693 . The most active insiders traders include Capital Llc Cannell, David T. Pearson, and Rock Capital Ltd Brown Andr.... On average, Lee Enterprises executives and independent directors trade stock every 307 days with the average trade being worth of $271,079. The most recent stock trade was executed by Steven C. Fletcher on 7 August 2024, trading 1,000 units of LEE stock currently worth $9,350.
lee enterprises is a leading provider of local news, information and advertising in primarily midsize markets, with 46 daily newspapers and a joint interest in two others, along with rapidly growing digital products and nearly 300 specialty publications in 21 states. lee was founded in 1890 in iowa, by a.w. lee. most of our papers trace their beginnings to the mid-1800s. among our alumni, teenage sam clemens wrote for the muscatine journal in iowa before becoming world-renowned as mark twain. a reporter from our newspaper in bismarck, north dakota, died with george custer at the battle of the little big horn. in 1973, our newspaper in davenport, iowa, became the first in the world to be produced totally by computer.
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