Jonathan Segal

Jonathan Segal is president of the Freedom Newspapers, a division of Freedom Communications. He has also been a company Senior Vice President since 1999.

Prior to assuming his current positions, Mr. Segal served as President of the Eastern Community Newspapers division for eight years. Before joining the company’s corporate office, he served as Senior Publisher of Freedom’s North Carolina newspapers for seven years.

He was also Publisher of The Gaston Gazette and New Bern Sun Journal and Editor of The Free Press in Kinston, N.C., and he has 37 years of experience in the newspaper industry.

Mr. Segal graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1971 with an honors degree in Journalism.

He is a past president of the North Carolina Press Association and the Southern Newspaper Publisher Association. He is currently a board member of the American Press Institute and the PAGE Cooperative.