Future of Media and Newspapers

As readers continue to migrate to digital, Pason Gaddis, president and group publisher of Florida Weekly, will speak about the future of media and newspapers in what he views will be a fundamental change in the content that goes into print, new subscription models and the explosion of tablet devices.

Pason Gaddis co-founded Florida Weekly with his partners Jeffery Cull and James Dickerson in 2007. The newspaper is one of the states largest circulation newsweeklies with more than 75,000 circulation in Lee, Collier, Charlotte and North Palm Beach Counties reaching more than 150,000 readers in print and online each week.

In the past two years the newspaper has won numerous awards including being recognized as the best weekly newspaper in the state for the past two years by the Florida Press Association.

Prior to Florida Weekly, Pason served in a variety of management capacities from 1998-2007 with Gannett, Inc. while successfully launching several new newspapers and magazines.

Pason received his Bachelors degree from Iowa State University where he also began his newspaper career with the Iowa State Daily.