Martin Langeveld

Martin Langeveld spent 30 years in the newspaper business, 13 of them as publisher. He started at The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass, where worked in advertising, circulation, and general management. Along the way, he handled the acquisition and management of a number of weeklies and launched a variety of niche publications.

In 2000, he became publisher of the North Adams Transcript, while serving also as Director of Interactive Media for New England Newspapers, Inc., which is part of MediaNews Group. In 2006 he moved to the company’s Brattleboro, VT paper, the Brattleboro Reformer.

Martin has served on non-profit boards including two terms as chair of Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Mass. He was a founding trustee of the Colonial Theatre Association in Pittsfield, and served as moderator of First Church of Christ in Pittsfield, as a director of the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce, as director and treasurer of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, and as a board member of the National Newspaper Association.

He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has a graduate degree from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. (He and his wife ran a country inn in the Berkshires for several years in the 1970s, but they “got it out of their systems once Martin smelled printer’s ink.”)

He retired from the Reformer in April, 2008 and launched his blog, News After Newspapers, a few months later, with additional blogging at Harvard's Nieman Journalism Lab. His blogging explores the tools and techniques for journalism and news publishing that are likely to rise as newspapers fall from their long-standing positions of dominance in local and national news markets.

With several partners, he launched CircLabs Inc., a news discovery startup. He has participated in a number of conferences at the University’s Reynolds Journalism Institute exploring new business and distribution models for news.

In Brattleboro, Martin also serves as marketing director for Strolling of the Heifers, Inc., a non-profit organization focused on sustainable agriculture, and is helping to organize the June 2011 New England Slow Living Summit, a gathering focused on local and regional sustainability.