Patrick Dorsey joins the SNPA board

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Patrick Dorsey, publisher of the Herald-Tribune Media Group, which includes the Herald-Tribune, www.heraldtribune.com and multiple other websites and niche publications, has been named to the SNPA Board of Directors. The Herald-Tribune Media Group is located in Sarasota, Fla., and owned by GateHouse Media.

Dorsey replaces Michael Redding, CEO of Halifax Media Group, who resigned this spring when the Halifax newspapers were sold to GateHouse Media.

Dorsey received his bachelor's degree in accounting from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., and went on to become a certified public accountant in Virginia.  He began his career as an auditor with The Auditor of Public Accounts for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

He began his career in publishing with Gannett in 1993 as an internal auditor at the corporate offices in Virginia.  He then served as a controller for Tucson Newspapers, Inc., in Tucson, Ariz.; director of finance for Army Times Publishing Company in Springfield, Va.; group controller for Gannett Offset, also in Springfield, Va.; director of finance of FLORIDA TODAY and group controller of the Gannett South newspaper group headquartered in Melbourne, Fla. He came to the Gulf Coast from Tallahassee where he served as president and publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat from 2005 until 2012. 

Dorsey was named publisher of the Herald-Tribune Media Group in October 2012.

In addition to his service on the SNPA board, he sits on the boards of the United Way Suncoast - Sarasota Area, the Community Foundation of Sarasota County, The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce and the Sarasota County Economic Development Corporation. He is a former chairman of the Florida Press Association and former trustee of the First Amendment Foundation.

He and his wife Kecia have two sons and a daughter: Connor, Griffin and Makenna.

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