Publisher and CEO
Jonathan Weber
CEO, husband of Karen, wearer of gray fleece, practicing workaholic and backyard fisherman.
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Jonathan was the co-founder and editor in chief of The Industry Standard, a weekly business news magazine and online service that rocketed to prominence in the late 1990s only to crash and burn along with the rest of the dot-com economy in 2001. He had long had ties to Montana - his first job out of college was waiting tables at Chico Hot Springs - and moved to Missoula in early 2002 to serve as a visiting professor at the University of Montana Journalism School. He quickly became fascinated by the myriad issues associated with growth and change in the region, but was also frustrated by the lack of quality media devoted to those issues. In 2004 he began to think in earnest about how the dramatic changes underway in the media world might create an opportunity for a new kind of publication about the Rocky Mountain region, and the result was New West. Jonathan has also served eight years as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, and was a co-founder of the Geneva-based international affairs publication World Link.
