Bob has led business and editorial teams at top media brands. As president of The Economist from 2020 to 2024, Bob ran the newspaper’s global consumer business, with a focus on subscription growth, product innovation, and new digital offerings. Prior to that, he worked at The Atlantic for 11 years, driving the transformation of the print monthly into a digital business. He split that time between commercial and editorial, serving as president of The Atlantic for five years and, before that, as editor of Atlantic Digital, where he grew audience on TheAtlantic.com tenfold from 2009 to 2014. Earlier in his career, he was the executive editor at Wired magazine and the White House correspondent and Supreme Court correspondent at Newsweek.
Over the years, Bob has overseen teams that won five National Magazine Awards. He earned the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for his coverage of the Supreme Court. In 2018, Advertising Age named him Publishing Executive of the Year. A graduate of Stanford, Bob has a master’s degree from Yale Law School. A longtime Marylander, he has sat on several journalism boards and currently serves as a director of the Capital Area Food Bank.
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David Nevins is president & CEO of Nevins & Associates, a highly regarded strategic communications company and proactive public relations partner. The firm’s regional and national client base is a unique mix of organizations across a variety of industries including: healthcare, professional service firms, finance, not-for-profits, distributors, state agencies, national media companies, technology, political and grassroots campaigns, real estate development, sporting events, and more.
With more than 30 years of experience in marketing, public relations, and community and government relations, David is a talented and seasoned executive. Prior to founding Nevins & Associates in 1983, David served as the Director of Marketing for both Towson University and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In 2001, he was tapped by the CEO of Comcast to employ his marketing expertise as President of the company’s regional sports network, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic. David is a Past President of the Board of Governors for the Center Club and is a former Chairman of the Board of Regents for the University System of Maryland, a position to which he was appointed by the Governor of Maryland. David has chaired the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission and the Maryland Higher Education Loan Corporation, served as President of both the Jewish National Fund and the Towson Business Association and was a member of the PNC Bank board.
David is highly involved in the business, civic, and political communities, and his many years of active leadership in numerous organizations have built a network of contacts that he regularly puts to use for the firm’s clients. For more information, visit www.nevinspr.com.
