News & Tech is sad to report that James E. Conley Jr.
died on March 20. His Conley Media owns News & Tech.
A
newspaperman, business leader, world traveler, philanthropist and art
collector, Conley was born in 1943 in Madison ,
Wisconsin
His obituary, which ran in Conley publications,
read: Conley will be remembered through his media legacy of weekly and daily
newspapers, shoppers, city magazines, trade publications and extensive art
collections that will continue to be open to the public through the Heritage
Museum of Asian Art in Chicago and the Tucson Desert
Art Museum in Tucson , Arizona
He began
his career in newspapers in 1967 at the Wall Street Journal and in 1969
purchased the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen newspaper with business partner, Francis
“Bill” Connors. Thus, began a lifelong love affair of newspapering … acquiring
and building them throughout his life, including the Waukesha Freeman, West
Bend Daily News, Oconomowoc Enterprise, Daily Citizen, Ozaukee County News
Graphic and others. Jim started two city magazines, Tucson Lifestyle in 1983
and MKE Lifestyle in 1993, and in 1990 began publishing a trade magazine for
the media industry, News & Tech, which was started by current publisher,
Mary L. Van Meter, in 1987.
Through his
many endeavors he continued to be an active, persistent voice in the necessity
for accurate and unbiased reporting to the American public.
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Back in the day, those paper rolls would be called "half rolls".
Jim Robertson
Journeyman Pressman
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