Patrick Dorsey Director

Patrick Dorsey is regional vice president of the Coastal Publishing Group, GateHouse Media and publisher of the Herald-Tribune Media Group, which includes the Herald-Tribune, www.heraldtribune.com and multiple other websites and niche publications. The Herald- Tribune Media Group is located in Sarasota, FL. The Coastal Publishing Group consists of ten daily newspapers and related print and digital operations in Florida and Alabama.

Patrick 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 started in publishing with Gannett in 1993 as an internal auditor at their corporate offices in Virginia. He then served as a controller for Tucson Newspapers, Inc., in Tucson, AZ; 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, FL. He came to the Gulf Coast from Tallahassee where he served as president and publisher of the Tallahassee Democrat from 2005 until 2012.

Patrick was named publisher of the Herald-Tribune Media Group in October, 2012. He was named the 2014 Publisher of the Year by then current owners, Halifax Media Group. Under his leadership the newspaper has won numerous state, regional and national awards, including a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and being named a 2015 Editor & Publisher 10 Newspapers That Do It Right.

Patrick sits on the boards of the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation, Community Foundation of Sarasota County, The Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce, the Sarasota County Economic Development Corporation (current Chairman), and the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. 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.