Seija Goldstein is a nationally recognized expert on regional publishing. Her consulting firm, Seija Goldstein Associates, Inc. (SGA) designs and conducts comprehensive financial standards surveys for several regional publishers’ associations, including the Alliance of Area Business Publications, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the City and Regional Magazine Association and the Parenting Publications of America.
SGA maintains an extensive database covering all aspects of regional print and online publishing. Prior to the founding of SGA in 1992, Ms. Goldstein had twenty years of experience in financial and operational management of media companies.
Her past assignments include Director of Acquisitions and Development for CBS Magazines (now Hachette Filipacchi Magazines), General Manager of Home Mechanix and World Tennis magazines and Chief Financial Officer of Communications International, a privately held multi-title regional magazine and educational publisher.
Ms. Goldstein holds a BBA degree from the Helsinki School of Economics and an MBA from Bernard M. Baruch College of the City University of New York. She is an advisor to the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism on the development of magazine business plans as well as a frequent speaker at publishing conferences.