Anne Gordon has worked in daily newspapers for almost 25 years in a wide variety of management roles. Her career has also encompassed a stint in the competitive Denver TV market for two years as a top newsroom executive for KCNC-4. She also took time from her publishing career to work in 1992 with the campaign of Bill Clinton for President as a paid communications consultant. That same year, she wrote a book on saints, which was published in 1994 by Bantam Books.

For the past five years, she has been responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day operations of the 425-member Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper and its online operation. As Managing Editor and Vice President, she oversees a budget of $48 million and works with six direct reports to oversee the newspaper's journalistic operations as well as broader operational issues including daily work with its chief union – work rules and downsizing most recently - and directing its legal positioning on a variety of first amendment and personnel issues. The Inquirer has a circulation daily of 370,000 and 777,250 on Sundays. The online site has 1 million daily viewers.

The Inquirer is owned by Philadelphia Newspapers LLC, which owns 32 newspapers and magazines in the fourth-largest market in the country, Philadelphia. As Vice President, Anne sits on the internal operating board that is responsible for setting the strategic vision of Philadelphia Newspapers LLC. Strategic planning work here involves a broad spectrum of issues including legal, union relations and contract negotiations for 13 unions, shaping and marketing new products from print to web for sale, customer research, succession planning, and development of ongoing market research, delivery of new ventures such as wireless, iPod content and others.

In addition to her various roles with the newspapers, Anne regularly appears on national talk shows, makes regular speeches to address political as well as media issues and testified before Congress last October on the importance of a federal Shield Law for journalists. Anne is one of only a handful of women editors of large metro dailies in America.