A file photo of Nat Lea at an event in 2018.
Nat Lea, the chief executive officer and president of Wehco Media of Little Rock, was elected earlier this month as president of America’s Newspapers, an industry group based in Washington, D.C.
He succeeded Alan Fisco, president and chief financial officer of the Seattle Times Co., who will continue to serve on the group’s leadership as immediate past president.
New officers were elected during the group’s Senior Leadership Conference in Colorado Springs in early October. Other officers selected were Vice President Cameron Nutting Williams, regional publisher and chief revenue officer at Ogden Newspapers in Frederick, Maryland; and Heidi Wright, chief operating officer of EO Media Group and publisher of The Bulletin in Salem, Oregon.
Lea, a nephew of Wehco Chairman Walter Hussman Jr., began working with Wehco in its video division in 2002, and within a year or so became general manager of the company’s Pine Bluff cable operation. He was also general manager of the El Dorado News-Times and The Sentinel-Record of Hot Springs.
A business graduate of the University of Georgia with an MBA from Georgia State, Lea was named president and general manager of the Democrat-Gazette in 2010, and was promoted to Wehco president and CEO in 2016. He is 55.
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