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Steven Ainsley is President and Publisher of Miller-McCune Magazine, a 100,000-circulation bimonthly magazine based in Santa Barbara with a national and international circulation; he was named to the position in 2011. Prior to assuming this role, he had worked for The New York Times Company for 31 years, publishing newspapers throughout the United States owned by the Company before retiring in early 2010.

Ainsley served as publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press from 1992 to 1999 before moving to Tampa, Florida to become President and COO of The New York Times Regional Media Group, at that time a group of 21 newspapers located primarily in the southeast United States and California. Prior to retirement, Ainsley was serving as publisher of the Boston Globe and Boston.com, the Globe’s web site, also owned by The New York Times Company.

He attended The University of Virginia and graduated from New York University.