TERI SCHURE

735 Mulberry Place

No. Woodmere, NY 11581
(516) 384-8420 (cell)
tschure@worldpress.org
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CAREER SUMMARY
As a senior publishing executive, I have significant experience in:(1)
magazine/online circulation and advertising sales, public relations,
communications, writing/editing and marketing;(2) news reporting, web
development, e-commerce, web optimization, on-line subscription
automation, editing of educational materials and e-mail marketing; (3)
financial matters, budgeting, modeling, spreadsheets, and business
plans; and (4) full leadership responsibility for the operation of a
magazine. I am also the founder, editor and publisher of worldpress.org,
an international news web site, which I founded in 1995 and fully
launched in 1997.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WORLDPRESS.ORG 4/04-Present
Founder and Owner
• Founder, owner and operator of www.worldpress.org, an online news
publication focusing on world affairs, with over 200,000 unique
users and 500,000 page views per month.
• Manage a staff of six, and 300 free-lance correspondents,
translators and contributing editors worldwide.
• Created a research division called World Press Desk, a Freelance
and Jobs section, and a web design/web optimization department
for added revenue.
• Systems Knowledge includes PowerPoint, Excel, MSWord, HTML,
Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

All Media Consulting 4/04-Present

President and owner
• Work with many clients on long and short-term projects. Clients
include Education Week, Telephone Systems International, Ariana
Television, Afghan Wireless, Ecomsolutions.net and
Theaternewsonline.com.
• Services include circulation, modeling, business plans, e-
commerce, web design/development, writing/editing, press
releases, advertising sales, newsletter/website content and e-
mail/direct mail marketing and strategy development.

Commentary Magazine 4/07-9/09

Publisher
• Established marketing goals to increase share of market and
profitability for the nonprofit magazine and web site.
• Developed and executed circulation marketing plans and programs
to ensure the profit, growth and expansion of the monthly
magazine and online circulation.
• Responsible for web site development and maintenance; web
 analysis, web optimization and web marketing to increase web site
traffic, including development of online circulation materials.
Developed online advertising and e-commerce systems; developed
and maintained an on-line subscription automation system.
Responsible for the development and maintenance of e-mail
marketing campaigns.
• Sold magazine/online advertising for the organization and
increased online advertising revenue in 2009 by 68% vs. 2008.
Increased net revenue per advertising page by 444% in 2009.
Additionally, by eliminating advertising pages that did not make
financial sense, I was able to lower print production expenses by
almost 50%.
• Developed, maintained and reevaluated budgets monthly.

WORLD PRESS REVIEW MAGAZINE/ WORLDPRESS.ORG 1/89-4/04

Chief Operating Officer and Publisher
• Responsible for operating a nonprofit, 60,000 paid circulation
monthly magazine focusing on world affairs.
• Supervised and directed the day-to-day activities of a 20-person
staff, plus 400 free-lance correspondents worldwide.
• Planned, administered and reconciled a $3M annual budget.
• Responsible for circulation/subscription marketing.
• Responsible for magazine printing, direct mail, advertising sales,
and other ancillary revenue.
• Founded the web site worldpress.org, which went from 50 unique
users to 900,000 users a month by 2006. Worldpress.org named as a
top 200 web site by PC Magazine.
• Automated web site for renewals and payments, resulting in lowered
postage, printing and letter-shop expenses of 35%.
• Developed and launched an award-winning wall map for the education
market that was successfully used as a premium in our direct mail
campaigns.

NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE 1981-1989

Director of Circulation Promotion
• In charge of printing, creative and test development for direct
mail, renewals, conversions, gifts and insert card promotions.
• Planned, administered and reconciled a $10 million annual
promotion budget.
• Purchased all premiums used for circulation marketing with an
annual premium budget of over $3 million.
• Developed and implemented the production of reprinted magazine
material from Newsweek for premium usage, which ultimately
eliminated electronic premiums and replaced them with editorially
driven products, resulting in a savings of over $3 million dollars
a year. Developed and implemented educational material, which
provided additional revenue from the school market.

EDUCATION AND AFFILIATIONS

Associate of Arts, Brevard College, Brevard, NC

Direct Marketing Association, Magazine Publishers Association, Overseas
Press Club

References furnished upon request