ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, has announced that veteran media executive L. Gordon Crovitz has joined the Company's Board of Directors.
Crovitz has more than 25 years of US and global business operations experience at Dow Jones, including his role as publisher of The Wall Street Journal. As President of Dow Jones' Consumer Media Group, he integrated the global print, online, digital, TV and other editions of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron's across news, advertising, marketing and other functions. Repositioning the print edition to focus on analysis and the web edition to address breaking news, Crovitz oversaw the growth of the online edition to become the world's largest paid subscription news website. He also led the creation of the online news service Factiva.
ProQuest provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to science, technology, and medicine. Its vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive; periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years; the preeminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections.
