# Brad Buchanan

> Brad Buchanan founded Newz Group in 1995 after working in telecommunications. Based in Columbia, Missouri, he developed a press-clipping business through state press-association relationships and digital processing. His work also extended to newspaper archiving and content preservation. He is the former President/CEO; public corporate records list him as a director of GeoTel Corporation.

- **Role:** Director at GeoTel Corporation (public corporate listing); founder and former President/CEO of Newz Group
- **Organizations:** Newz Group, GeoTel Corporation, GTE, Eastern Missouri Telephone Co.
- **Education:** Master of Business Administration, University of Missouri-Columbia
- **Known for:** Founded Newz Group in 1995., Built a press-clipping operation that reached ten states by 2007., Helped develop newspaper archiving tied to licensed media-monitoring access.

## Career timeline

- **Before 1989** — Worked in the family telephone business and for GTE; exact employment dates are not established.
- **1989** — Earned an MBA at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
- **1995** — Founded Newz Group after acquiring the Arkansas Press Association clipping service with two partners.
- **1996** — Newz Group took over the Iowa Press Clipping service.
- **1997** — Expanded into Missouri, Kansas and Kentucky; brother Scott and father Waldo joined the business.
- **2007** — Newz Group reached its tenth state with the Colorado Press Clipping Service acquisition.
- **2012** — Delivered archived PDF newspaper pages to the Centralia Fireside Guard after a storm-related server failure.
- **2013** — Helped judge the Missouri Ad Managers’ Contest at the Reynolds Journalism Institute.
- **2015** — Newz Group’s company timeline records an archive exceeding 20 million PDF pages.

## Achievements

- Founded Newz Group in 1995.
- Built a press-clipping operation that reached ten states by 2007.
- Helped develop newspaper archiving tied to licensed media-monitoring access.
- Provided archived pages to help a local newspaper recover missing material after a server failure.

## Links

- Website: https://newzgroup.com/

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