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Stephen Hills became president and general manager of The Washington Post in September 2002.
Hills joined The Post as an advertising sales representative in 1987 after working as a business intern in 1986. He served in a progression of increasingly responsible positions in advertising and marketing before becoming vice president of advertising in 1993. In January 2001 he was appointed vice president of sales and marketing, overseeing the circulation, advertising and marketing departments.
Prior to joining The Washington Post, Hills started by covering sports for the San Mateo Times in 1981. Then, in 1982 Hills created and launched The Bay City Business Journal, a regional business publication. Before that, he was director of advertising and marketing at ITB, Inc., also in Emeryville, California, from 1981 to 1982, and was a sales representative for the Fuller Brush Company in 1979 in San Francisco.
Hills graduated from Yale University in 1981 and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1987.
Hills and his wife, Joslyn, live in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with their two children.
Hills serves as a director of the Greater Washington Board of Trade and the Southern Maryland Newspaper Publishers Association, and as a member of the Sales Advisory Committee of the National Newspaper Network. He has served on the boards of the Duke Ellington School for the Arts, Conceptis Technolgies and the National Child Research Center.
In his spare time he enjoys tennis, skiing, golf, a challenging game of backgammon, an honest game of poker, a wide range of competitive sports, creative writing, guitar playing, camping with his kids or entertaining them with magic tricks. | 