M. Teresa Calkins is an independent media management consultant. She consulted for ICFJ on projects in Uganda and Kenya, and for IREX on media management training in Baghdad and Erbil.

Her areas of strength include strategic and operational planning; competitive thinking; audience measurements; marketing; managing through change; innovative thinking; managing people; management by objectives; defining and refining revenue growth opportunities.

Calkins is the president of Grupo Picacho, a media company in Honduras committed to improving the quality of journalism, building a free and independent press with no political agenda. During her career in journalism, she was the vice president/marketing and market development director for the News-Press of Fort Myers, Fla. At the Flint Journal (Michigan), Calkins was circulation director. Later, as the paper’s marketing director, she formed its first marketing department, and she was responsible for bringing customer and market-based perspective and philosophy to the newspaper’s whole organization.

As a Knight International Journalism Fellow for the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in 2006, Calkins worked with media professionals in Colombia. She provided training for newspapers in news, circulation, advertising, marketing and new media in areas of: increasing audience in print and online; strategies for growing revenue online and in print; sales methodologies in circulation and advertising; and new product planning processes. She worked with more than 30 newspapers across the country.

Calkins holds a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary social science and a doctorate in higher education administration, both from Michigan State University. She also earned a master’s degree in supervision and administration from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va.