
Tim Regan-Porter
CEO
Colorado Press Association and Colorado Press Network
Tim Regan-Porter
CEO
Tim Regan-Porter is CEO of the nonprofit Colorado Press Association and its for-profit ad placement subsidiary, Colorado Press Network. He became CPA’s CEO in 2020 and leads advocacy, revenue development, member services, innovation and industry partnerships. He also hosts the Local News Matters podcast.
Previously, he was South Region editor for McClatchy, leading newsrooms in Macon, Columbus, Georgia, and Biloxi, where he drove experimentation and developed new digital brands.
He joined McClatchy after a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. There, he studied systems and strategies for innovation in the Graduate School of Business, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) and Computer Science Department.
Regan-Porter was founding executive director of the Center for Collaborative Journalism, which adapts the teaching hospital model to journalism education. The initiative drew recognition from The New York Times and Pew Research Center. He was a Scripps Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellow at Arizona State University in 2016 and participated in Al Jazeera’s inaugural Media in Context Hackathon in Qatar in 2014.
As president and co-founder of Paste, he helped build the magazine into the country’s third-largest music title and led its digital transition. He was recognized as a C-Level Visionary in the Folio 40. Paste earned multiple national awards and was a three-time finalist for General Excellence at the National Magazine Awards.
Before Paste, Regan-Porter spent 10 years in web development, including at IBM’s e-business National Practice, where he managed engineering teams on some of the company’s largest projects.
He majored in economics and math, with a history minor, at Olivet Nazarene University. His graduate work spans computer science, business, economics and math at Stanford University, Georgia State University, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of Georgia.

