New York Times Vice President Todd Haskell says St. Lawrence connections helped him get his start.
“It began with an internship at The New York Times Company, arranged by Midge Longley, a long-time Times executive and St. Lawrence alumna and trustee whom

I met while I was Thelmo (student government) president,” Haskell says. “She connected me with John Loughlin ’79, another former Thelmo president who Midge had helped early on in his publishing career.” 

After graduating, the history major took a permanent analyst job at the Times company, then moved on to advertising sales for various magazine publishers while earning his MBA from Fordham.  In 2004, he returned to the Times, where as vice president for business development and digital sales at the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, he is responsible for internet advertising, marketing and sales development.

Haskell says the experiences that were most influential in college were his tenure as student government president, “which taught me how to work with a diverse group of constituencies with a wide variety of agendas,” and his membership in Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.  “My ability to communicate to groups, to help build consensus among people with diverse (and often divergent) agendas, the ability to make persuasive points in writing--these are all skills I use every day, and skills I began to develop at St. Lawrence,” Haskell says.  “While I was fortunate enough to land jobs working with St. Lawrence alums, all of these bosses were incredibly demanding, and if hadn’t been prepared the way I was courtesy of SLU, I would not have succeeded in any of those positions.”