About Galen
Galen Kahlenberg is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of NEXcom Digital, Inc., the parent company that operates the Nexcom Media network — 16 independent local news properties serving cities across Texas and Florida and three national-audience verticals (Veterans News, Her Choice, LGBTQ News).
As CEO, Galen sets the strategic direction for the network and stewards its relationships with the communities each property serves.
As Chairman, he leads the company's board on governance, capital allocation, and the long-term operating model that keeps Nexcom independent of advertiser influence and venture pressure.
The Nexcom thesis under Galen's leadership: local journalism is infrastructure, not content marketing.
Each property in the network keeps full editorial autonomy while sharing the technology, distribution, audience-development, and compliance layer that small newsrooms can't afford to build alone.
Galen oversees this model across approximately 780,000 monthly pageviews and 220,000+ unique readers — without paywalls, with no algorithmic ad-tracking, and with a strict separation between editorial decisions and infrastructure decisions.
He is reachable through nexcom.media/contact.
Areas of expertise
- local journalism
- media operations
- network strategy
- community publishing
- editorial independence
- newsroom economics
- digital media
- corporate governance
Role at Nexcom Media
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Contact
Reach the Nexcom Media team at /contact or email editor@nexcom.media.