[5] An author and playwright, Anderson is also co-founder of Novium Learning, an educational services company in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
During his tenure, Anderson, who himself was America's Storyteller on FNN, helped increase the circulation of PARADE Magazine by more than 50% to 37 million, the world's largest.
He brought in acclaimed writers such as Norman Mailer, Carl Sagan, Elie Wiesel, Julia Child and Gail Sheehy, and transformed and modernized the magazine with new columns and a higher level of reporting and writing.
Prior to joining PARADE in 1977, Anderson held several senior newspaper management positions with Gannett Publications in Westchester, New York.
He was appointed by President Clinton in 1995 to serve for a four-year period as a member of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.