{{Short description|American media executive (born 1944)}} {{other people}} {{Infobox person | image= | image_size = | caption = | name = Don Logan | birth_date= | death_date= | spouse= Sandra Logan | children= 2 | occupation= Media Executive | known_for= Chairman/CEO of Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, Southern Progress Corporation<br>Owner, Birmingham Barons }}
'''Don Logan''' (born 1944) is an American media executive from Hartselle, Alabama who lives in Birmingham. A retired Time Warner media chairman, Logan owned the Birmingham Barons minor-league baseball team until 2023.<ref name="blog.al.com">{{cite web|url=http://blog.al.com/living-news/2009/05/when_don_logan_was_born.html|title=Don Logan's business venture helps us remember the good old days|work=AL.com|date=5 May 2009 |accessdate=7 November 2014}}</ref> In May 2011, he was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
In 2010, he led an ownership group to purchase the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society from ESPN.<ref>{{cite news |work=Birmingham Business Journal |date=August 3, 2010 |url=http://birmingham.bizjournals.com/birmingham/stories/2010/08/02/daily13.html |title=Retired Time Inc. exec Don Logan, investors buying BASS from ESPN |last=Cooper |first=Lauren B.}}</ref> In late 2011, they relocated B.A.S.S. headquarters from Celebration, Florida, to Birmingham.<ref>{{cite news |first=David |last=Rainer |newspaper=The Courier Journal |location=Florence, AL |title=Bass Anglers Sportsman's Society is headed back to Alabama |url=http://www.courierjournal.net/news/article_104a4a7e-58f5-517e-9eee-2c4a5755cc2b.html?mode=story |date=August 10, 2011 |accessdate=July 12, 2014}}</ref>
== Education == Pursuing a degree in mathematics, Logan graduated magna cum laude from Auburn University in 1966. He also holds a master's degree in mathematics from Clemson University and has been awarded honorary doctorates from Auburn University (1997),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wireeagle.auburn.edu/news/48|title=AU's College of Sciences and Mathematics receives $1.2 million gift|publisher=Wireeagle.auburn.edu|accessdate=7 November 2014|archive-date=23 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223231737/http://wireeagle.auburn.edu/news/48|url-status=dead}}</ref> Clemson University<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=592448&ric=TWX&previousCapId=24689&previousTitle=Time%20Warner%20Inc.|title=Don Logan: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek|work=Businessweek.com|accessdate=7 November 2014}}{{dead link|date=April 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> and University of Alabama at Birmingham (1997).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iss.uab.edu/FF0001/GenInfo/HonDeg00-01_6.8.01.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720062332/http://www.iss.uab.edu/FF0001/GenInfo/HonDeg00-01_6.8.01.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 July 2011|title=UAB - Office of Institutional Effectiveness & Analysis - Home|author=Jaime Hudson|publisher=Iss.uab.edu|accessdate=7 November 2014}}</ref>
== Work == While a co-op student at Auburn University, Logan alternated between school and working at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration outpost in Huntsville, Alabama, writing computer programs. Upon graduating, Logan did a brief stint with Shell Oil’s research division, leaving in 1970 to take a job as a data processing manager for Progressive Farmer (later renamed Southern Progress Corporation).<ref>{{cite news| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n20_v23/ai_15891167/ | work=Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management | title=Logan's run - Time Inc.'s Don Logan - Interview | first=Lambeth | last=Hochwald | year=1994}}</ref>
===Southern Progress Corporation=== After working in data processing for two years, Logan was promoted to vice president and general manager of Akra Data, the computer division. He then went on to be named president of the book publishing division of SPC, Oxmoor House, in 1978, and in 1984 became executive vice president of the company. In 1986, Time Inc. acquired the company, and Logan was promoted to chairman and chief executive officer of SPC. He was CEO when the author Harry Middleton worked there. The largest regional magazine and book publishing company in the country, SPC publishes ''Southern Living'', ''Cooking Light'', ''Health'' and ''Coastal Living'' magazines and Oxmoor House books, and it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc.<ref>[http://www.magazine.org/EVENTS/awards/lifetime_achievement_awards/2825.aspx] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090820183229/http://www.magazine.org/EVENTS/awards/lifetime_achievement_awards/2825.aspx |date=August 20, 2009 }}</ref>
===Time Inc.=== Six years after Logan’s promotion to CEO at SPC, he moved to New York to serve as president and chief operating officer of Time Inc. In August 1994, two years after moving to New York to work with Time Inc., Logan was named chief executive officer, later taking on the additional title of chairman in July 1997. Under his direction, Time Inc. experienced 11 straight years of earnings growth.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://uanews.ua.edu/anews2004/oct04/cishall101204.htm |title=University of Alabama News |access-date=2009-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705131637/http://www.uanews.ua.edu/anews2004/oct04/cishall101204.htm |archive-date=2008-07-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2002, Logan became chairman of AOL Time Warner's Media and Communications Group, overseeing America Online, Time Inc., Time Warner Cable, the AOL Time Warner Book Group and Interactive Video Unit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/academy/d_logan.html|title=Welcome to the Alabama Academy of Honor|publisher=Archives.state.al.us|accessdate=7 November 2014|archive-date=7 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141107200434/http://www.archives.state.al.us/famous/academy/d_logan.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He retired from Time Warner in 2005.<ref name="blog.al.com"/>
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