Michael Bradley is the editor and publisher of The Bradley Report.

Bradley lives on Cape Cod in an old family home with his wife, Lucia Fulco, a local government official. He and his wife have two ‘young adult’ children, one of whom is a high school teacher and the other of whom has  recently graduated college.

He began his interesting and unusual career in the newspaper business in 1964, shortly after high school, as a district circulation manager for a daily newspaper group with some 100,000 circulation. While succeeding in that position, he became interested in editorial work and began preparing himself for a move to the news department. In 1968 he was a staff reporter for a respected, family owned daily newspaper north of Boston. He left that newspaper in 1973 as a community editor to assume overall editorial control of a prize-winning, paid circulation twice-weekly newspaper. After leading that newspaper to a greater level of effectiveness and market presence, Bradley left to form his own publishing company.

Mr. Bradley’s publishing company produced a regional trade publication, a strong weekly newspaper, and local marketing programs for Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and Sports Illustrated.

After concluding those publishing enterprises, Mike Bradley returned to Cape Cod and created a five-newspaper division for MPG Communications in Plymouth, MA. Following the successful completion of that project, Bradley initiated a career as a Publisher’s Consultant.

Mike Bradley continues to serve independent newspaper publishers throughout New England and New York, handling projects in management, editorial, advertising, production and circulation, and in print negotiations. Bradley offers newspaper publishers a full range of services, from recruiting and training to problem solving and general management assistance. 

 He notes that "often a publisher has a plan in mind, either to solve a problem or to develop a new edition or a new paper, but he or she can’t afford to hire an executive for $75,000 to $100,000 or more a year to implement the plan, therefore the publisher can engage me to put the process together and train the existing staff. Once that is done, the publisher can promote from within, at less cost, and I’m gone."

Mr. Bradley also serves as a newspaper broker, affiliated with the W.B. Grimes & Co., based in Maryland. Bradley represents newspaper owners in New England.

Bradley is a cum laude graduate of Suffolk University in Boston, with a degree in journalism.