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Gebbie Press. We're not the
new kids on the block.
In our fifty years of serving the professional
public relations field, Gebbie Press has earned a
reputation for providing a quality product at a
cost-effective price. We are both well-known and
respected by our peers. Our directories are in use
at thousands of universities, PR, marketing and advertising firms,
public libraries, all branches of local, state and
federal government, major corporations, associations,
hospitals, non-for-profit organizations and, in short,
any entity that needs to publicize their products or
services.
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A brief fifty year history...
Gebbie Press was founded by Conley Gebbie, former PR man for
Shell Oil and Pan Am Airlines in New York City in 1955. His first
directory was called the Gebbie Press House Magazine Directory,
which listed company-published magazines (now they are called
House Organs) and was designed for freelance writers and
photographers, who used it to find places to sell their stories
and pictures to. His office was based on West 48th street in
New York City. It was frequented by many writers and photographers
because he had on display (hung up by their corners along all the office walls)
a copy of nearly every House Magazine published at the time.
In 1971, he sold that directory to the National Research Bureau in
Burlington, Iowa. His next idea was to publish a directory of all the print
and broadcast media in the United States. There were several companies
who published guides to newspapers, lists of magazines and radio station
directories, but no one had ever (nor to this day have they!)
organized all the media outlets in one compact volume. He called it
the Gebbie Press All-In-One Media Directory, for obvious reasons.
In 1974, just three years after the first edition, Con Gebbie died of
cancer. His wife, Amalia Gebbie, former advertising manager
at Bloomingdale's in NYC, took over researching and publishing the
directory. She too would pass away, leaving me...
Mark Gebbie, son of Conley and Amalia Gebbie. When my father died,
I became the Associate Editor of Gebbie Press at the age of eighteen.
I was attending the S.I. Newhouse School of Journalism at Syracuse University
when he died. When my mother passed, I became both the Editor and
Publisher of Gebbie Press and have been so doing for
more than thirty years now.
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