“We’re delighted to welcome Jon to our team,” said Younis. “He has many years of media experience on Guam and in the Northern Marianas, experience and contacts that will be of great benefit to our organization.”
“I’m excited about this,” Anderson stated. “The Marianas Variety is one of the fastest growing media outlets on Guam, plus I’ve known Abed and Paz Younis and their family for nearly 40 years. After many years working in broadcasting I am really looking forward to being involved with a print outlet and developing my writing skills. MV Guam has talented writers, photographers and editors. I hope to be able to match their energy and enthusiasm, and make a worthwhile contribution.”
Anderson was most recently president of Sorensen Media Group. He is a founding partner of that company, which was formed in 1980 as K-57 Radio, Inc. He launched talk radio on Guam in 1985, for 20 years hosting the K57 Radio Breakfast Show before turning the show over to Ray Gibson in 2005.
Prior to forming K57 Radio, Inc. Anderson was for four years vice president and general manager of Pacific Telestations, Inc. dba KUAM-AM-FM-TV. He also worked in the l970s as director of television operations for the Government of American Samoa and as bureau chief of the Micronesian News Service for the former Trust Territory Government, based on Saipan. He has spent more than 45 years in the Pacific Islands including Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.
In September, 2006 Anderson resigned from Sorensen Media Group to join Guam Greyhound as a spokesman for the slot machine gaming initiative, which was turned down by voters in the November election that year.
Subsequently, Anderson was assigned to Saipan as a loan officer for Bridge Capital, LLC, the parent company of Guam Greyhound.
He returned to Guam in April, 2009 to manage Bridge Capital properties until June of this year, when he resigned.
He and his wife, Mahie, toured the mainland United States in an RV for five months this year, returning to Guam in early November.
A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus, Anderson also attended American University in Washington, D.C., and Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, his hometown.
He was twice president of the Guam Press Club, and of the Guam Symphony Society, on whose board he served for 14 years. He and his wife are the parents of five children, and have three grandchildren. They live in Mongmong.
