Maddy Corson, former media executive and philanthropist, dies at 87

Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine donor Maddy Corson talks with attendees at an event to announce details about the museum’s fundraising campaign and reveal plans for its new building under construction at Thompson’s Point in February 2020. Brianna Soukup/Staff Photographer

Portland Press Herald

Maddy Corson, former media executive and philanthropist, dies at 87

PORTLAND — She was the executive who gave hugs to all her employees. The fierce advocate for family-owned businesses even after she sold her own. The generous benefactor who delighted in introducing children to the arts, especially theater.

Madeleine G. “Maddy” Corson, the granddaughter of Maine media mogul Guy P. Gannett who oversaw the state’s largest news publishing company in the 1990s and was a prominent philanthropist and civic leader, died Monday.

She was 87.

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