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April 2008 Janice Castro to share candid views of new media |
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 Janice Castro |
On April 19, IWPA will present interactive media expert Janice Castro, whose byline is known throughout the world.
A reporter, writer, and editor at Time magazine for more than 20 years, Ms. Castro won awards for science and business reporting. She also headed Time’s interactive operations for five years, where her news team produced one of the first daily news blogs starting in 1993. While running Time’s interactive operations, which included managing partnerships with Yahoo!, America Online, Apple and Microsoft, she also supervised online news for People, Fortune, Money, Life, Entertainment Weekly, and other Time Warner sites. Her online teams won numerous journalism awards, including the top new media honors from Editor & Publisher, the Society for News Design, and the White House Press Photographers Association.
A founding editor of Discover magazine, Ms. Castro participated in several other Time Inc. magazine startups and launched several Time Warner Web sites. She has written for news, finance, science, business, and entertainment magazines. |
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She is the author of The American Way of Health (Little, Brown, 1994). She was the founding editorial director of Britannica.com, the Web site from Encyclopedia Britannica that outpaced all editorial based Web sites except CNN.com and MSMBC.com in its first year, winning awards for editorial excellence and innovation.
Ms. Castro has served as vice president and board member of the Online News Association and the Overseas Press Club of America, and on the boards of Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Women’s Media Group in New York. She co-chairs the board committee on New Media for the Inland Press Assn., which represents more than 900 member newspapers. She co-authored the Consumer Reports WebWatch media credibility guidelines. She joined the Medill School of Journalism faculty at Northwestern University in 2000, where she is the Senior Director of Graduate Education and Teaching Excellence. She teaches new media, media management, reporting and magazine publishing. She is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Chicago Headline Club, the Overseas Press Club, the Online News Association, among others. She is a graduate of National-Louis University and the Advanced Executive Program at the Kellogg School of Business / Medill Media Management Center. |
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