How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age? bios Bill Adair Ahearn is a board member of ChinaWeb, the owner Bill Adair is the creator and editor of PolitiFact.com, of Hexun, a provider of financial information to which won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting individual investors in China, and a member of the this year. He also serves as the Washington Bureau business advisory council of the BlackBerry Partners Chief for the St. Petersburg Times. He has worked in Fund. A passionate friend of the arts, Ahearn is also Washington since 1997 and has covered Congress, a board member at The Kitchen, a non-profit organi- the White House, the Supreme Court, national zation dedicated to providing opportunities to artists politics, and aviation safety. Adair is the author in the media, literary and performing arts. He is a of The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Investigation, a behind-the-scenes account of how Pennsylvania, with a Bachelor of Science in the National Transportation Safety Board solved one Economics. of the biggest mysteries in aviation. He is the winner Bill Allison of the Everett Dirksen Award for Distinguished Coverage of Congress and the Society of Professional Bill Allison is the Editorial Director at the Sunlight Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi Award. Foundation. A veteran investigative journalist and editor for nonprofit media, Allison worked for the Christopher Ahearn Center for Public Integrity for nine years, where Christopher Ahearn is President of Reuters Media at he co-authored The Cheating of America with Thomson Reuters, where he oversees the publishing Charles Lewis, and was senior editor of The Buying and distribution of news and information services to of the President 2000, and co-editor of the New media and business professionals. Reuters Media is York Times bestseller The Buying of the President a global division, which includes the News Agency 2004. He edited projects on topics ranging from and Publishing business lines. Prior to his current the role of international arms smugglers and private appointment in 2002, Ahearn was the Executive military companies in failing states around the world Vice President of the Reuters Research & Advisory to the rise of section 527 organizations in American business, where he developed the Reuters Knowledge politics. Prior to joining the Center for Public product line. Ahearn joined Reuters in 2001 from Integrity, Allison worked for eight years for the J.P. Morgan, where he held positions in LabMorgan, Philadelphia Inquirer—the last two as researcher for the technology, media and telecommunications Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Donald L. Barlett group, and the financial institutions group. Before and James B. Steele. that he worked in the financial institutions group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Joaquin Alvarado strategy when firms have private information. She Joaquin Alvarado is the Senior Vice President for advises governments and businesses on the design Diversity and Innovation at the Corporation for of auction-based marketplaces, and currently serves Public Broadcasting, where he provides strategic as a consultant to Microsoft Corporation in the role guidance and leadership for innovation and inclusion of Chief Economist, focusing on online advertising within public media and for broadening the reach markets. and diversity of its audience. In 2004, Alvarado established the National Public Lightpath as a frame- In 2007, Athey became the first female recipient of work for public media, education, and community the American Economic Association’s prestigious leadership in the future of the Internet. In 2005 John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every other year he formed San Francisco’s Digital Media Advisory to the most accomplished American economist Council and founded the Digital Sister Cities initia- under the age of 40. She is a fellow of the American tive to connect leading communities worldwide Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric in efforts to stimulate economic development, Society, and she serves as an elected member of innovation, and diversity. In 2008 he launched the Council of the Econometric Society and the CoCo Studios to develop media collaboration and Executive Committee of the American Economics information platforms for fiber networks. Association. Alvarado holds a BA in Chicano Studies from U.C. Paul Bass Berkeley and an MFA from the UCLA School of Paul Bass has covered New Haven and Connecticut Film, Television, and Digital Media. He serves as an award-winning reporter and editor for 30 years. on the Board of Directors for the Bay Area Video He is currently the executive director of the not-for- Coalition, the California Council for the Humani- profit Online Journalism Project and the editor of ties, CineGrid, TechSoup Global, and Latino Public its daily news site, the New Haven Independent. He Broadcasting. is also a lecturer in the political science department at Yale University, teaching courses on new media Susan Athey and politics and on New Haven’s urban renewal Susan Athey is a Professor of Economics at Harvard experience. He is the co-author of Murder in the University. She received her Bachelor of Science Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, & The degree from Duke University and her PhD in Eco- Redemption of A Killer (Basic Books 2006). nomics from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. She joined the Harvard faculty in 2006, Mark Bide after teaching at MIT for six years and at Stanford Mark Bide is the Project Director of the Automated for five. Her current research focuses on auction Content Access Protocol project (ACAP), and a theory, the design of auction-based markets, and the Director of Rightscom, the specialist London-based statistical analysis of auction data. She is an expert media consultancy. He is also the Executive Director in several fields of economics — including industrial of EDItEUR, the global trade standards organization organization, econometrics, and microeconomic for the book and journal supply chains. He has theory — and has used game theory to examine firm worked in and around the publishing industry for 2 How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age? nearly 40 years, and was a Director of the European Jim Brady subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Jim Brady currently is working to launch a local, Wiley & Sons, before becoming a consultant early Washington, D.C. news web site for Allbritton in the 1990s. Since that time, Bide has been closely Communications. Most recently, he was a involved in media standardization strategies and the consultant for Guardian American. Brady served design and management of standards for identifica- as Executive Editor of washingtonpost.com from tion and metadata, with a particular focus on the November 2004 to January 2009. During his management of copyright on the network. He is tenure as Executive Editor, washingtonpost.com a Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts won a national Emmy award for its Hurricane London. Katrina coverage, a Peabody Award for its “Being a Black Man” series, an Editor & Publisher award for Mike Bloxham Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site, two Mike Bloxham has worked in media research and Digital Edge awards for Best Overall News Site, a consulting for 20 years, advising multi-national cor- Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, porations, media owners and government agencies two Scripps Howard Foundation National Journal- on strategic marketing and communications issues. ism Awards, four Edward R. Murrow Awards for His clients have included Microsoft, Cablevision, Best Non-Broadcast Affiliated Web Site, and more BSkyB, Le Monde, Procter & Gamble, MTVEurope than 100 White House News Photographers video and the British Government. He has extensive at- awards. Brady began his online journalism career at titudinal and behavioral research experience, and has The Post’s Digital Ink new media subsidiary in April worked on key projects in iTV, interactive marketing 1995, and was on washingtonpost.com’s launch and advertising, user segmentation, usability, and team in 1996. After serving as the Web site’s Sports media lifestyle profiling with an emphasis on interac- Editor and Assistant Managing Editor for News, he tive and emerging media platforms. moved to America Online in 1999. In 2003, Bloxham became Director, Insight & He spent four years at AOL, serving as Group Research (I&R) at Ball State University’s Center for Programming Director, News and Sports, Executive Media Design, a consumer and content-oriented Director, Editorial Operations, and Vice President, Digital Media R&D facility. His I&R team has Production & Operations. Prior to his first stint at become known for ground-breaking work in obser- washingtonpost.com, he was a sportswriter at The vational research into consumer media consumption Washington Post from 1987 to 1995. and measurement, and is currently working in emerging media research, eye tracking and advanced Steven Brill usability testing. He has been a featured speaker Steven Brill was the CEO of Verified Identity Pass, at marketing, new media and research conferences an airport security fast pass provider, until he stepped internationally. He also writes regularly for Media away from an active role in the company to lay the magazine and for MediaPost. groundwork for Journalism Online, LLC. For the last eight years, Brill has also taught a seminar for aspiring journalists at Yale College. In 2006, Brill 3 and his wife Cynthia expanded that seminar by Christopher Callahan endowing the Yale Journalism Initiative, an array Christopher Callahan is the founding Dean of the of non-fiction writing activities, career counseling Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass services and supported internships aimed at channel- Communication at Arizona State University. He ing Yale students into the profession. Since 2007, came to ASU in August 2005 from the University Brill has provided significant support to a grant of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, from the Knight Foundation aimed at establishing a where he served as Associate Dean.