Informal Resume

Currently

Senior Director – Advanced Digital Innovation Group

• Advanced Digital brought me in to do in-house incubation and innovation. We created a new division just working on new products to find new audience.

Public Speaking

• A not so comprehensive list of my public speaking

Executive Producer – AJ Plus

• Oct. 2014 – Nov. 2015: Part of Al-Jazeera’s research and development arm to turn a broadcast company into a 21st century digital operation

Founding Editor – Circa

• 2012 – 2014: Founding editor and Chief Content Officer of Circa

Spot.Us

• Director and founder 2007-2012

Event Organizer

• I have organized dozens of events over the years from NewsTools 2008 at Yahoo,
• Networked Journalism Summits at CUNY
• Hardly Strictly Young – Reynolds Journalism Institute at University of Missouri
• TechRaking 1 – Center for Investigative Reporting at Google
• Program Chair for ONA 2012 – Online News Association
• I have also organized Barcamps, Public Media Camps and other open space events.

Lecturer – UC Berkeley

• UC Berkeley School of Journalism – Full Time Lecturer 2011-2012

Journalism Fellow

• Reynolds Institute of Journalism Fellow 2010-2011. I continue to work on Spot.Us.

NewAssignment.Net

• Director of distributed reporting.

Beat Blogging

• Lead blogger
• Left to start Spot.Us but remained an adviser

OffTheBus.Net – a project of Huffington Post

• NewAssignment.Net Associate/Editor

Broowaha

• Founding Editor and Chief of a citizen journalism Network.
• Has stepped down and is now a regular editor along with several other volunteers.

NewsTrust.Net

• Contributing editor – now a member of the nonprofit board.

Assignment Zero

• Associate Editor

Freelance Writing

• Wired
• New York Times
• Seed Magazine (SCROLL DOWN)
• Columbia Journalism Review
• Personal Democracy Forum
• Sacramento Bee
• L Magazine
• Miscellaneous publications
• Neiman Reports
• Daily Californian From my college days

Adviser to

• Matter.vc, NPR 2011 Ethics Committee, Society for Professional Journalists Ethics Committee 2014, ThankThis.com, Publish2.com, NewsWire21, CoPress, SF Public-Press, De Anza Community College Journalism Program, SXSW Accelerator Competition, NewsTrust.Net (TruthSquad) Global Editor’s Network and anyone that contacts me.

 

In Other Media

• Propeller.com – was a professional social bookmarker for AOL’s community news portal. Also ranked 37th on Digg when that meant something.
• Public Speaking
• Quoted In the News