#4 – Steve Buttry, Digital First Media, Part 1

When you talk about digital-first newsrooms, one of the first names that’ll come up is Steve Buttry’s. Buttry is currently the director of community engagement and social media for Digital First Media newsroom at the Journal Register Company, which has daily and weekly newspapers in nearly 1,000 communities in 10 states. “Clearly there’s a demand…

#3 – Pam Maples & Anthony Moor, ONA Conference co-chairs

The Online News Association’s annual conference has been a mirror to the shifts and tremors of the journalism industry meeting the Internet. In 2002, the few hundred people who attended the conference learned about transforming the newsroom with “really cool Flash applications,” said ONA 2012 co-chair Anthony Moor. That interest in newsroom transformation is still…

#2: Ethan Klapper, Huffington Post

Ethan Klapper is a political and social media junkie. So, with the 2012 presidential election heating up, the Rye, N.Y., native is in the thick of things as Huffington Post’s social media editor for politics. “What goes out on social media is really becoming part of the story itself,” Klapper said. “And I do sincerely…

#1 – Amy Eisman leads new program in media entrepreneurship

  Amy Eisman is a journalism educator and former editor. Currently, she is the director of the MA in Media Entrepreneurship program, launched in 2012, and the 13-year-old MA in Interactive Journalism at American University, from which the three founders of It’s All Journalism graduated. Previously, Eisman was the AU School of Communications’ director of…