MediaShift

Executive Editor

Mark Glaser

Mark Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review, and he still writes the OPA Intelligence Report email newsletter for the Online Publishers Association. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization.

Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column.

Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his son, Julian. He is politically liberal, but tries to hew to moderate and unified views in his writing. He does not own specific stocks of publicly traded companies (only mutual funds), and tries to disclose all conflicts of interest.

Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour" (including on Oct. 29, 2008) NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the Indiana Collegiate Press Association's annual meeting at Ball State University. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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Associate Editor

Mike Rosen-Molina

Michael Rosen-Molina is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley schools of journalism and law. He previously worked with the Fairfield Daily Republic in Fairfield, Calif., and JURIST legal news services. His freelance writing has appeared in the East Bay Express, the East Bay Monthly, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Associate Blogger

Simon Owens

Simon Owens is a 24-year-old newspaper journalist. Born in Texas, he has also lived in Illinois and Pennsylvania and graduated from Shippensburg University in 2006 with a degree in English. He blogs at Bloggasm.com.

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Lebanon Correspondent

Jessica Dheere

Jessica Dheere is a freelance journalist and media consultant in Beirut. She directs the Social Media Exchange, which provides training to civil society actors in the strategic use of social media for social change, and also teaches workshops in online and citizen journalism in the Journalism Training Program at the American University of Beirut. She is the Lebanon correspondent for MediaShift.

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Government Correspondent

Mark Drapeau

Mark Drapeau is a biological scientist and government consultant. He has a B.S. and Ph.D. in animal behavior, conducted postdoctoral research on complex genomic and neural systems, and has published writing in Science, Nature, Genome Research, American Scientist, the New York Times, the Washington Times, and other venues.  He is also a contributing writer to Mashable on government and social technology. These views are his own and do not represent the official views of the National Defense University, the U.S. Department of Defense, or any other part of the U.S. Government. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Africa Correspondent

Sokari Ekine

Sokari Ekine is an activist with a background in human rights in Africa. She presently works with The Global Women's Strike and Kabissa: Space for Change in Africa. Sokari blogs at Black Looks, Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine and Niger Delta Solidarity Campaign. She is the African correspondent for MediaShift.

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Music Correspondent

Jason Feinberg

Jason Feinberg is the president and founder of On Target Media Group, an entertainment industry new media marketing and promotion company. Jason is responsible for business development, formulation and management of online marketing campaigns, and media relations with over 1,000 websites and media outlets. The company has served clients including Warner Bros. Records, Universal Music Enterprises, EMI, Concord Music Group, Roadrunner Records, and others with an artist roster that includes The Rentals, Thin Lizzy, Sammy Hagar, Primus, Poncho Sanchez, Ringo Starr, Chick Corea, and many more. Jason started his music career in college radio as Music Director of KUNV, and currently teaches at Musicians Institute in the Music Business Program.

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Print Correspondent

Michael Josefowicz

Michael Josefowicz has been in the world of print for 40 years, including 35 managing the print brokerage he cofounded with his wife. Then 7 years at Parsons, where he started a Publishing Center and taught production and project management to designers.  On the way, he got involved in both successful and not successful dot-coms, including chapbooks.com that produced paperback books of student writing for teachers in the classroom. In 2001, he worked at Grow Networks that was purchased by McGraw-Hill.

He is now semi-retired and is blogging at Print In the Communication Ecology and Tough Love for Xerox. Michael graduated from Columbia College in 1967 with an AB in sociology and did graduate work in demography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1968.

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Israel Correspondent

Jaron Gilinsky

Jaron Gilinsky is a journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Jerusalem. Jaron is the founder and editor of Falafel TV, a breakthrough Middle East video cooperative. As a freelance video correspondent for Current TV, CNN World Report, and the New York Times, he has produced and directed scores of documentaries on a range of international topics. Jaron regularly posts his videos and articles on his personal blog. He is the Israel correspondent for MediaShift.

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PR Correspondent

Mark Hannah

Mark Hannah has spent the past several years conducting sensitive public affairs campaigns for well-known multinational corporations, major industry organizations and influential non-profits. He specializes in issues and reputation management online. Before joining the PR agency world (v-Fluence Interactive and Edelman), Mark worked for the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign as a member of the national advance staff. He's more recently conducted advance work for the Obama-Biden campaign. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America and a fellow at the Society for New Communications Research, and he serves as an awards judge for both organizations. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he's currently pursuing a master's in strategic communications at Columbia University. He is an independent communications consultant based in New York City and the public relations correspondent for MediaShift. You can reach him at markphannah[at]gmail[dot]com.

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Alfred Hermida

Alfred Hermida is an online news pioneer and journalism educator. He is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, the University of British Columbia, where he leads the integrated journalism program. He was a founding news editor of the BBC News website. He blogs at Reportr.net. He is the UBC embed for MediaShift.

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Print Correspondent

Michael Josefowicz

Michael Josefowicz spent 30 years at Red Ink Productions, a boutique print production brokerage he co-founded which served New York-based design studios and non-profit organizations. He came out of retirement to teach production at Parsons The New School for Design for the next 7 years. He now blogs about print at Print in the Communication Ecology and about the digital printing industry at Tough Love for Xerox.

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Roland Legrand

Roland Legrand is in charge of Internet and new media at Mediafin, the publisher of leading Belgian business newspapers De Tijd and L'Echo. He studied applied economics and philosophy. After a brief teaching experience, he became a financial journalist working for the Belgian wire service Belga and subsequently for Mediafin. He works in Brussels, and lives in Antwerp with his wife Liesbeth. He is the Belgium embed for MediaShift.

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Free Speech Correspondent

Lucie Morillon

Lucie Morillon is the Washington, DC, director of Reporters Without Borders, an international press freedom organization. She covers press freedom issues in the U.S. and abroad and is a spokesperson for the group. She also handles advocacy work with Congress and has appeared on CNN, ABC and has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other publications. Reporters Without Borders strives to obtain the release of jailed journalists and cyber-dissidents and supports an independent media and the free flow of information online. Morillon is the free-speech correspondent for MediaShift.

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Beijing Correspondent

Elle Moxley

Elle Moxley is a student at the University of Missouri pursuing dual degrees in journalism and sociology. She spent two months in Beijing, China, working for the Olympic News Service at the XXIX Olympic Games. She was the Beijing correspondent for MediaShift.

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College Media Correspondent

Bryan Murley

Bryan Murley is assistant professor of new and emerging media at Eastern Illinois University, where he advises dennews.com, the online site for the student newspaper. He is also the director for innovation at the Center for Innovation in College Media, where he leads the weblog Innovation in College Media.

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Legal Correspondent

Jeffrey D. Neuburger

Jeffrey D. Neuburger is a partner in the New York office of Proskauer Rose LLP, and co-chair of the Technology, Media and Communications Practice Group. His practice focuses on technology and media-related business transactions and counseling of clients in the utilization of new media. He is an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law teaching E-Commerce Law and the co-author of two books, "Doing Business on the Internet" and "Emerging Technologies and the Law." He also co-writes the New Media & Technology Law Blog and is the legal correspondent for MediaShift.

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Tim Peek

Tim Peek is the executive producer for new media at NBC News's Peacock Productions. He runs a digital production studio, NBC NextMedia Productions, oversees the high school news program Channel One News, and works to introduce new content types and workflows across NBC News. A 12-year veteran of NBC, Peek began his work there at "Dateline NBC." He's also worked as a newspaper editor and radio news reporter. He is an NBC embed for MediaShift.

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Julie Posetti

Julie Posetti is an award winning journalist and journalism academic who lectures in radio and television reporting at the University of Canberra, Australia. She's been a national political correspondent, a regional news editor, a TV documentary reporter and presenter on radio and television with the Australian national broadcaster, the ABC. Her academic research centers on talk radio, public broadcasting, political reporting and broadcast coverage of Muslims post-9/11. She blogs at J-Scribe and you can follow her on Twitter here.

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Alana Taylor

Alana Taylor is a junior at New York University, double-majoring in journalism and history with a strong interest in film, entertainment, new media and technology. She currently manages her own blog, and works part-time for both Classic Media Inc. -- a production company/distributor of family programming -- and Mashable, the world's most popular social networking blog.

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Spotlight Correspondent

Megan Taylor

Megan Taylor is a web journalist whose work focuses on combining traditional and computer-assisted information-gathering with multimedia production to create news packages online. Megan tells stories in English, HTML/CSS/, ActionScript, PHP, photos, video and audio, and blogs at her personal site. She writes the regular MediaShift Innovation Spotlight features.

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Mobile Correspondent

Katrin Verclas

Katrin Verclas is a mobile industry analyst focusing on the social sector. She is the co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org, a global network of practitioners using mobile phones for social impact. She is also a principal at Calder Strategies, focusing on mobile strategy, impact evaluation, effectiveness and ROI assessment, and interactive capacity building. Katrin has written widely on mobile phones in citizen participation and civil society organizations, mobile phones in health and for development. She is a co-author of "Wireless Technology for Social Change," a report on trends in mobile use by NGOs with the UN Foundation and Vodafone Group Foundation, and author of "A Mobile Voice: The Use of Mobile Phones in Citizen Media." She blogs at MobileActive.org and is the mobile correspondent for MediaShift.

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