director of writing programs; director of the weekend master's in interactive journalism, School of Communication
Area of Expertise:
Journalism; newspapers; digital media; new media landscape, writing, media entrepreneurship, future of journalism
Additional Information:
Amy Eisman   is one of the founding editors of   USA Today, former executive editor of USA Weekend  magazine, and  former managing editor of content at AOL.  A veteran trainer and educator, she was cochair of the online news association 2010 conference in Washington, D.C. She created an online course in the School of Communication called Media@ the Millennium, which explores the influences of technology, business, audience, and bias on journalism.  She trains journalists in Web writing and content, holding sessions for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and Moscow, for Voice of America, washingtonpost.com, World Resources Institute, wtopnews.com, and for the Diversity Institute of the Freedom Forum in Nashville, Tenn.  A frequent panelist, she is the coauthor of multimedia online training modules for Gannett and for citizen journalists. She was a Fulbright lecturer at Moscow State University in summer 2004 and returned to Russia in 2011 as a guest speaker invited by the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok. She often is called upon as a judge, including for Knight-Batten awards, White House Correspondents Association awards, and the Knight News Challenge.
Foreign Language Fluency:
n/a
Academic Credentials:
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MA, СÀ¶ÊÓƵ
Category:
Journalism, Media Issues, Technology-Communication Technology, Technology-Social Media