Scott Karp, CEO
Scott Karp is the co-founder and CEO of Publish2, Inc. He is also Editor & Publisher of Publishing 2.0, a widely-read and respected blog that takes an incisive look at how technology is transforming media. Folio: magazine named Scott one of the 40 most influential people in publishing for 2007. Scott was previously the Director of Digital Strategy for Atlantic Media, publisher of The Atlantic, one of the oldest and most respected media brands in the world (2007 was The Atlantic’s 150th anniversary). Before joining Atlantic Media, he was with the D.C. strategic research firm, The Advisory Board, and prior to that, The Princeton Review. Email: scott.karp (at) publish2 (dot) com.
Steven Sweet, CTO
Steven Sweet is the CTO of Publish2, Inc. He focuses on dynamically aligning Publish2’s technology, ensuring it leads and precedes its market. Steven has led the development of global, multilingual editorial and content management systems, ensuring editorial best practices are fully implemented with next generation Internet publishing technology. Steven was previously the Managing Director, Information Technology of Atlantic Media, Corporate CTO of News World Communications and its subsidiaries, and CIO of United Press International, and also led new media development for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers and Copley Press.
Robert Young, Chairman
Robert Young is the co-founder & Executive Chairman of Publish2, Inc. Robert is an entrepreneur, market disruptor, and dealmaker. His career as a disruptor began when he played an instrumental role in launching the first nationwide consumer ISP, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. (negotiating the first M&A deal between an Internet company and a traditional media giant). Robert then proceeded to disrupt Madison Ave by launching the first company to be based solely on Internet advertising, where he also invented “Pay-Per-Click” advertising, organized the industry’s first Internet ad sales force, and invented “free e-mail.” Robert also ran one of the largest consumer online (social networking) communities on the web. Robert is currently a board member of SocialVibe, and is a widely-read blogger who has written for GigaOM, ZDNet, and can now be found at Publishing 2.0. Email: robert (dot) young (at) publish2 (dot) com.
Jonathan Miller
Jon is a digital media veteran known for his strategic and operational expertise and is a founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group. From 2002 to 2006, Jon served as Chairman and CEO of AOL. He was brought in to architect an industry-defining turnaround. He restructured the company’s core business lines, focused the company on online advertising, including completing the highly successful 2004 acquisition of Advertising.com. Through his leadership, AOL delivered record annual profit growth of 21 percent and increased its online advertising growth, the centerpiece of the new business model, by 46 percent. Previously, Jon was CEO and President of USA Information and Services, now IACI and Expedia (the company split in two in 2005). Through both acquisitions and migrating business models to become digitally focused, USA/IACI built industry-leading positions in such areas as online travel, ticketing, and electronic retailing. Prior to USA/IACI, Jon was Managing Director of Nickelodeon International, a unit of Viacom’s MTV Networks.
Jon received his B.A. with honors from Harvard College. He serves on the Board of the American Film Institute and serves as a trustee of both Emerson College and WNYC Public Radio in New York.
Board positions include Idearc Media, Premier Exhibitions, as well as several others.
Ross Levinsohn
Over the past 20 years, Ross had been on the forefront of media innovation and transformation. In 2004, he was tapped by News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch to devise the digital strategy for the company. In executing that plan, he helped transform the company to become the global leader amongst its peers in the digital media space through dynamic investments and strategic management, including the acquisitions of Myspace and IGN.com, which helped vault the company to create a digital powerhouse. He also oversaw the acquisitions of Askmen.com, Scout.com, Newroo, KSolo, amongst others.
As President of Fox Interactive Media, Ross managed all day-to-day operations for the company from its inception until December 2006. Under his leadership, the FOX Network of sites became one of the largest on the Internet with record setting growth with more than 140 million monthly users. He also oversaw a partnership with Google, which will yield the company nearly $1 billion in advertising from the search and monetization leader.
Previously, Ross served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Fox Sports Interactive Media. In this role, he oversaw the online, wireless and broadband presence for Fox Sports. Earlier in his career, Ross held senior management positions with AltaVista Network, an early pioneer and leader in search, CBS Sportsline, where he oversaw all content and development for the top rated sports site and pay cable giant HBO. He also spent time in advertising at Saatchi and Saatchi and in sports management and marketing with ProServ and Lapin and Rose Communications.
Ross currently serves on the board of music leader Napster.com, storage and media management leader Fabrik, Inc., Virtual World innovator VSIDE, and one of the leading Internet holding companies in India, Fuse+Media.
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com and writes a new media column for The Guardian. He is Associate Professor and Director of the Interactive Journalism Program at the City University of New York’s new Graduate School of Journalism. Until 2005, he was President and Creative Director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, Jeff was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist at the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune; reporter for Chicago Today. He frequently consults for media companies and is a consulting editor of Daylife. He is writing a book, WWGD? - What Would Google Do? — for Harper-Collins.
Luke Beatty
Luke Beatty is the Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Associated Content, Inc. Known as “The People’s Media Company”, Associated Content is the market’s leading platform for anyone to publish their content in any format on any topic and then distributes that content to engaged audiences through its own website and content partners. Those who contribute to Associated Content’s ad-supported collection of original text, video, audio and images gain exposure and often earn cash for their participation. Prior to AC, Luke was on the executive management team at WAND, Inc., a leading developer of online directory, search and advertising taxonomies and technologies. Luke has offered his expertise in consumer driven multi-media content, social networking, contextual advertising models and online media collection and distribution strategies at numerous conferences and events held by InfoCommerce, YPPA, Venture Capital in the Rockies, among many others. In 2007, Luke was selected as one of the Denver Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40″, a list that celebrates 40 Denver top business leaders under the age of 40.
Howard Weaver
Howard Weaver is the Vice President, News at The McClatchy Company . With its recent acquisition of Knight-Ridder, McClatchy is one of the largest news organizations in the U.S., publishing 31 daily and more than 50 community newspapers, related websites and other businesses. Howard has spent more than 25 years in a variety of posts with McClatchy, including editor of the Anchorage Daily News and as editor of the editorial pages at The Sacramento Bee. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and has six times served as a Pulitzer Prize juror. He also serves on the Board of Visitors of the Knight Fellowships at Stanford. Howard twice led the Anchorage Daily News to Pulitzer Prizes; he wrote the stories for which the paper won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service, and was editor and a lead writer on the project for which the paper again won the prize in 1989. He was one of three reporters whose coverage of the Alaska Teamsters Union during construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline won the award in 1976. In 1989, the paper won for its coverage of alcoholism and suicide among Alaska Natives. Howard blogs at Etaoin Shrdlu.
Howard Owens
Howard Owens was named the Director of Digital Publishing for GateHouse Media, Inc. in September of 2006. He has been a journalist for more than two decades. He’s been a daily and weekly reporter and editor, as well as a community news publisher. In 1995, he co-founded East County Online, the first web site in the U.S. serving a group of weekly newspapers. Between 1999 and 2005, he worked for the Ventura County Star, becoming director of new media in 2004. The Star won numerous awards for its web sites during those six years, including a General Excellence award from the Online News Association. In 2005, Howard was named VP of Interactive Media for the Bakersfield Californian. Howard is a member of the NAA’s Digital Media Federation board of directors and serves as the chair of the Federation’s audience development committee, and is a member of the NAA’s audience development committee. Howard blogs about newspapers on the web at howardowens.com.
Jack Lail
Jack Lail is Managing Editor/MultiMedia for The Knoxville News Sentinel, whose primary sites are knoxnews.com and GoVolsXtra.com. He has spent 14 years developing successful editorial and business models for digital news products, beginning with a newspaper operated dial up bulletin board system. Due to his knack for hiring extremely talented people, the News Sentinel’s sites have won numerous national and regional awards and are considered among the more innovative newspaper-run Web sites. He is past board member of the Newspaper Association of America’s Digital Media Federation. Before focusing on digital strategies, Lail held various reporting and editing positions with the Knoxville newspaper and small dailies in his native North Carolina. He writes a personal blog at jacklail.com.
Beth Parke
Beth Parke is executive director of the Society of Environmental Journalists, an educational membership organization of more than 1400 journalists, educators and students in the US and 32 other countries. Founded in 1990, SEJ works to improve the quality, accuracy and visibility of news reporting on environment-related issues through programs and services designed by journalists, primarily for journalists. Parke also serves on the executive committee of the Council of National Journalism Organizations. Prior to joining SEJ she produced, hosted and syndicated award-winning radio series as well as programming for National Public Radio affiliates in Philadelphia and Boston. Parke earned her B.A. from Boston College and her M.A. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania where she studied with the legendary George Gerbner and Robert Louis Shayon. Always a futurist, Parke’s 1979 thesis studied the feasibility of an audience driven video delivery system. She believes in the future of public service journalism and its essential value to local audiences worldwide.
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