Speaker Biographies

Stewart Alsop

Stewart Alsop is a general partner in New Enterprise Associates venture capitalists. He joined NEA in June 1996 as a venture partner and became a general partner in 1998. He focuses on the information technology area. He is also a columnist for Fortune magazine. He is currently on the boards of 2Bridge, Be Inc., Egreetings Network Inc., FullAudio Inc., Garageband.com Inc., Hiwire Inc., HotDispatch Inc., Netcentives Inc., PhotoTablet Inc., TiVo Inc., Visto Corporation and Xigo Inc.

Prior to NEA, he served as executive vice president of InfoWorld Publishing Company Inc. which publishes InfoWorld. He also founded Industry Publishing Company, the publisher of a fortnightly newsletter for computer industry insiders and producer of the Agenda and Demo conferences for executives of companies in the computer industry. Before 1985, he served in several executive editorial positions at business and trade magazines, including Inc. magazine. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Occidental College.

John Battelle

John Battelle is chairman and CEO of Standard Media International ("The Standard"), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com, the most comprehensive sources for critical and timely services and information about the Internet Economy. The Standard also produces numerous executive conferences, such as The Global Summit, The Internet Summit and NetReturns.

In his career, Battelle has been responsible for or involved in the launch of more than 30 magazines and Web sites, including more than a dozen in international markets. He was recently named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as well as a finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year.

Prior to joining The Standard, he served as founding managing editor of Wired magazine, where he worked for five years in various senior management positions. Formerly, he served as general assignment reporter for the Los Angeles Times and senior writer for MacWeek.

He holds a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He also serves on numerous award juries and academic and corporate advisory boards.

Charlie Buchwalter

Charlie Buchwalter brings more than 20 years of information services experience to his role as vice president of media research for the AdRelevance unit of Jupiter Media Metrix. In addition to overseeing AdRelevance's "Intelligence" series of online advertising market reports, he is responsible for a team that performs custom analysis of Media Metrix and AdRelevance data for Jupiter Media Metrix's largest customers.

As the primary spokesperson for the AdRelevance unit, leading newspapers and journals regularly seek him out for perspectives on trends in the online advertising market. In addition to regular appearances in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Week and other publications, he has appeared on CNN MoneyLine, CNBC, Digital Jam and other business technology broadcasts. He regularly speaks on the online advertising market at leading conferences.

He started his career with DRI/McGraw-Hill where he served as group vice president of the financial information group managing DRI's national financial services practice. After DRI, he joined CMP Publications (now CMP Media) where he worked with the management team to conceive and implement electronic publishing strategies. At ParaMarketing, he helped leading companies respond to Internet market developments, and he developed go-to-market channel strategies for the Internet business units of IBM, Digital Equipment, Novell, Oracle and Sun. He holds an M.S. degree in Natural Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Washington.

Tim Cavanaugh

Tim Cavanaugh is the special guest editor at Suck.com, a permanent position, and executive producer at Automatic Media. His work has appeared in Wired magazine, Newsday, Feed, Salon, Mother Jones, San Francisco magazine, many other Web sites too obscure to remember and many newspapers and magazines too embarrassing to mention. His pre-ironic memoir, "I Don't Mean To Say You're Stupid," will chronicle his singing family's escape from wartime Austria and name names about his days as a wisecracking Monte Carlo roué.

Neil Chase

Neil Chase is managing editor for broadband at CBSMarketwatch. He previously was an assistant professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where he taught the graduate new media sequence as well as the undergraduate news and new media course. He was also the Medill School's director of technology.

He was an electronic publishing consultant to newspapers and other media companies for several years. He helped start a joint-venture Russian-American newspaper published by Izvestia and Hearst. His background in newspapers includes experience as graphics editor, page designer and copy editor for the Arizona Republic. He was also assistant graphics editor and assistant systems editor for the San Francisco Examiner. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Michigan, where he was editor of The Michigan Daily.

Michael Cieply

Michael Cieply is West Coast editorial director for Inside. He has been a movie and television producer and was formerly chief investigative reporter covering the film industry for The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times. He co-authored "The Hearsts: Family and Empire." Prior to working at the Journal, he was a reporter for Forbes, covering businesses in the United States and in Japan.

Vin Crosbie

Vin Crosbie is president and managing partner of Digital Deliverance. The fifth generation of his family in the newspaper business, he was an executive with Reuters and the old United Press International, and was the first director of online publishing for News Corporation. He was one of the pioneers at Freemark Communications in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which invented the concept of free e-mail. He is a co-author of Internet World's Guide to Webcasting. He served on the Interactive Services Association's Ad Hoc Consumer Privacy Task Force.

He founded Digital Deliverance in 1996 to provide international publishers with strategic consulting on interactive publishing, with specific expertise in solicited ''Push'' media such as HTML E-Mail, Short Messaging Systems, WAP/PCS, E-Books, and PDF remote digital delivery & printing applications. He is acting chairman of the Electronic Book Newsstand Association, co-founder and chairman of PublishMail LLC in Boulder, Colorado, and was a founder of Paradigm-TSA.

Nick Denton

Nick Denton founded Moreover.com in 1998 and is CEO of the San Francisco-based company. For eight years prior to that he was a writer with The Economist and the Financial Times. He served as the Financial Times' investment banking correspondent during the financial collapses of the mid-1990s, before arriving in Silicon Valley as the paper's U.S. technology correspondent.

He is co-author of "All That Glitters," an account of the collapse of Barings bank in 1995. Featured in The Guardian e50 list as one of the UK's leading Internet entrepreneurs, he also played a leading role in founding First Tuesday, a networking organization for the Web community that developed into one of Europe's most closely followed start-ups, hosting events in over 80 cities around the world.

Nicholas Donatiello Jr.

Nicholas Donatiello Jr. is president and CEO of Odyssey, a market research company based in San Francisco. He has authored articles and columns for numerous publications, including Technology and Media, Marketing Computers and The Cable Television Administrators and Marketers Journal. He was selected by Newsweek as one of the "50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet," and is widely quoted as an expert on consumers and new media.

He is a director of Gemstar-TV Guide as well as numerous other companies. He earned his undergraduate degree in engineering at Princeton University and his MBA from Stanford University.

James Fallows

James Fallows is the national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, and is serving this year as a teaching fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He has worked for the Atlantic for more than 20 years and has written for a wide variety of other magazines. He now also writes a regular column for The Industry Standard magazine. His book "Free Flight," about technologies that will end "airline hell," will be published in June. He has published six other books, of which the latest is "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy." He has also worked as a presidential speechwriter, during Jimmy Carter's administration, and as editor of US News & World Report.

Katherine Fulton

Katherine Fulton is a partner with Global Business Network, a futurist think tank and consulting firm in the San Francisco Bay Area. She leads scenario, strategy and change projects for both private and public sector organizations representing such diverse areas as publishing, broadcasting, telecommunications, financial services, education, health care, consumer products and philanthropy. She has led numerous strategic conversations for newspaper companies.

Before joining GBN, Katherine co-founded a publishing company and edited its award-winning newsweekly, which won her a Southern Foundation prize, similar to a MacArthur grant, and a year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. She has also taught at Duke University, where her innovative course on the future of communications was featured in Time magazine. Her work on the future of journalism has been featured in the Columbia Journalism Review. She grew up in a newspaper family in Roanoke, Va., and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College, where she majored in history and literature and captained the women's basketball team.

Paul Grabowicz

Paul Grabowicz is adjunct professor, assistant dean and director of the New Media Program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches courses in computer assisted reporting and new media publishing, and is a staff columnist at the Online Journalism Review, writing about the Internet and its uses as a reporting tool. He is co-author of "California Inc.," a book about how the entrepreneurial spirit shaped the politics, culture and economy of California. A journalist for 27 years, he spent most of his
career as the investigative reporter at The Oakland Tribune. There he also served as night city editor and acting city editor and developed an early prototype of a Web site for the paper.

Jim Griffin

Jim Griffin is CEO of Cherry Lane Digital and a founder of Evolab. Cherry Lane is dedicated to the future of music and entertainment delivery, and works as a consultant to absorb uncertainty about the digital delivery of art. Evolab is a wireless media service company, primarily focused on wireless streaming music jukeboxes and other wireless media services.

In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in the media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for the award-winning international magazine Business 2.0, and is on the boards of companies and associations. Before starting Cherry Lane Digital, he started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an international representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C.

While at Geffen, he led a team that in June of 1994 distributed the first full-length commercial song online, by Aerosmith. Geffen was the first entertainment company to install a Web server, and Geffen World was one of the first corporate intranet sites. Geffen was named by Network World in 1996 as one of the world's top 25 technology companies, and one of only seven in the United States. He was named to the list of the 100 most important people in the music business in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, when the list was discontinued. He is one of the founders of the Pho group. Named after a bowl of Vietnamese soup, Pho is an organization that meets weekly in numerous cities around the world and is electronically linked by a mailing list. Pho's thousand-strong membership enjoys a dialogue on the digital economy in music, movies, books and all media, new and old.

He testified in July 2000 before the Senate Judiciary Committee at its oversight hearing on file sharing and music licensing. He regularly moderates video and television shows on digital entertainment. He is often a keynote speaker or moderator at conferences (Internet Summit, Giga Conference, Comdex, CES, Webnoize, and many others) and lectures annually at business schools (Harvard, USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley). He also serves as an expert witness in court cases in the area of digital entertainment and has presented many Continuing Legal Education courses. In addition to work with music, his networking expertise now includes wireless work in Europe, including a speech at Nokia's Research Center in Helsinki, Finland, and work with numerous companies in Finland and throughout Europe. He has moderated numerous panels on wireless and has given speeches on wireless issues around the world, including the MP3.com conference in San Diego and parliament meetings in Europe. He is a regular speaker at entertainment industry events and corporate and association meetings.

Katie Hafner

Katie Hafner is a New York Times reporter. She has been writing about technology since 1983. She has worked for Newsweek and Business Week, and has written for Esquire, Wired, The New York Times Magazine and The New Republic. She has published three books: "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet" (with Matthew Lyon) (Simon & Schuster, 1996); "The House at the Bridge: A Story of Modern Germany" (Scribner, 1995); and "Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier" (with John Markoff) (Simon & Schuster, 1991). Her fourth book, "The Well: Love, Death & Real Life in the Seminal Online Community" (Carroll & Graf) will be published in May.

Rick Keir

Rick Keir is the communications manager of USC's Integrated Media Systems Center, the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center for multimedia and Internet research. He has substantial experience in the newspaper field. He was the director of newspaper marketing for the National Newspaper Association, director of information services for the International Center for Journalists, publications editor of the International Newspaper Marketing Association and a reporter for the Las Vegas
Review-Journal. He has also worked in the publications field as a project director for a Washington, D.C., consulting firm.

Marion Lewenstein

Marion Lewenstein is professor of communication, emerita, at Stanford University where she has been teaching, writing, and conducting research for the last 24 years. She is the principal investigator on the Stanford-Poynter project on Internet news-reading behavior.

Before joining academia she had been a journalist with newspapers and Time Inc. for more than 20 years. Since then she has consulted for Reuters in London and New York, as well as at newspapers in the United States, China, and Italy. She helped found the California Society of Newspaper Editors and has served on committees for the American Society of Newspaper Editors and Associated Press Managing Editors Association. Aside from academic publications and a textbook, she has contributed to Presstime, APME News, and the ASNE Bulletin.

Bob Lewin

Bob Lewin is the CEO and executive director of TRUSTe, the Internet's leading privacy seal program. TRUSTe is an independent, non-profit initiative dedicated to building consumer trust and confidence in the Internet. Web sites participating in the TRUSTe program agree to abide by TRUSTe's principles of disclosure, choice, access, and security when collecting and disseminating information from users.

Before joining TRUSTe, he was vice president of marketing for ISOCOR, an Internet software and e-commerce company. He has also been a director/principal analyst for Gartner Group, where he covered collaborative computing, information security products and software distribution channels. He also served as vice president of marketing operations for the open systems consortium X/Open Company Ltd. and vice president of marketing for Digital Pathways, Inc., an information security vendor. He began his career with Hewlett-Packard, serving in various information technology, sales and marketing management positions in California and Europe.

He has spoken at numerous industry conferences on security, privacy and electronic commerce. He has written market trend articles and reports on security, privacy, software distribution channels, electronic messaging and directories. He grew up in Northern California. He has an MBA and a bachelor of science degree in Electrical Engineering.

Jane Metcalfe

Jane Metcalfe is a partner in Força, an independent investment concern with interests in technology, media, and real estate. As the former president and co-founder of Wired Ventures Inc., she created and managed, with partner Louis Rossetto, a diversified media company whose businesses included Wired magazine (U.S., UK, and Japanese editions); the online company Wired Digital Inc., (HotBot search engine, the HotWired Network of Web sites, and Wired News); Wired TV; and Wired Books Inc.

She is a board member of The Expression Center for New Media, a for-profit, total-immersion institution of higher learning in Emeryville; Ground Zero: The Art and Technology Network, a non-profit start-up formed to facilitate the creation and promotion of new media art; and One Economy Corporation, a non-profit start-up whose mission is to use technology to help low-income people participate in the new economy.

Michael S. Overing

Michael S. Overing writes the Web Gavel column for the Online Journalism Review and teaches Internet Law and Legal Communication at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He is a practicing attorney in Los Angeles County, California, and frequently assists individuals and businesses with Internet, intellectual property, and media-related legal issues and related litigation.

He received his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) in 1989, his master's degree from the University of Southern California in 1986 and his bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska in 1984.

Theta Pavis

Theta Pavis is editor and co-publisher of Technophilly, an online magazine devoted to covering the business, culture and politics of technology in the Philadelphia area. She is a freelance writer and editor whose work appears regularly in Wired News. She has written for Forbes ASAP, the Online Journalism Review and Digital Coast Reporter. Previously, she worked as a government reporter for daily newspapers. She has taught journalism and investigative reporting at UCLA's Student Media program and holds an M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Jeff Pelline

Jeff Pelline is editor of CNET News.com. Joining the technology news service prior to its September 1996 founding, Jeff served as business editor, news editor, and executive editor prior to his promotion to editor. Along the way he won several awards from the Computer Press Association and the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, while helping the newsroom grow to its present size of four bureaus and more than 70 reporters, editors, and producers. Previously he covered technology and business news for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade. Earlier, he covered business and metro news for the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, owned by Tribune Company. His work also has been published in the Chicago Tribune, New York Times and Time magazine. He has a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's in journalism from Northwestern University.

Larry Pryor

Larry Pryor directs the Online Program at USC's Annenberg School for Communication, where he is on the Journalism School faculty and is executive editor of the Online Journalism Review. He was a reporter for The Louisville Courier-Journal and then for the Los Angeles Times and held various writing and editing positions at The Times, including news editor of Times Mirror's pioneering videotex project, Gateway, in 1982 and editor of the Times' Web site in 1996. He teaches reporting and writing at USC, including a class in science and medical writing. He also writes for OJR and professional journals and, in association with USC's Integrated Media Systems Center, conducts research on immersive, 3-D technology and how it can be used to tell stories in new ways.

Louis Rossetto

Louis Rossetto was the co-founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, herald of the digital revolution and one of the most successful magazine launches of the 1990s. During the five years of his direction, Wired grew to 500,000 circulation and won two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence and one for Design.

As CEO and editorial director of Wired Ventures, Rossetto also helped invent Web media in 1994 by launching HotWired, the first Web site with original content and Fortune 500 advertising. Wired Digital's other online media properties included the HotBot search engine, Wired News, and Suck. He is a partner in Força, an independent investment concern with interests in technology, media, and real estate.

Orville Schell

Orville Schell is dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. From his days as a student of Far Eastern history at Harvard College, through his UC Berkeley master's degree and Ph.D (abd) in Chinese history, to his latest work on China, Hong Kong and Tibet, he has virtually devoted his professional life to reporting on and writing about Asia. Author of 14 books - nine about China, including "Virtual Tibet," "Mandate of Heaven," and "Discos and Democracy." He has also written widely about Asia for Wired, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, Harper's, Newsweek and other national magazines.

He is the recipient of a Guggenheim and an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship and numerous writing prizes. He has also served as correspondent and consultant for several PBS Frontline documentaries as well as an Emmy award-winning program on China for CBS' 60 Minutes.

Travis Smith

Travis Smith, editor of Variety.com, has worked in the field of online journalism since 1994. He worked for the Los Angeles Times on their "TimesLink" service offered via the Prodigy network. As deputy editorial director, he helped to launch, and then relaunch, the Times Web site. He then moved to Paris for a year's sabbatical and served as European bureau chief for the Online Journalism Review. His next position was at Pressflex, a Budapest, Hungary-based newspaper publishing ASP where was vice president of client relations. His company, Hop Studios, www.hopstudios.com, consults on Web design and implementation issues. He graduated from USC with a B.A. in Print Journalism, and he currently teaches classes for his alma mater on online journalism theory and practice.

Jane Ellen Stevens

Jane Ellen Stevens is a freelance multimedia journalist. She began her career as a copy editor at the Boston Globe, moved to the San Francisco Examiner where she was assistant foreign/national editor, a Sunday magazine writer, technology reporter and columnist. After 10 years with the Examiner, she left to start a syndicated science and technology feature news service with 20 newspaper clients worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, the Washington Post, and Asahi Shimbun's AERA magazine. For four years, she lived and worked in Kenya and Indonesia. She has written for magazines, including National Geographic, and worked for The New York Times Television as a video journalist. She has done multimedia reporting for The New York Times, Discovery Channel, and MSNBC.com. She teaches multimedia reporting at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She received a B.S. in zoology from the University of Kentucky, and an M.A. in communication from the University of Georgia.

Her Web site credits include Dispatches from the Deep for the New York Times; (www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/dive-index.html) (1997); The Dancing Rocks of Death Valley,
(www.discovery.com/stories/science/rocks/dispatch1.html); The Chilling
Fields, (www.discovery.com/exp/antarctica/antarctica.html); From the Cradle to the Wave (www.discovery.com/stories/nature/otters/otters.html); Ancient Egypt site concept and content (http://www.discovery.com/search/guide/ancientworlds/egypt/egypt.html) (1999); Discovery Channel Hate and Violence Initiative site concept and content (http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/hateviolence/hateviolence.html) (2000).

Lee Tien

Lee Tien is a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit public-interest organization based in San Francisco. He specializes in free speech law, including intersections with intellectual property law and privacy law. Before joining EFF, he also litigated FOIA cases. He has published articles on children's sexuality and information technology, anonymity, surveillance, and the First Amendment status of computer software.

He got his undergraduate degree at Stanford, where he held various editorial positions at the Stanford Daily. After working as a news reporter for a year, he went to law school at Boalt Hall at UC Berkeley. He also spent several years during and after law school as a graduate student in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at UC Berkeley.

Nirav Tolia

Nirav Tolia is co-founder and CEO of Epinions.com, a company founded in 1999 to help consumers make better buying decisions through unbiased advice, personalized recommendations, and comparison shopping on over one million products.

He is also a co-founder and president of Round Zero, a not-for-profit organization that brings Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and professionals together to discuss high-tech issues.

Prior to Epinions.com, he spent three years at Yahoo!, where he frequently represented the company on MSNBC and CNN. He received a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in English from Stanford University.

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Laura D'Andrea Tyson is dean of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She is the only woman currently leading a major business school in the United States. She served in the Clinton Administration from January 1993 through December 1996. Between February 1995 and December 1996 she served as the President's National Economic Adviser and was the highest ranking woman in the Clinton White House. She was a key architect of President Clinton's domestic and international policy agenda during his first term. As the administration's top economic adviser, she managed all economic policy making throughout the executive branch. She also served as a member of the President's National Security Council and Domestic Policy Council. Prior to her appointment as National Economic Adviser, she served as the 16th chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, the first woman to hold that post. In that capacity, she was responsible for providing the president and his National Economic Council with advice and analysis on all economic policy matters, for preparing the administration's economic forecasts and for the annual Economic Report of the President.

Before joining the Clinton Administration, she published a number of books and articles on industrial competitiveness and trade, including the highly acclaimed book, "Who's Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries." She also has published several books and articles on the economies of Central Europe and their transition to market systems.

She has a summa cum laude undergraduate degree from Smith College (1969) and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974). She is a member of the boards of directors of the Bay Area Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, Eastman Kodak Company, Exodus Communications Inc., Fox Entertainment Group Inc., Human Genome Sciences Inc., the Institute for International Economics, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co., the New America Foundation, SBC Communications Inc., and VIASense Inc. She is a consultant for Navigant Consulting Inc. and a member of The Trilateral Commission. She serves on the board of trustees of the Asia Foundation; the advisory boards of Barter Trust, E.piphany Inc., H&Q Asia Pacific Ltd., the Shorenstein Company LP, the G7 Group Inc. and The Journal of Economic Perspectives; and the boards of editors of the American Prospect and California Management Review. She served as a member of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare from 1997 to 1999. She is an Economic Viewpoint columnist for Business Week magazine. She writes regularly about domestic and international economic policy matters in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other nationally and internationally syndicated newspapers and magazines.

Hal R. Varian

Hal R. Varian is dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems. He is also a professor in the Haas School of Business, a professor in the Department of Economics, and holds the Class of 1944 Professorship. He has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of two major economics textbooks that have been translated into 11 languages. His recent work has concerned the economics of information technology and the information economy. He is the co-author of a best-selling book on business strategy, "Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy," and has written monthly columns for The Industry Standard and The New York Times.

He has served as co-editor of the American Economic Review and is on the editorial boards of several journals. He is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his bachelor's degree from MIT in 1969 and his M.A. (mathematics) and Ph.D. (economics) from UC Berkeley in 1973. He has taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world.

Steve Yelvington

Steve Yelvington is manager of Web site development at Morris Communications Corp. where he is responsible for corporate content operations serving all of the Morris properties, large-scale commercial Web site development, Morris Equine Internet Services (including the HorseCity.com network), Excursia.com, Big12.net, FanaticZone.com, and other Web properties. Previously he was director of network content and executive editor at Cox Interactive Media where he was responsible for content across CIMedia's nationwide network of locally focused Web sites. He received the 2001 EPpy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement from Editor & Publisher.

From 1994 to 1999 he was editor of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune's startribune.com site. He was the founding editor of Star Tribune Online on the proprietary Interchange network in the pre-Web era and migrated the service to the Web in 1996. Prior to that he served as metro news editor, features news editor and copy editor at the Star Tribune, and news editor, night city editor and copy editor at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.