About

I am a digital journalist, a word pairing that should be as redundant as “consensus agreement” or “totally unique.”

 I provide strategic and tactical consulting on how digital technology changes the economics of media businesses. I’m also vice president of business and partner development for GrowthSpur LLC, a startup that helps local sites generate revenue.

The “journalist” part of my career comes from (indecipherable murmer) years as a general-assignment reporter and editor for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Quad-City Times and other newspapers. The full litany of those misbegotten years is here. It wasn’t my editors’ fault – really.

All credit or blame for the “digital” part belongs to the Knight Fellowships at Stanford University. I studied the economics of digital information – and was lucky enough to do so at the top of the late ‘90s Internet bubble. (Yahoo! had just been launched by a couple Stanford grads – and a couple kids named Sergey and Larry were kicking around the place, too.)

From 2000 to 2008, I ran websites, helped build new products and otherwise served as a corporate staff dweeb at Tribune Interactive, the digital arm of Tribune Company.

I’m married to the author and journalist Sue Corbett. We have a trumpet player, a tuba player and a violinist.

Contact me to find out more.

Disclosures:

I’ve provided consulting services to these organizations:

HealthConnector of Virginia

The Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland (especially its former Knight Center for Specialized Journalism)

Localist.com, a (terrific) software system to allow publishers and others to manage massive lists of events and directories of places, and use social-media tools to publicize them