What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism

Columbia Journalism School | Tow Center for Digital JournalismThe AuthorsBill Grueskin is dean of academic affairs and professor of professional practiceat Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He began his career atthe Daily American in Italy, and then founded a weekly paper on the StandingRock Sioux Indian Reservation in North Dakota. He later served as a reporterand editor at newspapers in Baltimore, Tampa and Miami. As the Miami Herald’scity editor, he led local coverage of Hurricane Andrew; the Herald’s overallcoverage of the storm won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for public service. Grueskinthen worked for 13 years at the Wall Street Journal, including roles as deputypage-one editor, managing editor of WSJ.com and deputy managing editor/news. He joined Columbia’s faculty in 2008. Grueskin has a bachelor’s degree inclassics from Stanford University and a master’s degree in international economicsand U.S. foreign policy from Johns Hopkins University’s School of AdvancedInternational Studies.Ava Seave is a principal of Quantum Media, a New York City-based consultingfirm focused on marketing and strategic planning for media, informationand entertainment companies. Before co-founding Quantum Media in 1998,Seave was a general manager at three media companies: Scholastic Inc., the VillageVoice and TVSM. She started her career as a photo editor for two horticulturemagazines. Seave has adjunct appointments at the business and journalismschools at Columbia University. She is the co-author (with Jonathan Knee andBruce Greenwald) of “The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’sLeading Media Companies.” Seave graduated from Brown University with abachelor’s degree in semiotics. She also holds a master’s degree in business administrationfrom Harvard Business School.Lucas Graves is a PhD candidate in communications at Columbia University.His dissertation focuses on the fact-checking movement in American journalismas a window onto changes in the networked news ecosystem. Graves has workedas a technology and media analyst with various research firms and is a longtimemagazine journalist, now on the masthead of Wired magazine. He co-authoredthe first report from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, on the confusion145