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| Born | Amy Webb c. 1974 (age 37–38) Chicago |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Head of Webbmedia Group |
| Known for | Tech Trends, Emerging Technology, Startups |
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| Webbmedia Group | |
Amy Webb is an author, speaker and future thinker and heads Webbmedia Group. She and her team forecasts tech trends and applies emerging technologies for use in communications. She has spent more than 15 years working with digital media, founding several web-based companies and now advising various startups, retailers, government agencies and media organizations as well as Webbmedia's clients all over the world.
Amy began her career as a reporter/ writer with Newsweek (Tokyo) and the Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) where she covered emerging technology, media and cultural trends. She has contributed to the New York Times, NPR, Economist and many publications and broadcast shows. Her work has been recognized with awards/nominations from Webby, Editor & Publisher, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Society of Professional Journalists, W3 and IAVA. She has a M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and holds a B.A. in political economics from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She also earned Nikyu Certification in the Japanese government-administered Language Proficiency Test and speaks fluently.
Amy serves on the Board of Directors for the Online News Association,[1] the SXSW Accelerator Advisory Board, Knight-Batten Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for Temple University’s Journalism Program and the Advisory Board for the International Center for Journalists. She is one of the Knight News Challenge judges. Amy is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Interactive Media Peer Group) and serves as a judge for the Emmy® awards. She has been on the adjunct journalism faculty at University of Maryland, Temple University, Tokyo University and University of the Arts.
Clients have said that Amy has "an encyclopedic knowledge of the tech industry," and "immediate access to all of the latest and most important trends." She appears regularly on a number of broadcast shows, and is a keynote/ featured speaker at conferences and industry gatherings around the world.
She lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
[edit] Biography
Born in the Chicago suburbs, Webb is a graduate of Indiana University. She originally attended the School of Music on a full-scholarship for clarinet performance. Music was an early and important part of her life: she attended piano and music theory lessons starting at age four and continued to study other instruments until leaving the music program after one year of study. She stayed at the University and graduated with a degree in political science and concentration in economics. She later attended and graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
After college, Webb moved to Iwate Prefecture in northern Japan. There, she freelanced for several publications, covering technology and pop culture. Additionally, she was one of the founding anchors of "Furai Iwate," which was a weekly show on IBC Television that discussed local government and the economy. Webb continued to work throughout Asia for Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal and other publications until she returned to the United States in 2004.
In 2005, Webb had been working on numerous initiatives to aid in the digital transformation of journalism. To show that people could survive without print or broadcast media, Webb undertook a 30-day experiment. Calling it a "digital diet," Webb chronicled her month without newspapers, magazines, television, radio - even billboards and printed fliers.[2] Her results were shared throughout college journalism classrooms and on various shows about the media.[3]
Webb later founded a digital media consulting firm, Webbmedia Group, to help media and other organizations adapt technology for journalism.[4]
[edit] External links
- Amy Webb full bio
- Knowledgewebb.net
- Mobile Technology (interview)
- Tech Trends
- QR Codes and Amy Webb's Ultimate QR Game
- Future of Journalism (blog)
- Tech Trends (Spanish)
[edit] References
- ^ Jane McDonnell (2008-09-17). "Online News Association elects new board members". http://journalists.org/news/news.asp?id=18724. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
- ^ Amy Webb (2006-08-20). "The Digital Diet". http://nl.newsbank.com/nojavascript.html. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
- ^ Talk of the Nation (2006-08-21). "What's Lost When Your Skip Traditional Media". http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5684520. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
- ^ Amy Webb (2007-01-01). "About Webbmedia Group". http://webbmediagroup.com/services_overview.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-30.
