Alex Leo is the head of product for IBT Media and its newest property, Newsweek. Before that she was the head of product for Reuters.com, a senior editor at The Huffington Post and an associate producer at ABC News. She was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in Media in 2012 and chosen by NBC New York as one of the top twenty people to follow on Twitter. Her work has appeared on Jezebel, The Atlantic Wire, The Daily Beast, The Hairpin, and more, as well as in the play “Love, Loss and What I Wore.”
journalism
Future Schlock or Journalism’s Next Golden Age?
While Jeff Bezos and Pierre Omidyar are putting serious money towards serious journalism, the professional news business seems more at risk every day. Yet the need for trustworthy information only grows. Meanwhile, every company wants to create “content,” since “ads” are increasingly distrusted, and expensive. Who will be the arbiters of accuracy? Will the public care? Could a new golden age of substantive journalism arise? Or is the future filled with cat videos? Justin Fox of the Harvard Business Review, Al-Jazeera's Abderahim Foukara, Salon's Cindy Jeffers, Alexandra Leo of IBT Media, Rem Rieder of USA Today, Upworthy's Ashley Simon, and Kaela Worthen Gardner of reddit discuss at Techonomy 2013 in Tucson, Ariz. Watch video and read the complete transcript here.
Conferences
Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
