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• Return to Citizens Media Summit index Mary Lou Fulton is vice president of audience development for The Bakersfield Californian and founder of The Northwest Voice and its online companion, NorthwestVoice.com, pioneering citizen journalism efforts building on contributions from community residents. Fulton has worked for both The Associated Press and the Los Angeles Times, where she was a community news reporter and editor for six years. While in Los Angeles, she also served as the founding editor of City Times, the community news section created to improve coverage of central Los Angeles after the 1992 riots. She later served as managing editor of washingtonpost.com. She had held senior management positions at a number of online companies including AOL, GeoCities and HomePage.com before returning to journalism in 2003 with The Bakersfield Californian. Fulton holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Steve Yelvington is vice president of strategy and content at Morris Digital Works (MDW), a division of Morris Communications Co. that provides consulting and Web development services to Morris properties and other clients. Morris Communications publishes 27 daily newspapers, 13 nondailies, five city magazines and numerous free community newspapers. Yelvington played an integral role earlier this year in launching BlufftonToday.com, a new community web site with a mission of helping Bluffton, S.C., “come together as a community.” It also helps provide content for a free daily tabloid that serves Bluffton’s 15,000 residents. Yelvington helped define everything from the site’s strategy to its philosophy. “That means I think about the long-term impact of the Internet and related new technologies and attempt to plot a course to the future,” he explains in his BlufftonToday.com profile. BlufftonToday.com contributors get their own weblogs, photo galleries, the ability to post entries in certain site databases and the chance to interact with staffers via blogs. Yelvington grew up in a newspaper family, began his career as a small-town weekly newspaper editor, and worked for several U.S. daily newspapers before moving to the online world in 1994 as the founding editor of online services for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Under his direction the Star Tribune's Web site won numerous awards from the Newspaper Association of America, Editor & Publisher magazine and others. In 1999 he joined Cox Interactive Media as executive editor of its nationwide network of local portal sites. He has spoken on new media at conferences in the United States and Europe. He received the 2001 EPpy for Outstanding Individual Achievement. He maintains his own blog at http://yelvington.com. Adrian Holovaty, an Internet developer based in Chicago, was recently named editor, editorial innovations, at washingtonpost.com. For the past two and a half years, he has worked as lead developer at World Online, the Web division of The Lawrence Journal-World in Lawrence, Kansas, and supervised three sites: LJWorld.com, KUSports.com and Lawrence.com. Holovaty’s free public service site, chicagocrime.org, which gives residents access to a vast but easily searchable database of crime information, recently won the $10,000 Grand Prize in the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. His other Internet projects include designing the interface and Web site for Django, an open-source Web development framework. Holovaty received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia and has worked as a reporter, columnist, copy editor and graphic artist for The Columbia Missourian. He has also spent time at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as a database specialist. He maintains his own blog about the technical aspects of Web sites at http://www.holovaty.com. Dan Pacheco is senior product manager at The Bakersfield Californian in Bakersfield, CA, where he launched Bakotopia.com, the first U.S. newspaper-owned Web site that provides free community-based classified services in a local market. Pacheco came across the Internet and its significance while serving as a reporter for The Denver Post in the mid-1990s. After helping launch Denverpost.com, he went on to The Washington Post and worked on Digital Link, the precursor to washingonpost.com. Pacheco has also served as a multimedia producer at Knight Ridder-Tribune Interactive and principal product manager at America Online, where he helped develop AOL chat, message boards, journals (blogs) and the “You’ve Got Pictures” digital photo-sharing platform. As he says on his personal page at http://www.futureforecast.com/danpacheco, “My experience with content and community has proven invaluable in understanding the dynamics behind free community sites like Craigslist, blogging and community publishing – trends which are now having profound effects on the entire media industry.” Jump
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