Wilson, Executive Editor of USA Today, will be discussing the state of the journalism industry.
Kinsey Wilson is executive editor of USA TODAY and usatoday.com, with shared responsibility for strategic planning and day to-to-day editorial management of one of the nation’s most widely read news publications. A veteran reporter and editor, he has played a leadership role in digital media for more than a decade. He was named to his current position in December 2005 upon the merger of USA TODAY’s print and online newsrooms. Prior to the merger he was vice president and editor-in-chief of usatoday.com, overseeing the editorial operations and strategic development of a news and information website that reaches more than 1.5 million readers a day. He began his journalism career at City News Bureau of Chicago and from 1988-1995 was a reporter at Newsday. For the last 12 years he has been involved in online journalism, first at Congressional Quarterly, where he helped spearhead that company’s digital publishing strategy, and since April 2000 at USATODAY. He is past president of the Online News Association (2007), chaired the national advisory board of the Poynter Institute from 2006-2008, and is a member of the advisory board to the journalism school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and lives in the Washington D.C. area.
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