Panel 1: “Lessons from Digital News”

Simon Alterman
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development
Dow Jones & Company

As Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Simon Alterman is responsible for articulating the strategic framework for the Enterprise Media Group of Dow Jones and for finding business opportunities and acquisitions that offer the best potential for future profitable growth. Previously, Mr. Alterman was Vice President, Content, for Factiva, the former joint venture between Dow Jones and Reuters, which was acquired by Dow Jones in late 2006. In this position, he was responsible for the strategy and development of content in all Factivas product offerings. At Factiva, Mr. Alterman was responsible at different times for content operations, product development, business development, and the consultancy operations.

Mr. Alterman began his career as a journalist at Reuters in 1980 and was a correspondent in Mexico, Chile, Spain and Belgium. As Bureau Chief, News and Television, in Brussels, Mr. Alterman created the Reuters European Community Report, European Union Briefing and Belgian Financial Report services and built up the Reuters media business in Benelux. He held various roles in marketing and business development before becoming a founding member of Factivas executive team in 1999. Mr. Alterman is a graduate of Cambridge University.

Mr. Roberts oversees the news operations of nytimes.com, managing a staff of reporters and editors on the continuous news desk as well as editors and multimedia producers in the Web newsroom. As he sees it, his mission is to bring the immediacy and interactivity of the Web to The New York Times, while spreading The Times’s journalistic standards, depth and authority to the Web. He joined The Times in 1987 as a copy editor and held a variety of editing jobs on the national, sports and metropolitan desks. He served as deputy metropolitan editor for regional news; national political editor, coordinating coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign, the election and the 36-day aftermath; and national editor. In 2006, he became director of continuous news and was later promoted to editor of digital news.

Jonathan Krim is a longtime editor and reporter for print and online publications. He moved to WPNI from the newsroom of The Washington Post, where he had been a reporter covering technology issues. Prior to joining the Post, Krim was executive editor of TheStreet.com, an online financial news and commentary publication based in New York. Krim spent the bulk of his journalism career as a senior editor at the San Jose Mercury News in Silicon Valley. At various times during his 16 years in San Jose, he supervised business and technology news, local and state news, and investigative projects. Coverage that he guided won Pulitzer prizes in 1986 and 1990.

Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive is the online publishing subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). Its mission is to develop the company’s editorial products and businesses on the Internet and across all electronic content delivery platforms. WPNI’s flagship products include washingtonpost.com, Slate, BudgetTravelOnline.com, and Newsweek.com. The company is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Judith Axler Turner, the editor of The Journal of Electronic Publishing pioneered the many electronic publishing innovations made by The Chronicle of Higher Education in the late Twentieth Century as their Director of Electronic Publishing. She is also a vice president at TCG in Washington, DC, a federal management consulting firm. A reporter in her first career, she covered the growth of the Internet for The Chronicle and wrote one of the country’s first syndicated columns on computers. She was a reporter for several publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, the National Journal, and the New York Daily News.