The Board will provide expertise to the company's management team to spearhead new initiatives to grow Digital Journal’s global media presence. The advisers are highly renowned experts in a range of fields, including new media, online journalism and venture capital.
DigitalJournal is a news network made up of tens of thousands of reporters and bloggers who report from 200 countries around the world.
“We're very happy to have such an experienced and prolific group of individuals on our Board of Advisers," says Chris Hogg, CEO of Digital Journal, Inc. “We've developed an international contributor base and readership, and we're moving forward to develop new revenue channels and technologies. Along with our Board of Advisers, Digital Journal is poised for strong growth going forward.”
The board is made up of the following individuals:
Jack Kapica,
Jen Evans,
Kerry Munro,
Dr. Michael Geist and
Andrew Waitman.
Digital Journal is currently exploring syndication and strategic partnership opportunities, as the company is often approached by organizations looking to tap into the growing citizen journalism field.
Recognized as a pioneer in the citizen-media industry, Digital Journal is often praised for its quality reportage and unique approach to citizen journalism. Journalists are paid for their work through a unique revenue-sharing program. They are taught how to report news, and on-staff editors work hand-in-hand with reporters around the world to fact-check, verify and source stories.
For syndication, strategic partnership or investment opportunities, please contact Chris Hogg, CEO, Digital Journal Inc. //
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About DigitalJournal.com:
DigitalJournal.com is a citizen media site where writers from across the world work with seasoned professional reporters. The company has been recognized as a pioneer in citizen journalism, and the news reportage has been heralded as quality journalism. Contributors known as "Digital Journalists" work 24/7 to report news from multiple perspectives, while special attention is placed on quality and accuracy.
Digital Journal Board of Advisers:
Jack Kapica, a journalist and editor with more than 40 years experience. Kapica has been a staff writer and editor for
The Gazette in Montreal before moving to
The Globe and Mail in 1975, where he edited a section of the paper devoted to popular culture. Jack also contributed to Digital Journal magazine between 2001 and 2007.
Over his years at the
Globe, Jack contributed to virtually every beat from literary criticism to religion, news and technology. He has been Books Editor, editor of the Letters to the Editor page, and World Editor for the week-in-review Focus section. In 1985, he published a collection of the best letters printed by the Globe, in a book called
Shocked and Appalled: A Century of Letters to The Globe and Mail.
Jack helped train
Globe reporters when the newspaper became computerized in 1977, and purchased his first computer in 1981. From 1996 to 1999, Jack wrote many high-tech features as well as a weekly column called
Cyberia for the print paper. He also regularly reviewed new products and software. In 2001, he became the lead technology columnist and reporter for the technology section of the paper's website,
globeandmail.com. Kapica left the
Globe in 2008.
Jen Evans is the founder and chief strategist at
Sequentia Environics, a customer communications agency ranked as Canada's 24th (2005) and 27th (2004) fastest-growing emerging company by
PROFIT magazine. She joined the board of ITAC in 2009 and has been the co-chair of the
White Ribbon Campaign since 2005, and also sits on RedFlagDeals' advisory board.
Jen writes a column on business and technology for
PCworld.ca and was a contributor to
The Globe and Mail's online tech edition for seven years. Jen has been talking tech on BNN (formerly Report on Business Television) since 1999, and appears in the Technology in the Workplace segment on
Workopolis.tv.
Jen and Sequentia Environics are pioneers in the world of community and social media, developing revenue-focused social content programs as far back as 1999. They developed their first community program for Intel in 2004, and current social media and community clients include Yahoo!, TD Canada Trust, Palm, Coca-Cola Canada, Autodesk, and Bell Enterprise. Sequentia Environics' groundbreaking social measurement methodology, based on customer ethnography, analytics and primary research, has helped more than 40 enterprises establish their social and community strategy and measure success.
Kerry Munro is currently the Group President of Canada Post Digital. Prior to that Kerry was Chief Operating Officer of
Syncapse Corp, and head of Yahoo! Canada.
Over the past two decades Kerry has led and advised organizations on how to experience hyper growth by leveraging consumer behaviour and demystifying technology as a means to connect with consumers, build a digital brand, and increase revenues and shareholder value.
Recently he was the head of Yahoo! Canada, where it became the fastest-growing and best-performing business unit in Yahoo! worldwide, achieving annual double-to-triple-digit growth over four years and creating connections with more than 19 million Canadians monthly.
Kerry has been recognized as one of Canada’s top influential marketers. He advises executives, boards, growth companies and charitable organizations, and is sought after contributor to national news organizations.
Dr. Michael Geist is a professor of law at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law.
Michael is an internationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues with his regular column appearing in the
Toronto Star,
Ottawa Citizen, and the BBC.
Michael serves on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s Expert Advisory Board, on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy’s Review Panel, the Electronic Frontier Foundation Advisory Board, and on the Information Program Sub-Board of the Open Society Institute.
Michael has received numerous awards for his work including the Les Fowlie Award for Intellectual Freedom from the Ontario Library Association in 2009; the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award in 2008; Canarie’s IWAY Public Leadership Award for his contribution to the development of the Internet in Canada; and he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2003.
Andrew Waitman is Chief Executive Officer of
Pythian and Managing Partner of Blackswan Ventures, an angel technology investment firm.
From 1996 to 2008, Andrew was the Managing Partner of Celtic House Venture Partners, the largest and most successful IT venture fund in Canada, with more than $500-million under management. He has been involved with more than 75 start-ups and a board member of more than 25 technology start-ups. His current boards include Fidus Systems and Pythian.
Andrew has previously served on the boards of DNA13, Third Brigade, ModaSolutions, Diablo Technologies, Overlay.TV, TrialStat, Memsic (IPO on Nasdaq), Sandvine (IPO on TSE), OctigaBay (acquired by Cray), FastLane Technologies (acquired by Quest Software), Pixstream (acquired by Cisco), Abatis (acquired by Redback), OLAP@Work (acquired by Business Objects), BlueArc, Avesta Technologies (acquired by Visual Networks), Orchestream (IPO on LSE) and Ubiquity Software (acquired by Avaya). He sits on the advisory Board of Genesys Capital and the volunteer Board of SHAD Valley. Prior to Celtic House Andrew held senior positions at Eagle & Partners (now Dundee Securities), Citibank and Nortel.
Andrew holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA with distinction from the Richard Ivey School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.
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