Amy Webb
CEO
Amy is an author, speaker and future thinker, adapting current and emerging technologies for use in communications. She has spent close to 18 years working with digital media, founding several web-based companies and now advising various startups, retailers, government agencies and media organizations as well as Webbmedia's clients all over the world.
Amy began her career as a reporter/ writer with Newsweek (Tokyo) and the Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong) where she covered emerging technology, media and cultural trends. She has contributed to the New York Times, NPR, Economist, Philadelphia Inquirer and many publications and broadcast shows.
Amy serves on the Board of Directors for the Online News Association, the SXSW Accelerator Advisory Board, Knight-Batten Advisory Board, the Advisory Board for Temple University’s Journalism Program and the Advisory Board for the International Center for Journalists. She is a Delegate on the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission and one of the Knight News Challenge judges. Amy is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Interactive Media Peer Group) and serves as a judge for the Emmy® awards.
Amy's work has been recognized with awards/nominations from Webby, Editor & Publisher, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Society of Professional Journalists, W3 and IAVA, among others. She has an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and holds a B.A. in political economics from Indiana University. She also earned Nikyu Certification in the Japanese government-administered Language Proficiency Test and speaks fluently. Amy has been a Lecturer at the Columbia University Sulzberger Program at the Graduate School of Journalism since it began in 2007 and has served on the adjunct faculty at University of Maryland, Temple University, Tokyo University and University of the Arts.
Clients have said that Amy has "an encyclopedic knowledge of the tech industry," and "immediate access to all of the latest and most important trends." She appears regularly on a number of broadcast shows, and is a keynote/ featured speaker at conferences and industry gatherings around the world.
| Languages: English, Japanese. Focus: Future of technology, emerging platforms, content management systems, training/ curriculum design, business development. |
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