Author

Jane Ellen Stevens

@jstevens

Jane Stevens is director of media strategies at The World Company, where she has launched two social journalism websites, WellCommons and SunflowerHorizons.

Health Draws a Community Together Online

‘A new mindset emerged as the site’s gates swung open to community involvement. Now, community members are part of what we do every step along the way—and we are progressing…
June 9, 2011

Must-Read Books on the larger media environment in which journalism is practiced

To understand the larger media environment in which journalism is practiced—”the new ocean we’re swimming in,” as Jane Ellen Stevens calls it—she offers four must-read books:“The Search: How Google and…
December 15, 2006

Taking the Big Gulp

‘The Web is its own medium with its own characteristics. It is not newspapers. It is not TV news. It is not radio.’
December 15, 2006

The Violence Reporting Project:

In 1995, Jane Ellen Stevens, a science writer, embarked on a collaborative project with Dr. Lori Dorfman, Director of the Berkeley Media Studies Group, a public health research organization, and…
December 15, 1998