New Voices: J-Lab Staff

J-Lab Staff

Photo of Jan Schaffer Jan Schaffer is the Executive Director for J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, a center at the University of Maryland’s College of Journalism that helps newsrooms, educators and communities use innovative information technologies to develop new ways for people to learn about important public issues. More…

E-mail: jans AT j-lab DOT org

“Can you create opportunities for citizens to get informed and inform others about micro-news that falls under the radar of traditional news organizations? Can you seed participation in community issues? Can you create a sense of news entrepreneurship? Can you train a new, more diverse generation of journalists in new ways of doing news?“—Jan Schaffer

Photo of Craig Stone Craig Stone has been the Web Editor at J-Lab since June 2005. He is a native of Laurel, Maryland, and earned a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2005. While with J-Lab, he was a contributing editor for Mark Briggs’ book, “Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive,“ as well as J-Lab’s research publication, “Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?“ As a Maryland student, Craig was a copy editor for the student newspaper, The Diamondback, and he has written and edited for College Magazine.

E-mail: craig AT j-lab DOT org

Photo of Rachel Sandor Rachel Sandor is the Project Manager at J-Lab. She grew up in Boulder, Colorado and earned her bachelor’s degree in media studies from the University of San Francisco. While attending USF, she was a film critic for the student newspaper, The San Francisco Foghorn. She is also a former editorial staff member of Rotten Tomatoes, a movie review Web site. Rachel enjoys traveling and lived in Budapest, Hungary for over a year. Her other interests include watching movies and exploring Washington with her fiancé, friends and dog.

E-mail: rachel AT j-lab DOT org

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	New Voices is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. J-Lab^TM is an incubator for innovative, participatory news experiments and is a center of American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C. New Voices is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. Site design by Hop Studios.