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Journalism 2.0 is an initiative of
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism,
a center of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism,
and of the Knight Citizen News Network,
which is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Jan Schaffer,Editor
Steve Fox, Michael Williams, Craig Stone, Contributing Editors
Design: Wendy Kelly, wlkdesign.com
\u00a92007 Mark Briggs
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
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Mark Briggs is a recovering sportswriter who discovered
what the Internet could do for journalism in 1998 and
has been sharing his enthusiasm with whomever will
listen (and some who won\u2019t) ever since, contributing to
textbooks, seminars and conferences on the topic.

His day job is Assistant Managing Editor for Interactive
News at The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington. He
has served as Editor of thenewstribune.com since 2004,

when he was hired as Strategy and Content Manager for
Interactive Media. He came to Tacoma from Everett, Washington, where he led
online operations at The Herald as Content Manager, New Media Team Leader
and New Media Director. During his four years there, The Herald received several
regional and national awards for online innovation.

He has contributed to textbooks, seminars and conferences on new media and
journalism, and some of the projects he has led have won regional and national
awards. In 2002, Briggs received the James K. Batten Innovator Award, and
projects he led at The Herald won first place for innovative use of the medium
in 2003 and 2004.

He has a master\u2019s degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina
and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Gonzaga University. He has also served as an
adjunct professor at Seattle University.

He lives in Tacoma with his wife, son and daughter.
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