A bow to AHCJ’s own Pia Christensen, featured in the May/June SPJ Quill as part of a “Journalists to Follow” feature. She runs this blog and the AHCJ website, among many other jobs.
The magazine featured “questions with a bunch of cool journalists and innovators. … These are people in the industry we think have great ideas and hold great potential. In short, you should pay attention to them — not only on Twitter, but in the wider industry. See what they do. Interact with them. Learn. Engage.”
The article gives Christensen’s insight into journalism’s struggle to move into its next successful business model and what future journalists might consider about the industry. “I hope we will be able to look back on this as a transformative time in journalism,” she said. “Without discounting the turbulence in the industry and the many jobs that have been lost, I think this period will be marked by new ways of reporting and telling stories in a variety of formats.”
Plus, she talked about the best practices of journalists using resources such as crowdsourcing and social media and how citizen journalists and “user-generated content” can fit into mainstream media.
Christensen manages the AHCJ website and oversaw its redesign; she developed the blog Covering Health. She also assists with the editing and production of AHCJ’s publications, including books, conference programs and the quarterly newsletter.
She previously was publications coordinator for Investigative Reporters and Editors, where she oversaw website content, edited IRE publications and assisted advertisers. She worked as a copy editor and an interactive producer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, a producer for Tribune Interactive, a sports copy editor for the Marin (Calif.) Independent Journal, and was job and internship coordinator at the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism in San Francisco. She telecommutes from Oklahoma.
Follow her on Twitter via AHCJ_Pia.
