Jane Spencer (journalist)

Jane Spencer is an American journalist, and the Editor-in-chief of Fusion, a joint venture of ABC News and Univision that serves a young, diverse audience. She was one of the founding editors of 'The Daily Beast,' where she worked as executive editor until 2012.^[1][2]

Before joining The Daily Beast in 2008, Spencer was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong, where she reported on environmental issues and technology. She was part of a team of seven WSJ reporters that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.^[3] for a series of stories on China's "Naked Capitalism", which explored the health and environmental consequences of the nation's economic boom.^[4]

Spencer was the founding writer of The Wall Street Journal "Weekend Adviser" column in 2004, which covered the entertainment industry, and worked as a staff reporter in New York. She covered the September 11 attacks for Newsweek in 2001.

She was awarded a 2013 Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, where she focused on innovation in digital storytelling.^[5] She has taught multimedia storytelling at the University of California, Berkeley Knight Digital Media Center.^[6] Spencer graduated from Brown University,^[7] and is a native of Portland, Maine.^[8]

Awards

• 2007 Pulitzer Prize For International Reporting,^[3] shared with team of seven.
• 2007 Society of Publishers in Asia Excellence in Feature Writing^[9]
• 2007 Society of Publishers in Asia, Honorable Mention, Environmental Reporting^[9]
• 2008 Global Health Council Excellence in Media Award^[10]
• 2011 Front Page Award for Multimedia, The Newswoman’s Club of New York^[11]
• 2012 Webby Award for Best News Site, The Daily Beast^[12]
• 2012 National Magazine Award for Digital Media, Best Site Section (The Daily Beast, Book Beast^[13]
• 2013 Nieman Fellowship, Harvard University^[5]

References