Managing Editor The News & Observer, Raleigh, NC, USA
Jane Elizabeth is managing editor at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and The Herald-Sun in Durham, N.C. Prior to that, she was a Washington Post Deputy Metro Editor.a former deputy local editor at The Washington Post; and has taught journalism at Old Dominion University, the University of Pittsburgh and Point Park University. Jane's work as a reporter, editor and manager at a total of five metropolitan U.S. newspapers - including news organizations in Virginia and Pennsylvania - has focused largely on politics and government. She also served as Director of Accountability Journalism at the American Press Institute, a media think tank in the Washington, D.C., region. She holds a master's degree in mass communications from Virginia Commonwealth University, and was a 2017 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.
Accountability journalism represents the very best journalism in the industry. But even the best journalism has been disrupted by the emergence of social media. How can we regain and retain our distracted and distrusting audiences?