Jonathan Weber is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of New West and was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Industry Standard, a weekly business news magazine and online service that rocketed to prominence in the late 1990s only to crash and burn in 2001 during the burst of the dot-com bubble. He was a visiting professor at the University of Montana Journalism School in 2002 and quickly became fascinated by the myriad issues associated with growth and change in the region, but frustrated by the lack of quality media devoted to those issues. In 2004, he began to think in earnest about how the dramatic changes under way in the media world might create an opportunity for a new kind of publication about the Rocky Mountain region, and the result was New West. Weber spent eight years as a writer and editor at The Los Angeles Times and was a co-founder of the Geneva-based international affairs publication World Link.

Panel:
Rise of Citizen Journalists

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