Janice Castro

On April 19, IWPA will present interactive media expert Janice Castro, whose byline is known throughout the world.

A reporter, writer, and editor at Time magazine for more than 20 years, Ms. Castro won awards for science and business reporting. She also headed Time’s interactive operations

for five years, where her news team produced one of the first daily news blogs starting in 1993. While running Time’s interactive operations, which included managing partnerships with Yahoo!, America Online, Apple and Microsoft, she also supervised online news for People, Fortune, Money, Life, Entertainment Weekly, and other Time Warner sites. Her online teams won numerous journalism

awards, including the top new media honors from Editor & Publisher, the Society for News Design, and the White House Press Photographers Association.

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