Outing, Steve
Posted 8/14/2009 10:50:00 AM

Steve Outing has been a professional journalist since 1978, when he graduated into a stable and dull media world where news jobs had barely changed in decades, and changing the font of a newspaper's headlines was considered to be "innovation." After working for newspapers and magazines through 1993, Steve has been a pioneer in online media innovation and the transition of traditional news organizations to the interactive, digital, networked world. His unusual journalism career over the last decade and a half has included advising the news industry as a writer, columnist, editor, author, researcher, blogger, speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur. He is an interactive-media columnist for Editor & Publisher Online ("Stop the Presses!" has been published since 1995), and In 2000 was awarded an "EPpy" for Outstanding Individual Achievement in serving the online-news industry. From 2001 to 2006 he was a senior editor at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and headed up the Eyetrack III study of online news user behavior. Steve also co-founded a web-media company (applying grassroots and social media to adventure sports) that closed in late 2007.

Currently he is working with the University of Colorado School of Journalism and Mass Communication on proposed nonprofit initiatives for resurrecting a high level of investigative journalism in the wake of newspaper closures and layoffs of journalists, and applying and testing new technologies, reporting techniques, and business models to real-world journalism. Steve lives in Boulder with his wife and two daughters.