About Jane Stevens

STEVENS, JANE is a multimedia journalist, teacher and consultant. She's editorial director for Oceans Now, teaches multimedia reporting at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, and consults with newspapers that are transitioning to Web-centric news organizations. She has worked at the Boston Globe and San Francisco Examiner, and has held positions as copy editor, assistant foreign/national editor, Sunday magazine writer, and science/technology reporter and columnist. She founded a syndicated science and technology feature service with 20 newspaper clients worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, and Asahi Shimbun's AERA Magazine. For four years, she lived and worked in Kenya and Indonesia. She's written for magazines, including National Geographic, and worked for New York Times Television as a video journalist. She is director of the Violence Reporting Project, which encourages news organizations to include a scientific and prevention, or public health, approach to crime reporting. She has done multimedia reporting for the New York Times, Discovery Channel, and MSNBC.com. Stevens has a Bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Kentucky and a Master's degree in communications from the University of Georgia. Contact: (510) 643-1998, jstevens (at) mmjourno (dot) com