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Mindy McAdams, former Web strategist at the American Press Institute, interactive consultant, and journalist, has been appointed to the Knight Chair in Journalism at the University of Florida in Gainesville, beginning in August. She plans to focus on how new media technologies affect the practice of journalism and democracy.

Mindy told Editor & Publisher columnist Steve Outing that she does not plan to emphasize teaching how to use new technologies like streaming media and Java, but rather how a participatory medium like the Internet affects public discourse and decision-making.

Mindy has been thinking about Cybermedia since the late 1980s, when she worked on a weekly business newspaper that covered the computer and telecommunications industries. She earned a master's degree in media studies at The New School for Social Research in New York in 1993. A year and a half after that, she helped launch the Washington Post online (formerly known as Digital Ink) on a pre-Web proprietary platform. She later worked as a consultant in content, navigation, structure, and usability, dividing her time between Toronto and Washington, D.C.

Mindy has written a book, a number of professional articles, online materials and reviews for fellow Web site producers and designers, including:

• "The Art of Cross-Promoting Your Print and Online Products."
  In The Digital Edge (an online publication of the Newspaper Association of America), July 1999.
  • "Click Here to Subscribe Online" (sidebar).
  • "The Page as Interface" (sidebar).

• The Internet Handbook for Writers, Researchers, and Journalists (co-author).
  242 pages, illustrated; 8 chapters; 6 appendices; glossary; index. (New York: Guilford Press, 1998. ISBN: 1-572303-32-8. Toronto: Trifolium Books, 1997. ISBN: 1-895579-17-1.)
  

• "Where We're Going: How the World Will Change When Everyone's Online."
  In E Business, February 1998.

• "Editing in E-space."
  A bimonthly column in The Editorial Eye newsletter, published by EEI (Editorial Experts Inc.). Three columns are available online:
  • "The Front Door": home-page essentials, Part 1.
  • "Essential Home Page Details": home-page essentials, Part 2.
  • "Web Site Sections: Art and Practice."

• American Journalism Review online column:
  
  • "Back to the Drawing Board: It's Time to Redesign," October 1996
    
  • "Why News Is Old News," September 1996
    
  • "Make Sure Your Electronic Newspaper Is Plugged In," August 1996.

• "It's All in the Links: Readying Publications for the Web."
  In The Editorial Eye, v. 19 n. 6 (June 1996), pp. 1-3.
  Reprinted in Stet Again! More Tricks of the Trade for Publications People (Alexandria, Va.: EEI Press, 1996), pp.269-72.

• "Gender Without Bodies" (a hypertext).
  In Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine, v. 3 n. 3 (March 1996).

• "Information Design and the New Media."
  In Interactions (a journal of the Association for Computing Machinery), October 1995, pp. 36-41.

• "Hypertext Breakdown."
  In HotWired, May 18 to June 1, 1995 (Intelligent Agent section).

• "Molding the Medium (Driving a Newspaper on the Data Highway)."
  In Quill (the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists), January 1994, pp. 30-34

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