Jane Elizabeth is a senior-level media manager with extensive experience editing, writing, and promoting content across platforms. She has held leadership roles at major newspapers like The Washington Post and The Virginian-Pilot, where she launched digital teams and projects. She is skilled in strategizing, problem-solving, and future-proofing media organizations. Her background also includes teaching journalism and contributing to award-winning work.

1. Jane Elizabeth
104 State Park Drive, Hampton, Va. 23664; 757.477.5953 (mobile)
jane@janeelizabeth.net. LinkedIn: bit.ly/JaneElizabeth
THE WASHINGTON POST, Washington, D.C.
Deputy Editor, regional news
2010 - 2013
Responsible for digital initiatives, goals and objectives across all platforms as deputy editor for the largest
department at The Washington Post. Re-imagined and directed the evolution of regional web content to meet ever-
changing needs of web readers. Launched the popular washingtonpost.com/regional page, resulting in
unprecedented and important growth in page views and audience. As part of founding committee of The Post’s
News University, provided training and guidance to entire staff on smart web practices. Part of an elite team that
created the Washington Post’s first digital ethics guidelines.
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT, Norfolk, Va.
Director of Online News/Senior Editor
2004- 2010
Created the newspaper’s first online/digital journalism team. Responsibilities included identifying processes to
produce more and better online content, ramping up breaking news efforts, providing newsroom training, working
with vendors and contractors. Responsible for statistical reports and analysis. As senior editor, supervised high-
visibility, highly productive reporting teams and their editors: the military and politics/government teams; and
reporters who cover medicine, health, environment, transportation, religion and consumer issues. Supervised North
Carolina and state capitol bureaus. Newsroom expert on Freedom of Information issues.
THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Local News Editor
1994-2004
Roles included assigning, editing and directing a staff of full-time and part-time education reporters, providing
education coverage for main newspaper and five zoned editions. Developed and wrote major projects on education
topics including a critical, award-winning series on abusive teachers . Editor for two experimental, groundbreaking
daily sections, North Digest and Neighborhoods East. Regular contributor to op-ed column "Saturday Diary.”
I am a senior-level media
manager with extensive
experience in editing,
writing and promoting
content across all
platforms. I have created,
launched and directed
successful digital teams
and projects in media
organizations of all sizes.
I am a strategist, a fixer,
a future-proofer.

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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH and POINT PARK UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Journalism Professor
1994-2004
Taught graduate and undergraduate journalism courses as a member of both universities’ part-time faculty.
THE RICHMOND TIMES-DISPATCH, Richmond, Va.
Assistant City Editor
1992-1994
Contributing editor for Sunday editions. Responsible for assigning, directing and editing reporters' projects and
stories. Director, Times-Dispatch merit awards committee. Member, Virginia Communications Hall of Fame
selection committee. Editor for unique cooperative project between the Associated Press and the four largest
newspapers in Virginia. Began working for the Times-Dispatch after working as a reporter and editor at its sister
paper, The Richmond News Leader, which closed after a merger with the T-D.
EDUCATION
M.S., mass communications, Va. Commonwealth University
B.A., journalism and English with emphasis in criminology, Radford University
FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow, Poynter-McCormick Change Leaders, St. Petersburg, Fla., 2009
Fellow, Knight Digital Media Center, USC-Berkeley, Calif., 2008
Fellow, Education Writers Association, Washington, D.C., 2000
Fellow, Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, 1998, 1996
AWARDS
Recipient of many media awards from organizations including Associated Press Managing Editors, Society of
Newspaper Design, Education Writers Association, Golden Quill, Pennsylvania Press Association, Pennsylvania Bar
Association, National Association of Black Journalists, Women's Press Club of Pittsburgh, Virginia Press
Association, Press Women's Association, National Federation of Press Women and Odyssey Institute for the
Concerns of Children.
ORGANIZATIONS
Online News Association, member; talent recruiter, 2010-12
Public Relations Society of America, member
Web Managers Roundtable, member
Virginia Council on Open Government, board member, 2007-2010
Virginia Associated Press Managing Editors, board chair 2007-08
Virginia Press Association, Freedom of Information Committee, 2005-2008
Pennsylvania Press Association, 1994-2004