Bill Gannon

Current

• Director of Online Operations at Lucasfilm Ltd.
• Adjunct Faculty at University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

Past

• Sr. Editorial Director & Managing Editor at Yahoo! Inc.
• Editorial Director & Managing Editor at Financial Engines Inc.
• Staff Writer / National Correspondent at The Star-Ledger / Newhouse News Service

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Education

• Stanford University

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Online Media

Bill Gannon’s Experience

• Director of Online Operations

  Lucasfilm Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

• Adjunct Faculty

  University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

  (Internet industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years)

• Sr. Editorial Director & Managing Editor

  Yahoo! Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; yhoo; Online Media industry)

  2003 — January 2007 (4 years)

• Editorial Director & Managing Editor

  Financial Engines Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years)

• Staff Writer / National Correspondent

  The Star-Ledger / Newhouse News Service

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Newspapers industry)

  October 1986 — February 2000 (13 years 5 months)

Bill Gannon’s Education

• Stanford University

  John S. Knight Fellow 1996 — 1997

Additional Information

Bill Gannon’s Interests:

I am a Certified Scrum Master in new product development accredited by the Agile Alliance and have 8 years of new product development expertise developed at Lucasfilm Ltd., Yahoo Inc., and Financial Engines Inc. Adjunct Faculty: University of California, Berkeley - The Graduate School of Journalism - New Media Studies since 2006.

Bill Gannon’s Groups:

Co-Chairman and National Advisory Board Member: The Knight New Media Center.
National Advisory Board Member: New Voices - A project of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, a center of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism
The John S. Knight Fellowships at Stanford University.
The Agile Alliance.
The Online News Association.

•    Knight Digital Media Center
•    Stanford Alumni
•    Stanford University Alumni Association
•    LucasArts Network
•    Comparative Media Studies @ MIT

Bill Gannon’s Honors:

Lucasfilm: Star Wars.Com Webby Finalist in 2007; Star Wars.Com named as one of Time Magazine's top 50 websites in 2007; Entertainment Weekly named Star Wars.Com a top 25 fan favorite in 2007.

Journalism Awards: Pulitzer Prize finalist (with team) in 2001. National Headliner Award. American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) Deadline Writing Award (with team) 2001. CIT-Rutgers University Investigative Reporting Award. Four (4) New York City SPJ Deadline Club First Place Awards. New Jersey Publishers Association Journalist of the Year. John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. The Japan Fellowship.

Featured speaker or panelist: The Aspen Institute; The Society of Professional Journalists National Annual Conference; The Museum of Television & Radio; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; The California Society of Newspaper Editors; The Media Center; Harvard University; Stanford University; California State University Journalism Educators.

Bill Gannon’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch