Joakim "Jay" Baage (jay@digitalmediawire.com)

International media executive focused on the transition from an analog to a digital world, and how to build successful media and entertainment properties accordingly.

Jay plays a key role in an organization which sifts, sorts and filters daily news, finance and entertainment trends to tens of thousands of executives and professionals throughout the world. His responsibilities as VP of Content and Business Development for Digital Media Wire include overseeing the well respected website and daily newsletter, ad and sponsorship sales and strategy, audience development, marketing, as well as strategic partnerships. Last, but not least, Jay heads up the company's prestigious NY and LA Games Conferences.

Jay has authored a Thesis on the Future of Television, co-authored two books about Marketing to the Millennial Generation and is an avid blogger. He is also a frequent speaker at international media industry events such as the LA Film Festival and Canadian Music Week and has been a guest lecturer at UCLA and NYU. Jay sits on the Advisory Board for New Filmmakers LA and the Remedee Foundation.

Jay has a Masters Degree in Media, Entertainment & Technology Management from the Gallatin School at New York University and a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Goteborg University in Sweden. He has been awarded Wallenberg Scholarships in 2004 and 2006, a Sweden-America Foundation Fellowship in 2005 as well as scholarships for being “A Promising New Media Manager” by Swedish Newspaper Publishers’ Association 2005 and 2001.

Joakim "Jay" Baage (jay@digitalmediawire.com)’s Specialties:

Youth and Pop-Culture, Web Publishing, Online Video, Games, Digital Music, Ad Sales and Monetization, Viral and Buzz Marketing, Social Media Strategy.

Joakim "Jay" Baage (jay@digitalmediawire.com)’s Experience

Vice President, Content and Business Development

Digital Media Wire

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Director, Content and Business Development

Digital Media Wire

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2006 — June 2007 (1 year)
Contributor, Hype!

Bonnier Publications

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

December 2004 — May 2006 (1 year 6 months)

Corporate trendspotter distributed to Bonnier Group executives in 20 countries
Teaching Fellow

NYU Stern School of Business

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Assisted Executive Director of the MBA Entertainment, Media & Technology Program in teaching two years of international media and economics classes (ISP)
Senior Producers' Intern

ABC News

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DIS; Broadcast Media industry)

September 2005 — December 2005 (4 months)

Intern at the central news desk for Good Morning America
Assignment Editor/Reporter

TV4

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

May 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 4 months)

Reporter and Assignment Editor at Ekonominyheterna, a daily business news show produced by Dagens Industri and aired on TV4, Scandinavia's largest commercial TV broadcast network.
Reporter, Dagens Industri

Bonnier Publications

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

June 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 11 months)

Staff reporter for Northern Europe's largest business newspaper, specializing in covering the IT and Telecom sectors
Reporter, Financial Markets

Reuters

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RTR.L; Financial Services industry)

June 1998 — September 1998 (4 months)
Reporter

Värnpliktsnytt

(Media Production industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year)