John Hassell

Vice President of Content at Advance Internet

Greater New York City Area

Current
Past
  • Managing Editor at The Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, NY)
Education
  • Cornell University
Connections
176 connections
Industry
Online Media
Websites

John Hassell’s Summary

John Hassell’s Specialties:

Media management, new product development


John Hassell’s Experience

  • Vice President of Content

    Advance Internet

    (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

    November 2008Present (9 months)

  • Deputy Managing Editor/Digital

    The Star-Ledger (Newark, NJ)

    (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

    1995November 2008 (13 years)

    For my final two years at The Star-Ledger, I was the editor responsible for expanding the newspaper's presence on the Web and finding new ways of gathering and distributing local news and information. Key projects included building and managing a continuous news desk and training a staff of 330 in blogging, video and other multimedia skills; developing hyperlocal sites in Morristown and Newark; establishing the pharmaceutical industry niche site Pharmalot.com; creating the video aggregation site TVJersey.com; and launching Ledger Live, a noon vodcast that showcases the newspaper's video journalism as well as contributions from bloggers across New Jersey. In earlier roles at the The Star-Ledger, I edited the weekend papers and the Sunday Perspective section, and served as a foreign correspondent and national political correspondent.

  • Reporter

    Asbury Park Press (Neptune, NJ)

    (Newspapers industry)

    19921995 (3 years)

    Municipal reporter, bureau chief, Statehouse correspondent and special projects writer.

  • Reporter

    The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC)

    (Newspapers industry)

    19911992 (1 year)

    Early AM cops, general assignment.

  • Managing Editor

    The Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, NY)

    (Newspapers industry)

    19901991 (1 year)

    Masochism 101


John Hassell’s Education

  • Cornell University

    19871991


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John Hassell’s Interests:

Journalism, new media, technology.

John Hassell’s Honors:

Quill & Dagger Society
1998 Finalist for the Livingston Award for international reporting
2005 Pulitzer Prize (as lead writer on The Star-Ledger's coverage of the resignation of New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey)
2006 Silver Gavel Award (as editor of a Star-Ledger series on the USA Patriot Act)
Other awards from: Society of the Silurians, South Carolina Press Association, New Jersey Press Association, New Jersey Association of Black Journalists, South Asian Journalists Association.


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