Recognizing New Media's New Ethical Issues, Gary Kebbel, Director, Journalism Program, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Gary Kebbel is the journalism program director at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Fla., where he administers the Knight News Challenge, a contest to find digital news innovations that are used to inform communities in a given geographic area. He directed the growth of AOL News into one of the largest news sites on the Internet, with an audience of up to 24 million people each month. He is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in online journalism, which has allowed him to consult about the creation of a digital media curriculum in the Journalism Department at Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. He has been a trainer at the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, and has consulted for various media clients. He has consulted on social networking at NORAD and for the U.S. Department of Defense, and has taught about online news site creation and maintenance for the U.S. State Department in Tunisia and Latvia. At AOL, he also was the director of the largest election and politics site on the Internet and the largest government consumer portal, Government Guide. He is a founding editor of USA TODAY.com and Newsweek.com. He was deputy editor of USA TODAY.com and directed its political coverage during the 1996 presidential election – the first covered by Internet news sites. Before moving to the online world, he was the graphics editor at USA TODAY during the Gulf War, the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.