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Jane Spencer is an American journalist, and Deputy Editor of Guardian US, where she oversees editorial strategy and newsroom innovation. Previously, she was Editor-in-chief of Fusion Media Group, a millennial-focused cable and digital network owned by Univision. She was one of the founding editors of The Daily Beast , where she worked as Executive Editor until 2012. [1] [2]

Before launching The Daily Beast in 2008, Spencer was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal based in Hong Kong, where she reported on environmental issues and technology. She was part of a team of seven WSJ reporters that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, [3] for a series of stories on China's "Naked Capitalism", which explored the health and environmental consequences of the nation's economic boom. [4]

Spencer was the founding writer of The Wall Street Journal "Weekend Adviser" column in 2004. She covered the September 11 attacks for Newsweek in 2001.

She was awarded a 2013 Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, where she focused on innovation in digital storytelling and new media business models. [5] She has taught multimedia storytelling at the University of California, Berkeley Knight Digital Media Center. [6] Spencer graduated from Brown University, [7] and is a native of Portland, Maine. [8]

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  2. ↑ "Big Changes at Newsweek/The Daily Beast - FishbowlNY". Mediabistro.com. 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  3. 1 2 "Wall Street Journal Wins Pair of Pulitzers - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  4. ↑ "The 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winners: International Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-31. With reprints of ten works (2006 articles) led by Shai Oster and Spencer, "A Poison Spreads Amid China's Boom", WSJ, 2006-09-30.
  5. 1 2 Benton, Joshua (2013-10-24). "Announcing the 75th class of Nieman Fellows » Nieman Journalism Lab". Niemanlab.org. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  6. ↑ "Multimedia Storytelling Institute 2013 | kdmcBerkeley". Multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu. 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  7. ↑ "WBRU - News Station of the Year". Brown Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  8. ↑ "Waynflete School ~ Jane Spencer '94 Wins a Pulitzer Prize". Waynflete.org. 2007-05-25. Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  9. 1 2 "Awards & Accolades | The Asia Edition of The Wall Street Journal - Media Guide 2013". Wsj-asia.com. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
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