Karen E. Peterson
Co-founder and Executive Producer
10Meters.com
Karen E. Peterson, 10Meters.com co-founder and executive producer, is a San Francisco Bay Area journalist and writer. Ms. Peterson was on the staff of the San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade, as a writer, editor and columnist. She later joined the Marin County Independent Journal as Feature Editor managing the editorial and production needs for seven daily and two weekend feature and entertainment sections. As a freelance reporter, Ms. Peterson wrote investigative articles for the Point Reyes (Calif.) Light included in the series that won the weekly paper a Pulitzer Prize for Community Service.
In 1995, Ms. Peterson moved from print to Web-based journalism as editor and producer for Macworld Online, one of the first successful, content-driven Web sites. Ms. Peterson was a panelist on Web site management at Macworld Expo, Boston, 1996, and represented Macword Online at America Online Partner Conferences in Washington, D.C., and Phoenix, Arizona.
Ms. Peterson received a Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award from the American Business Press Association for her work at Macworld Online, and she participated in the Ethics in New Media conference sponsored by the Poynter Institute for Journalism Studies. The 1997 conference was responsible for laying the groundwork for Web publishing standards later adopted by the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
As an author, Ms. Peterson has written young adult fiction, travel guides, and contributed to the IDG guide, "HTML Web Publishing Secrets." She is co-producer of an in-progress video documentary, "Pressed for Time, the Story of a Vanishing Breed, America's Newspaper Printers," which explores the impact of technology on the demise of this 350-year-old American craft.
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