Anastasia Goodstein

Anastasia Goodstein launched the viewer-created content (VC2) program online at Current TV, a new network for 18- to-34-year-olds founded by former Vice President Al Gore. She also runs an award-winning blog about youth media and marketing called Ypulse.com (www.ypulse.com), which has been mentioned in USA TODAY, Fast Company, Forbes and BusinessWeek. Ms. Goodstein was one of the first graduates of Medill's new media program at Northwestern University where she earned an MSJ in 1999. Since then, she has worked for Oxygen media, where she developed the POV-J (Point of View Journalist) program in which teens were given cameras and asked to tell stories from their point of view. She also worked for AOL, where she was instrumental in integrating Time Warner content into AOL's Web properties, and ran the TV and Movie channels for Netscape. . Goodstein is working on a book about teens and technology called "Totally Wired," which will be published by St. Martin's Press in winter/spring 2007.