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Rich Jaroslovsky, United States of America

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Speaker at conference session Trust, credibility and all those things

Abstract:
Some highlights from the Online News Association's Digital Journalism Credibility Study.

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Participant at conference session Fact&Fiction: Multi media coverage in crisis time

Bio:
Rich Jaroslovsky is a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal with news, management and administrative responsibilities.

Prior to assuming his current responsibilities in June 2001, Mr. Jaroslovsky had been managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online and executive director, editorial, of Dow Jones Consumer Electronic Publishing. The Online Journal provides the Journal, its international editions and other Dow Jones news and information to subscribers on the Internet.

Mr. Jaroslovsky joined Dow Jones in 1975 as a Journal reporter in the Cleveland bureau. He transferred to Washington, D.C., in 1976. In 1981, he became the Journal's White House correspondent, and he was co-winner of the 1983 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for his White House coverage. In 1985, he was named national political editor in Washington where he wrote the weekly, page-one column, "Washington Wire;" edited the daily Politics & Policy page and the bureau's political, White House and congressional stories; and was responsible for The Wall Street Journal/NBC News Polls.

In May 1994, Mr. Jaroslovsky was named the first managing editor of the Online Journal with responsibility for refining plans for the edition and for organizing and managing its news operation. A prototype, Money & Investing Update, was introduced via the Internet in July 1995. The complete online edition was launched April 1996, and Mr. Jaroslovsky assumed additional responsibilities as executive director, editorial, of Interactive Publishing in April 2000.

Mr. Jaroslovsky founded and was elected the first president of the Online News Association, an organization of journalists dedicated to promoting excellence in digital journalism. From 1997 to 1999, he commuted to North Carolina to teach at Duke University’s Sanford Institute of Public Policy on the impact of the Internet. He is currently on the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In December 2000, he delivered the second annual Hearst Foundation New Media Lecture at Columbia.

A California native, Mr. Jaroslovsky received a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor in chief of the Stanford Daily.

Mr. Jaroslovsky and his wife, Mindy Seltzer, have two children.