Joshua Benton is director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, an effort to help journalism adapt to the Internet age, which he founded in 2008.

Before that, Josh came from newspapers. He was by turns an investigative reporter, columnist, foreign correspondent, and rock critic for two newspapers, The Dallas Morning News and The Toledo Blade. Josh also came from the web, building his first websites in 1994, starting an early blog in 1999, and spending his career advocating for a news ecosystem that combines the best of old and new worlds.

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