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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Vera Chan<br /> Senior Editor<br /> Yahoo<br /> 701 First Avenue<br /> Sunnyvale CA 94598<br /> 4083492741<br /> vchan@yahoo-inc.com<br /> <br /> Vera Chan is one of the rare breed of writers/editors at Yahoo,<br /> trendspotting and writing stories by analyzing search patterns from<br /> millions of users. Typical of the Gen X labor force, Ms. Chan worked at<br /> computer gaming company and the Asian American Journalists Association<br /> before finally taking her hard-earned M.J. from UC Berkeley to the Contra<br /> Costa Times, where she worked as features reporter/events editor. She<br /> parachuted out of the Knight Ridder family with a buyout a few years<br /> before the chain shut down, and spent several years freelancing for local<br /> newspaper, onlline, and magazine publications before landing at Yahoo!.<br /> <br /> Technology will not save journalism unless journalists and the<br /> businesspeople who run the production of news understand the culture of<br /> information. Journalism hasn&#039;t been helped by the slow adoption of tools,<br /> yet its most egregious example -- the slow adoption of the web -- has to<br /> do more with the one-way delivery of information rather than a<br /> conversation with the public. The cultural shift needs to accelerate, in<br /> which journalists must address outmoded narrative structure, the neglect<br /> of truly local reporting, the nickel-and-diming of services like<br /> obituaries and wedding notices, poor ad sales and so on -- and how<br /> technology is merely the means to effecting long-overdue change and<br /> dialogue.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Jtm-sv-bios]]</div>

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