Last Call For 'Early Adopters'...Plus Jess & Jake!
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I also have two more speaker additions to tell you about. Jessica Barron, the "decider" of what goes on Yahoo!'s massively popular homepage, will be rounding out our "New News" panel. More on Jess:
Jess Barron leads a team of producers who choose the entertainment, news, sports, video, and lifestyles content that appears on Yahoo.com, the most visited site on the Internet with over 48 million global unique visitors each day. A pop culture junkie, Jess has been working in online journalism and convergence media for 12 years. Her first job was at Monster.com writing online job search advice aimed at college students. Prior to joining Yahoo!, in the late 1990s Jess worked at Scour.com, an MP3 search engine and peer-to-peer file-sharing community founded by UCLA undergrads and popularized by teens and college students nationwide. Jess holds a B.A. in American culture with a focus on media studies from Vassar College. She has published her website Poprocks.com since 1996. Her writing has appeared on MTV Online, Wired.com, and Yahoo.
And...our closing college panel will be moderated by someone I think we'll be seeing a lot more of -- or at least I know people who stay up extremely late will. His name is Jake Sasseville, and his late, late show "The Edge With Jake Sasseville" is launching February 14th after "Jimmy Kimmel" on a bunch of ABC affiliates around the country. More on Jake:
For the Gen Y audience, 22-year-old Jake Sasseville is the man. Unscripted, offbeat and at times outrageous, he's the new voice of the late night talk show The Edge with Jake Sasseville, which debuts on 40+ ABC affiliate stations around the country on February 14, 2008. The show will reach millions of households, including highly desirable college towns and the New York market via WWOR MY9.
In four short years, Sasseville has brought his show to New York and ABC affiliates from its humble beginnings on Maine public-access TV; traveled the world taping shows, including a trip to Africa that made the news on CNN; built a wide and diverse audience for the show from his tireless promotion, online social networking and blogs; attracted big-name advertisers anxious to reach the 18-to-34 crowd; and founded the Xander Foundation to help children in need. His sponsors currently include Ford Motor Company, Overstock.com, Bed Head and Red Bull.
Jake says, "I'm going to change the world and take my generation along for the ride."
You definitely won't want to leave early...
