Milverton Wallace - ciber associate, NetMedia, new media

Research interests and expertise

Online journalism, digital transition.

Biography

Milverton is the founder and organiser of the annual NetMedia conference on the Media and the Internet, Europe's premier Internet conference for journalists and media managers. (see www.net-media.co.uk). He is managing director of Quixa NetMedia, a digital media conference organiser.

In January 1999 he launched the European Online Journalism Awards, a competition which aims to contribute to the establishment of the rules of good journalism on the Web.

Wallace taught news writing, production design, Internet research and web authoring in the Department of Journalism, City University, London from 1992-2000.

Before joining City University he was London Desk Editor of South magazine (1980-84), Production Manager of the Third World Quarterly (1984-88) and Editor of the Jamaica Record (1988-91), a daily newspaper, published in Kingston, Jamaica.

Wallace has extensive experience in magazine and newspaper journalism, print production and book design. He obtained a BA in Communications at Sheffield Hallam University (1979) and an MA in Publishing and Bibliography at Leeds University (1980).

He is a keen student of incunabula, typography and printing technology.

Contact details

E-mail: msw@net-media.co.uk
Telephone: 020 7637 7097
Mobile: 07771 861 906