Janice  Castro

Senior Director, Graduate Education and Teaching Excellence; Assistant Professor

Janice Castro teaches interactive storytelling, reporting, magazine publishing and media management, and is Medill's Coordinator for the Carnegie-Knight News 21 journalism initiative. Former research fellow at Northwestern's Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, chair of Northwestern's Study Abroad faculty committee, fellow in Northwestern's residential college system. Freelance writer and publishing consultant. Was a reporter, writer and editor for Time Magazine for more than 20 years, won awards for science and business reporting. A start-up editor of Discover Magazine.   Covered politics, arts & entertainment, media, health care, women in business for TIME, contributed to special issues on presidential elections from 1976 through 1996. During the Clinton administration, covered the health care reform process, wrote The American Way of Health (Little, Brown 1994).  Has freelanced for numerous magazines.

Castro headed Time's interactive operations, responsible for online news and community for Time Inc. magazines including People, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated and Money.  Her teams provided Time news services for CompuServe and Microsoft, launched online sites for Time for Kids, Time Asia, Time Europe, Time/CNN AllPolitics.com and AOL-Time news, won numerous national awards for editorial excellence, including honors from the Society for News Design, the White House Press Photographers Association and Editor & Publisher. Founding editorial director, Britannica.com, a top 100 Web site within months of its introduction, widely cited as one of the Web's best sites.  Was a founding officer of the Online News Association, director and first vice president of the Overseas Press Club of America, board member of the Women's Media Group in New York, adviser to Consumers Union's Consumer WebWatch. Co-authored the Consumer Reports WebWatch media credibility guidelines (http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/consumer-reports-webwatch-guidelines.cfm). Co-chairs the board committee on New Media for the Inland Press Association, which represents more than 1,200 member newspapers, and in addition to ONA and OPC is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Association of Women Journalists, the American Association of University Women and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She's a graduate of National Louis University and Kellogg's Advanced Executive Program.  Born in Oakland, California.

Phone

847-467-1770

Email

jcastro@northwestern.edu