March 11, 2008
Bowling
Green, Ky. - A pioneer in online news publishing will speak at Western Kentucky University next week.
Neil F. Budde will talk about multi-media trends on three occasions in the Mass Media and Technology Hall Auditorium: Tuesday (March 18) at 2:20 p.m.; Wednesday (March 19) at 9:10 a.m. and Thursday (March 20) at 11:10 a.m. While the talks are geared toward students and faculty, they are open to the public.
Budde has 30 years of experience working for newspapers and online publishers. He most recently was vice president and editor in chief of Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Sports.
Budde joined Yahoo! News in November 2004 as general manager and helped build the site into the No. 1 news site on the Internet. He was elected to the board of the Online News Association in October 2005 and became its treasurer in January 2007.
Previously, Budde was the founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online, the largest paid news site on the Internet with nearly 700,000 subscribers at the time he left. His pioneering work on WSJ.com began in early 1993 when he started formulating the original ideas for an online version of The Wall Street Journal.
Budde earned a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from WKU and an MBA from the University of Louisville. In 2005, Budde was one of three inductees into the Western Kentucky University Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
Budde now operates his own photography business, Neil Budde Photography (www.neilbudde.com).
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For more information, contact Pam Johnson, director of the School of Journalism and Broadcasting, (270) 745-4144.
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