Jane Stevens became director of online strategies at The World Company in Lawrence, Kan., after completing a nine-month fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

Prior to that, she was editorial director of Oceans Now, associate faculty at the University of California-Berkeley's Knight Digital Media Center, taught multimedia reporting at UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and consulted with news organizations making the transition to a webcentric world.

She was part of the first group of videojournalists at New York Times Television, and did multimedia reporting for The New York Times, Discovery Channel and MSNBC.com. She’s worked for the Boston Globe and San Francisco Examiner as copy editor, assistant foreign/national editor, Sunday magazine writer, and science/technology reporter and columnist. She founded a syndicated science and technology feature service with 20 newspaper clients worldwide, including the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post and Asahi Shimbun's AERA Magazine. For four years, she lived and worked in Kenya and Indonesia.

She has a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in communications from the University of Georgia.