David E. Carlson is executive director of the Center for Media Innovation + Research at the University of Florida and holds the Cox/Palm Beach Post professorship in new media journalism in the UF College of Journalism and Communications.
A pioneer in the development of interactive news products, I am internationally recognized as one of the foremost experts in the field. I have more than 25 years of experience in daily newspaper journalism and am an experienced consultant, futurist and speaker at international conferences, meetings and symposia.
I have been teaching graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Florida since 1993. My courses are exclusively about online journalism and the future of media. I have lectured at universities in Seoul, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Vladivostok, Tunis, Vienna, London and many other cities.
Before joining UF, I was editor, managing editor, design editor, regional editor, copy editor, reporter and photographer on newspapers with circulations ranging from 7,200 to 430,000. I also was a columnist for national and international magazines, including American Journalism Review, and am a regularly published food and wine critic. I am the author of “The Online Timeline,” the Internet’s most authoritative history of online journalism, featured in the Nieman Reports from Harvard University.
Since 1981, I have been involved in online media. I have given more than 120 presentations on five continents about online journalism and the future of news. I have been called "a pioneer" and the "father of the modern interactive newspaper."
I also am an experienced consultant, having worked with America Online, Apple, Ebay, Microsoft, Prodigy and many others. I served as faculty at the American Press Institute, the Poynter Institute and the University of Florida. I was national president of the Society of Professional Journalists for 2005-06 and have been listed in Who's Who in America from 2005 to present and Who's Who in the World from 2008 to present.
I am a member of the board of directors of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the Florida Society of News Editors and am a past president of the Albuquerque Press Club and SPJ.