Jennifer Carroll

Ms. Carroll works with newspapers throughout Gannett in developing strategy, readership and content initiatives in new media. She helped conceive and launch Gannett’s Information Center, a model transforming the way newsrooms gather and disseminate news and information across all media platforms.  She also works on convergence across Gannett’s Broadcast and Digital divisions.

She joined the News Department in 2000 as Director/News Development and was named to her current role in 2006. Previously, she had top editing roles including managing editor of the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal and The Detroit News, and was executive editor of The Burlington (VT.)  Free Press. Ms. Carroll was a member of API's Newspaper Next task force researching innovative industry business models in 2006, served on the advisory board of API’s Media Center, and is on the board of iFOCOS, the Institute for the Connected Society. She was named Gannett’s Corporate Staffer of the Year in 2006, and was a co-winner of the Chairman’s Special Achievement Award in 2007 for her work designing and implementing the Information Center.  Ms. Carroll received a B.A. from Michigan State University.

Ms. Carroll has attended API seminars “Suburban and Community News Coverage” (1988), “Senior Newsroom Executives” (1993), Executive Development Program (1997), “Digital News Management (2003), “MediaMorphosis” (2004), “Authenticity: The Retreat for Women” (2004), “We Media: Behold the Power of We” (2005), “Newspaper Next: The Transformation Project” (2006), “We Media London” (2006), and “Newspaper Next Symposium II” (2006).