Shayne Bowman

Shayne Bowman, who¹s been working in the media busines for 15 years, is a principal of Hypergene Media Solutions, a media consulting and design firm.

He is the co-author of several whitepapers on participatory journalism: ³We
Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information http://www.hypergene.net/wemedia/weblog.php ,² ³Amazoning The News http://www.hypergene.net/ideas/amazon.html ² and ³Playing the News.² He writes regularly about participatory journalism on Hypergene MediaBlog http:// www.hypergene.net/blog/. He is also the co-author of  ³Designing Web Sites That Sell http://www.hypergene.net/book/index.html² by Peachpit Press (2002). 
 
Previously he was Chief of Development for Belo Interactive, establishing practices of design, content and production for national network of the 25 local web sites under the Belo umbrella. Bowman also was a co-founder and Art Director of Hour Detroit Magazine an award-winning city magazine in Michigan. In addition, he worked for The Detroit News, The Los Angeles Times and The Burlington Free Press. Bowman is a graduate of the journalism program at Auburn University and a fellow of The Poynter Institute¹s news design program.