Jessica Clark is an internationally recognized expert on the transformation of independent and public journalism. 

She has served as a source and speaker for numerous conferences and outlets—including ABC, NBC, PBS, Newsweek, Voice of America, the BBC, SXSW and multiple NPR stations—on issues related to public and social media, telecom policy and the future of news. 

The co-author of  Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (Free Press, 2010), Clark is a Scholar in Residence at American University’s School of Communications, and a  a Knight Media Policy Fellow at the New America Foundation. She works as a consultant to foundations, and innovative transmedia projects such as the Public Media Corps and Localore—an initiative of AIR, where she currently serves as the organization’s media strategist. 

From 2007-mid 2011, Clark directed the Future of Media Project for American University’s Center for Social Media, co-authoring the influential 2009 report Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Engaged Publics, organizing events such as the Beyond Broadcast conference and the national PubCamps, and writing regularly for PBS MediaShift. She has conducted related research on the transformation of journalism for the Open Society Foundations, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  

Clark is the former executive editor of In These Times—a national, award-winning monthly political magazine. Her articles have appeared in a range of print and online outlets, including The San Francisco Chronicle, The American Prospect, The Ottawa Citizen and South Africa’s Wireless. She holds an MA in Social Sciences and a BA in English from the University of Chicago.