cseper

I want change in my industry: journalism. I've launched a new-media enterprise called MedCity News, that creates content for people who care about health care.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where I worked for two years.

I want the best of "old" journalism to embrace all the great things in new media, and for journalists to see all the opportunities in new media and claim them.

Chris Seper is a serial innovator whose idea for MedCity News came after spending years innovating within the newspaper industry. While serving as The Plain Dealer’s awarding-winning technology reporter, he became the first member of the staff to blog. Later he became the paper’s first online medical editor, responsible for creating destination sections for consumer health and health-care business and advising the paper’s online editor on topics including social media. While at The Plain Dealer, he created and prototyped a weekly newspaper to be distributed free in area high schools, and proposed products ranging from a Wikified database of traffic data to an interactive fantasy sports network for the entire Advance Publications newspaper chain. Chris’ byline has appeared in The Plain Dealer and Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as The Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor while working as a journalist in Cambodia. He holds a master’s degree in journalism and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Eastern Illinois University.