Rebecca McKinnon

Co-founder of Global Voices Online –www.globalvoicesonline.org
Rebecca’s blog – rconversation.blogs.com

30 Second Rundown:

McKinnon is an Assistant Professor teaching new media at the University of Hong Kong’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre with an impressive background as a TV journalist for CNN in Asia. She is also the co-founder of Global Voices Online, an award-winning international citizens’ media community in which she still remains involved with. McKinnon is also on the Advisory Boards of the Wikimedia Foundation and Policy Innovations.

Why She Matters:

Global Voices Online brings topics that the English speaking media often ignores to open discussion and calls attention to the most interesting conversations and perspectives emerging from around the world. In addition, Global Voices Online is a Top 500 Blog on Technorati, as well as being a Top 25k site on Alexa.