Janice Castro
Janice Castro, News 21 Coordinator for Medill, is Medill's senior director, graduate education and teaching excellence, and an assistant professor of journalism. Prior to joining Northwestern in 2000, Castro was a reporter, writer and editor for Time Magazine for more than 20 years. She was a launch editor for Discover and several other Time Inc. start-ups. The author of Time cover stories and special reports on politics, health care, media business, women in business and arts and entertainment, she also contributed to Time special issues on every presidential election from 1976 through 1996. As Time's senior health care correspondent, she covered the Clinton health care reform process and authored The American Way of Health (Little, Brown 1994). She has written for numerous magazines in the news, media, science and entertainment fields.
Castro headed Time's interactive operations for five years and was responsible for online news and community for Time Inc. magazines including People, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated and Money. She supervised the design and launch of Time's news services for CompuServe, Pointcast and Microsoft, directed teams that launched online sites for Time for Kids, Time Asia, Time Europe, Time Digital, Time/CNN AllPolitics.com and TIME-AOL news. Her online teams won numerous national awards for editorial excellence, including honors from the Society for News Design, the White House Press Photographers Association and Editor & Publisher. Castro managed editorial partnerships for Time Inc. with The Associated Press, Reuters, America Online, Yahoo!, Apple, Microsoft and others, and represented Time Warner at the White House Summit on Child Safety and the Internet in 1998. In 1999, she was launch editorial director for Britannica.com, a top 100 site. A founding officer of the Online News Association, Castro also has served as director and first vice president of the Overseas Press Club of America, adviser to Consumers Union's Consumer WebWatch (and co-author of the WebWatch Credibility Guidelines) and a director of the Women's Media Group in New York. She is co-chair of the Inland Press Association's board committee on Digital Media.
At Medill, Castro teaches new media, media management, magazine publishing and reporting. She has served as a research fellow at Northwestern's Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, headed Northwestern's Study Abroad faculty committee and serves as a fellow in Northwestern's Residential College system. She's a graduate of National Louis University and Kellogg's Advanced Executive Program.
