junecohen

The official bio .... June Cohen has been at the leading edge of new media for the last 15 years, producing innovative work oft-cited for its influence on the industry. In her current role, as Director of TED Media, she's been responsible for bringing the legendary TED Conference online. In 2006, she produced TEDTalks, the groundbreaking podcast series that first made the conference talks available to the world, and in 2007, she led the widely acclaimed redesign of TED.com. As a result, TEDTalks have now been viewed more than 25 million times worldwide, and are widely regarded as the gold standard in online video. She also co-produces and co-hosts the annual conference, edits the TEDBlog, and is at work on several new extensions to the TED brand.

In 1991, June led the Stanford University team that developed the world’s first multimedia magazine (It was built in HyperCard, using just-released QuickTime for video, and distributed over the campus network). It attracted international news coverage as a harbinger of things to come. Then, in 1994, she helped launch HotWired.com, the pioneering website from Wired Magazine, which introduced many of the conventions now commonplace on the web (from ad banners to comments on news stories to the concept of "membership"). She originated "Net Surf," one of the web’s proto-blogs, and in 1996, founded Webmonkey.com, the much-loved developers’ site still used by millions. From 1997-2000, she helped lead HotWired to profitability as VP of Content, overseeing all creative development on sites, from Animation Express to the HotBot search engine.

In 2003, June published The Unusually Useful Web Book, which was hailed by critics as “an instant classic” and translated into four languages. She's at work on her second book, exploring the trends in media, technology and culture that she covers in her blog, Media Habit (mediahabit.typepad.com).

June holds a BA in political science from Stanford, where she was Editor in Chief of The Stanford Daily.