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Postmedia Network Announces Digital Advisory Board

"We are thrilled to announce this A-list team of innovative industry thinkers and welcome them to the Postmedia family," said Paul Godfrey, President and CEO. "Our Board of Directors and senior management team will benefit from their insights and will advise on our company's digital strategy."

Members of the Postmedia Digital Advisory Board:

Janet Bannister

Janet Bannister is an entrepreneurial executive and principal of JBannister Consulting. She founded and built Kijiji Canada to become the No. 1 online classifieds site and one of the most visited websites in Canada, and led the global business for Kijiji, managing operations in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. A successful leader of Canadian and global businesses in online classifieds and auctions, Bannister previously held positions with McKinsey & Company where she was an accomplished strategy consultant and as a marketing leader at Procter & Gamble.

Jeff Jarvis

Author of What Would Google Do? and the upcoming Public Parts, Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news at Buzzmachine.com. He directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is co-host of the This Week in Google podcast. He consults for media companies. Until 2005, Jarvis was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications. Prior to that, he was creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic for TV Guide and People; a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner; assistant city editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune and a reporter for Chicago Today.

Jay Rosen

Jay Rosen has been on the journalism faculty at New York University since 1986; from 1999 to 2005 he served as chair of the department. He lives in New York City. Rosen is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003. In July 2006 he announced NewAssignment.Net, his experimental site for pro-am, open source reporting projects. The first one was called Assignment Zero, a collaboration with Wired.com. A second project was OfftheBus.Net with the Huffington Post. Rosen has also been a member of the Wikipedia Advisory Board. In 1999, Yale University Press published his book, What Are Journalists For?, which is about the rise of the civic journalism movement. From 1993 to 1997 he was the director of the Project on Public Life and the Press, funded by the Knight Foundation.

Judy Sims

Judy Sims is the COO of the CanSport LIVE digital platform, a Toronto based start-up where she is responsible for the development and implementation of the company's strategic plan.

Previously, as the Vice President, Digital Media for the Toronto Star Media Group, Judy was responsible for online strategy and profitability. In addition to managing thestar.com and Toronto.com she created and launched Wheels.ca, parentcentral.ca, yourhome.ca and healthzone.ca. Prior to working in the online world, Judy spent over 10 years in the print media industry. In 2005, as the Director, New Ventures and Innovation for the Toronto Star, Judy launched and led "Weekly Scoop" , Canada's first weekly newsstand celebrity magazine.

"We will continue to welcome new voices and ideas that move our digital first transformation forward," said Godfrey. "The Digital Advisory Board will guide and challenge us to accelerate our digital strategy as we work to define the Canadian media landscape."

About Postmedia Network

Postmedia Network Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Postmedia Network Canada Corp., is the largest publisher by circulation of paid English-language daily newspapers in Canada, representing some of the country's oldest and best known media brands. Reaching millions of Canadians every week, Postmedia Network engages readers and offers advertisers and marketers integrated solutions to effectively reach target audiences through a variety of print, online, digital, and mobile platforms.

Postmedia Network
Phyllise Gelfand
Director of Communications
(416) 442-2936
pgelfand@postmedia.com