Nora Paul

Nora Paul is the director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, School of Journalism and Mass Communication.  From 1991 to 2000 Nora was with the Poynter Institute, a mid-career journalism training program in St. Petersburg, FL, where she held seminars in news library management, computer-assisted research, and new media leadership. She was editor for information services at the Miami Herald from 1979-1991.  Nora is the author of Computer Assisted Research: A guide to tapping online information, and co-author of Great Scouts:  Cyber-guides for subject searching on the web and Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators, and editor of Digital Think.  Her work at the Institute focuses on the impact of the new media environment on content and evolving digital storytelling forms. Initiatives she runs at the Institute include the Game Research and Virtual Environment Lab (GRAVEL) and the Digital Story Effects Lab (DiSEL).