SXSW 2012

Owner
Coats2Coats
Janet Coats is CEO of Coats2Coats, a consulting firm focused on helping clients realize a media future that is mobile, participatory and profitable. She also is the New Media Journalism Initiative Manager for The Patterson Foundation, an independent charitable grant-making foundation based in Sarasota, Fla. The New Media Journalism Initiative is exploring ways to enable innovation in the community-journalism arena. A graduate of the University of Missouri, she worked as a reporter and editor at papers in Texas, Florida, Virginia and Kansas. As executive editor of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and later The Tampa Tribune, she was a leader in building newsrooms that focused on multi-platform journalism.