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A Marketing Communications expert with both corporate and start-up successes.

C. Renzi Stone talks about the new direction of Public Relations and what it means today.

New media pioneer Ben Ilfeld manages every aspect of the hyper-local Sacramento Press.

Michael Wolff is columnist, Author and Internet pioneer.

Weiss is a renowned strategic thinker and senior executive who provides counsel corporate leaders, boards and high net worth investors worldwide.

The decline of US news companies has led to a call for expanded public media. But in the UK the BBC is blamed for stifling the news market – and it’s shrinking.

Jim Barnett’s education and experience with newspaper and the early nonprofit newsroom prepared him well for being the in-house expert on nonprofit business model in journalism for the AARP.

Andrew’s background in international journalism, technology and small business provided an ideal background for the Center for American Progress’s goal of providing long-term leadership and support to the progressive movement and developing thoughtful policy proposals.

Here they are: the winners of the 2010 We Media Game Changer Awards. Meet them all at We Media Miami, March 9-11.

Alberto Ibargüen is President and CEO of The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, a leading supporter of journalism in the digital age.

The next 20 people who register to attend We Media Miami will receive a copy of David’s book, Be The Media. It’s an encyclopedic collection of pointers, recommendations and insights on how anyone can produce and distribute media. Click here to register now.

Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media also teaches Digital Marketing and is a regular contributor to a wide range of sites and reports.

APIs are all about explosive, viral distribution and use of content anywhere – and building businesses around that use. Mashery’s co-founder and CEO, Oren Michels, will talk more about APIs and how they are driving new digital businesses in a conversation at We Media Miami, March 9-11, 2010.

Richard Sambrook, director of BBC Global News since 2004, is saying goodbye to one of the world’s most influential jobs in journalism, and hello to, what should I say – the murky, spin-meisterly, lucrative? – world of public relations. Or should that be creative, innovative and transformational?

Jessica Clark is a long-time advocate of independent media with a wide variety of projects and programs on media and communication.