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About Jay Small

SI Administrator — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:10:32 +0000

Jay Small is an interactive/online executive geared for customer-centered innovation and business growth.

He has succeeded in recent years as an Internet business strategist, product innovator, information designer, marketer, consultant, writer and editor.

His professional career began in 1985, but Small started learning about media much earlier -- growing up in the third generation of a family of small-town newspaper executives.

Small is general manager of the Newspapers Interactive Group at the E.W. Scripps Co., where he has served as an executive since early 2005. Working with 15 newspaper-based sites and a "get things done" approach, he directs product managers, project managers, business analysts, user experience and search marketing specialists. His teams oversee vertical advertising products, newspaper.com site management and content management architectures, project management, audience development and analytics, user research, niche product development, and enterprise-scale projects such as local search services, syndication and consumer profile/behavior applications.

He also operates Small Initiatives, a consultancy and blog advancing Internet strategic development with a focus on customer experience. SI clients include the Newspaper Association of America, the Lumina Foundation for Education, the American Press Institute, Central Newspapers Inc., The Santa Fe New Mexican, The National Post of Canada, UT Federal Credit Union and a global pharmaceuticals manufacturer.

Career history

A 1984 graduate of Southern Illinois University, Small started as a copy editor and designer at The Sun/The Daily Herald of Biloxi, Miss., in 1985. In six months, he was promoted to copy desk chief. Small then moved to The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., as a designer. By 1987, he was promoted to design editor, and led a redesign of that newspaper in early 1988.

Later that year, Small moved to Denver as a page designer at the Rocky Mountain News. In three years, he reorganized and managed Scitex imaging operations, executed a redesign of the newspaper, and was promoted to art director.

In 1991, Small became art director at The Indianapolis Star, where he reorganized the design operations and redesigned the paper. That project won an Award of Excellence from the Society for News Design, first ever for the paper. He also joined the SND board of directors during this tenure.

In 1995, Small took on the challenge of developing interactive media services and businesses for Indianapolis Newspapers, Inc. As general manager of online services, he built the interactive team and managed development of StarNews.com (now IndyStar.com), the newspaper's main site; SpeedNet, a leading auto racing news site; Indiana's Game, a basketball news service; Colts Central, covering Indiana's NFL team; and CircleCity.com, an Indianapolis city guide.

During that time, he participated in and then directed development of WorkAvenue.com, an employer/jobseeker matching service designed to complement newspapers' classified ads. WorkAvenue came about from a consortium of six media companies; at its peak, seven large papers operated the service profitably.

Small took a breather from newspapers in 1999 to develop a consulting practice in Internet business strategy, tools and methods, as part of Evantage Consulting of Minneapolis. In 2000, he joined Thomson Multimedia, at the time the maker of RCA-brand consumer electronics products, as manager of digital media services. His team was charged with developing consumer service business opportunities and partnerships for digital media devices. Small's team focused on development of server solutions, audience analytics, digital publishing, audio, video and imaging services -- including innovative work with early e-book reading devices.

In 2001, Small joined Belo Interactive as regional director of news and operations. He led Internet teams at Belo sites in eight metropolitan markets. He reengineered site architectures and designs for all 18 Belo news sites in 2003. That year, BI promoted him to director of product development, responsible for strategic product innovation across the enterprise. He led projects to rebuild GuideLive.com and build QuickDFW.com in Dallas and Quick6.com in Phoenix.

The work of Small's teams at Scripps is evident in sites such as KnoxNews.com, TCPalm.com and Redding.com.

Small served on the board of directors and audience development committee for the Digital Media Federation, Newspaper Association of America. He also serves on the program advisory board for the Digital Arts and Design curriculum at Full Sail Real World Education, Orlando, Fla. And he served as adjunct faculty in the journalism and visual arts programs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

He is pursuing an MBA at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, anticipating graduation in 2009.

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SI Administrator — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:09:27 +0000

Updated November 2007

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