New York City’s first Chief Digital Officer : Rachel Sterne (via neighborhoodr)
Really cool:
It’s been six months since the Bloomberg Administration created the role of Chief Digital Officer, and they’ve been combing resumes since to fill the spot. Today they did, naming Rachel Sterne, the 27-year-old founder of citizen journalism site GroundReport and an adjunct professor of social media and entrepreneurship at the Columbia Business School.
Katherine Oliver, the mayor’s office of media and entertainment commissioner, had posted a job description on the city’s site asking for someone who can “help develop forward-thinking policies on social media, digital communications, web 2.0 initiatives and other tools to better serve the public,” and get a salary between $75,000 to $125,000 per year.
If I’m making that much money in four years, I’d probably have tears in my eyes, too.
(via bbbrad)