Position/Organization: managing editor, New Haven Independent.org and the Online Journalism Project

Melissa Bailey is the managing editor of the Online Journalism Project and the New Haven Independent, which she joined in Feb. '06, six months after its launch. The Independent is funded by topic-specific foundation grants, organization sponsors and individual donors. The Online Journalism Project is a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality 'stand-alone' and 'hyperlocal' news sites on the Internet. Melissa is a 2004 graduate of Yale.