Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis join Postmedia’s new digital advisory board

Postmedia Network Inc. has recruited online experts Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Janet Bannister and Judy Simms to its new digital advisory
board.

The board is headed by Postmedia’s executive VP, digital, Malcolm Kirk, and will “help enhance the company’s ‘digital first’ strategy,”  according to a Postmedia story.

Rosen is the author of journalism site PressThink and is a professor at New York University’s school of journalism. Bannister is the founder of online classifieds site Kijiji Canada. Jarvis, a j-prof at the City University of New York, writes media news site Buzz Machine and heads up the school’s newly-launched Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. Sims is the COO of CanSport LIVE, a Toronto-based start-up, and former VP digital media of Toronto Star Media Group, where she managed thestar.com and Toronto.com.