Deborah Potter is the founder and executive director of NewsLab (www.newslab.org), an online resource center for journalists, and is a veteran reporter, writer and educator.

Deborah leads workshops for journalists in newsrooms around the world and online, dealing primarily with multimedia storytelling and digital journalism issues. She is co-author of Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World, published by CQ Press. Among her other publications are the Handbook of Independent Journalism; and Ready, Set, Lead: The Resource Guide for News Managers.

Since 2000, Deborah has been a featured columnist for American Journalism Review and is also a contributing correspondent for the PBS television program Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. She turned her focus to journalism training after spending more than 20 years in television news, including 16 as a network correspondent for CBS News and CNN, covering the White House, State Department, Congress, national politics and environmental issues.

Deborah founded NewsLab in 1998 after teaching journalism at American University in Washington, D.C., and at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. She is the former head of the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, the research and training arm of the largest U.S. association for electronic journalists. She has a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's from American University. She is based in Washington, D.C.