Top 20 Young News Minds Unveiled

PRESSTIME magazine has revealed this year’s top 20 most innovative young professionals in the newspaper industry.

The publication says its annual “20 Under 40”selection represents some of the brightest minds in America’s news business and this year it includes several new media specialists alongside managers, editors, journalists and advertising executives.

Among the young digital innovators are Mark Briggs from the News Tribune in Washington and Patrick Mullen of the Times Herald-Record in New York.

Briggs pushed the launch of a blog for the Seattle Seahawks American football team, which has gone on to become one of the most popular parts of the news site, and the 38-year-old has also overseen the introduction of interactive databases online.

While 32-year-old Mullen spearheaded the rollout of local search engine HudsonValley.com, which merges all the Herald-Record’s event calendars onto one site.

Profiles of the 20 professionals, including details of some of their most successful innovations, can be viewed online here.

PRESSTIME is published monthly by the Newspaper Association of America.