Artesian Media, Inc.
Building on 20+ years of experience in journalism, video production, web development, training, and consulting, partners Janine Warner and David LaFontaine founded Artesian Media, Inc., in January 2008. Today they work with a team of consultants on a variety of web design, consulting, and training projects.
Partners
Janine Warner is an author, journalist, and partner in the Internet consulting firm Artesian Media. Her best-selling books and videos on web design have won her an international following and earned her speaking and consulting engagements around the world.
Janine has taught as a part-time faculty member at both the University of Miami and the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication. She has also developed online training programs for the Western Knight Center.
Since 1996, she has authored more than a dozen books about the Internet, including, Web Sites Do-It-Yourself For Dummies and Dreamweaver For Dummies (now in its 8th edition). She's also the host of a series of Web design videos for Total Training. Highlights of her videos are featured on both the Microsoft and Adobe web sites.
From 1994 to 1998, she ran Visiontec Communications, a Web design business in Northern California, which served a diverse group of clients, including Levi Strauss & Co. and AirTouch International.
Photo by W. Marc Salsberry
Since 2001, Janine has run her own business as a writer, speaker, and consultant. She is a popular speaker at conferences and events throughout the United States, and her fluency in Spanish has led to many speaking engagements in Latin America and Spain. She served as a judge for the Arroba de Oro Latin American Internet awards from 2001 to 2005. As part of that project, she helped to create an Internet literacy program for students in Central America called Operación Red (Operation Network).
Janine began her career as a reporter at the Pulitzer Prize-winning Point Reyes Light newspaper in 1990. She was also managing editor of Vision Latina, a bilingual (Spanish-English) newspaper in Northern California until 1994. She speaks fluent Spanish and is conversational in Portuguese.
For more, visit Janine's Web sites:
Professional site: www.JCWarner.com
Training site: www.DigitalFamily.com
David LaFontaine has more than 20 years experience as a journalist, editor, and multimedia producer working on a variety of projects in film, television, print, radio, and the Internet.
He is a partner in Artesian Media, an Internet consulting firm, and the Managing Editor of the “Audience Planbook,” an effort by the Newspaper Association of America to build a living document that will guide newspapers through the process of developing new, more profitable products.
David has produced a series of case studies for the NAA, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), and the Online Journalism Review (OJR.org). He’s also a popular blogger whose work can be found on Sips from the Fire Hose, LA Voice, and Hard News Inc.
His foray into “New Media” began in 1998, when he co-founded the Single Parent Magazine. He also worked as Managing Editor for Filmson.com, a film and video Web site that helped shape the evolution of streaming media.
From 2000 to 2002, Dave worked on a 2-year investigative project for ABC’s PrimeTime. Over the past several years, he has studied and experimented with the best methods of combining audio, video, still photos, and plain old text to capture and retain modern readers.
In the early 90s, David covered politics and entertainment in Los Angeles, writing for a variety of publications, including Star Magazine, News of the World, Daily People, Oggi, Voici, Bild Zeitung, Hello, New Idea, and Women's Weekly. That experience led him to write a tell-all book called The Poison Pen, which was published by Dove Books in 1996.
Prior to that, David was the managing editor of the Caracas Daily Journal and then freelanced stories from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, El Salvador, and Guatemala. He speaks fluent Spanish and worked as an editor and reporter in Latin America for nearly three years. David won a Pulliam Fellowship that helped him start his career at the Arizona Republic in 1987.
For more, visit Dave's Web sites:
We work with many consultants, including:
David Mitchell is editor and publisher emeritus of The Point Reyes Light newspaper. In 1979, The Light won the Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service for an exposé largely written by Mitchell of the increasingly violent Synanon cult.
Mitchell retired in November 2005 after 35 years of newspapering, 27 of those at The Light. During his newspaper career, he also worked for the old San Francisco Examiner, Sonora’s Daily Union Democrat in the Sierra Nevada, and Council Bluff’s daily newspaper, The Nonpareil. In addition, he edited the weekly Sebastopol (California) Times.
Mitchell holds a master’s degree in Communications and a bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University. He is 64 and lives in Point Reyes Station on the rural coast north of San Francisco.
Read David's blog: sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/
Grecia Levy graduated from the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino with a degree in Literary Translation.
For almost ten years, she worked exclusively in the translating, subtitling, and dubbing of films, thus obtaining mastery of the everyday languages and argots of an array of places and social groups.
After living in London for several years, she broadened her field of expertise and worked widely in marketing, education, IT, art, architecture, urbanism, the media, and tourism. Her published translations include El Manual del Niño Peronista (The Textbook of the Peronist Child) by Daniel Santoro, which was awarded Art Book of the Year by AACA/AICA and the Spanish version for several books of the popular For Dummies series, published by Wiley Publishing Inc.
She has also created the English version of prestigious Argentine films and commercials.
To learn more, visit www.word-it.com.ar.
Davi Cheng is a graphic designer and digital artist.
She has worked as a marketing graphic designer for Yahoo Inc., nonprofit organizations, synagogues, and educational, research, and development agencies.
Her experience includes creating customized logos, marketing and advertising materials, digital graphics, and a public art installation—a 12-pane stained glass window.
Davi lives in Los Angeles with Bracha, her college sweetheart of 28 years.
Jeff Hamlett is a web designer and programmer who specializes in developing sites using the WordPress CMS. He runs his own design firm at http://ocupop.com/ and has collaborated on a variety of projects with Artesian Media, Inc.
Jeff’s passion for smart, accessible design and technology, motivates him to stay current on all of the latest acronyms that make up the World Wide Web.
Jeff spent seven years working in a full-time position doing web-based projects and caring for Mac-based technology for the Offices of Publications and Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while managing numerous freelance projects.
He began his education with a major in fine art, but after discovering the Macintosh and World Wide Web, he shifted to a degree in Visual Communications.
Malinda McCain is an experienced editor who as comfortable editing on the web as she is on paper.
Her projects have included books, magazine articles, course materials, and web sites (working around HTML code as needed).
She specializes in communication and marketing, academics, fiction, and computer software manuals and books.
She has worked for a variety of clients, including
- Addison-Wesley, Inc., Reading, Massachusetts
- Adobe Curriculum and Professional Development, San Francisco, California
- Guideposts Publishing, New York, New York
- IDG Books Worldwide, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Macmillan Computer Publishing, Indianapolis, Indiana
To learn more, visit www.ShareWords.com