Point Reyes Light - December 30, 1999
Former Light reporter named Miami Herald exec
A former reporter and editor at The Point Reyes Light, Janine Warner, 32, this week was named director of New Media for The Miami Herald.
As such, she will oversee The Herald's dozen websites in English and Spanish and will manage a staff of about 50.
The main websites include www.herald.com, http://www.herald.com, www.elherald.com and www.miami.com.
Warner learned Spanish while studying journalism at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the combination proved ideal for her present work.
Warner worked for The Light from 1990 through 1992 and traveled to Jalostotítlan with Light columnist Víctor Reyes to cover immigration from southern Mexico to Point Reyes.
The resulting series and her other reporting on West Marin's Latino community contributed to a number of Public Service awards for The Light in statewide judging by the California Newspaper Publishers' Association.
When The Light for six months published a bilingual monthly, La Luz, Warner was the English-language editor and Reyes was the Spanish-language editor.
After that venture proved too expensive, she left The Light and with Reyes published a bilingual monthly, Visión Latina, for a year and a half. Although Visión Latina won its own Public Service award from the Marin Community Foundation, that periodical too was forced to close because of financial problems.
Warner then began learning how to build websites, and in 1995, she - working with Sheila Castelli and Cynthia Mitchell of Point Reyes Station - developed The Light's website, launching her on her present career.
While continuing to develop websites for other businesses, Warner wrote six computer books, including the popular Dreamweaver for Dummies.
For the past 15 months, she has been the online managing editor for The Miami Herald where her websites this year won the industry's Eppy Award; the runners up were The Christian Science Monitor's and The Santa Rosa Press Democrat's websites.
Because Miami is a bilingual city, Warner's knowledge of Spanish, journalism, and the Internet helped lead to her being chosen to "head The Herald's online team of editors, designers, technical and advertising staff and manage all of the company's websites," in the words of a Herald announcement.