June Cohen, Director, TED Media
A TEDster since 1998, June joined the TED staff in 2005, and has been focused on thoughtfully extending the conference in new media directions. She led the development of TEDTalks (the ground-breaking podcast series that launched June 2006). She also produces TED's year-round salons, edits the TEDBlog, and co-produces the conference in Monterey. She first attended TED in 1998, and joined the staff in 2005.
A journalist by training, June's been at the forefront of innovative media for nearly 15 years. In 1991, she led the Stanford University team that developed the world’s first multimedia publication. Then, in 1994, she helped launch HotWired.com, the world’s first professional website (and spin-off of Wired Magazine). So she was in the room when the first ad banner went live on the web. While at HotWired, she wrote "Net Surf," one of the web’s first blogs, and documented such historical moments as the launch of Amazon.com. She also founded Webmonkey.com, the much-loved web-developers’ site used by millions. Later, as HotWired’s VP of Content, she played a key role on a range of innovative and profitable sites, from Animation Express to the HotBot search engine. Her first book, The Unusually Useful Web Book, was hailed by critics as "an instant classic" and translated into four languages. June holds a BA from Stanford, where she was Editor in Chief of The Stanford Daily. She now lives in New York, where she occasionally talks about things other than the Web. [Back to the TEDBlog]
