A media veteran and Web trainer, Amy Eisman is Director of Writing Programs in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. She teaches reporting, writing for convergent media, ethics and created an online course, which explores the influence of business, technology and audience on journalism.

Eisman was an editor with Gannett for 17 years, starting as a cover story editor at USA TODAY. She moved to USA WEEKEND magazine, where she became Executive Editor. Eisman was also a managing editor at AOL and was a Fulbright lecturer on new media in Moscow.

Today she trains newsrooms on Web content and writing. She co-authored, with Professor Larry Gillick, several unique, online training modules for Gannett's news employees nationwide about breaking news online, interactivity and database journalism. She also co-authored a training module for the Knight Citizen News Network, with Professor Wendell Cochran, on tools for citizen journalists. Eisman has taught Web-writing workshops at the washingtonpost.com, The Washington Post, Freedom Forum, the Voice of America, the World Resources Institute, wtopnews.com, NOAA, the Society of American Travel Writers and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and Moscow.