2009 SPEAKERSMODERATORS

Steven Brill is the founder of Brill’s Content and the co-founder of Press+. Brill conceived of Press+ as a new company offering an innovative system for newspaper, magazine, and other online publishers to realize revenue from the digital distribution of the original journalism they produce. For the last eight years, Brill has taught a seminar for aspiring journalists at Yale College. In 2006, Brill and his wife, Cynthia, expanded that seminar by endowing the Yale Journalism Initiative. In 2009, Brill began teaching a seminar at Yale Law School covering modern media law issues. Throughout his career, Brill has founded The American Lawyer, launched Court TV, and founded Brill’s Content. Brill also wrote AFTER (Simon & Schuster, 2003), about the aftermath of 9/11, while also serving as a Newsweek columnist and NBC consultant on the same subject.