Title: Senior Project Director

Organization: American Society of News Editors

Diana Mitsu Klos joined the American Society of News Editors in 1996 and was promoted to senior project director in 2000. As the force behind project development, grant-writing and entrepreneurial efforts totaling $15 million, Klos's leadership has made a significant impact on youth journalism, continuing education for high school teachers, and media and news literacy.

Klos and ASNE colleagues Craig Branson and Connie Southard created and run my.hsj.org, a high profile hub for teen multimedia news. The sites supported by my.hsj.org act as learning laboratories for news literacy, and benefit news consumers as well as fledgling journalists. The team also oversees an education destination site, hsj.org. Both are funded by the Knight Foundation. The Reynolds High School Journalism Institute is the most comprehensive training available to high school teachers and is funded by the Donald W.
Reynolds Foundation.

A creative strategist, ideas generator, advocate, coalition builder, facilitator and presenter, Klos's work on this initiative has been recognized by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association, which awarded her a Gold Key in 2007, and AEJMC's Scholastic Journalism Division, which presented her with the Robert P. Knight Multicultural Award in 2004.

She is on the boards of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund. She is also a long-time member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Prior to ASNE, Klos was an award-winning journalist who served as managing editor of the Poughkeepsie (NY) Journal, city editor of the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin, and reporter at the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press and the Daily Journal of Vineland, N.J. Klos has a B.A. from the City College of New York and grew up in Buffalo, N.Y.