Dianne Lynch is dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca (N.Y.) College. In 2006, she founded the Park Center for Independent Media, a national think tank for the study and production of media content created and distributed outside traditional news organizations, and in 2005, she launched Cellflix, the first student film festival for work shot on cell phones. She was the founding executive director of the national Online News Association, where she was co-producer of digital training modules for online newsrooms.
