Location Seattle, Washington, United States Regions Greater Seattle Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
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Berit Anderson is the CEO and co-founder of Scout, which combines near-term science fiction with investigative reporting to cover the intersection of technology, economics, and morality. He attended Occidental College, Scripps College, and Brentwood College School.
Berit was formerly the managing editor at Crosscut.com, a Seattle-based local news
site read by 1.6 million people in the last year, where she followed the environment, tech, culture, media, and politics. She is the creator of Seattle's Community Idea Lab, a new way of doing journalism that inspires and incubates solutions to local problems. In 2015, the Community Idea Lab won the Society of Professional Journalists' Innovation in Journalism award.
Berit consults on communications with Strategic News Service and the SNS Future in Review (FiRe) conference. In 2015, she was invited to join the World Economic Forum's Global Shaper program, a worldwide network of young leaders who are "exceptional in their potential, their achievement, and their drive to make a contribution to their communities." Previously community manager of the Tribune Company's Seattle blogging network, her work has appeared in YES! Magazine and on HuffingtonPost.com, Geekwire, and television and radio properties.
