As J-Lab executive director, Jan Schaffer has run one of the nation's most successful incubators for news entrepreneurs and innovators and is a leading thinker on the emerging new media landscape. A Pulitzer Prize winner for the Philadelphia Inquirer, she left daily journalism to lead pioneering initiatives in civic journalism, interactive and participatory journalism and citizen media ventures. She launched J-Lab in 2002 to help newsrooms use digital technologies to engage people in important public issues. The center has since funded more than 100 startups and pilot projects.