Diane Evans Professional Profile

  • Extensive editorial experience with Knight Ridder Newspapers, including as a columnist with weekly international distribution.

  • Contributor to a select package of 10 stories that won the Akron Beacon Journal a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of an attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire & Rubber.

  • Hosted one of the nation’s first weekly online-chat programs sponsored by a daily newspaper. Guests included The Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warren and former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove.

  • Principal author of a white paper titled Broadband & the Digital Divide: The New Role of Public Libraries, funded by the Knight Foundation.

  • Experience building distribution for e-newsletters and other online publications, including Benton’s Headlines, a service of the Washington, DC-based Benton Foundation.

Experience:

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M.E.D. Media Mart Publisher and Managing Partner Diane Evans with Dr. Toby Cosgrove, CEO of the Cleveland Clinic (left), and Dr. Waleed Nemer, president of the Summit County Medical Society. Ms. Evans introduced Dr. Cosgrove before an audience of the Medical Society.

M.E.D. Media Mart LLC, 2014-present – Entered into a partnership to create M.E.D. Media Mart LLC, to focus on digital communications and education for healthcare providers.

SunLit Communications LLC, 2006-present – Established a small business focused on website development, social media production, online distribution, marketing and white paper research. Current and past clients include:

  • Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association

  • The nonprofit, Management Sciences for Health

  • Random House.

  • Cleveland Clinic Press

  • Case Western Reserve University

  • Knight Center of Digital Excellence

  • Benton Foundation

  • Summa Foundation

  • University Park Alliance (Knight Foundation funded)

  • Summit County Medical Society

  • Health Ohio Network

  • The Village at St. Edward

Work includes white-paper research, substantive writing and editing, website design and development, turnkey production of public-policy blogs and e-newsletters, and development and maintenance of social media platforms.

Akron Beacon Journal 1978-2006

  • Wrote a column called Livingwell, distributed weekly over the Knight Ridder/Information News Service newswire, 2004-2006

  • Wrote an opinion column on local business, called Inside Business, 1995-2004

  • Editorial writer, with focus on education and health, 1987-1995

  • Education writer, 1980-1987General news writer, 1978-1980

Current Community Involvement:

  • Chair, Board of Our Lady of the Elms School, K-12 all-girls Dominican college preparatory school

  • Chair, Communications Committee, Board of Women’s Endowment Fund of the Akron Community Foundation

Education:

University of Akron, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

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