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Amy EismanAmy Eisman is Director of Writing Programs in the School of Communication at American University.She teaches writing for convergent media and created an online course that explores the influence of business, technology and audience on journalism.Eisman was with Gannett for 17 years, starting as a cover story editor at USA TODAY and later as Executive Editor of USA WEEKEND.Eisman was also a managing editor at AOL and was a Fulbright lecturer in Moscow.She has co-authored online training modules for Gannett's 5,500 news employees about breaking news online, interactivity and database journalism.She also co-authored a module for the Knight Citizen News Network, with Wendell Cochran, on tools for citizen journalists.Eisman has taught Web-writing workshops at numerous news outlets including the washingtonpost.com, Voice of America, the Society of American Travel Writers and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague and Moscow.