Ann M. Brill, Ph.D., is the dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas. She is a former director of the Missouri Scholastic Press Association. Her areas of expertise include online journalism, online advertising, e-commerce and its relationship to editorial content and effects of implementation of new technology. In the past, Brill has worked at newspapers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and Missouri; served as director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Online Editing Program and serves as a consultant to online media in staff and marketing development. She earned her doctoral degree