Nora Paul is the director of the Institute for New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota, School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Nora was with the Poynter Institute from 1991 to 2000, a mid-career journalism training program in St. Petersburg, FL.

She held seminars in news library management, computer-assisted research, and new media leadership. She was editor for information services at the Miami Herald from 1979-1991.  Nora is the author of Computer Assisted Research: A guide to tapping online information, and co-author of Great Scouts: Cyber-guides for subject searching on the web and Behind the Message: Information Strategies for Communicators.

Her work at the Institute focuses on the impact of the new media environment on content, new story-telling forms, and convergence of media operations.  Nora has a Masters in Library Science from Texas Women’s University. She is on the boards of the Online News Association, and the Media Center at API.