Athima Chansanchai | Founder/President, Tima Media
With more than a decade as an award-winning journalist for Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers and popular web sites, professional writer/editor Athima Chansanchai is a communications specialist who works with clients to solve problems and achieve business objectives through creating and producing customized content. She writes concise, creative and compelling traffic driving content.
Until March 2009, Athima was a reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She stayed with the paper until the end, covering news features on Seattle's sub-and-pop cultures. She currently writes for msnbc.com, where you'll find her blog posts five days a week in the Tech & Science section, under Technolog, Gadgetbox, Digital Life (TODAY) and In-Game. She is also an editor/web producer for the section.
She was previously a freelance columnist for msnbc.com writing about consumer electronics as "DigiGirl." In the years since the print P-I's closure, she took on on a number of freelance projects that shows how multi-functional her background is in writing press releases, outlining marketing campaigns, teaching media access workshops to non-profits, writing more than 1000 trivia questions in 5 weeks, editing a book and continuing to write freelance articles. Her new company, Tima Media, will handle these and other projects.
Before moving to Seattle in 2005, she was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun for five years covering courts, police and municipal government. She began her 15-year journalism career at the Village Voice in New York after receiving a Master's degree from Stanford's journalism program. She is also a longtime member of the Asian American Journalists Association's national board of directors and currently, National Secretary.
Accustomed to strict deadlines in fast-paced environments, Athima also has management experience working with the many moving parts of an organization and always emphasizes the success of the team. With Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, she uses social and traditional media to expand distribution of a client's messages.
Contact her directly: athima.chansanchai(at)msnbc.com
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