Cynthia Samuels : MyBlogHer Profile

Cynthia Samuels is currently Managing Editor of Care2/s Causes Channels, which serve 14 million members and cover 11 subject areas.  She has an extensive background online, on television and in print, with particular experience developing content for women, parents and families.  For the past three years, that experience has been largely with bloggers, twitter and other social media.  She has been part of BlogHer, for four of its five years and has spoken at BlogHer 2007, BlogHer 2008 and BlogHer DC.  Among her many other speaking appearances is the February 2009 Fem 2.0 Conference, where she joined Gen Y and Gen X women to discuss feminism, generational identity and Web 2.0.

Earlier, she spent nearly four years with iVillage, the leading Internet site for women; her assignments included the design and supervision of the hugely popular Education Central, a sub-site of Parent Soup that was a soup-to-nuts parent toolkit on K-12 education, designed to support parents as advocates and supporters of their school-age kids.  She also served as the iVillage partner for America Links Up, a major corporate Internet safety initiative for parents, ran Click! – the computer channel - and had a long stint as iVillage's Washington editor. In addition, she has developed parent content for Jim Henson Interactive and served as Children’s Book Editor for both Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com.

Before moving online, she had a long and distinguished career as a broadcast journalist, as senior national editor of National Public Radio, political and planning producer of NBC's Today Show (whose audience is 75% women) where she worked for nine years (and was also the primary producer on issues relating to child care, education, learning disabilities and child development), and as the first executive producer of Channel One, a daily news broadcast seen in 12,000 U.S. high schools.  She has published a children’s book: It’s A Free Country, a Young Person’s Guide to Politics and Elections (Atheneum, 1988) and numerous children’s book reviews in the New York Times Book Review and Washington Post Book World.

A creator of online content since 1994, Samuels is a partner in Cobblestone Associates, LLP, is married to a doctor who is now a first-year law student and has two grown sons who make video games.