Who is Digital Amy? 

Amy Schmitz Weiss is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University. Schmitz Weiss is a 2011 Dart Academic Fellow and has a PhD in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.

She was a co-founder of her college's online newspaper and has worked at Chicago Tribune Online and Indianapolis Star News Online, where she produced and wrote news packages. She has also worked in business development, marketing analysis, and account management for several Chicago Internet media firms. 

She has an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, and B.A. in Journalism and Spanish from Butler University. 

She is the founder/director of the Virtual Journalism Learning Center in Second Life that is used to train journalism students and journalists on how to cover natural disasters and crisis situations.  

What does she study? 
Her research interests include online journalism, media sociology, news production, multimedia journalism, and international communication. She has published her research in several peer-reviewed articles, chapters and a co-edited book on a variety of topics related to journalism.

What does she blog about?
She blogs about the variety of digital tools that journalists, journalism educators and journalism students can use in daily news work. She is also a regular contributor to the Hub, a resource center for community-based and nonprofit journalism.