Jamie Farnsworth Finn
Jamie Farnsworth Finn is a multimedia journalist turned content strategist and digital consultant. She is an adjunct instructor at the University of Delaware’s M.A. in Strategic Communication program, and Head of Content for M.T. Deco, a multidisciplinary digital agency. She is a freelance writer on education for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and is a digital communications consultant for Making Caring Common, a project within the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Finn has nearly 13 years’ experience at network news organizations, where she most recently led the content and digital strategy for NBC News’ education division. Finn also produced multiple live broadcasts on education while simultaneously spear-heading digital engagement to enhance and maintain the broadcasts’ reach.
Prior to honing her digital chops, Finn was a producer at NBC News and CBS News where she covered a range of stories from politics to feature stories and everything in between. Her range of experience includes traveling as part of then President-elect Obama’s press corps, months-long investigation into sexual assault in the military, and profiling programs for incarcerated parents.
She started her career as a page at CBS News and worked her way up to producing for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric before moving to NBC News to work on Rock Center with Brian Williams, a newsmagazine show. She earned her B.A. in journalism and women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Finn lives in Manhattan with her husband and young children.