Fabrice Florin Bio

Fabrice is executive director and founder of NewsTrust, where he manages creative and business development for this next-generation social news network. NewsTrust helps people find and share good journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens.

With a 30-year track record in new media and technology, Fabrice Florin has developed a wide range of leading-edge entertainment, education and software products.

Fabrice’s previous wireless venture, Handtap, was a leading provider of multimedia content for mobile phones, sold through the top US carriers, as well as leading distributors worldwide. Handtap partnered with GoComics to offer a wide range of popular comics for your phone, featuring Garfield, Doonesbury, Bloom County and many more.

As Macromedia's VP of online entertainment, Fabrice launched shockwave.com, a popular web site featuring games, cartoons, music and greetings. Fabrice led content and web teams at this major entertainment destination, publishing hundreds of top-rated titles, such as South Park, Dilbert and Frogger.

Before joining Macromedia, Fabrice was president of Zenda Studio, an award-winning software and multiplayer game developer. There, he created innovative user interfaces and software environments for market leaders including Disney, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Philips and Sony.

Prior to Zenda, Fabrice was executive producer at Apple Computer, where he produced widely acclaimed educational CD-ROM titles and interactive TV applications. As founding member of Apple's Multimedia Lab, he pioneered the use of multimedia and produced groundbreaking education titles with partners ranging from Lucasfilm and National Geographic to the BBC and Smithsonian.

Before joining Apple, Fabrice was president of Videowest, an innovative TV production studio, where he created a new genre of video journalism, widely distributed on outlets ranging from ABC to MTV and public TV. Fabrice produced and directed many acclaimed TV specials, such as Hackers, a classic documentary about the midnight programmers that created the personal computer revolution.

Fabrice was recently elected an Ashoka Fellow for his work as a social entrepreneur in journalism (Ashoka: Innovators for the Public is the world's largest community of social entrepreneurs). Fabrice has also been honored with four US patents as inventor of interactive TV technologies at Apple, and has received numerous media industry awards, including Emmies, Cindies, and NewMedia awards. His pioneering work in digital media has been widely covered by the press, including the BBC, NewsWeek, Scientific American, Time, Washington Post, Wired, Le Monde and many more.

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