Rusty Coats

@rustycoats

About

Rusty Coats startedhis career as a reporter for his hometown newspaper, The Evening News inJeffersonville, Indiana, and has worked in media ever since. He’s worked fornewspapers in Maine, Miami and Modesto, CA, as an investigative reporter andcolumnist, before becoming a technology reporter in 1993, covering the birth ofinteractive media. Since then, as an interactive media executive, he has drivenaudience and revenue for such news companies as McClatchy, Media General andE.W. Scripps. Rusty holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English fromIndiana University and has attended the Iowa Writer’s Festival – which is where“Out of Touch” began as a character sketch. He and his wife, Janet – a journalistand former executive editor and multi-year Pulitzer judge – run Coats2Coats, aconsultancy that focuses on a media future that is participatory, profitableand mobile. They live in Sarasota, Florida and, in true “Brady Bunch” style,have five children.