Anastasia Goodstein is the author of ''Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online'' (St.Martin’s Press), which was published March 20, 2007. Anastasia graduated from Antioch College, with a B.A. in Journalism/Women's Studies in 1995. After graduating, she began her youth-media career at

Teen Voices ''Teen Voices'' was an intensive journalism, mentoring, and leadership program for teen girls in Boston, and published the first magazine in the United States with alternative content created by and for teenage girls. Its mission was to support an ...

magazine, which was written by and for teen girls. Her interest in working with teens spurred her to do three years of extensive fundraising for Women Express, the organization that publishes ''Teen Voices''. She even raised money to pay her own salary. Some of her fundraising projects included creating an annual event called Rhythm & Voices that combined readings from up-and-coming literary stars with live jazz. After leaving the magazine she continued her education at the Medill School of Journalism at

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. She graduated in 1999 with an MSJ. She was one of the first three students to concentrate in New Media at Medill. After graduating from Medill, she moved to

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to work at About.com and for

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as an editorial Web producer. She left New York for

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almost one year later to take a position as a managing editor at

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, which was a website for teen girls. After Kibu became a casualty of the bursting

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, she went to work for

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Web Properties as a senior editor, and then helped launch KeepMedia, a premium content service that delivered current and archived articles from 150+ popular magazines and newspapers on one website. Anastasia’s also worked at

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, a television network started in part by

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, as a director in the Online Studio group.

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Goodstein has been quoted in the following publications:
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* ttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/14560871 'Millennials' Lead the Wired Lifebr>Magazines drop Print for Web to Reach TeensCelebs! Scandals! It's all for the TeensThe 'Mash Up' CultureBlogs go MainstreamWhat You Don't Know About Teens And ReadingA sassy online voice hip to all the latest teen buzz
* Antastasia Goodsteing has featured in a number of interviews by online business TV channel yourBusinessChannelbr>Anastasia Goodstein - Understanding Generation Y
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