Journalist, media critic, and entrepreneur Tom Watson is Chief Strategy Officer of Changing Our World Inc., a national philanthropic services company he helped to found, and publisher of onPhilanthropy.com, a leading online resource for philanthropy professionals. A veteran writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Industry Standard, Inside, Worth, Contribute, and Wired magazines, Tom leads Changing Our World's interactive services practice and works with clients in content development, strategic planning, communications, branding development and marketing, as well as media and development planning.

Founded in 1999, Changing Our World was acquired by the Omnicom Group [NYSE: OMC] in 2002, and provides a wide range of consulting services to nonprofits, corporations, foundations, and individuals in philanthropy.

An Internet pioneer who has worked online since the 1980s, Tom is the founder and publisher of newcritics.com, an online journal of cultural criticism. In the mid-90s, Tom co-founded @NY, a seminal online information service that chronicled the rise and fall of New York’s Silicon Alley new media sector; the company was acquired by Jupitermedia Group in 1999 before a successful initial public offering.
In the 1980s, Tom served as executive editor of The Riverdale Press, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper in the Bronx, where he covered politics, and won more than a dozen state and national awards for excellence in journalism. Tom is a member of the boards of directors of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, a progressive think tank based in New York, and the New York Software Industry Association, an industry association. He holds a BA in English literature from Columbia University, and has served as an adjunct professor of new media at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

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