Panel Three: Katty Kay: Journalist and Author Commentary

BBC World News America correspondent Katty Kay spoke at the eBook Summit on being a journalist and an author. Her book, Womenomics, co-written with Claire Shipman, came out in 2009, so she hit the book market at exactly the moment when an author had to figure out social media, blogging, and self-branding. She spoke at length about her work straddling traditional media and new media. She said, “I think mostly now people are writing books alongside other jobs,” and noted that the only way she could have written her book was with the stability of her BBC job.