Mindy McAdams is a professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Florida, where she teaches courses concerning online journalism. She taught in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholar grant from November 2004 to June 2005. She began a career as a copy editor in 1982 and worked on the Metro desk at The Washington Post and at Time magazine in New York. In 1994, she was the first content developer at Digital Ink, The Washington Post's first online newspaper. Her consulting work since 1995 has taken her to Thailand, Hong Kong, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Britain and Canada. She has an M.A. in media studies and a B.A. in print journalism.