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Retha Hill
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Retha Hill
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Cronkite New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab | Cronkite School at ASU
Retha Hill is an expert in innovation, entrepreneurship and digital media.
She is a professor and the executive director of the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Professor Hill is an award-winning journalist, the founder of AncestoriesXR, an extended reality platform that helps families tell their unique genealogy history using video game technology and immersive media, and the 2020 recipient of a Knight Journalism 360 grant to train African American journalism professors in immersive technology.
Prior to ASU, Hill started her career as a reporter for The Charlotte Observer, then she became a founding editor of the Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, and she spent eight years as the vice president for content for BET Interactive.
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From the Internet perspective, what we are doing with media I would say we are like kindergarteners. We aren’t babies, we aren’t toddlers, but we haven’t hit our strides in terms of what we can do as far as media.
Retha Hill The State Press
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