LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jacklail
Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=539056144
Spock: Profile
ZoomInfo: Profile
Knoxnews Bio Page
flickr: Photo stream
Jack Lail is managing editor/multimedia for The Knoxville News-Sentinel.
He directs The Knoxville News Sentinel's online content efforts, which include www.knoxnews.com, www.govols.com, www.goladyvols.com, www.gosmokies.com and www.govolsxtra.com.
Lail was formerly Online Director for the newspaper and led all online publishing for the newspaper. The News Sentinel had its first Web page in 1994 and launched knoxnews.com in 1995 and govols.com and gosmokies.com in 1996.
He was previously assistant managing editor for technology. In that role, he assisted and trained reporters to use computer-assisted reporting tools, explored "New Media'' opportunities for the newspaper, provided software support to bureau and traveling reporters, and supervised the newspaper's library staff.
He started in the mid-1990s an electronic mailing list for the Society of Professional Journalists called SPJ-L, which was disbanded in the spring of 2004.
Lail was awarded a President's Award at the 1995 Society of Professional of Journalists national convention for his work on the mailing list, Web site and the Society New Information Technologies Committee. He is a former chair of the Society's New Information Technologies Committee, which deals with a variety of "technology'' related media issues from electronic records to online newspapers.
He serves on the board of the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Federation.
He has written for Quill and American Journalism Review, among other publications.
Lail is a native of North Carolina and came to The News-Sentinel in 1984 after working at small dailies in Asheboro and Thomasville, N.C. He has been its TVA reporter, a business reporter, Business Editor, an Assistant Metro Editor and Metro Editor.
He has a bachelor's degree in English from East Carolina University.
He began using personal computers in 1984 when he had the foresight to buy an IBM PCjr, which IBM discontinued within a year.
He is married to Amy McRary, a feature writer at The Knoxville News-Sentinel and a rabid Tar Heel basketball fan. They have two children, Eric, 19, and Mark, 14.
His parents, Jack C. and Betty Edwards Lail, live in New London, N.C. Brothers Brent and Dean, live in the Asheboro, N.C., area and work in the plastics industry.
