Career
She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ms Messinger received her bachelor"s degree in Broadcasting from San Francisco State University in 1980, and promptly produced her first documentary, Windcatchers, and became a producer and editor at the San Francisco television series VideoWest. She became a news editor and producer at the San Francisco bureaus of Cable News Network and Columbia Broadcasting System, then worked in Europe producing pilots and programs for the British Broadcasting Corporation, France2 and others
She co-founded Internews, a global non-profit organization supporting independent media and access to quality information worldwide, with Kim Spencer and David M. Hoffman in 1982.
She was also the founding director of the Soros Foundation"s Electronic Media Program (1990-1993). Messinger is currently President of InterAct (Internews Interactive), a non-profit pioneer of digital media convergence that has specialized in citizen participation in media since 1998.
In this role she served on the founding Board of Directors of Link television, and has been instrumental in introducing new media formats to broadcast television and the Internet in projects with Public Broadcasting Service, the World Bank, and many others
