Lisa Stone is one of three co-founders of BlogHer, a blogging syndicate dedicated to women. BlogHer was founded by Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins. As a publishing syndicate, BlogHer reaches upwards of eight million women a month.Surfette: Lisa stone Biography
Fast Facts:
- Hometown: Missoula, Montana
- Resides: San Francisco, California
- Spouse: Christopher Carfi
- Wrote for The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times
- Helped launched Legal Blog Watch and Thatsracin.com
- Executive producer of Women.com
- Awarded a Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University
- Personal blog: Surfette.com
- Strategic planner for CNN
- Wrote for The Oakland Tribune
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- In response to a query on why she helped create a female-centric blog:
- "I want to help create a community of women bloggers because I want to talk with other women and link to their writing. I want to share my experiences as a woman – both professional and personal – with other bloggers who are in the same boat"NewsNet: Women’s Wisdom: An Interview with BlogHer’s Lisa Stone (April 14, 2005)—Lisa Stone