Anne Mintz joined Forbes in 1986 as the Director of Information Services overseeing the information center and index, and today holds the position as the magazine's Director of Knowledge Management. She is also responsible for negotiating license agreements with online publishing partners, as well as internet training. Anne earned a masters degree in library and information services from Rutgers University and, before joining Forbes, was manager of library services at Lazard Freres, the investment bank, for 14 years. From 1989-1992 she served as an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University's Graduate School of Library Science, where she taught courses about online databases. In recent years, she has taught classes on internet sleuthing and evaluating website quality. Her 1990 essay on issues of quality control in online electronic archives won the UMI/Data Courier Award for Excellence in Writing. Mintz is also the award-winning editor of "Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet" (2002; Cyberage Books).

* Anne Mintz is Project Klebnikov's director of research

contact: amintz@forbes.com