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Marcia Stepanek is a regular contributing writer for Justmeans and co-founder of Contribute Media. She also is Publisher of Cause Global, a group blog about the use of social media in social advocacy and innovation. Previously, she was executive editor and co-founder of CIO Insight Magazine and Web strategies editor at BusinessWeek, as well as the national economics correspondent and special projects writer and editor at Hearst Newspapers' Washington bureau. She also served as Hearst's Asia correspondent based in Tokyo, where she also worked as a writer, producer and reporter for PBS-NHK public television in Tokyo, a contributing reporter for NPR in Asia, and an editor at Kyodo News Service in Tokyo. She also was a business writer and reporter for Knight-Ridder Newspapers in Detroit and Washington. Marcia has won numerous national awards for her work, including a George Polk Award, a National Press Club Award for Washington Correspondence and a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.

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