Ms Messinger received her bachelor's degree in Broadcasting from San Francisco State University in 1980, and promptly produced her first documentary, The Windcatchers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMfTmY3D6E), and became a producer and editor at the San Francisco TV series VideoWest.
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.
In this role she served on the founding Board of Directors of Link TV, and has been instrumental in introducing new media formats to broadcast television and the Internet in projects with PBS, the World Bank, and many others.
[2] Her awards include a Webby Award in 2009 for Link TV series Global Pulse (2007-2010), a Cine Gold Eagle for the PBS documentary Thinking Twice (1982), and a first place in the San Francisco Video Festival for her documentary, Windcatchers, which ran nationally on the PBS network in 1980 as part of the Bay Area Video Coalition’s “Western Exposure” series.
Evelyn Messinger has written about media and democracy, the Internet, and digital citizenship for The Nation,[3] Whole Earth Review,[4] The Smart Set,[5] Qualcomm Spark, MediaShift, and The Huffington Post.