Alan D. Mutter is a newspaper editor turned high-tech entrepreneur turned strategic consultant. He teaches media economics and entrepreneurship in the University of California — Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and writes about the changing media landscape on his blog, Reflections of a Newsosaur.

He’s former chief executive officer of three Silicon Valley companies involved in broadband delivery and online media technology and chief operating officer of a national cable television company. As a journalist earlier in his career, he led the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and San Francisco Chronicle.

In addition to teaching classes in media economics and entrepreneurism, he conceived and produced the university’s fall 2009 Media Technology Summit, an invitation-only conference for senior media and technology executives held at Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif.

Mutter frequently is interviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, Forbes, BusinessWeek, National Public Radio and other trade, local and international media. He also writes a column for Editor & Publisher.