Webb Shaw gets Oscar of digital content industry

Former BJ newsroom editor Webb Shaw, who retired in December 2014 after 22 years with J.J. Keller, has received the Oscar of the digital content industry, the Software & Information Industry Association Peter Jackson Innovation Award. Webb is only the 4^th person to receive the award in its history.

Webb Shaw

The Peter Jackson Innovation Award honors the late Thomson Reuters vice president and chief scientist, and his profound impact on the B2B publishing industry. Dr. Jackson was an active board member of the SIIA Content Division.

Webb’s father, the late Ohio native and Fremont Ross High football star Bob Shaw, was an all-American end on Ohio State’s 1942 national championship team coached by the legendary Paul Brown, who eventually guided the Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals in the NFL. Later Bob Shaw was a tight end with the 1949 Los Angeles Rams and was receivers coach with the Baltimore Colts in 1958 when they beat the New York Giants to win the NFL championship in what has been called "The Greatest Game Ever Played."

Webb’s mom was Mary, who caught Bob’s eye when she was selling candy as an usherette at the Ohio Theater while the Buckeye players were downtown to watch a movie.

Bob Shaw coached briefly at Cuyahoga Falls High School. w years as VP of editorial resources at Keller, no one knows better than your family how hard you worked these past 40 years. Pride doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel, and I look forward to our next chapter…..

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Webb was Director Editorial of Resources at J.J. Keller and part of the SIIA Content Division Buyer-Seller Working Group, which meets monthly to act as an advisory group to the Buyer-Seller Project, discuss issues and challenges they are facing and to network.

To hear Webb’s video interview, go to http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcg1hn_webb-shaw-director-editorial-of-res_tech