Jane joined The World Company in Lawrence, KS, as director of online strategies in June 2009 after completing a nine-month fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The World Company publishes LJWorld.com, KUSports.com, Lawrence.com and several sites with accompanying print products in Northeast Kansas and in Colorado. The World company created Django, released it into open source in 2005, and developed a proprietary CMS called Ellington, which is used by more than 200 news organizations around the U.S. They used Ellington to launch WellCommons, a local/regional health niche news/social media site and the first of several niche sites.

Prior to her fellowship at RJI, Jane was editorial director of Oceans Now (part of the Census of Marine Life Tagging of Pacific Predators project at UC Santa Cruz and Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station) , associate faculty at the University of California-Berkeley's Knight Digital Media Center, taught multimedia reporting at UC-Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and consulted with news organizations making the transition to a webcentric world, including the Ventura County Star (Scripps), Oakland Tribune (Media News Group), the San Diego Union Tribune, and NPR.

She was part of the first group of videojournalists at New York Times Television in 1997, and did multimedia reporting for The New York Times, Discovery Channel and MSNBC.com. In her early career, she worked for the Boston Globe and San Francisco Examiner as copy editor, assistant foreign/national editor, Sunday magazine writer, and science/technology reporter and columnist. Giving into wanderlust, she founded a syndicated science and technology feature service with 20 newspaper clients worldwide -- including the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post and Asahi Shimbun's AERA Magazine. That enabled her to live in Kenya and Indonesia for four years. She's had three science-reporting fellowships to Antarctica, each a winter voyage that lasted several weeks, and did TV and magazine stories for National Geographic and the Washington Post, among others.

She has a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Kentucky and a master’s degree in communications from the University of Georgia.