John has directed the Reese News Lab since July 2011 and teaches courses in entrepreneurship for the UNC School of Media and Journalism and UNC’s minor in entrepreneurship program. He is the former general manager of WRAL.com, one of the nation’s most successful local news websites. He led the technical development of the nation’s first local television news application on mobile phones and helped create News Over Wireless. Clark managed content and development for an experimental service to deliver news and information through digital television subchannels. In 2001, he co-founded appcomm, inc. a local Internet services company.