Who We Are — and What We Do
SunLit Communications was founded in 2005 by former Knight RidderNewspapers columnist Diane Evans, with lots of help from her colleagues. The SunLit team includes former Knight Ridder journalists and webmasters, along with talent we’ve discovered along the way.
Our focus is on the development of high quality websites and excellent online content — in addition to consulting on how organizations can monetize their websites.
Our mission is to provide superior service at a fair price.
Drawing on decades of collective experience, we understand the power of media, and how that power can be harnessed online by opening up smart distribution channels. As in traditional media, distribution allows for revenue streams. SunLit Communications can help you tell your story — and help you determine whether and how you can position your website to drive revenue.
Current and past clients include:
- Random House
- MSN.com Shopping
- Cleveland Clinic Press
- Case Western Reserve University
- Ohio Center for the Book
- Knight Center of Digital Excellence (Knight Foundation funded)
- Benton Foundation
- Summa Foundation
- Institute for Research on Unlimited Love (Templeton Foundation funded)
- SummaCare Inc.
- Akron/Fairlawn Hilton
- University Park Alliance (Knight Foundation funded)
- Mobile Meals Inc.
- Summit County Medical Society
Work for these organizations includes website development, online content and white papers, turnkey production of blogs and e-newsletters, development and maintenance of social media platforms and planning for online revenue growth.
Diane’s professional profile includes the following:
- Extensive editorial experience with Knight Ridder Newspapers, including as a columnist with weekly international distribution.
- Contributor to a select package of 10 stories that won the Akron Beacon Journal a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of an attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire & Rubber.
- Hosted one of the nation’s first weekly online-chat programs sponsored by a daily newspaper. National guests included The Purpose Driven Life author Rick Warren and former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove.
- Principal author of a white paper titled Broadband & the Digital Divide: The New Role of Public Libraries, funded by the Knight Foundation.
- Full production of custom-designed blog and monthly e-newsletters with national distribution.
- Experience building distribution networks for e-newsletters and other online publications, including Benton’s Headlines, a service of the nonprofit Washington, DC-based Benton Foundation.
- Research on new advertising models in digital media.
Experience:
Akron Beacon Journal 1978-2006
- Wrote a column called Livingwell, distributed weekly over the Knight Ridder/Information News Service newswire, 2004-2006.
- Wrote an opinion column on local business, called Inside Business, 1995-2004. Editorial writer, 1987-1995.
- Education writer, 1980-1987.
- General news writer, 1978-1980.
Community involvement:
- Board of Our Lady of the Elms School, a K-12 all-girls Dominican college preparatory school
- Board of Women’s Endowment Fund of the Akron Community Foundation
- Regular guest co-host, Domenica e’ Sempre Domenica (Sunday is always Sunday), an Italian-language radio program broadcast from the Akron Public Schools
Education:
University of Akron
Bachelor of Arts in political science, 1978
