Jill Manuel Joins Futuri Media as Director/TPD

RADIO ONLINE | Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Futuri Media taps Peabody award-winning broadcast news executive Jill Manuel as Director/TopicPulse Partnership Development. A journalist for over 20 years, Manuel joins Futuri after two years as Assistant News Director at WFLD in Chicago. Prior to that, she spent nearly six years in Cleveland as the News Director at WEWS. Manuel was also the News Director at the Tribune-owned 24-hour cable channel CLTV, an Executive Producer at WBBM in Chicago and a Senior Producer for Fox News in New York and Washington, DC.

TopicPulse is Futuri Media's social media monitoring tool that scans Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and 80,000 sources per second to provide real-time insights on what's trending on local social media in a particular target demo.

Senior VP/Operations Todd Thomas said, "Jill Manuel brings incredible intellect and strategic expertise to the Futuri team. We are proud to welcome her to this very important role for TopicPulse, a system that has been growing at an incredible pace. Hundreds of TV and radio stations depend on TopicPulse daily for insights on real-time social trends. Jill will help to connect the dots between those trends and strategic development of newscasts and broadcast content."

Manuel added, "I am so impressed with what Futuri has accomplished, developing innovative products that enable broadcasters to harness the power of social media to engage their audiences. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to collaborate with such a talented team."