Jane Friedman is the Publisher & Editorial Director at F+W Media, which is the parent company of Writers Digest. Intelligent, dedicated, hard-working, and charming, she’s right on the pulse of everything that’s happening in the chaotic and transforming cosmos that the publishing industry has become.

And because Jane is all she is, she’s a big part of what’s keeping her division of F&W thriving, while other publishing giants are being felled by Web 2.0 and new publishing technologies in the same way that David sucker-punched Goliath.