About Rafat
Rafat Ali is the founder of paidContent and parent company ContentNext, the media company covering the business of digital media, entertainment and information industries. Before ContentNext, Rafat was managing editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter.
In July 2008, Rafat sold ContentNext Media to UK-based Guardian News & Media, left the company in June 2010, and is currently on a sabbatical.
Rafat was the Knight Foundation Fellow at Indiana University, his alma mater, where he completed his Masters in Journalism, 1999-2000.
