Dina Kaplan is the co-founder and Director of Business Development for blip.tv. Dina oversees all business operations for the company, including media partnerships, distribution deals, PR, marketing, site and channel sponsorships and investor relations.

Before blip.tv, Dina was a news reporter, most recently with WNBC, the NBC affiliate in New York City. She spent the prior two and a half years covering politics and investigative stories for WAVE3 News, the NBC affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky. Dina also reported for News12 Long Island and News12 New Jersey.

Dina won an Emmy for Spot News last summer and in prior years has won Society of Professional Journalists Awards for Deadline Reporting, Service Reporting and Feature Reporting and Associated Press Awards for Best Feature and for Breaking Spot News.

Before reporting, Dina spent four years at MTV News, producing stories about politics, technology and a range of musical acts from Ozzy Osbourne to The Wu-Tang Clan to Jewel. She also helped coordinate MTV’s Choose or Lose coverage of the 1996 Presidential Election. She helped to register more than 50,000 college students around the country via the Choose or Lose bus.

After graduating from college, Dina worked at the White House as Director of Research for the White House Counsel’s Office and then as Special Assistant to the Director of Presidential Personnel. During college, Dina worked at Rock The Vote, setting up a volunteer network of representatives that registered college students to vote around the country. Dina graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics, Government, Philosophy and History. She sits on the National Board of Wesleyan University and is a Founding Board Member of the Women’s Media Center.