Jeremy Gilbert

As Associate Dean for Journalism and the Knight Professor of Digital Media Strategy, he leads Medill's journalism program. His research and teaching focus on understanding the needs and desires of media audiences, experimenting with new technologies, like artificial intelligence, and exploring revenue strategies for existing and emerging media. He explores the intersection of technology and media, employing a human-centered design process to examine how new tools and techniques will affect the creation, consumption and distribution of media. Jeremy also oversees Northwestern's Knight Lab.

Before rejoining Northwestern, he helped The Washington Post identifying, creating, and executing unique digital products, storytelling experiences and digital strategies. Before that, worked for National Geographic develop and deploy its digital strategy and was an associate professor teaching media product design, interactive storytelling, web and print design tools and techniques for Medill and the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University. Previously Jeremy led The Poynter Institute in rethinking and redesigning its industry leading website and served as an art director at a couple of newspapers.

• Associate Dean for Journalism, Professor, Knight Chair in Digital Media Strategy - Sets journalism curriculum for graduate and undergraduate programs. Researches and teaches media strategy, technology and design. He also leads the Knight Lab, exploring the intersection of technology and media, examining how new tools and techniques will affect the creation, consumption and distribution of media. He founded the Data-Driven Reporting Project and Next Gen News. He is the Education Co-Pillar Lead for Northwestern’s Network for Collaborative Intelligence and co-directs Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Newsrooms. He is an affiliated faculty member of Northwestern’s Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Harvard’s Shorenstein Center.
• Director of Strategic Initiatives: The Washington Post - Leads the newsroom to identify, create, and execute unique digital products and storytelling experiences. Reimagined election night experiences, created The Post's first virtual and augmented reality stories, built a freelance network that changes how The Post covers national stories and launched a new leadership vertical. Works closely with the engineering, product design, graphics, audience/analytics and revenue teams.
• Deputy Editor, Digital: National Geographic - Oversaw editorial, missions-based and advertising storytelling on National Geographic’s digital platforms. Crafted digital storytelling for the web, tablets, smartphones and wearable computers.
• Associate Professor: Northwestern University - Taught interactive storytelling, web and print design techniques for Northwestern University. Designed tools and technologies for the creation, distribution and consumption of news across platforms.
• Managing Editor, Innovation: The Poynter Institute - Managed members of the Poynter Online Staff, supervise interns and lead a re-imagination of Poynter.org.
• Sports Design Director: The St. Petersburg Times - Supervise a staff of sports designers and copyeditors. Responsible for planning, design and photo editing of sports section.
• Art Director: The News-Press - Created a new visual identity for the newspaper and am now responsible for overseeing it. Managed a staff of designers and graphic artists.
• User Interaction Designer: BrassRing - Created new web based products and job boards, dealing with site architecture, navigation and usability.
• Graphic Designer: Viant - Designed digital businesses for traditional retail vendors – focusing mainly on Web design for this internet consultancy.

Northwestern University: Medill School of Journalism

• Masters of Science in Journalism - New Media, Newspaper Design and Media Management concentrations.
• Bachelor of Science in Journalism - History minor. Sociology concentration.

Jeremy has spoken around the world at conferences like SXSW, the Online News Association, Digital Summit, Digital Publishing Innovation Summit, Ad Week DC, American Public Media, CES, AEJMC, Storyology, the Festival of Media, Scoopcamp, Science Po and AEJMC.

Jeremy's work has appeared in dozen of publications around the world in publications like Wired, The New York Times, Recode, Ad Week, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, the Associated Press, the Poynter Institute, National Public Radio, the BBC and more.

Jeremy is the Board Chair of Investigate West and a board member of the News Product Alliance and the Online News Association. In 2010, he helped restart the Society of News Design's best of digital design competition and ran it for nearly a decade. He is an advisor for the Freedom Forum and Collabwork. He has worked closely with the Knight Foundation and the McCormick Foundation on a variety of projects.

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