Presenting a picture of the media past set 10 years in the future, the movie was written up in The New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today, the Guardian, and on MSNBC. While at Poynter, he and his colleague Robin Sloan produced the Flash movie EPIC 2014. Thompson was the Poynter Institute's 2003-04 Naughton Fellow for Online Reporting and Writing. At the Bee, he led an internal advisory committee exploring the paper's strategies for acquiring new audiences. Also at the Star Tribune, Thompson managed technology and interactivity-related projects for, from creating an internal taxonomy to transforming the online opinion section into a blog.Īs an online reporter/producer for the Fresno Beefrom 2004-05, Thompson's work on multimedia projects earned him a first- and third-place 2004 Best of the West award. His work leading the development, community and production of a socially networked arts-and-entertainment website vita.mn contributed to the site being honored with a Digital Edge Award, "an Edgie," from the Newspaper Association of America' New Media Federation.
Reynolds Fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute where he explored creating context-centric news websites with results that have been widely cited in discussions about online journalism's future.įor four years prior to the Reynolds Fellowship, Thompson served as the deputy web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He's also the co-founder of an organization called Spark Camp, which convenes diverse groups of leaders from a variety of industries.īefore coming to NPR in 2010, Thompson served as the interim Online Community Manager for the Knight Foundation.
He serves as the vice-chairman of the board of the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative journalism nonprofit. Outside his work at NPR, Thompson teaches media and technology management as an adjunct professor at American University. As Director of Vertical Initiatives (and Mischief) at NPR, Matt Thompson works with teams across the company to guide the development of topic-focused verticals covering race, ethnicity and culture education and global health and development.
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