- Matt Thompson graduated with honors in English from Harvard College in 2002. He went on to work at the Poynter Institute from 2003-04 as the Naughton Fellow for Online Reporting and Writing. While at Poynter, he and his colleague Robin Sloan produced the Flash movie EPIC 2014, a picture of the media past set 10 years in the future, which was written up in the New York Times, the Financial Times, USA Today, the Guardian, on MSNBC, and elsewhere. He now serves on Poynter's National Advisory Board.
- Thompson was an online reporter/producer for The Fresno Bee, winning first- and third-place Best of the West awards in 2004 for his multimedia projects. At the Bee, he led an internal advisory committee exploring the paper's strategies for acquiring new audiences
- He went on to work as Web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he led the creation of the Edgie-award-winning, socially networked arts-and-entertainment Web site vita.mn. While managing the development, community and production of vita.mn, he also managed technology and interactivity-related projects for StarTribune.com, from creating an internal taxonomy to transforming the online opinion section into a blog.
- In May 2009 he completed a Donald W. Reynolds Fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, where he explored new models for news sites structured around context.
Matt Thompson
2008-2009
- Reynolds Fellow
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute - Manager of Digital Initatives,
- National Public Radio
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Project: Columbia Tomorrow
"Columbia Tomorrow offers a glimpse of a new promise for journalism – a chance for a new site that’s not only timely, but timeless, that aims not just for diversion, but for understanding, that's less about breaking the news and more about fixing it" – Matt Thompson
Articles by Matt Thompson
Reynolds Fellow Matt Thompson says there are four types of journalists
March 27, 2012Matt Thompson shares what he would have done differently if NPR's Project Argo started in 2012
December 27, 2011Fellow Matt Thompson gives five reasons to liveblog instead of live tweet
November 28, 2011The Argo philosophy: Capitalize, synthesize, harmonize
August 9, 2011
Articles about Matt Thompson
