
Matt Thompson
2008-2009 Reynolds Fellow
Residential fellow
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Editor in Chief
The Center for Investigative Reporting
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Website: http://mthomps.com/
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Join Date: June 17, 2015
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Last Visit: December 31, 1969
Last Activity: December 31, 1969
Total Entries: 4
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About Matt Thompson
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.
Matt Thompson’s 2008-2009 RJI fellowship explored new models for news sites structured around context.
Stories about Matt Thompson
MediaShift Podcast
MediaShift 195: Pulitzers honor non-profit collaboration; Curt Schilling’s bad memes
April 22, 2016Mediatwits
Mediatwits 172: How engagement editors rise above the social scrum
September 18, 2015Matt Thompson named deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com
December 3, 2014The Storm Collection
October 1, 2011
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.
Wikipedia-ing the news
September 10, 2008