Biography
Jeremy Gilbert is Medill’s Knight Professor in Digital Media Strategy. Both his work and teaching focus on the content and revenue strategies of existing and emerging media companies. He explores the intersection of technology and media, examining how new tools and techniques will affect the creation, consumption and distribution of media. Gilbert also oversees the Knight Lab, a community of designers, developers, students, and educators working on experiments designed to push journalism into new spaces.
Prior to assuming the Knight Chair, Gilbert was The Washington Post’s Director of Strategic Initiatives where he led an award-winning team that transformed The Post into an international, digital-first news organization. The team collaborated closely with The Post’s engineering, product design, graphics, audience, analytics and revenue teams by identifying, creating and executing unique digital products and storytelling methods.
Gilbert’s past roles included developing a digital strategy for National Geographic. He also taught media product design, interactive storytelling, web and print design tools and techniques as an associate professor at Medill and the Segal Design Institute. Gilbert led The Poynter Institute in rethinking and redesigning its industry-leading website and served as an art director for The Tampa Bay Times and The News-Press.