Digital news & product guy.
Washington D.C.
Joined August 2009
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Greg Barber retweeted
RFA welcomes Greg Barber as its first Head of Digital Operations and Innovation. His decades of industry experience will be invaluable as he helps lead the ongoing digital transformation of RFA's newsroom.
The full statement on @gjbarb's new role is here: en.rfa.org/oIqSha
Discovered a stack of these while doing some house cleaning tonight. Evergreen questions and advice from experts via @coralproject. Still online! guides.coralproject.net/work…
Finds from yesteryear discovered while cleaning out my office at @washingtonpost:
- Ad for DC Rider, an Express app for Metrorail commuters (2010-2019)
- Vintage 1990s-era @newshour mousepad
- Ad for a 2012 talk at UNC-Chapel Hill about young people’s news-consuming habits
- An ad for Trove
- A manual photo-sizing wheel I’ve apparently had since running my high-school newspaper
- The communicorn, a character spawned from the @coralproject project-naming sessions, c. 2015
- Tape for a 1-point line used during newspaper paste-up
- A button for Trove, a news aggregator (2011-2015)
- A @washingtonpost 2020 election sticker
- A coaster for Express Night Out, a local entertainment site I ran because sure, I leave the house
- A @coralproject sticker
Professional news: I’m winding up my 18-year run at @washingtonpost next week to become a VP of product at @voxmedia, working to develop subscriber experiences that will inform and delight our audience. (1/)
voxmedia.com/2021/10/7/22713…
Today is my 18th anniversary at @washingtonpost.
When my age was 18, I was enthralled by the drive and talent in this kaleidoscopic industry. I still am, and now I've got a mental map of names and faces to explain why.
Working for Jim Lehrer at @NewsHour was one of the great honors of my career. He and Robert MacNeil created an organization that valued trustworthy, thorough journalism, and his viewers loved him for it.
I’ve had Jim’s MacNeil/Lehrer Rules of Journalism posted in my office for years. They’re a vital ethical road map. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=why2tE15…
Just saw this nice writeup of my presentation at the @NewspaperWorld conference in Glasgow earlier this month. Thanks, @CarolineScott91.
"If you want to know what the pace of change at the Post is really like, consider this: I've had seven roles in 16 years, and I've been the first person to hold every one of them" @gjbarb on innovation at @washingtonpost #WNMC19 blog.wan-ifra.org/2019/06/04…
