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Kinsey Wilson

senior vice president and general manager at NPR Digital Media
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Fellow for Digital Leadership Summit for Public Radio Stations

Kinsey Wilson is senior vice president and general manager at NPR Digital Media. Wilson began his journalism career at Chicago's legendary City News Bureau where he covered crime and worked the overnight desk. He was a print reporter for 15 years, seven of them at Newsday, before he made the leap to online media in 1995. Immediately prior to joining NPR, Wilson was executive editor of USA TODAY. Under his leadership, USATODAY.com was an early pioneer in the integration of social media and the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2007 Online News Association award for general excellence. From 2000 to 2005, Wilson was vice president and editor-in-chief of USATODAY.com. From 1995 to 2000, Wilson served in a variety of senior management positions at Congressional Quarterly, where he helped spearhead the company's early Web strategy. Wilson was president of the Online News Association in 2007, chaired the national advisory board of the Poynter Institute from 2006 to 2008 and served as a juror for the 2008 Pulitzer Prizes in journalism. He currently serves on the advisory board to the journalism school at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Wilson holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago.