Matt Thompson
editorial product manager, National Public Radio
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Fellow for Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute
Matt Thompson is editorial product manager at National Public Radio, where he's helping to coordinate the development of 12 topic-focused local news sites in conjunction with NPR member stations. Before joining NPR, Thompson served as the interim online community manager for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In May 2009, he completed a Reynolds Fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. His explorations into creating context-centric news websites are quickly becoming central to the discussion about online journalism's future. Thompson came to RJI from his position as deputy web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he led the creation of the Edgie-award-winning, socially networked arts-and-entertainment website vita.mn. While managing the development, community and production of vita.mn, Thompson also managed technology and interactivity related projects for StarTribune.com, from creating an internal taxonomy to transforming the online opinion section into a blog. Before the Star Tribune, 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. Thompson worked 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, Financial Times, USA Today, The Guardian, on MSNBC, and elsewhere. In 2010, Thompson completes a four-year term on Poynter's National Advisory Board. He graduated with honors in English from Harvard College in 2002, after writing his senior thesis on the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
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