He is the Chief Operating Officer of Civic News Company, the parent organization of Chalkbeat, Votebeat, and Healthbeat. CNC’s non-profit newsrooms combine subject matter expertise (on education, election administration, and public health) with a deep understanding of local needs. Civic News Company supports 15 local teams working in communities across the country chronicling the story of the systems that shape our lives and the people working to improve them.
As Chief Operating Officer, Andrew oversees and supports the teams that guide strategic planning and growth, organizational design and culture, financial planning and budgeting, and technology.
Before joining Civic News Company, Andrew served in leadership roles across a breadth of organizations – startups, large-scale digital media and tech companies, and public media organizations – and worked across a breadth of mediums – print and digital text, radio and digital audio, and broadcast, streaming, and social video.
Those roles have included Chief Content Officer of WNYC, GM of Vox and VP of Network Development at Vox Media, GM of The Wire and EIR at The Atlantic, and Director of Digital Media and Senior Editor at FRONTLINE. During those tenures, the teams he has led and supported have reached tens of millions of readers, listeners, and viewers, generated tens of millions in annual revenue to sustain their work, and been recognized with many of journalism’s highest honors, including: two Peabody Awards, two duPont-Columbia Awards, three Online Journalism Awards, an NAACP Award, nine national and regional Murrow Awards, ten Emmy nominations, and an Overseas Press Club Award.
Andrew is also a frequent speaker and digital media consultant. He’s been a featured speaker at The Columbia Journalism School, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, The Paley Center for Media, and The New York Ideas Festival. He was also a judge for the Tribeca Film Festival’s interactive film awards and was once named by Forbes to its “30 Under 30” list. He has also consulted for technology companies, human rights organizations, and grassroots media organizations on team-building and media strategy.
He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, feminist author, journalist, and activist Jessica Valenti, their daughter, and their Australian shepherd. He grew up in Northern California, and graduated from Harvard College where he studied American political history and social movements.