Dan Gilgoff is Executive Editor for Digital at National Geographic, leading the digital newsroom for a 128-year-old media organization in startup mode.<\/p>\n
He has worked as religion editor at CNN.com, as a writer for U.S. News & World Report, and as a politics blogger for a platform called God-o-Meter (it won an Online Journalism Award that got him to his first ONA conference nearly a decade ago).<\/p>\n
Gilgoff has been passionate about digital journalism since it gave him the ability to break daily news at a newsweekly magazine 15 years ago. He developed a passion for leading digital teams when he launched a blog and discovered that all its contributors had better ideas than he did.<\/p>\n
Gilgoff wrote a book called \u201cThe Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War,\u201d and his journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Politico.<\/p>\n
He lives outside of Washington with his wife Rebecca, who works in TV news, and their three children, who are exposed to way too much news for being under 10.<\/p>\n
Note: Dan is an running for ONA's Board of Directors. Read more about Dan's vision for ONA here<\/a>. Are you an ONA Member? Learn more about how to vote<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2946,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Dan","last_name":"Gilgoff","title":"Executive Editor, Digital","organization":"National Geographic","website":"https:\/\/journalists.org\/profiles\/dan-gilgoff\/","twitter":"dangilgoff","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"yoast_head":"\n