For many years, Richard Gingras served as the Global Vice President for News at Google. He continues as a Strategic Advisor. In that role, he provides guidance on how Google presents news to its users as well as advising Google’s efforts to enable a healthy, open ecosystem for quality journalism.
Gingras is a founding board member of the Center for News, Technology, and Innovation, an independent global policy research center, that seeks to encourage independent, sustainable media, and foster informed public policy conversations to maintain a free press and an open internet. He recently joined the board of Wiki Education, which encourage Wikipedia authorship within the halls of academia. Gingras served on the Knight Commission on Trust, Media, and Democracy, and helped found the Trust Project.
He helped found and later lead the first digital news site, Salon.com, and held executive positions at Apple, the @Home Network, and the Excite search engine.
Gingras serves on the boards of the First Amendment Coalition, the International Center for Journalists, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, PRX, the public media podcast network, and the James T Foley Legacy Foundation.