Damon Kiesow

Damon Kiesow is a digital media pioneer who specializes in aligning community information needs and business strategy in support of sustainable local journalism. As Knight Chair in Journalism Innovation at the Missouri School of Journalism, he teaches a senior capstone in news product thinking, authored the first textbook in News Product Management and co-founded the News Product Alliance. Before that, he served as director of product for McClatchy in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he reorganized the product group and created the company’s first Product Design and User Experience Research teams.