Meet the people dedicated to sustainability in journalism

Abbey helps Hub members build and maintain audience strategies. Prior to joining the Hub, Abbey worked as an audience editor at Outside magazine and in local news in Washington, D.C. and Vermont.

Anne Marie helps the Hub team with prospecting and project management. For more than six years she worked for various Kentucky nonprofits doing community engagement and development work, and she arrived at the Hub via a nonprofit newsroom in Louisville, Kentucky.

Benjamin works on user-facing and server side systems, ensuring the Hub's services are well architected, tested, and documented. He has over a decade of experience helping education, social media, and public health organizations innovate and bring new products and experiences to life.

Daniel develops software, improves processes and helps to set technology direction for the News Revenue Hub. Daniel joined the News Revenue Hub from the Texas Tribune where he served as Chief Technology and Security Officer. In previous roles he worked at Mutual Mobile, The University of Texas at Austin, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Graham leads the Client Success team and works to ensure newsrooms are getting the most out of their services with the Hub. Previously, Graham was the managing editor for the San Antonio Report where she directed editorial strategy and oversaw unprecedented year-over-year audience growth. Graham is also a member of the Online News Association (ONA)’s board of directors.

Lizzy helps drive business outcomes at the Hub by contributing to knowledge management, company operations and user research and evaluation. She previously worked as a reporter covering state government and policy in Pennsylvania.

Mary founded the News Revenue Hub in 2016 to help news organizations achieve greater financial sustainability. Prior to founding the Hub, Mary was the Publisher/COO of Voice of San Diego. During her seven-year tenure, she spearheaded the creation of VOSD’s membership program and grew the organization’s annual revenue by nearly $1 million.

Nikki helps the Hub’s project management team by providing clients with software support as well as audience building strategies. She previously worked as the Director of Marketing and Communications at a nonprofit in Atlanta, GA that served children and young adults with special needs and learning differences.

Sarah oversees the organization's strategies for serving the public good by capacity-building in newsrooms. Before joining the Hub, Sarah was the senior director of development at Vox, working across editorial strategy and all business lines; she has worked at Hearst, PR Newswire, and local agencies and nonprofits; and was formerly a documentary writer/producer focused on local narratives of ecological and cultural need in Northeast Florida.

Tristan manages News Revenue Hub operations and helps set company strategy. Previously, he served as Digital Director at Voice of San Diego and ran programs in digital media and user experience at University of California, San Diego.

Agustín Biancardi assists the technical and business development teams by providing technical support to customers and developing new products. Prior to joining the Hub, he received a bachelor’s degree in Business, Organizations & Society with a minor in Computer Science from Franklin & Marshall College.

Ashley consults on audience and membership strategies for Hub newsrooms. Prior to joining the Hub, Ashley led the Quartz audience team and digital growth initiatives at Inc. magazine.

Chris works on the user-facing aspects of the web applications that power the Hub’s services, ensuring they’re functionally robust, appealing, and accessible. He brings more than a decade of experience as a web developer in the education field to his work here.

Evan leads Hub efforts to help newsrooms build and refine audience and membership strategies. Prior to joining the Hub, Evan worked as a senior audience editor at Slate. He has more than six years’ experience working in non-profit news.

JT has over ten years of experience in project and program management and has functioned as scrum master, product owner, and agile coach on development teams mainly in the e-commerce space. At the Hub, he works with product and technical teams to streamline process and deliver value.

Mac helps onboard new clients onto the Hub’s tech stack and supports the project management team with service deliverables. Prior to joining the Hub, she worked as a freelance digital producer and received her master’s in media studies from The New School.

Mikaela consults on audience and membership strategies for newsrooms. Previously, she worked in two journalism innovation labs, as a senior editor and project manager for Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) and as a project manager and audience data and research strategist for Gannett/USA Today Network.

Rachel is our user defender! She thoughtfully applies user experience and interface design principles to research, execution, and implementation of our products. She brings experience from advertising, marketing, and tech spaces to enhance the users interactions and experiences with our brand, products, and services.

Sophie consults on audience growth, news product strategy, and high-level data analysis for newsrooms. Previously, she worked at Google as a product strategist for news and ranking, and at The Washington Post in a variety of news analytics and audience roles.

Will helps Hub members develop and execute their membership strategies. Before joining the Hub, he did everything from editing to writing to fundraising at Washington City Paper in D.C.

Corey Lynn Fayman has been involved in the field of instructional and interactive design for over twenty-five years, working on projects for The U.S. Army, TAG Heuer, Ford, Maxwell Technologies, National University, Vivendi, and others. As head of the multimedia department at MP3.com, he designed and helped develop dozens of projects, including the first just-in-time production of audio and interactive CDs. He has designed and taught more than twenty interactive design courses at UCSD Extension, SDSU and The Art Institute of California. A former musician and sound designer for the world-famous Old Globe Theatre, he now consults and supports various non-profit organizations in the San Diego area. He is the author of four published mystery novels, the most recent of which, Ballast Point Breakdown, won the Best-in-Show Geisel Award at the 2021 San Diego Book Awards. Mr. Fayman holds a B.A. in English, with a specialization in creative writing, from UCLA, and an M.A. in Educational Technology from San Diego State University.

Nicco Mele is a managing director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. From 2016 to 2019, Nicco was the Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Nicco’s prior experience includes founding technology companies, working on political campaigns, and a stint as a media executive at the Los Angeles Times.

Irving Washington, FASAE, CAE, is a Senior Fellow at KFF, a nonprofit organization focusing on national health issues serving as a source of facts, analysis, and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public. His work focuses on health misinformation and trust at KFF. Before joining KFF, he was the CEO of the Online News Association (ONA), one of the world’s largest membership organizations for digital journalists. At ONA, he led efforts to build a foundation for journalism’s future by leveraging the power of new media technologies to raise up the next generation of diverse media leaders, which doubled the organization in size, scope, and reach.

Steph Yiu is the Chief Customer Officer at WordPress VIP, which helps large enterprises and media organizations adopt WordPress, an open source platform. Her work centers on helping organizations build scalable customer retention strategies. Prior to WordPress VIP, Steph worked at America’s Test Kitchen and the Chicago Tribune where she created new avenues of audience engagement.

John Jakovich is the Chief Innovation Officer for the Tessitura Network, a non-profit software company that provides the leading CRM platform for arts & cultural organizations. John has more than 20 years’ experience as a senior technology leader working with the arts industry's largest nonprofits and most recognizable brands. Previously, he held leadership positions at SofTrek Corporation and Jacobson Consulting Applications providing a variety of software and services to non-profit organizations. John lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and enjoys spending time outdoors with his family.

Eric is the Managing Director and Chief Strategic Officer at the marketing firm, NextLevel Thinking. For more than two decades, Eric has helped organizations develop strategic marketing plans.

Sisi Wei is Co-Executive Director at OpenNews, which supports a community of practitioners and leaders in journalism/tech working to transform newsrooms into being more equitable, inclusive and collaborative. Before joining OpenNews, Sisi was the Assistant Managing Editor at ProPublica, where she edited and managed news apps, graphics, visual investigations and large, interdisciplinary projects.