Rodney Gibbs

I’m a journalism and product leader who helps mission-driven media grow with smart strategy, practical AI, and deep audience instincts.I’m the Executive Director of Heartland Signal, covering state politics and policy across the Midwest and beyond. Previously, I led product and audience efforts at the National Trust for Local News, strategy and innovation at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and I served as the first Chief Product Officer at the Texas Tribune. Before focusing on digital journalism, I founded and sold two videogame companies.I serve on the boards of the Online News Association, the Current, and Canopy Atlanta, and the Associated Press's Standards Advisory Panel.A music head, I host soul and Americana shows on Atlanta’s community radio station WRFG-FM and spend too much time (and money) in record stores.