about me.
Andrew Golis is the Director of Digital Media and a Senior Editor for PBS’ flagship public affairs documentary series FRONTLINE.
In this role, Golis is responsible for integrating the series’ broadcast, Web and new media initiatives and supporting its ongoing effort to remake the series for the digital age. He is a part of FRONTLINE’s senior editorial team, overseen by Executive Producer David Fanning and Series Senior Producer Raney Aronson-Rath, and oversees the web editorial, web design, and media outreach teams.
Previously, Andrew was the founding Editor of the Upshot blog network at Yahoo! News. He built a staff of about a dozen all-star reporter bloggers and editors to launch 5 blogs – The Upshot, The Ticket, The Lookout, The Cutline and The Envoy. The New York Observer called the new blog network the second biggest media launch of 2010.
Andrew was also the Deputy Publisher of TalkingPointsMemo. During his three years at TPM, he helped manage that company’s explosive editorial, audience, and business growth. Naming TPM one of the best blogs of 2009, Time Magazine called it “the prototype of what a successful Web-based news organization is likely to be in the future.”
Andrew speaks and consults regularly on digital journalism. Past speaking venues have included: Columbia Journalism School, The Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley, the European NewsXchange conference in Malta, and the Paley Center for Media in New York.
He graduated with Honors from Harvard University with a degree in American political history. He lives in Sunnyside, New York with his wife, feminist author and blogger Jessica Valenti, their daughter and their cat and dog.
(Photo credit: Vanessa Valenti)