{"id":9364,"date":"2016-09-07T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/speaker\/dan-gilgoff\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T00:15:40","slug":"dan-gilgoff","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/speaker\/dan-gilgoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Gilgoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am executive editor for digital at National Geographic, overseeing our exceptionally talented News, Blogs, Adventure and Programming teams. Our stories reach 25 million users a month on our site and 200 million more on social and partner platforms.<\/p>\n

Before joining Nat Geo I was religion editor at CNN.com, where I helped lead a team that won the Online Journalism Award for beat reporting. The experience made me realize that many journalists have better ideas than me and that I could help bring those killer ideas to fruition by making a go at newsroom management.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lived previous lives as political correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and for the website Beliefnet, where I got to rate presidential candidates on their religiosity for a blog called God-O-Meter, which won an Online Journalism Award for commentary. I got that gig by writing a book called \u201cThe Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America Are Winning the Culture War,\u201d published by St. Martin\u2019s Press.<\/p>\n

My wife is a TV journalist whom I met in a college journalism class. One of our three kids may enter journalism; first they need to get through elementary school.<\/p>\n

Note: Dan is running for the ONA Board of Directors. Learn more about his vision for ONA.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10815,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Dan","last_name":"Gilgoff","title":"Executive Editor, Digital","organization":"National Geographic","website":"http:\/\/press.nationalgeographic.com\/biographies\/dan-gilgoff\/","twitter":"dangilgoff","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/9364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=9364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}