{"id":9370,"date":"2016-09-07T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/speaker\/meena-thiruvengadam\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T00:15:40","slug":"meena-thiruvengadam","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/speaker\/meena-thiruvengadam\/","title":{"rendered":"Meena Thiruvengadam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m an experienced multimedia journalist who is interested in editorial strategy, user experience and the evolution of social distribution. I think a lot about emerging platforms \u2013 specifically messaging apps \u2013 social media strategy, digital innovation and audience engagement.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently the Head of Audience Development for Business Insider where I oversee social media strategy and editorial audience development for Business Insider and Insider.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I\u2019ve written about business, economics, personal finance, travel, crime and politics for publications including Yahoo Finance, The Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, GlobalPost,The Denver Post, San Antonio Express-News and the Houston Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been on local and national live TV, done a little voice over work and been lucky enough to cover some fascinating stories from around the world \u2013 including a G7 meeting in Arctic Canada.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve also written extensively about journalism and social media for organizations including Poynter, the Freedom Forum, the Donald Reynolds Center for Business Journalism and mediabistro.<\/p>\n<p><b>Note: Meena is running for the ONA Board of Directors. Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/journalists.org\/about\/board-of-directors\/board-election\/2017-board-of-directors-slate\/meena-thiruvengadam\/\" target=\"_blank\">her vision for ONA.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10818,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Meena","last_name":"Thiruvengadam","title":"Head of Audience Development","organization":"Business Insider","website":"http:\/\/www.meenamedia.com","twitter":"meena_thiru","_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\/9370"}],"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\/10818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=9370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}