Liz Heron

Liz is a digital media executive and journalist who has spent her career specializing in the intersection of reporting, storytelling and digital innovation. Currently, she consults on digital media strategies — for the Knight Foundation and others — after serving most recently as the Executive Editor of The Huffington Post. At HuffPost, she led a nimble, digitally-savvy newsroom of reporters, editors and video journalists. Before joining The Huffington Post, she ran the news and journalism partnerships team at Facebook. Previously, Liz was a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal in charge of news for mobile, social media, audience development and multimedia. Prior to that, Liz was Social Media Editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was on ABCNews.com’s audience development team, increasing traffic, interactivity and engagement through SEO, social media and blogs. Before ABCNews, Liz spent five years at the Washington Post as an editor on the Foreign, National Security and Local desks, developing strategies to cover the news using social media, curation and interactivity; running multimedia projects, live-blogging major international news events, and developing new blogs and partnerships.