FOREIGN PRESS AWARDEE 2022
Richard Gingras is global Vice President, News at Google. In that role Gingras focuses on how Google surfaces news on Google’s consumer services and how Google can enable a diverse press on the open Web. He also guides Google’s effort to enable a healthy, open ecosystem for quality journalism. This includes the Google News Initiative, Google’s global investment in efforts to elevate quality journalism, explore new models for sustainability, and provide technology to stimulate cost-efficiency in newsrooms.
Richard Gingras has walked the bleeding edge from satellite networks to search engines, from Apple to Excite to Google. He readily concedes he’s made more mistakes than you.
Richard has been involved in digital media since 1980 or as he once put it “since the days of steam powered modems”. He helped found Salon.com where he once worked with Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald and has worked at Apple overseeing the development of eWorld, the @Home Network, the Excite search engine among other digital ventures. He also serves on the boards of the First Amendment Coalition, the International Center for Journalists, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and UC Berkeley School of Journalism.