Celeste LeCompte is the vice president of business development at ProPublica, where she works primarily on partnerships, product, and strategy. As a former reporter and editor, she brings a focus on developing business opportunities that are aligned with editorial and audience interests to her work on \u201cthe business side\u201d of media organizations.<\/p>\n
In 2009, she helped launch Gigaom Research, a successful experiment in online subscription products, first as its editor and then as the director of product, overseeing consumer sales and partnerships with major media organizations. She also co-founded and managed the Climate Confidential, an award-winning reporting project that raised more than $60,000 in crowdfunding to cover the intersection of technology and environment for a year; Climate Confidential collaborated with national and local media partners, winning national and local awards.<\/p>\n
In 2015, she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She has also advised on product development and content strategy for media companies, nonprofits and corporate clients. She is a board member for the Online News Association, an incoming board member for the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, and member of the advisory board at MICRO, a nonprofit building tiny, moveable science museums to expand access and enthusiasm for science to everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2869,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Celeste","last_name":"LeCompte","title":"Vice President, Business Development","organization":"ProPublica","website":"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/","twitter":"celrae","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"yoast_head":"\n