Gary Kebbel
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Gary Kebbel joined Knight Foundation in January 2006 as a journalism program officer. He concentrates on grant-making in the new media area and is administering the foundation’s $25 million Knight News Challenge to strengthen community news and community life.
He was the news director at America Online for six years, where he headed the team that built AOL News into one of the world’s largest online news sites.
Gary is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in online journalism. During September 2007 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to teach journalism in South Africa.
He helped create USAToday.com and Newsweek.com, and was a home page editor at washingtonpost.com. His journalism career began in newspapers. He also worked on the web site of Education Week newspaper, where he was in charge of content development, strategy and planning.
He has served as the graphics editor at USA Today; taught online journalism as an adjunct instructor at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, and taught the use of new media in public diplomacy at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute.
He is a graduate of the University of Illinois and The Catholic University of America.
