Burt Herman

Burt Herman is the CEO of Lede. He built a reputation as a successful entrepreneur and leading thinker on the future of journalism and journalist-empowering technologies. After 12 years as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press, Herman spent the past decade focused on the challenges facing modern news organizations and how to leverage technology to address them. He co-founded the Hacks/Hackers community to bring leaders from the technology and journalism communities together to work on these issues. In 2010, he co-founded Storify, an award-winning social media storytelling product used by media companies, brands, non-profit organizations, and political groups around the world. After selling Storify in 2013, Herman served on the founding team of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism as the director of innovation projects and most recently served as Product Director of User Platform at Condé Nast.