Jeff Sonderman
Deputy Executive Director and Executive Vice President
Jeff Sonderman is the deputy executive director of the American Press Institute, helping to lead its use of research, tools, events, and strategic insights to advance and sustain journalism.
He is a leader in helping modern journalism thrive through the right blend of technology, audience engagement, data-driven content strategy, integrated business models, and transformative leadership. He has worked as a writer, editor, manager, coach, trainer, speaker, and consultant with diverse types of news publishers across the country.
He is the architect and developer of API’s Metrics for News analytics software that reinvents how publishers use data to inform content strategy. He also edits API’s Need to Know newsletter, a uniquely designed resource for spreading fresh, useful insights across the industry, and designed API’s Strategy Studies research format for in-depth strategic guidance. And he consults with publishers on a range of issues related to content strategy, organizational transformation, audience development, newsroom structure and workflows, product management, and much more.
He has taught digital journalism at Georgetown University. Before joining the American Press Institute in 2013, he was the digital media fellow of The Poynter Institute. His earlier journalism background includes digital news — helping to launch TBD.com, a local digital news startup in Washington, D.C. — and various roles in newspapers, as an award-winning reporter, online editor and metro editor of The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pa.
He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism and resides in Falls Church, Va., with his wife and daughter.
Email Jeff at jeff.sonderman@pressinstitute.org or follow him @jeffsonderman.