{"id":1781,"date":"2018-08-06T09:11:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/"},"modified":"2018-08-06T09:11:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T13:11:02","slug":"rodney-gibbs","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Gibbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodney is one of 22 candidates for the 2019-20 Board of Directors election. ONA members as of Sept. 9 are eligible to vote between Sept. 11 and Sept 27. Learn more about the election process<\/a> and check out Rodney’s vision for ONA<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rodney Gibbs is chief product officer of The Texas Tribune, where he is responsible for the Tribune\u2019s big-picture digital vision and tactical implementation. Leading collaborations between editorial, engineering and design, he oversees a portfolio of products supporting the Tribune\u2019s journalism, user engagement and sustainability.<\/p>\n

Prior to joining the Tribune, Rodney founded and sold two mobile app and game companies. (One of his game products, Qrank, was a cult hit among news junkies, thanks to its innovative use of current events, location-based awards and social gameplay.) Active in Austin\u2019s media community, Rodney has served on a number of boards, including his city\u2019s NPR and PBS affiliates; the Austin Film Society; and the Austin chapter of Hacks and Hackers. Rodney mentored a young man for eight years with Big Brothers Big Sisters and served on that organization\u2019s board for two terms. He mentors college fellows with in the Tribune\u2019s newsroom and volunteers as an admissions interviewer for his alma mater, Rice University.<\/p>\n

Outside of work, Rodney is passionate about travel, film, record collecting and swimming holes. Given his druthers, he\u2019d be coaching his son\u2019s baseball team, watching old musicals with his daughter or cooking with his wife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4692,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Rodney","last_name":"Gibbs","title":"Chief Product Officer","organization":"Texas Tribune","website":"http:\/\/texastribune.org","twitter":"rgibbs","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"yoast_head":"\nRodney Gibbs - ONA18<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rodney Gibbs - ONA18\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rodney is one of 22 candidates for the 2019-20 Board of Directors election. ONA members as of Sept. 9 are eligible to vote between Sept. 11 and Sept 27. Learn more about the election process and check out Rodney’s vision for ONA. Rodney Gibbs is chief product officer of The Texas Tribune, where he is […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ONA18\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/onlinenewsassociation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Rodney-Gibbs.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@onaconf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@onaconf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" value=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" value=\"Brian Duff\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" value=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" value=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/\",\"name\":\"ONA18\",\"description\":\"The 2018 ONA Conference & Awards Ceremony \\u2014 Sept. 13-15 \\u2014 Austin, TX\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2018\/09\/Rodney-Gibbs.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":300},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/\",\"name\":\"Rodney Gibbs - ONA18\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-08-06T13:11:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-08-06T13:11:02+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/rodney-gibbs\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}