Adam Schweigert serves as Director of Product and Operations with Deep South Today where he oversees a broad portfolio covering operational efficiency and collaboration among the organization’s local newsrooms, product strategy for the network, audience development and growth, and the underlying infrastructure to help the local newsrooms create and distribute impactful journalism for the Deep South.
He previously worked an an independent consultant, at Automattic on the WordPress VIP and Newspack teams, and as Director of User Experience for Mother Jones. Before that he founded and led the product and technology team at the Institute for Nonprofit News, was the Director of Strategy for Mindset Digital – a Columbus, Ohio based consulting firm – and spent eight years leading digital efforts at NPR/PBS member stations in Columbus, Ohio and Bloomington, Indiana.
He holds degrees in music composition, music theory, and oboe performance from Ohio State University, and did his graduate work in music composition and electronic music at Indiana University. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.