Emily Dresslar

Director, RevLab, The Texas Tribune

Dresslar presented at the ISOJ 2022 workshop “Tools and resources for local news organizations.” Watch her presentation here.

Emily Dresslar is the director of the RevLab at The Texas Tribune. A former journalist, Emily has developed a specialization in working on new ventures in news media, supporting innovation teams by managing operations, strategic partnerships and revenue development. Before joining RevLab, Emily was head of Business Operations for The Compass Experiment at McClatchy, a Google News Initiative-funded project. Prior to that, she was head of Strategic Partnerships for Calkins Digital, an innovative technology start-up serving the news media industry. Emily earned a master’s degree in Media Strategy from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She is also a past member of the board of directors of the Local Media Consortium.