Becca Aaronson

Chief Product Officer & Co-founder, News Product Alliance

Aaronson was a speaker for the workshop “Building an agile newsroom to succeed in a rapidly changing future,” at the 25th ISOJ. Watch the presentation here.

Becca Aaronson is chief product officer and co-founder of the News Product Alliance, a global community of support and practice for news product thinkers, and served as their founding executive director. She previously worked as the director of product at Chalkbeat, a non-profit, digital-first network of local newsrooms, overseeing digital product development and visual storytelling. Becca spent the first eight years of her career at The Texas Tribune, where she became their first-ever product manager. She was selected for both the Media Transformation Challenge (2021) and Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media (2018) at Poynter and has a bachelor’s degree in cultural theory from Scripps College in Claremont, California.