Damon Kiesow
Knight Chair In Journalism Innovation
Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolDamon Kiesow is a journalism innovation leader and product strategist with 10+ years of experience designing and launching digital news products and mobile platforms. As Knight Chair in Journalism Innovation at the Missouri School of Journalism he blends teaching with hands-on product development, drawing on prior leadership roles that grew McClatchy’s product organization and established its first UX research and design teams. He authored the first textbook on News Product Management and is known for promoting human-centered design, data-driven audience development, and newsroom change management. Damon’s background as a photojournalist and principal photo editor gives him rare cross-disciplinary fluency between editorial craft and product strategy, helping newsrooms translate audience insight into sustainable revenue and engagement products. He repeatedly accelerates time-to-market by formalizing product processes and usability testing while mentoring teams through digital transformation. Based in Columbia, Missouri, he pairs academic rigor (MS in Human Factors in Information Design) with proven newsroom impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Human Factors in Information Design, Master of Science (MS), Human Factors in Information Design at Bentley University - McCallum Graduate School of BusinessBachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration at Rivier College
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Github Skills (5)
facebook6
spotify3
twitter2
monitoring1
django1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LocalNewsImpact/MizzouNewsCrawler
Oct 2025 - Jul 2026
Contributions:16 reviews, 78 PRs, 204 pushes in 8 months
dkiesow/Zotero-Workflows
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Scripts for working with Zotero
Contributions:36 commits, 14 PRs, 34 pushes in 28 days
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