Matt Frehner
Managing Editor, Products And Platforms
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolMatt Frehner is a seasoned newsroom product and visual journalism leader with 12 years at The Globe and Mail, now serving as Managing Editor, Products and Platforms to shape how the paper delivers journalism across podcasts, newsletters, interactive experiences and responsible AI. He has built and led cross-disciplinary teams of editors, designers, developers, photographers and data visualizers to produce award-winning visual storytelling for mobile, desktop and print. Matt combines newsroom craft with product design instincts—building tools for reporters, analyzing complex datasets and creating immersive interactive projects. Based in Old Toronto with a BA in Philosophy, he’s as comfortable debating narrative clarity as he is shipping features that change how audiences consume news.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy at University of Alberta
Github Skills (10)
chartjs-plugin10
gantt-chart9
google-charts9
chartjs9
responsive7
react7
visualization6
charts6
charting5
data-visualization5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
stuartathompson/Mobile-Olympics-Tool
Dec 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:34 commits in 2 months
globeandmail/chart-tool
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
A responsive charting application
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes in 10 months
gantt-chartchartsreactcharting-applicationchart
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