Asha Curran, CEO of Giving Tuesday, appointed new board chair of theguardian.org; Vivian Schiller, Alice Rhee, and Lois Quam appointed to the board -…

Today, theguardian.org has announced new appointments to its board. Founding Board Member Asha Curran, CEO of Giving Tuesday, has been appointed as board chair.

Other new board appointments include Vivian Schiller, media and technology lead at the Aspen Institute, who has held multiple high-profile media roles including head of news at Twitter, general manager of NYTimes.com and President and CEO of National Public Radio.; Lois Quam, President and CEO of Pathfinder International, a global NGO that champions sexual and reproductive health and rights; and Alice Rhee, Managing Director of Strategic Partnerships and Growth at American Journalism Project, the first venture philanthropy organization focused on local civic news in the U.S.

With these new appointments, theguardian.org further cements its commitment to innovate new models of support for journalism, and to expand generosity and contributions from philanthropic institutions and individuals alike. These appointments also bring fresh board expertise to vital topics like global development and womens health, and affirm commitment to strengthen local and regional news.

Publicly launched in August 2017 and led by Rachel White, theguardian.orgs aim is to advance and inform public discourse around the most pressing issues of our time through the support of independent journalism and journalistic projects at the Guardian. To date, theguardian.org has worked with 12 philanthropic partners to support 20 editorially independent projects most recently The Fight to Vote, a one-year reporting project about voting rights in America, and a global reporting project called The Age of Extinction that focuses on biodiversity and species extinction.

Asha Curran, said:

Its a privilege and honor to become board chair of theguardian.org. High quality, independent journalism has never been more important, nor the need to find new and creative ways to support it.

Vivian Schiller, said:

Im delighted to join the board of theguardian.org, an organization that is leading the news industry in innovating new models to support essential reporting as a pillar of our democracy.

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For more information please contact:

media.enquiries@theguardian.com

About Guardian News & Media

The Guardian US, with newsrooms in New York, Washington DC and Oakland, California, brings a global perspective to America on issues including inequality, race & immigration, the environment, the role of technology in our lives, national security, womens rights, the rise of the far right, gun control and more.

Guardian News & Media (GNM), publisher of theguardian.com, is one of the largest English-speaking newspaper websites in the world. Since launching its US and Australia digital editions in 2011 and 2013 respectively, traffic from outside of the UK now represents over two-thirds of The Guardians total digital audience.

First published in 1821, The Guardian is renowned for its award-winning investigation, The Counted, which exposed and documented lethal police force across America, its agenda-setting NSA surveillance revelations following disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden, its globally acclaimed investigation into phone hacking and most recently the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers investigations.

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