John Ketchum is part of the Strategy and Startups team at the American Journalism Project. He got his start in journalism through public radio, first at his local college station as a reporter, then as a producer for American Public Media’s Marketplace on their wealth and poverty team based in Los Angeles.
After Marketplace, he moved to the east coast to serve as a producer for NPR’s Morning Edition. He then went on to run audience engagement strategy at The Center for Public Integrity — an investigative newsroom in Washington, D.C. From there he went on to be part of CNN’s social media team in New York during the 2016 presidential election. After CNN, he served as Deputy Editor of SB Nation, Vox Media’s sports website. Before the American Journalism Project, John worked at Blavity where he helped with the relaunch of afrotech.com, serving as the site’s managing editor. He is based in Atlanta.