Caroline H. Little, CEO, Guardian News and Media, North America; formerly CEO and Publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive (Washington)
Caroline H. Little is one of the world’s true digital media visionaries, with over a decade of experience leading and advising two of the world’s most influential media brands: Guardian Media Group, and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive.
Caroline is CEO, Guardian News and Media, North America, where she is responsible for GNM’s expansion across the continent, including the ContentNext network and sales and marketing for Guardian America.
As CEO and Publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Caroline developed strategy and managed operations for the US’s leading national news, local community and information web sites, including washingtonpost.com, Newsweek.com, Slate, and Budgettravelonline.com.
Under Caroline’s leadership, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive became one of the Internet’s most highly evolved and innovative digital media companies. Leveraging editorial expertise and technology experience into new niches and business models, Caroline exemplified how a respected newspaper and magazine can be as innovative as a start-up.
Caroline has also served as Deputy Council at U.S. News & World Report, The Atlantic Monthly, and Fast Company.
In May 2008, Caroline was inducted into the MIN Digital Hall of Fame, which honours “the people who believed in the power and potential of the Internet before it became de riguer, making online leaps of faith that paid off – and big.”
Her numerous board appointments include: ContentNext; Director of the American Press Institute; Member of the Google Publisher Advisory Council; Member, the Journalism Advisory Committee of the Knight Foundation; Member, Advisory Committee for the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Journalism; Member of the District of Columbia Bar; and Trustee of Grinnell College. Caroline also served as the Chair of the Online Publishers Association, 2006 – 2008.