Michael Piccorossi will join C-SPAN as the network’s first chief digital officer. He will help guide C-SPAN’s digital strategy, while working with multiple departments to produce digital products designed to improve the C-SPAN user experience, analytics and results, TVNewsCheck.

Piccorossi joins C-SPAN from Pew Research Center, where he’s been for more than 12 years and most recently served as the managing director of digital product and strategy.  Prior to Pew Research Center, Piccorossi worked at US News as the director of online operations.

Piccorossi has also been an adjunct professor in Georgetown’s Integrated Marketing program. He will start at C-SPAN on August 22.

On leaving Pew Research for C-SPAN, Piccorossi said “I couldn’t pass up this great professional opportunity to help another organization that’s committed to presenting unbiased, unfiltered information to the American public.”

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