LMA hires David Arkin as chief content officer

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The Local Media Association has hired content leader David Arkin as its first chief content officer.

Arkin's experience spans nearly 20 years as an editor and content executive developing high-quality journalism and building transformative digital strategies. He will develop several new programs for LMA, including a Chief Content Club, a content training program and a content consulting service. He will also work on news partnerships with Facebook and Google and oversee LMA's website and social media accounts. 

Arkin is an industry leader in audience development and local media content strategies. For the past year he served as chief content officer for Community Impact Newspaper, where he oversaw content operations and strategy, for both print and digital, for the company's 22 hyper-local newspapers with a distribution of 1.7 million. His efforts led to several national journalism awards for the company.

Prior to that, he was senior vice president for product and development for GateHouse Media, a position he held for almost five years. His total tenure with GateHouse was nearly 10 years. During that time, he built and successfully scaled the Center for News & Design, and hired 275 people to provide original content, page design, digital development services and training. He also led the company's content strategies and developed successful social media, video and digital storytelling strategies. In his last year, he overhauled the user experience and design of GateHouse's 500 websites.

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