Chris joined what was then known as Guardian Unlimited in 1999 and worked as a freelance digital subeditor and production editor for the next ten years.
Six years ago he took on the role of SEO (search engine optimisation) editor and is now theguardian.com's Audience editor, responsible within the newsroom for how the Guardian's huge global readership finds, shares and reads its journalism. In that time he has developed standard practice for optimising and promoting journalism across the internet while staying true to the Guardian's editorial standards, helped oversee one of the largest domain moves in the internet's history and has been a key figure in changing the culture of editorial departments from print-focused to truly digital.
Chris is the editorial strategy lead on Ophan, the Guardian's bespoke realtime data tool. Started as a hack day three years ago with Graham Tackley it's now used by up to 800 Guardian staff each month. It's been a key element of why we've made the Guardian a class leader in newsroom analytics, democratising data for our whole staff and helping us all to understand the complexities of the internet and how people interact with our journalism.
He used to be a teacher and an actor and has needed all the skills he learned in those jobs quite a lot in the last six years.
Chris Moran Job Title Audience Editor Company THE GUARDIAN
