Cameron Hickey
Two decades documenting how the world works. Now building the instruments to measure and repair it.
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director
National Conference on Citizenship
Leads a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to track, measure, and promote civic participation in America. Repositioned NCoC as a civic data hub on a five-pillar strategy — Civic Trust, Knowledge, Access, Connection, and Action — with a sustainability plan built on field-funded revenue rather than grant dependency. Leads research, product, and engineering.
Founder & Director, Algorithmic Transparency Institute
National Conference on Citizenship
Founded to build technology, gather data, and generate insight about how platforms shape civic discourse. Raised $6.4M over six years and created Junkipedia, now CivicLens.
Education
Photography & Economics
Bard College
Taught himself to program through the late 1990s and was hired by a first-generation internet company before turning 21, while still an undergraduate.
Awards
News & Documentary Emmy Award
NOVA — Manhunt: Boston Bombers
Exact year and category to confirm; the film aired in 2013.
Newhouse Mirror Award
For journalism on social platforms.
Magic Grant, Brown Institute for Media Innovation
For Contrast Agent, investigating inauthentic activity on social media and recommendation algorithms.
Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grant
Funded NewsTracker, the tool that became Junkipedia.
Boards & affiliations
Board of Directors
Lexington Observer
Local nonprofit news outlet.
Expert Working Group, Publicly Available Platform Data
Knight-Georgetown Institute
Co-author of the resulting framework, Better Access.
Advisory Group
Civic Information Index, Listening Post Collective
Affiliate
Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University
Journalism
Producer, Cinematographer & Editor
PBS NewsHour
Science and technology field production with correspondents Miles O'Brien and Soledad O'Brien. Series producer on the 2018 four-part junk news investigation.
Producer & Cinematographer
NOVA, WGBH
Nine NOVA specials, including the Emmy-winning Manhunt: Boston Bombers.
Founder & Director
Pattern Films
Produced, shot, and edited documentaries for PBS, BBC, Channel 4, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and others.
Producer, Director & Cinematographer
The New York Times, Moyers & Company, American Experience, WNET, PBS World
Research
Technology Manager & Research Fellow
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Helped lead the Information Disorder Lab, monitoring mis- and disinformation through the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Built the tooling and methodology to identify, collect, and analyze problematic content across platforms.
Education
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