Mike Webb
Deputy Director and Chief of Communications
He/him
Mike Webb is the Deputy Director and Chief of Communications for Groundwork Collaborative.
In his role, Mike develops organizational and communications strategies to execute Groundwork’s core mission: driving new narratives about how the economy works and who it should work for. Mike is a highly skilled communications strategist who has advanced the work of legal, educational, and journalism nonprofits, as well as advocacy organizations. His work has resulted in innovations in confronting the misinformation epidemic, the powerful being held accountable for wrongdoing, improvements to our justice system (criminal, civil, and youth), and greater protections for voting rights.
Prior to joining Groundwork, he served as the Senior Vice President of Media & Marketing at the News Literacy Project and as a Vice President of issue advocacy for BerlinRosen Public Affairs. With the News Literacy Project, he led the launch of their annual National News Literacy Week that reached millions of Americans and involved top mainstream, local, and independent newsrooms in the country. His work helped NLP win a Webby Award and a Literacy Award from the Library of Congress. At BerlinRosen, he led teams doing narrative change work on juvenile and civil justice issues.
Mike was the founding Director of Communications for ProPublica, and later a Vice President, where he created the blueprint for the organization’s impact, accountability investigative journalism on topics like fracking, policing, and Wall Street. During his tenure, ProPublica became the first online newsroom to win a Pulitzer Prize.
He also served as the Deputy Director of Communications & Strategy at the Brennan Center for Justice to drive their narratives around voting rights, money in politics, privacy rights, national security, the minimum wage, and access to the courts into the public’s consciousness. He’s also held positions in newsrooms at The Nation magazine and Honolulu Civil Beat, as well as for elected officials in New York and Ohio, and as a researcher on former Sen. Bill Bradley’s 2000 presidential campaign.
Mike is an Ohio native and currently resides in Washington, D.C., but has lived in New York City, Los Angeles, and Hawai`i. He received his bachelor’s degree in communications from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. In his spare time, he plays guitar and bass and spends far too much time cheering for the Steelers, Buckeyes, and Yankees.