Heron is a journalist who spent her career in specializing in digital strategy and innovation. She was formerly the Executive Editor of the Huffington Post.

Previously, she managed the journalism partnerships team at Facebook. Prior to that, she was a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal in charge of news for mobile, social media, audience development and multimedia.

She has also served as Social Media Editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was on ABCNews.com's audience development team, increasing traffic, interactivity and engagement through SEO, social media and blogs. Before that, she spent five years at the Washington Post as an editor on the Foreign, National Security and Local desks, developing strategies to cover the news using social media, curation and interactivity; running multimedia projects, live-blogging major international news events, and developing new blogs and partnerships.

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