Rob McLaughlin is a

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journalist and digital media producer who is currently the executive producer of the

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's Digital Studio in

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. McLaughlin was announced as the head of the NFB studio in May 2016, having previously served as Director of Digital Content and Strategy at the NFB from 2008–2011. From 2011 until his return to the NFB, he was the Regional Vice President of Editorial for all of

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's newspapers in

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as well as was Editor-in-Chief of two newspapers in

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, the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. In his first stint with NFB, McLaughlin was responsible for the strategy and production of many of its pioneering interactive documentary projects (http://www.nfb.ca/interactive) including '' Waterlife'', ''

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'', '' Bear 71'', '' God's Lake Narrows'' and ''The Test Tube With David Suzuki''. Prior to joining the NFB, McLaughlin worked at the

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as a director of digital programming. From 2000 to 2005 he was the executive producer of

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and managed content creation for the group’s collection of web sites and radio programs. CBC Radio 3 won a

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for Best Broadband site in 2003 and the People Choice Webby Awards in the Radio and Broadband categories. McLaughlin had first worked with the NFB under the company name Subject Matter Inc. and collaborated with

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to develop the NFB website Filmmaker in Residence, which won the Webby Award for Best Documentary Series in 2008.

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