Charlie Meyerson is founder and publisher of Chicago Public Square, founding head of news at startup Rivet Radio and the principal at his consulting practice, Meyerson Strategy. He’s devoted a career in Chicago to connecting great journalism with growing audiences—online, on air, in print. His dozens of awards for work at Rivet360, FM News Chicago, the Chicago Tribune, WNUA and WXRT-FM include a national 2016 Edward R. Murrow Award for online audio investigative reporting. He’s held managerial roles at the Tribune, WGN-AM and WNUA. He's contributed to Chicago Public Media WBEZ-FM 91.5 and Crain's Chicago Business. And he's served as adjunct professor of journalism at Roosevelt and Northwestern Universities and Columbia College Chicago. With his Rivet colleagues, he shares a U.S. patent for delivering a “contextually relevant media content stream based on listener preference.”