Cory Bergman

Cory Bergman is the general manager of BreakingNews.com and @breakingnews, a quickly-growing social media startup within the msnbc digital network.  One of the largest social media teams in journalism, BreakingNews is at the forefront of real-time curation and distribution.

Earlier at msnbc, he managed the digital network’s first relationships and strategy with Facebook and Twitter as part of his role as director of new product development (2009-2011).  He helped acquire and relaunch the hyperlocal company EveryBlock.com as a neighborhood community site.  He also worked as director of business development (2008-2009).

Cory founded the TV industry site Lost Remote back in 1999 — one of the first blogs on the web — after realizing major media companies were scrambling to understand the revolutionary impact of the internet. Today, it’s a go-to source on the emerging space of social TV for thousands of industry professionals.

Separately, Cory is the co-founder of Next Door Media, a network of 10 neighborhood news sites in Seattle. The network includes My Ballard, which won a 2009 Online Journalism Award for community collaboration.  It also includes PhinneyWood, which won a national Society of Professional Journalists award in 2010 for deadline reporting. Combined, Next Door Media has a larger social media presence than most Seattle media companies.

Cory is on the advisory boards for the Poynter Institute as well as the University of Washington’s Master of Communications in Digital Media program.

Prior to msnbc.com, Cory was the director of digital media at KING-TV in Seattle. While at KING5.com, his team won a variety of national journalism awards, including the Edward R. Murrow for overall excellence in 2007 and the EPpy for best broadcast site in 2008. KING5.com also won the first Emmy Award for a podcast in the country. Cory was named one of Seattle’s “40 Under 40” by the Puget Sound Business Journal.

While at KING TV In 2007, Cory built and launched CitizenRain.com — a site that aggregates posts from over 350 Seattle bloggers in near real-time.

Cory worked for NBC News as a staff assignment editor in Los Angeles and later as a freelance field producer, covering stories up and down the West Coast. In the weeks following the 9/11 attacks, he was a coordinating producer for NBC at Ground Zero.

He has an MBA from the University of the Pacific.

You can contact him at cory (at) lostremote.com or via Twitter at @corybe.