Heather Ciras
Deputy Managing Editor, Audience
About
Heather Ciras leads the Globe's audience strategy across platforms. She also oversees the visual storytelling team and the video team. She is passionate about strengthening the Globe’s ties with its current subscribers, building systems to reach new readers, and creative digital storytelling.
She was the lead digital strategist for “Blind Spot,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2021. Projects and initiatives she led have garnered awards, including an Edward R. Murrow award, and many Online Journalism Awards.
She started at the Globe as a part-time, overnight web producer in 2012. She left for a stint to serve as the first Director of Audience Development for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization specializing in criminal justice coverage.