Rob McLaughlin is a
Canadian journalist and digital media producer who is currently the executive producer of the
National Film Board of Canada's Digital Studio in
Vancouver. 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. [1][2]
Prior to joining the NFB, McLaughlin worked at the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a director of digital programming. From 2000 to 2005 he was the executive producer of
CBC Radio 3 and managed content creation for the group’s collection of web sites and radio programs.[13][14][15] CBC Radio 3 won a
Webby Award for Best Broadband site in 2003 and the People Choice Webby Awards in the Radio and Broadband categories.[16]
McLaughlin had first worked with the NFB under the company name Subject Matter Inc. and collaborated with
Katerina Cizek to develop the NFB website Filmmaker in Residence, which won the Webby Award for Best Documentary Series in 2008.[8][17]