Meet the Bleacher Report Editor Who Is Trouncing ESPN in Social Sharing

Joe Yanarella is Adweek's Digital Editor of the Year

Between the Reagan and Obama administrations, Joe Yanarella carved out a ham-and-egger journalism career with print publications like the Hudson Valley News in upstate New York and Wizard magazine. Then, in 2009, as the U.S. economy was trying to get out of reverse, he took over as editor in chief of Bleacher Report, a woebegone digital pub filled with aggregated sports content.

If this sounds like a story of a baby boomer struggling in a world of digital natives, it is actually the complete opposite.

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