BGV Media co-founders and principals Dorian Benkoil
and Adam Glenn
first worked together in 1997, when the two met as producers at the
newly launched ABCNews.com. While there, they helped build an
award-winning news site that became one of the most-visited on the Web.
Since launching their own independent consulting enterprises in 2005, they've remained pioneers in digital media, working separately with clients in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors on digital strategy and execution for content and business. Now, with BGV Media, they've come together again to serve the not-for-profit and education sectors.
Dorian has
more than 20 years in the media business, more than a decade of it in
digital media. He is founder of Teeming Media, a New York-based digital
media editorial and business consultancy. As editorial director for
mediabistro.com, he managed a network of targeted media industry blogs,
community platforms, email newsletters, video and paid content. There,
and in senior roles at ABCNews.com, Fairchild Publications, CNET.com
and elsewhere, he created multiple new content and revenue streams
across platforms, attracting and retaining millions of users.
An award-winning journalist, Dorian has been a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent for ABC News, Newsweek and The Associated Press. He is a columnist for the Poynter Institute's E-Media Tidbits, a frequent speaker at leading media conferences and events, and hosts the "Naked Media" media business Web TV show. Dorian is an honors MBA graduate of Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, a former Fulbright Fellow in Japan and a graduate of Stanford University. He teaches Digital Marketing to MBA students at the Zicklin School of Business. His undergraduate degree, in communication and international relations, is from Stanford University.
Adam is an award-winning news veteran, educator and consultant who founded the New York-based independent digital media consultanting firm a2g Media, helping organizations develop strategies for digital content and delivery. His client roster includes charitable institutions such as NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright's foundation Autism Speaks and The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation/Rubin Museum of Art. Media non-profits include the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University, the Knight Digital Media Center at University of Southern California, the Hechinger Institute for Education and the Media,online publications at Yale University and Marist College, and The New York Press Association. Media business clients include magazine publisher Rodale Inc., and local newspaper publishers.
Adam is also co-founder of I, Reporter, a journalism training endeavor, which won the prestigious Knight News Challenge Grant in its first year. He holds adjunct teaching positions at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Carter Institute of Journalism at New York University. At Columbia, he has also served since 2006 as managing editor for its Carnegie-Knight News21 news initiative. During the last 25 years, Adam has held posts with a wide variety of news media in New York and Washington, most recently as senior producer at ABCNews.com in New York, where he ran health, science, technology and business coverage until 2005. He is a columnist for the Poynter Institute's E-Media Tidbits, and serves on the editorial advisory board for the Society of Environmental Journalists. Adam was awarded a 2002 Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowship to teach in India, and a 2005 Environmental Media Fellowship at the Vermont Law School. He received a masters in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and a bachelors in journalism from Boston University.
