Valerie Streit leads partner and product operations at Google where she assures high-quality, diverse news content in Search, Google News, YouTube and Assistant. Previously at YouTube, she cultivated platform growth strategies and audience insights with a focus on the news vertical. She has also led publisher outreach to help drive adoption to the Accelerated Mobile Pages Project. A graduate of NYU Steinhardt’s media ecology program, Valerie launched her career as a local news producer in San Diego and San Francisco before joining CNN to freelance as a writer/segment producer. She then turned her freelancing gig into a full-time job at CNN in Atlanta, where she piloted new editorial products and launched original content for CNN.com, iReport, CNN Video, and CNN Live. At CNN, Valerie trained colleagues on how to leverage nascent social media and video for storytelling and interaction, and managed global social media and audience participation platforms.