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WSJ director of strategic initiatives departs for OpenAI

September 8, 2025

Posted by Chris Roush

Kevin Dubouis

Kevin Dubouis, director of strategic initiatives at The Wall Street Journal, has left for a job doing community strategy at OpenAI.

“I’m so proud of the work we accomplished at the Journal: building a strategy team from the ground up, shaping the way we tell stories for a digital audience and helping a global newsroom navigate industry-wide change,” he wrote on LinkedIn.

He previously was director of content strategy at The Journal. He previously was lead strategy editor and deputy coverage editor, audiences.

Dubouis joined The Journal in 2020 from Condé Nast, where he worked on the editorial development and audience growth of the GQ brand across 20 international markets.

He previously was part of the launch team of AJ+, the award-winning digital-only channel of the Al Jazeera Media Network. During his years at Al Jazeera, he worked on video production, social media strategy and audience development, and was part of the team that launched AJ+ en Espanõl and AJ+ en Français.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Sciences Po in France and a master’s degree from the University of Missouri.

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