Jim Brady has led washingtonpost.com to numerous awards and accolades since being named executive editor of the site in November 2004. Under his leadership, washingtonpost.com has been focused on combining the world-class journalism of The Washington Post with the endless possibilities of the online medium. Whether it’s providing readers with easier access with journalists, taking the lead on developing online database journalism, equipping journalists with video cameras or numerous other innovations, Brady has been leading the way in making washingtonpost.com a site that seeks to be “of the web,” not merely “on the web.”

Since Brady came on board, washingtonpost.com has won its first national Emmy award for its Hurricane Katrina coverage, an Eppy for Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site, a Digital Edge award for Best Overall News Site, a Knight-Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism, a Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Newspaper Site, an Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Non-Broadcast Affiliated Web Site, and more than 50 White House News Photographers video awards.

In 1999, Brady moved to America Online, where he spent more than four years. From 1999 to 2001, he was Group Programming Director, News and Sports, where he managed the day-to-day operations of two channels that averaged more than 30 million combined unique monthly visitors. From 2001 to 2002, he served as Executive Director, Editorial Operations, where he helped manage the day-to-day operations of AOL’s programming unit and maintained service-wide editorial standards. In his final year at AOL, Brady served as Vice President, Production & Operations, overseeing the 150-person department that built and maintained all AOL products. During his time at AOL, Brady was in charge of the service’s coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2000 presidential election.

Prior to his first stint at washingtonpost.com, Brady was a sportswriter at The Washington Post from 1987 to 1995. During his career, Brady has also served as the Washington sports correspondent for UPI, interned as a sportswriter at Newsday and worked as a researcher for NBC during the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona.

Brady earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Print Journalism from The American University in 1989. Born in Queens, N.Y. and raised in Huntington, N.Y., Brady lives with his wife, Joan, in Great Falls, Va. He is an avid movie and music buff, and still lives and dies – mostly dies – with his New York sports teams: the Mets, the Jets and the Knicks.