Heidi Legg was formerly the Future of Media fellow at the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard 2020-2022 where she indexed the entire US and Canadian media system with extensive ownership details on every outlet. By mapping the commercial and non-profit US Media ecosystems she has been able to offer informed solutions on improving transparency and trust in news. Her index work was published in mainstream media Axios, USA Today, Nieman Labs, Columbia Journalism Review, and the UK’s Press-Gazette. Heidi wrote sweeping white papers while at the Shorenstein Center from 2018-2020 including The Fight Against Disinformation in the US, A Landscape Study of Local News Across America and Preserving America’s Thought Leader Magazines. She was the founder of TheEditorial.com. She is mission driven to ensure more people have access to quality knowledge and that journalism survives with its own revenue model. She also published numerous OpEds on local news models for CNN and the Boston Globe, on section 230 for both the Boston Globe and new Capital Hill Citizen.

Born in Moncton, New Brunswick, she holds a Graduate degree in Journalism from Concordia University, Montreal (1994) and a Bachelor of Communications, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax (1993), with a minor in History from Dalhousie University (thesis on Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media theorist).