Lila King

Based in New York, Lila King leads global news & publisher partnerships for Instagram. In this role, she works with publishing companies and journalists to help them get the most out of Instagram.

Before joining Instagram in 2016, Lila had a long tenure at CNN Worldwide, most recently leading partnerships and product development at HLN, and, before that, heading up social news for CNN. In 2006, she and a tiny group of colleagues launched CNN iReport, the first citizen journalism effort inside a traditional news organization.

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