The center's board includes former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron and Nobel Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa.

He also served as interim president of MyPublisher from 2000-2001 and guided the design of a custom hardcover photo book service introduced by Apple Computer as part of iPhoto.

[12] @Home was founded by the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins in partnership with major US cable companies to offer high-speed Internet access.

[14] From 1983 to 1986, he assembled and managed a network of television stations in the top fifty US markets to provide sideband data distribution for a news and advertising service, Silent Radio, which was presented on electronic displays in retail locations.

Gingras serves on the boards of the First Amendment Coalition, the International Center for Journalists and the World Computer Exchange In the fall of 2012, he was recognized by Louisiana State University with the Manship Prize[15] for contributions to the evolution of digital media.

[16] In 2013, he was a subject of the digital media oral history project[1] produced by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

[17] In February 2003, he launched a satirical website called the Total Information Awareness Gift Shop in response to the disclosure of a secret surveillance project managed by John Poindexter within the US Defense Department.