He had front seat on these efforts, including seven years as founding editor of National Geographic online news, seven years as VP Editor in Chief of National Geographic Digital Media, ten years as director of the National Geographic Society Voices blog, and five years as founding director of the Fulbright-National Digital Storytelling Fellowship. One of the Fulbright-National Geographic Fellows who Braun worked with was Ryan Bell, familiar to the horse publishing world for his award-winning articles and columns in Western Horseman.