Craig Garnett

Craig Garnett has written a weekly editorial and column for the Uvalde Leader-News since 1982, winning several dozen first place awards from the Texas Press Association and the South Texas Press Association. Garnett was born in Altus, Oklahoma, and graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1975 with a BA in...

Convention 2018

The winners and the audience at the New England First Amendment Coalition’s awards luncheon Friday, Feb. 23, are shown above, clockwise from top left: Todd Wallack, an investigative reporter with The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, who received the Michael Donoghue Freedom of Information Award; Jane Mayer, a writer for...

Janine Weisman

Janine Weisman has been an adjunct professor and journalism faculty adviser to the student newspaper at Roger Williams University since 2013. She is an independent journalist after having spent 25 years at The Newport Daily News, including 13 years as editor of...

Reuben Fischer-Baum

Reuben Fischer-Baum is an editor on the graphics team at The Washington Post, where he leads a team of reporters focused on trackers and reader tools. He previously worked as a visual journalist at FiveThirtyEight and Deadspin and has taught data visualization at Parsons School of Design. He was...

Key Advertising Awards

NENPA 2018 Winter Convention Key Advertising Awards Advertising General Excellence Award Specialty Publication   Fiddlehead/Keene (N.H.) Sentinel Terrence Williams, president and chief operating officer, accepts the award, on behalf of Shay Riley, graphic manager, for the Sentinel’s Fiddlehead publication, from, at right, Michael E. Schroeder, past president of the New England Newspaper and Press Association board...

Mike Blinder

Mike Blinder has been in love with media his entire life. In high school he held part time jobs as an intern at WPEN radio in Philadelphia and at Radio Shack where he sold the 1st generation of home computers.

Nicco Mele

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Nicco Mele is a managing director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. From 2016 to 2019, Nicco was the Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Nicco’s prior experience includes founding...

Karen Florin

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Karen Florin takes great pleasure in serving as a cheerleader for her co-workers and engaging with members of the community while working on the company’s digital strategy and long-term sustainability. She writes a weekly news column, organizes events, hosts a...

Tim Griggs

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Tim is the founder and CEO of Blue Engine Collaborative, a coaching and consulting organization that has helped thousands of publishers around the globe generate hundreds of millions of dollars in incremental revenue to support good journalism. Tim understands the power that comes...