Robert A. Bertsche, a First Amendment and media litigator and counselor, holds up Klaris’s Boston location. A former journalist, Rob has earned a national reputation representing print and online magazines, newspapers, broadcasters, documentary filmmakers, and websites, including in their video, film, podcast, television, and social media incarnations. He serves...
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Brian McGrory is the editor of The Boston Globe. A 27-year veteran of the Globe, he was previously a Metro columnist and associate editor. Born and raised in Boston and the region, he has also worked as the Globe’s Metro...
I served as a photojournalist at the St Louis Post-Dispatch for 20 years. For 15 of those years I was director of photography and Asst managing editor for technology. I am a five-time Pulitzer Nominee for photojournalism - lost all those times making me a 5-time loser.
I left the...
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Stephen Engelberg was the founding managing editor of ProPublica from 2008–2012, and became editor-in-chief on January 1, 2013. He came to ProPublica from The Oregonian in Portland, where he had been a managing editor since 2002. Before joining The Oregonian, Mr. Engelberg...
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Jeff Potter has been working in and around newspapers since 1983 and, for more than 15 years, has edited and designed The Commons (commonsnews.org), an award-winning nonprofit community newspaper in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he has produced almost 12,000 pages with InDesign. Separately, he...
Felicia Gans is a producer and reporter for the cannabis team at The Boston Globe, where she has overseen the digital strategy of the Globe's marijuana section since its launch in November 2018. She has covered the opening of recreational marijuana stores...
Angie Drobnic Holan is the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact. She has extensive experience fact-checking the presidency, Congress and political campaigns, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She serves on the advisory board of the International Fact-Checking Network.
She holds a...
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Jim Falzone is the publisher of the seven newspapers that comprise North of Boston Media Group in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In addition, he serves as vice president of production for parent company CNHI, LLC, and is president of the Northeast Association...
John Voket has primarily worked in journalism, broadcasting and communications all his life, holding positions as an Associated Press stringer; a reporter, designer and editor for numerous community papers in Connecticut; and is currently Editor of The Newtown Bee serving Newtown and Sandy Hook, CT.
In his tenure with “The...
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Allie Ginwala has been the audience engagement editor for the Concord Monitor since March 2021. She manages the opinion section and oversees various community and audience engagement initiatives including the Monitor's reader advisory board, annual Impact Report, the News for Your Neighbor...








