Jay Rosen

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | SponsorsYankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Jay Rosen has been teaching journalism at New York University since 1986. He is the author of PressThink, a blog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003. In 1999, Yale University Press...

Greg Swanson

Greg has led his own companies, directed digital advertising sales at major media chains, co-founded one of the nation’s largest travel guide companies, helped launch an alternative newsweekly and designed interactive kiosks for museums, universities, and IBM. Greg is one of the founding members of ITEGA (Information Trust Exchange...

Larry Parnass

Larry Parnass is the executive editor at The Republican newspaper in Springfield, MA, and recently served as investigations editor for The Berkshire Eagle. He is the former editor of the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton and is a multiple winner of the NENPA Publick Occurrences awards, including in 2022...

Stefanie Murray

Stefanie Murray is the Director of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. A Michigan native, Stefanie previously worked in Michigan and Tennessee as a reporter, editor, digital media manager and news executive. Before joining Montclair State, she worked for...

John Voket

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...

Tom Kearney

Tom Kearney has been a Stowe Reporter since 2005; managing editor; also in charge of overhauling the news coverage and presentation of the weeklies the company acquired since 2015 — the News & Citizen of Morrisville, The Other Paper of South Burlington,...

Traci Griffith

A lawyer, journalist, academic, and advocate, Traci Griffith currently serves as the Racial Justice Program  Director for the ACLU of Massachusetts. Her transition to the staff of ACLUM comes after serving the organization on the National ACLU Board of Directors, on the Executive Committee, and as the National  Board...

Julian Placino

Julian Placino is a Fortune 500 Speaker, founder of Pathways Affiliated, a recruitment strategy consultancy, and the creator of Recruitment Masterclass, the only video course that turns your employees into an army of talent ambassadors and recruiters. Julian is also the host of the leadership podcast, Pathways to Success...

Mike Cote

CONFERENCE HOME | SCHEDULE | SPONSORS | REGISTERMike Cote has worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers and magazines in New Hampshire, Florida and Colorado for more than 30 years. He also taught public affairs reporting and news editing at the University of Colorado.

Dawn DeAngelis

Dawn DeAngelis oversees the broadcast, online, educational outreach and communications efforts for New Hampshire's PBS station, She is passionate about producing locally relevant content with impact long after broadcast. She also acts as liaison for the station’s...