Steph Solis

Steph Solis covers state government and immigration for MassLive. She has written about ICE courthouse arrests, efforts to deport sick foreign-born children who had deferred action and the investigation into Registry of Motor Vehicles practices.

Scott J. Croteau

Scott J. Croteau is an award-winning crime and investigative reporter whose stories have been featured on BBC, CNN and Investigation Discovery. Croteau joined MassLive in January 2015 and has 20 years of experience covering police, fire and courts in Worcester County.

Liz White

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Liz White is the publisher, executive vice president and 5th generation family owner at the 155-year-old Record-Journal Media Group in central Connecticut, which includes one daily newspaper and 7 weeklies and a digital agency. She holds an MBA from Yale...

Brendan McQuaid

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Brendan McQuaid is the current President of the New Hampshire Press Association.  His day job is serving as President and Publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, the only statewide newspaper.  A third-generation newspaperman, McQuaid was born and raised in...

Gary Lavariere

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Gary Lavariere is a forward-thinking leader who possesses a wealth of knowledge relative to data and digital strategies that drive success. He is currently the Chief Revenue Officer overseeing the business unit at New England Newspapers, Inc. (NENI). In his seven years...

Tim Rasmussen

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Tim Rasmussen is the Senior AME for visual journalism+news product design at the Boston Globe, overseeing all visual journalism. Before joining the Globe, he was the Chief Content Officer at Connecticut Public Broadcasting in Hartford, CT., leading all content produced and distributed...
2018 NENPA Winter Convention Bettering journalists’ abilities to cover disabilities of others By Kaitlyn Mangelinkx Bulletin Correspondent John Voket, associate editor of The Newtown (Conn.) Bee, received a mass email note last year to U.S. journalists that sparked an idea to help fellow journalists. The note read, in part: “Fully one in five people (56...

Michael Gagne

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Michael Gagne is a native of Woonsocket, R.I., who has been covering local government and education since 2012 in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Michael currently covers local government in the city of Danbury and the town of Brookfield in Connecticut for...

Mike Reilley

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Mike is a senior lecturer at the University of Illinois-Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai, a free website featuring AI tools and training videos. He’s the author of two books: “Data + Journalism” (Routledge, 2023) and “Journalist’s Toolbox Handbook” (Routledge 2024). Mike spent seven...
The annual New England Newspaper Convention will be held May 1-6, 2023. We will start the week with virtual programming on May 1-4 and end the week with live celebratory events and programming sessions on Friday, May 5, and Saturday, May 6. We aim each year to tackle the most...