Keith Eddings covers Lawrence, Mass., for The Eagle-Tribune. He has reported for five daily newspapers in four states.

Thomas Farragher, a journalist for 40 years, is a Globe columnist and associate editor and the former editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team, the newspaper’s award-winning investigative unit. He shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of the clergy sexual abuse crisis.

Farragher and his Spotlight Team colleagues were finalists for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for public service for the 2014 Globe series, “Shadow Campus,’’ which uncovered rampant overcrowded and unsafe living conditions throughout the university neighborhoods of Boston.

He joined the Globe staff in 1997 as a member of its Metro staff. He briefly worked as a Spotlight Team member before spending six years producing special projects for the newspaper. He was named a Globe Metro columnist in 2014.

In 1997, he was co-winner of the National Press Club’s top award for journalists who display excellence and versatility in covering Washington from a regional perspective, and the 1999 National Headliner Award for spot news coverage of a mass murder at Connecticut’s lottery headquarters.

He is the co-author of “Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church,” based on the Globe’s reporting about clergy sexual abuse.

For their coverage of that scandal, Farragher and his Globe colleagues also were awarded the Associated Press Managing Editor’s Freedom of Information Award, the Goldsmith Prize for investigative reporting, the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, the Worth Bingham Award for investigative reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editor’s Gold Medal, the Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers (administered by the Nieman Foundation),  and the New York Times
Company’s Punch Sulzberger Award.

In 2004, Farragher shared the American Society of Newspaper Editors top award for deadline news reporting for coverage of the Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed 100 people in February 2003. He was awarded the Jesse Laventhol Prize for deadline news reporting by a team.

In 2009, Farragher shared two national awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. The Best in Business Awards honored the Spotlight Team’s “Partners Effect” series, which examined Massachusetts spiraling healthcare costs.

He and his Spotlight Team colleagues were awarded the George Polk Award and a first-place National Headliner Award for public service in 2012 for a Globe series on an unusually high acquittal rate in drunk driving cases tried before judges instead of juries.

In 2015, Farragher was inducted into the Academy of New England Journalists when he was named a recipient of the Yankee Quill Award, the highest individual honor New England journalists. The academy cited Farragher for his “strong commitment to the watchdog principles of journalism, (his) leadership role in mentoring aspiring and young journalists, and (his) fierce dedication to the First Amendment.’’

In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater, the University of Rhode Island, for his “life’s work and accomplishments.’’ Farragher began his career as a reporter and editor at two small Massachusetts dailies, the Gardner News and the Clinton Daily Item.  He later covered the Connecticut Legislature for The Day newspaper of New London.

In 1988, he joined the staff of the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News, where he covered city hall and the state capitol in Sacramento before becoming the newspaper’s Washington correspondent in l994.

He is also the recipient of several regional writing awards.

A native of Clinton, Mass., Farragher received his journalism degree from URI in 1977. He and his wife, Joan, are the parents of three children, Brendan, Colleen, and Adam. They live in Scituate, Mass.

Diana has been with the Council since May 2018. She brings 25 years of leadership experience and passion in the nonprofit sector to the important work of raising awareness about problem and responsible gambling. She currently serves as Secretary of the National Council on Problem Gambling’s Affiliates Committee.

Diana previously held executive-level positions with Foodshare, Gifts of Love and Operation Fuel. Community participation and involvement is key to Diana; she has previously served as a board member for the Community Farm of Simsbury, Gackstatter Family Foundation, Avon Land Trust, and Farmington River Watershed.

Peter Goonan has been a journalist with The Republican, a daily newspaper in Springfield, Mass., since 1984, and also writes for MassLive.com.

His beat includes coverage of the MGM Springfield casino located in Springfield, from its inception to its completion and ongoing operations. He has also covered related gaming issues and some meetings of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. He is also the Springfield City Hall beat reporter and covers local politics and general assignments.

He is 1979 graduate of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism.

He lives in Chicopee, Mass., with his wife Lisa, and has two adult sons. He is a long-term member and current vice-president

As a business writer for The Day of New London, Conn., Brian Hallenbeck has covered gaming since 2009, a beat dominated by southeastern Connecticut’s two casinos, Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, and the sovereign Indian tribes that respectively own and operate them, the Mashantucket Pequots and the Mohegans. Combined, the casinos are among the state’s largest employers and taxpayers. During his long newspaper career, Brian also has covered sports, written features and been an editor. He grew up in Enfield, Conn., and graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.

ED HENNINGER has been an independent newspaper consultant since 1989 and is the Director of Henninger Consulting in Rock Hill, SC. He is universally recognized as the world’s leading design consultant for community newspapers.

The Southampton Press, one of Ed’s redesign clients, has been named the Best Community Newspaper in the nation by the National Newspaper Association. From the judges: “Spectacular package of information—news, features, photos, ads—all excellently produced. Clean, fresh design, layout throughout. Great No. 1 in a strong field.”

The Western Catholic Reporter, a Henninger Consulting client, was named the best
designed church paper in all of Canada by Canadian Church Press. The judge said The
Western Catholic Reporter had “a sophisticated presentation of news through images,
design and typography. Every page is a surprise, interesting in its treatment, complex
in design, yet easy to read.” The Western Catholic Reporter, he said, is “a paper to be
proud of.”

He recently completed redesigns of the Cullman Daily Times in Cullman, AL; the
Spencer Evening World in Spencer, IN; The Clay County News in Sutton, NE; the
Madelia Times-Messenger in Madelia, MN; and the Holyoke Enterprise in Holyoke, CO
Ed has traveled to the Ukraine, the Republic of Georgia and Armenia to offer design
workshops and assist with redesigns of several newspapers in those countries.

He created the Francis A. Henninger Grant Program with the goal of making newspaper
design services affordable for every newspaper—especially those with limited
circulation, revenue and staff size. It’s Ed’s effort to reach out to those publishers and
editors who believe their newspapers can’t receive professional design help. Ultimately,
the objective is to bring a new level of design, direction and distinction to those papers
that qualify.

Major seminars and workshops at which Ed has spoken:
Institute for Newspaper Technology: Design workshop, 2012-2016.
North Dakota Press Assn.: Design workshop, 2010, “A License to Print Money,” 2012.
Catholic Press Assn.: Design workshop, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013.
New England Nesspaper and Press Assn.: Design seminar and workshops, 2012-2017.
Kentucky Press Assn.: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017.

His column on newspaper design appears regularly in Publishers’ Auxiliary, the
publication of the National Newspaper Assn. His column also appears in the bulletin of
the Southern Newspaper Publishers Assn. as well as newsletters of press organizations
throughout the U.S. and Canada. It is also distributed free to subscribers worldwide.

Anne Karolyi, managing editor of the Republican-American and Sunday Republican in Waterbury, Conn., has been urging local newsrooms to punch above their weight, strive for the best and adapt since her first cub reporting job. She’s been a beat and enterprise reporter, assignment editor, and under various titles the leader of three daily newsrooms. Tweet @annekarolyi or @annekarolyi on Instagram.

Matthew Kauffman, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting, worked for more than 30 years for the The Hartford Courant, where he helped lead the paper’s investigative and computer-assisted journalism. Matthew has received a Polk Award, the Selden Ring Award, the Worth Bingham Prize and the Heywood Broun Award; he was named a “Master Reporter” by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors.

Sarah Kess teaches Trauma Journalism at Boston University, in addition to working as the coordinator of BU’s department of journalism and as Assistant Director of the Power of Narrative conference. She was previously an editor with the Ochberg Society for Trauma Journalism.

Shannon Kinney is Founder and Client Success Officer at Dream Local Digital. Shannon has over 20 years of experience in the development of successful Internet products, online sales and marketing strategies. She has worked on the teams developing successful Internet brands such as cars.com, careerbuilder.com, and over 60 online media properties for newspapers all over the U.S. and Canada. Prior to that, she spent over 10 years in media sales and sales management in Maine. She is an experienced speaker, trainer, advisor and consultant, she has worked with small and large companies alike, and has served more than 40,000 small businesses in online marketing workshops. She has been recognized as a Woman to Watch by Maine Biz, and as a Local Digital Innovator by the Local Media Association.