Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, and host of two podcasts: Problem Solvers, about entrepreneurs solving unexpected problems in their business, and Pessimists Archive, a history of unfounded fears of technology. He began his career in Massachusetts community newspapers, The Gardner News and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, and has also been an editor at Men’s Health, Fast Company, Maxim, and Boston magazine. He’s written about business and technology for the Washington Post, Slate, New York, and others. A novel he co-wrote with his wife, Mr. Nice Guy, will come out in October, 2018, from St. Martins Press. Jason lives in Brooklyn, and is on Twitter and Instagram at @heyfeifer.

B.J. Roche is a senior lecturer who teaches multimedia reporting, magazine writing and media entrepreneurship, as well as The Journalism Launchpad, a career-prep class for journalism majors. She also serves as internship coordinator, and as advisor to Amherstwire.com, the student-run digital publication that serves as a learning lab for journalism students. In 2017, “the Wire” won  “Best Website” award from the College Media Association.

For more than two decades, B.J. served as western Massachusetts correspondent for The Boston Globe and the Boston Globe magazine. For six years, she wrote a weekly column for the Boston Sunday Globe New England section, and her blog Fiftyshift, a column about life after 50, appeared for two years on Boston.com Community Voices. She’s also written for Design New England, Yankee Magazine, and Commonwealth Magazine.

She has also written extensively about travel for The Boston Globe and other publications, including chapters on Massachusetts for two travel guides: Hidden New England and the Berlitz Guide to New England.

B.J. was named  2017 New England Journalism Educator of the Year by the New England Newspaper and Press Association. In 2013, she received the  Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.  She was named as a Coleman Fellow for the teaching of entrepreneurship in 2015. She also was selected as a fellow for the Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at the Cronkite School in 2013.

She is a graduate of UMass Amherst, and lives with her family in a small hilltown in Franklin County. A sampling of her wide-ranging work can be found on her website.

Joshua M. Scacco (PhD, The University of Texas at Austin) is an Assistant Professor of Media Theory & Politics in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. He also serves as a Research Associate for the Center for Media Engagement (CME). He is interested broadly in the communicative role elites and organizations, including political leaders, journalists, and news outlets, play in American political life.

I am a graduate of the University of Missouri with a BS in Education/Paleobotany. I received a ROTC commission in the US ARMY in Armor and served during the Viet Nam conflict in Armored Cavalry. I survived that nightmare.

After teaching life science for two years in Kirkwood, MO., I became a photo lab technician at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Promoted to photojournalist, and then director of photography, I was named director of imaging technology in 1981. I was charged with control of all imaging creation through press. During my tenure at the Post, I defined and managed the transition from traditional production of color and text on page into full color pagination with 1 hours inter-edition deadlines for color imaging.

I was hired in 1989 by Scitex Inc., Herzelia, Isreal and served as international director of industry marketing for news publishers both newspapers and magazines. During my tenure at Scitex, my team converted over 175 major publications, worldwide, from traditional proceses to full page pagination with 1 hour color deadlines and full page pagination.

After leaving Scitex America in 1996, I formed by own consulting company providing product and marketing assistance to many major newspaper and magazine companies.

I am a five-time Pulitzer Nominee in photojournalism and have received multiple awards from both the NFL and Major League Baseball.

I currently shoot weddings, parties and whatever commercial photography I can get. As non-photojournalist now, I enjoy shooting as people welcome me to their event and are glad I am there. In the past I was generally not welcome and got pushed, shoved, punched or my favorite, being jabbed in the kidney with a night stick by some over-zealous cop trying to protect whomever from the media… I don’t miss that.

I am avid photographer, enjoy fly-fishing skeet shooting and life in general. My wife, Gabrielle DeMichele and I live in Chesterfield, Missouri near St. Louis.