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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 by Connecticut Public. Previously, he was the Director of Photography at ESPN, responsible for photography at ESPN The Magazine and all digital platforms. He joined ESPN in 2015 after nearly ten years as Assistant Managing Editor for Photography and Multimedia at The Denver Post, where the paper became known for its exceptional photography and was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes.
New Haven, CT – The Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis (WNEIP) announces the largest gift in its 72-year history: $5 million received on December 31, 2023. The contribution is held in the newly created WNEIP Clarity Endowment Fund, which is currently situated at the Greater New Haven Community Foundation. A maximum of 5% can be withdrawn from the fund each year.
The annual New England Newspaper Convention will be held March 22-23, 2024 at the Westin Waltham Hotel, Waltham, MA.
Adriana Lacy is an award-winning journalist and consultant based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Adriana Lacy Consulting, a successful digital consulting firm that specializes in helping businesses expand their digital audiences. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the journalism department at Brandeis University. Adriana has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree for her creation of Journalism Mentors, a platform dedicated to advancing early-career journalists through mentorship and paid media opportunities. With a wealth of experience at prominent media outlets such as Axios, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times, Adriana’s expertise and dedication to innovation have earned her a reputation as a respected figure in the industry. Her academic background includes two bachelor’s degrees from Penn State University in African American Studies and Journalism, as well as a master’s of science in Digital Audience Strategy with distinction from Arizona State University.
Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, a nationally known media commentator, and a 2019 winner of the Yankee Quill Award. In addition to “What Works in Community News,” he is the author of two other books about the future of news: “The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age” (2013) and “The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century.” His blog, Media Nation, is online at 
In a journalism career that spanned more than three decades at The Boston Globe, Ellen Clegg held a variety of senior editing positions in the newsroom and directed Globe Opinion from 2014 to 2018. She is co-founder of an independent nonprofit digital news site, Brookline.News, which serves a community of 65,000 people on the border of Boston. She and Dan Kennedy are co-authors of What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts and The Future of the Fourth Estate (Beacon Press). Clegg is also author / co-author of two books, ChemoBrain (Prometheus Books, 2009) and The Alzheimer’s Solution (Prometheus Books, 2010, with Dr. Kenneth Kosik).
Bill Ostendorf, president of Creative Circle Media Solutions, has helped redesign more than 750 print publications and more than 1,000 websites. He has served as a strategic consultant to hundreds of media companies on three continents. A popular speaker at industry seminars, he has led more than 2,500 workshops in 23 countries on a wide range of topics.
Charles St. Amand joined Suffolk University’s Communication & Journalism Department as its Practitioner in Residence in July 2018 after working 31 years in community journalism, most recently as editor of the Sentinel & Enterprise in Fitchburg, Mass. A 1986 graduate of Suffolk University, he began teaching journalism part time at Suffolk, his alma mater, in 2000. He is vice president of the New England Society of News Editors’ Board of Governors.