Carol Robidoux is founder, publisher and Chief Instigating Officer of manchesterinklink.com, a digital news and information site based in Manchester, NH. She has been a journalist since the early 1990s, working for the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, PA, as a columnist and features writer before moving to New Hampshire for a staff reporting job at the NH Union Leader in 2001. As newsroom jobs dwindled she continued writing freelance for various publications including the Boston Globe, The Concord Monitor, Business NH Magazine and the NH Bar News. She spent more than two years learning the ways of digital news as local editor for NashuaPatch.com from 2011-2014 before launching the Inklink in June 2014. She is a founding member of the Granite State News Collaborative, an active member of LION Publishers, and a past board member of the NH Press Association.On Twitter: @ManchInkLink @CarolRobidoux

Autumn Phillips is Managing Editor of The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C. She previously served as Executive Editor of the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa, and the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho. Her work has been recognized twice by Editor & Publisher Magazine’s “10 Newspapers That Do It Right.” At The Post and Courier, she has used one-on-one data coaching of editors to keep the newsroom focused on audience and digital revenue strategy, and has developed a training culture focused on improving and deepening journalism. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vt. 

Carmen Nobel is program director of Journalist’s Resource at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Journalist’s Resource (journalistsresource.org) examines news topics through a research lens. The staff publishes summaries and roundups of peer-reviewed public policy research – making it easier for time-crunched journalists, in the course of reporting, to ask and answer this question: What does the research say?

Nobel joined the Shorenstein Center in 2018 after serving as senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, where she forged content partnerships with Quartz, Forbes, HBR Ascend and the World Economic Forum. Her work has appeared in publications including The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Inc., NPR Science Friday, Forbes, PC Magazine, eWeek and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency.

She holds a master of science degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Penelope “Penny” Overton writes about the lobster and marijuana industries for the Portland Press Herald, Maine’s biggest daily newspaper. She joined the paper in 2016 as a business and enterprise reporter, and added the newly created marijuana beat in 2018, right after Maine voters legalized adult-use marijuana. Over a two-decade career, her beats have included politics, state government, the environment, American Indian issues and a whole lot of enterprise in small and large markets in Florida, Arizona and Connecticut.

Cristela Guerra is an award-winning journalist and arts and culture reporter for The ARTery. She worked for nearly five years at The Boston Globe starting in features and then making her way back to Metro. She’s covered major blizzards, immigration policy, the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in the mainland, and breaking news around New England. She started her career in Florida logging seven years at The News-Press where she wrote about about local government, education, crime, and focused on stories out of marginalized communities. In 2014, she won a regional and national Edward R. Murrow Award for a two-day series called “A Spark of Hope.” She’s driven to understand people, committed to local stories, and hopes to use the arts as a lens to delve deeper into equity, culture, social justice, and race.

Paul Lambert is a sophomore at Franklin Pierce University and directs the school’s political reporting arm, PoliticsFitzU. He has been published in the Boston Herald, made appearances on WMUR, and created news packages for NBC10 Boston. Lambert also broadcasts sporting events for FPU’s Raven Sports Network.

Bob Ryan retired from full–time duty at the Boston Globe in 2012 following a 44-year career in which he covered the Boston Celtics for 14 years, wrote numerous features and was a columnist for his final 23 years. He has also had a three decade affiliation with ESPN.

He is a recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, and has received many other lifetime citations, most notably the Red Smith Award for lifetime achievement from the Associated Press Sports Editors and a selection`to the National Sports Media Hall of Fame.

He is also a charter member of the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. He covered 11 Olympics (six summer and five winter) and has covered or attended 32 Final Fours. He is the author of 12 books, including collaborations with Celtics luminaries Bob Cousy, John Havlicek and Larry Bird. His autobiography SCRIBE, My Life In Sports, was published in 2014.

Janine Weisman has been an adjunct professor and journalism faculty adviser to the student newspaper at Roger Williams University since 2013. She is an independent journalist after having spent 25 years at The Newport Daily News, including 13 years as editor of the Newport Mercury.