Elizabeth Ritvo has more than 30 years of broad experience in complex commercial litigation and has also counseled and represented newspapers, television stations, publishers and other media in libel, invasion of privacy, access, prior restraint, First Amendment and copyright matters before state and federal trial and appellate courts. Liz...
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...
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.
‘The people who I have found to be the sharpest and most interesting are people who have moved around a lot ... Conversely the people who have been the worst to work with are people who went to one place and stayed there. I think you take a job...
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A long-time journalist, Christopher Wheelock got his start with Armed Forces Radio & Television after college. Seventeen years at CNN International brought exposure to major national and international stories, from 9/11 and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to natural disasters like the...
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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...
We're excited to see everyone at the 2020 New England Newspaper Convention this week, Friday, Feb. 7 and Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel.
Online registration is now closed but if you would like to still attend the event, please...
Sue Robinson (PhD, Temple University) holds the Helen Firstbrook Franklin endowed research chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication where she teaches and researches about journalism. She has three books: How Journalists Engage: A theory of trust building, identities and care (2023, Oxford University...
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Antonia Noori Farzan is a Rhode Island native who joined The Providence Journal in 2021. She previously worked at The Washington Post and, before that, spent several years at alt-weeklies in Arizona and Florida. Antonia is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate...