Kristen Nevious

From the first time she met him, Marlin Fitzwater has said that he wanted the Center to be more than a name on a building, and that was her cue. In the summer of 2002, only a couple of months after its dedication, Dr. Kristen Nevious joined The Marlin Fitzwater...

Katherine Jacobsen

Katherine Jacobsen is the U.S. and Canada Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, a global non-profit organization based in New York. In this role, Jacobsen works with local news organizations and reporters to monitor and respond to attacks on the media.  Prior to working at CPJ, Jacobsen...

Olivia Belanger

Olivia Belanger is an award-winning journalist, currently working as the health solutions reporter for The Keene Sentinel's Monadnock Region Health Reporting Lab. Before joining The Sentinel in 2019, she was the health, education, and nonprofit reporter for The Watertown Daily Times in Watertown, N.Y. A 2018 graduate of Keene...

Darrell Davis

Darrell Davis is the Vice President of Creative Services for Metro Creative Graphics, Inc. With more than 30 years of experience in media and advertising, Darrell leads a team of art directors, designers and copywriters in producing creative content to help newspapers and their local advertisers thrive. Darrell attended Syracuse...

Craig Garnett

Craig Garnett has written a weekly editorial and column for the Uvalde Leader-News since 1982, winning several dozen first place awards from the Texas Press Association and the South Texas Press Association. Garnett was born in Altus, Oklahoma, and graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1975 with a BA in...

Matthew Karolian

Matthew Karolian is director of audience engagement at The Boston Globe, where he oversees the development and execution of strategies to bring the newsroom’s journalism closer to readers. During his tenure, the Globe’s social audiences have grown to more than 2 million followers and its reporting...

Vicki Whiting

President and Creative Director of Kid Scoop, the weekly youth feature, has been publishing for 30 years in newspapers in 42 states. Whiting trains newspaper publishing staff in transformational selling that captures year-round sponsorships of the Kid Scoop youth feature page and the companion Kid Scoop Junior for preschool...

Jamie Kageleiry

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Jamie Kageleiry is the former executive editor of the community newspaper The Martha’s Vineyard Times, formerly worked as an editor at Yankee Magazine, Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, and Edible Vineyard. She is currently the director of publications for Bluedot Living Magazine,...
Protecting public notices by making them a public service By Kaitlyn Mangelinkx Bulletin Correspondent “Here’s an oxymoron -- trusted politician.” The source of that comment, Ed Henninger, sees public notices as a tool for keeping public officials accountable. But as many newspapers have fallen onto hard economic times, public notices are becoming something else...

George Arwady

George Arwady has been Publisher and CEO of The Republican newspaper since January 2010. Arwady spent most of his professional career as an editor and publisher in Michigan and New Jersey. He has chaired, is former chair and serves on the board of the Economic Development Council of Western...