Gabriela Lozada is a Report for America corps member. Her focus is on Latinx community with original reporting done in Spanish for ¿Qué hay de Nuevo NH?.
She has over 10 years of reporting experience and is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who specializes in covering social issues. Her documentary, “El Ultimo...
Attend sessions at the New England Newspaper Convention on April 29-30 in Boston and celebrate the achievements of Hall of Fame, Yankee Quill, and Better Newspaper Competition winners. The reduced hotel rate expires today April 22 and the deadlines to purchase tickets for all events are fast approaching.
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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...
A lawyer, journalist, academic, and advocate, Traci Griffith currently serves as the Racial Justice Program Director for the ACLU of Massachusetts. Her transition to the staff of ACLUM comes after serving the organization on the National ACLU Board of Directors, on the Executive Committee, and as the National Board...
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Justin Silverman is executive director of the New England First Amendment Coalition. A Massachusetts-based attorney, Justin helps lead NEFAC’s First Amendment and open government advocacy throughout the six-state region.
Justin’s commentary has appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, Washington...
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Leslie Garrett is a journalist who has covered the environment for 20 years, she is currently the Editorial Director of Bluedot Living. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, and more. She is the author...
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Dr. Mario R. García is Senior Adviser on News Design and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. He is also CEO/Founder of García Media, a global consulting firm. He has been involved with the redesign and rethinking of more than...
Lauren Johnston is Head of Content & Programming at Yahoo & Yahoo News overseeing editorial planning, content curation, distribution, media partnerships and audience growth for Yahoo.com and Yahoo News across web, app, newsletters and social channels, including the Yahoo News TikTok, which...
Stephanie Sugars is the senior reporter for the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, where she documents press freedom violations in the U.S. and by U.S. officials abroad. A graduate of NYU's Global and Joint Program Studies program in journalism and international relations, her professional work focuses on human rights, politics...
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Jay Rosen has been teaching journalism at New York University since 1986. He is the author of PressThink, a blog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003. In 1999, Yale University Press...






