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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John Harrison is a digital publishing industry professional with over 20 years of experience in product management, marketing, and sales. He is VP of Customer Experience at Wallit, providing publishers subscription management and web content paywall services to help capture revenue from...
Will Katcher is a reporter for MassLive in the Pioneer Valley covering breaking news and the city of Northampton. He is a proud graduate of the University of Massachusett Amherst and a devout live music fan. You can reach him at wkatcher@masslive.com. He can be followed on Twitter at...
Angie Drobnic Holan is the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact. She has extensive experience fact-checking the presidency, Congress and political campaigns, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She serves on the advisory board of the International Fact-Checking Network.
She holds a...
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Mike is a senior lecturer at the University of Illinois-Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai, a free website featuring AI tools and training videos. He’s the author of two books: “Data + Journalism” (Routledge, 2023) and “Journalist’s Toolbox Handbook” (Routledge 2024).
Mike spent seven...
John Voket has primarily worked in journalism, broadcasting and communications all his life, holding positions as an Associated Press stringer; a reporter, designer and editor for numerous community papers in Connecticut; and is currently Editor of The Newtown Bee serving Newtown and Sandy Hook, CT.
In his tenure with “The...
These are some of the presentations that were presented during the 2020 New England Newspaper Convention, held Feb. 7-8, 2020 in Boston.
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On April 29, 2022, during the NENPA convention in Boston, attendees were introduced to the concept of Funding Journalism with Innovative News Labs and how they work to provide greater focus on specific communities and local issues that many news outlets overlook.
The panel included Frank Mungeam, Chief Innovation Officer,...
Greg has led his own companies, directed digital advertising sales at major media chains, co-founded one of the nation’s largest travel guide companies, helped launch an alternative newsweekly and designed interactive kiosks for museums, universities, and IBM. Greg is one of the founding members of ITEGA (Information Trust Exchange...