Managing Editor. She joined Journalist’s Resource in 2015 after working as a reporter for newspapers and radio stations in the U.S. and Central America, including the Orlando Sentinel and Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work also has appeared in publications such as USA TODAY,...
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...
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Emily Sweeney covers local news and writes "Blotter Tales," a weekly column that appears in the Metro section every Sunday, and "Cold Case Files," a new series and newsletter about unsolved crimes.
Her areas of expertise include history, crime, and...
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Chris Crockett is the publisher at MaineStay Media, a newspaper group on the coast of Maine that includes The Ellsworth American, Mount Desert Islander, Courier-Gazette, Republican Journal, Camden Herald, and the Free Press. Chris has worked in newspapers for over...
Melanie Plenda is a member of the NENPA Board of Directors and an award-winning freelance journalist and the Director of The Granite State News Collaborative. Her role with The Collaborative includes coordinating coverage for the group’s editorial projects, building partnerships and handling the day to day operations of the...
Joy Mayer founded Trusting News in 2016 after a 20-year career in newsrooms and teaching. She spent 12 years at the Missouri School of Journalism, where she created an audience engagement curriculum and a community outreach team in the newsroom of the Columbia Missourian and also taught web design...
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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...
Mike Donoghue is one of the top award-winning news and sportswriters in New England. He spent most of his career writing for print and online for the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press — the state’s top news source, before taking early retirement. He continues as a widely used freelance writer...
Julian Placino is a Fortune 500 Speaker, founder of Pathways Affiliated, a recruitment strategy consultancy, and the creator of Recruitment Masterclass, the only video course that turns your employees into an army of talent ambassadors and recruiters. Julian is also the host of the leadership podcast, Pathways to Success...
By Julia Hutchins
Bulletin Correspondent
Sexual assault has become an increasingly prevalent topic in the news, especially with the current #metoo movement. That doesn’t make it any easier to write about or to talk to people about, as panelists discussed at a session on “Reporting on Sexual Assault: The journalistic, emotional...








