Scott J. Croteau

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.

Brendan McQuaid

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Brendan McQuaid is the current President of the New Hampshire Press Association.  His day job is serving as President and Publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, the only statewide newspaper.  A third-generation newspaperman, McQuaid was born and raised in...

Chris Larabee

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Chris Larabee has been a reporter with the Greenfield Recorder since mid-2021, where he covers the south Franklin County towns of Conway, Deerfield, Sunderland and Whately with a focus on community news. His reporting interests include the environment, science and the deep...

Reuben Fischer-Baum

Reuben Fischer-Baum is an editor on the graphics team at The Washington Post, where he leads a team of reporters focused on trackers and reader tools. He previously worked as a visual journalist at FiveThirtyEight and Deadspin and has taught data visualization at Parsons School of Design. He was...

Sam Fisher

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Sam Fisher recently retired as president/CEO of the Illinois Press Association/Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Prior to joining the IPA Fisher spent 34 years with Shaw Media with over 25 years as...

Allie Ginwala

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Allie Ginwala has been the audience engagement editor for the Concord Monitor since March 2021. She manages the opinion section and oversees various community and audience engagement initiatives including the Monitor's reader advisory board, annual Impact Report, the News for Your Neighbor...

Jay Rosen

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | SponsorsYankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner 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...

Rich Saltzberg

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Rich Saltzberg is a freelance journalist who works in regional planning in Dukes County. He is a former reporter for the Martha’s Vineyard Times. Saltzberg is a two-time NENPA Reporter of the Year and a three-time first-place winner of the NENPA Right-To-Know...

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...

Jerry Berger

Jerry Berger had a passion for Statehouse reporting from the start of his journalism career at a small daily newspaper, checking in with area legislators on key issues facing Beacon Hill and their local impact. He took that interest along with him to United Press International, where he reported...