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...

Kevin L. McCrudden

Kevin L. McCrudden is an international author, speaker and the only motivational and leadership speaker in American history to ever have a day of recognition passed by The United States Congress and New York State. He is the founder of National Motivation...

Liz White

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Liz White is the publisher, executive vice president and 5th generation family owner at the 155-year-old Record-Journal Media Group in central Connecticut, which includes one daily newspaper and 7 weeklies and a digital agency. She holds an MBA from Yale...

John Harrison

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | 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...

Jenifer McKim

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Jenifer McKim is the deputy investigative editor at the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting. She is a multimedia reporter who focuses on social justice issues, including criminal justice, child welfare, human trafficking, and housing. McKim’s investigations have earned numerous awards, including two...

Timothy Dwyer

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Timothy Dwyer is the president & publisher of The Day. Dwyer began his career at The Boston Globe while a student at Northeastern University. Upon graduating from Northeastern with a degree in...

Shauna Rempel

Shauna Rempel is a Canadian strategist, journalist and educator with 15 years of experience working in social media and digital news. As the leader of award-winning social media teams at two major Canadian news organizations, she consistently developed audiences on new and...

Lex Weaver

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Lex Weaver is the editor-in-chief of The Scope: Boston, a digital magazine operated by Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and focused on telling stories of justice, hope, and resilience in Greater Boston. She is also a Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism...

Antonia Noori Farzan

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Antonia Noori Farzan is a Rhode Island native who joined The Providence Journal in 2021. She previously worked at The Washington Post and, before that, spent several years at alt-weeklies in Arizona and Florida. Antonia is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate...
Professor Jay Rosen from New York University presented what he describes as a more engaging and people-centric form of election coverage known as the “citizens agenda” model during the second day of programming Saturday, April 30 at the NENPA convention in Boston.  Describing the problem that the citizens agenda model...