Penelope Overton

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...

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...

Frank Mungeam

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Frank Mungeam is Chief Innovation Officer for the Local Media Association, which works with over 3,000 local media brands (newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, digital news sites & more), as well as several hundred R&D partners in the industry. LMA’s...
‘The press is to serve the governed, not the governors.’ -- Jane Mayer, Writer, The New Yorker NEFAC award recipients rewarded for doggedly seeking public records, truth By Rebekah Patton Bulletin Correspondent Recipients of honors at the New England First Amendment Coalition’s 2018 awards luncheon did not err on the side of caution...

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...

Richard Watts

Richard Watts is a member of the NENPA Board of Directors and the founder of the Center for Community News, Co-Director of the Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program at the University of Vermont and coordinator of the Community News Service – a state-wide, multi-outlet academic-news partnership with a mission to provide content to...

Carlos Virgen

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Carlos Virgen is a journalist with more than 15 years of experience in audience engagement, data analysis, and multimedia production. He is the assistant managing editor for audience development at The Day in New London, Conn., where he has worked...

George Arwady

George Arwady has been Publisher and CEO of The Republican newspaper since January 2010. Arwady spent most of his professional career as an editor and publisher in Michigan and New Jersey. He has chaired, is former chair and serves on the board of the Economic Development Council of Western...
‘There is a value to good copy editing, now more than ever. If your copy is not clean, it raises doubts in the reader’s mind. ‘If they can’t spell this correctly, or if the style is inconsistent throughout a story, is their story inconsistent?’ In this highly charged political...

Vicki Whiting

President and Creative Director of Kid Scoop, the weekly youth feature, has been publishing for 30 years in newspapers in 42 states. Whiting trains newspaper publishing staff in transformational selling that captures year-round sponsorships of the Kid Scoop youth feature page and the companion Kid Scoop Junior for preschool...