Meg Heckman

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Meg Heckman is a journalist, author and educator focused on building a news ecosystem that is robust, diverse and equipped to serve all segments of society. Her core research examines the practice and evolution of journalism through a feminist lens...

Ethan Genter

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Ethan Genter is the news editor at the Vineyard Gazette. He has covered local government, the fishing industry, and tourism in coastal New England since 2014.

Lara Salahi

Dr. Lara Salahi is an award-winning health journalist, author, and Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. She studies news-academic partnerships as a sustainable business model for local news. She and her co-researcher coined the term “news-academic partnerships,” which is now...

Tara Cleary

Tara Cleary, Social Media Marketing Manager for the New England Newspaper & Press Association is passionate about digital media and design. She brings this passion and 20 years experience working in advertising at media companies to small and medium sized businesses to consult on digital and social media strategies....

Matthew Karolian

Matthew Karolian is director of audience engagement at The Boston Globe, where he oversees the development and execution of strategies to bring the newsroom’s journalism closer to readers. During his tenure, the Globe’s social audiences have grown to more than 2 million followers and its reporting...

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...
2018 NENPA Winter Convention Bettering journalists’ abilities to cover disabilities of others By Kaitlyn Mangelinkx Bulletin Correspondent John Voket, associate editor of The Newtown (Conn.) Bee, received a mass email note last year to U.S. journalists that sparked an idea to help fellow journalists. The note read, in part: “Fully one in five people (56...

Robert J. Ambrogi, Esq.

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Robert J. Ambrogi is a lawyer who practices media and technology law and serves as executive director of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association. Earlier in his career, he was editor-in-chief of the National Law Journal, the nation’s largest legal newspaper,...
One of the biggest stories of our time is climate change and the struggle to reverse its human-caused effects. On April 30, 2022, during the NENPA Convention in Boston, five panelists sat down and discussed the issue of climate change and related reporting. Convention attendees heard from The Boston Globe’s...

Will Katcher

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...