Angela Rowlings

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Angela Rowlings (she/her) is an independent photojournalist, educator, and English/Spanish interpreter based in Boston, Mass. and Prince Edward Island, Canada. She reports on climate, culture, politics, immigration, and human rights issues, and produces long-form visual essays in Boston, Canada, and Latin America. Currently,...

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...
‘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...

Sadie Babits

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Sadie Babits guides Cronkite News students who are interested in pursuing sustainability reporting, and she directs this professional program's audio program. Before coming to the Cronkite school, Sadie spent nearly two decades as a journalist and editor covering environmental stories primarily...

Stefanie Murray

Stefanie Murray is the Director of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. A Michigan native, Stefanie previously worked in Michigan and Tennessee as a reporter, editor, digital media manager and news executive. Before joining Montclair State, she worked for...

Evan Allen

Evan Allen is an investigative reporter on the Globe's Narratives and Quick Strike investigative teams. She began freelancing for the Globe in 2011 and joined the staff in 2013. She has covered police, breaking news, and major events including the Boston Marathon bombings. She was part of a team...

Felicia Gans

Felicia Gans is a producer and reporter for the cannabis team at The Boston Globe, where she has overseen the digital strategy of the Globe's marijuana section since its launch in November 2018. She has covered the opening of recreational marijuana stores...
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...

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...

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...