Elizabeth Ritvo has more than 30 years of broad experience in complex commercial litigation and has also counseled and represented newspapers, television stations, publishers and other media in libel, invasion of privacy, access, prior restraint, First Amendment and copyright matters before state and federal trial and appellate courts. Liz...
Dan Cotter is a seasoned newspaper industry expert who advises publishers on contemporary approaches to community journalism and revenue generation. As part of this, he provides hands-on leadership in planning and executing strategic initiatives to attract, serve, and monetize their audiences. He...
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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...
Bill Kole, New England editor for The Associated Press, oversees daily and enterprise coverage of all six states. A longtime former AP foreign correspondent, he has reported extensively on terrorism, corruption, immigration and human trafficking from Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna and Eastern Europe. Bill worked for newspapers in Michigan and...
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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...
Karina E. Cuevas is a producer for Telemundo New England. Originally from New York City, she took an early interest in journalism when her 7th grade Spanish teacher suggested that as a career path. She has written for publications such as The...
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...
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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...
Stephanie Sugars is the senior reporter for the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, where she documents press freedom violations in the U.S. and by U.S. officials abroad. A graduate of NYU's Global and Joint Program Studies program in journalism and international relations, her professional work focuses on human rights, politics...
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...







