‘The people who I have found to be the sharpest and most interesting are people who have moved around a lot ... Conversely the people who have been the worst to work with are people who went to one place and stayed there. I think you take a job...

Charlie Sennott

Charles Sennott is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Editor of The GroundTruth Project. He is an award-winning correspondent, best-selling author and editor with 30 years of experience in international, national and local journalism. A leading social entrepreneur in new media, Sennott started GroundTruth in 2014 and in 2017 launched...

Jeremy Fox

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | SponsorsYankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Jeremy C. Fox is a reporter, editor, and online producer for The Boston Globe and an associate editor of The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. In 2019 he joined the board of directors...

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...

Sue Robinson

Sue Robinson (PhD, Temple University) holds the Helen Firstbrook Franklin endowed research chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication where she teaches and researches about journalism. She has three books: How Journalists Engage: A theory of trust building, identities and care (2023, Oxford University...

Dr. Mario R. García

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Dr. Mario R. García is Senior Adviser on News Design and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. He is also CEO/Founder of García Media, a global consulting firm. He has been involved with the redesign and rethinking of more than...
Fighting the ‘firehose of falsehood’ By Kaitlyn Mangelinkx Bulletin Correspondent “Fear has a lot to do with what people believe and why they believe it.” Jane Elizabeth, director of accountability journalism at the American Press Institute, used that quote to begin her session, “Reaching the ‘fact-resistant’: How to engage partisan audiences through trust and...

Melissa Hanson

Melissa Hanson has been reporting at MassLive for more than three years, where some of her important work has included a series on hundreds of untested rape kits in Massachusetts and an investigation into the state's reluctancy to release 911 call recordings....
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Karen Florin

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Karen Florin takes great pleasure in serving as a cheerleader for her co-workers and engaging with members of the community while working on the company’s digital strategy and long-term sustainability. She writes a weekly news column, organizes events, hosts a...