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...

Stefanie Murray

Stefanie Murray is the Director of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. A Michigan...

Kristen Hare

Kristen Hare covers the local news industry and teaches local journalists as a faculty member for the Poynter Institute. She also writes a weekly...

Mike Reilley

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Mike is a senior lecturer at the University of Illinois-Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai, a free website...

Mike Blinder

Mike Blinder has been in love with media his entire life. In high school he held part...

Emily Sweeney

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Emily Sweeney covers local news and writes "Blotter Tales," a weekly column that appears...

Steph Solis

Steph Solis covers state government and immigration for MassLive. She has written about ICE courthouse arrests, efforts...

Greg Swanson

Greg has led his own companies, directed digital advertising sales at major media chains, co-founded one of the nation’s largest travel guide companies, helped...

Olivia Belanger

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...

Laura Koch

Laura Koch is the senior graphic designer at Metro Creative Graphics. She holds a BA in Communication but followed her artistic passion to start...