Mike Blinder
Mike Blinder has been in love with media his entire life. In high school he held part...
Will Richmond
After spending almost 15 years at The Herald News in Fall River, Mass., as a reporter and digital city editor, Will Richmond was named...
Nicco Mele
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Nicco Mele is a managing director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. From 2016 to...
Melanie Plenda
Melanie Plenda is a member of the NENPA Board of Directors and an award-winning freelance journalist and the Director of The Granite State News...
Antonia Noori Farzan
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Antonia Noori Farzan is a Rhode Island native who joined The Providence Journal in 2021. She previously...
Penelope Overton
Penelope “Penny” Overton writes about the lobster and marijuana industries for the Portland Press Herald, Maine’s biggest...
Peter Huoppi
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Peter Huoppi is the director of multimedia at The Day in New London, CT. Peter...
Carmen Nobel
Carmen Nobel is program director of Journalist’s Resource at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public...
Nina Sachdev
Nina Sachdev brings more than 20 years of journalism, news editing and marketing experience to her role as a communications director for Media Impact...
Katherine Jacobsen
Katherine Jacobsen is the U.S. and Canada Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, a global non-profit organization based in New York. In...









