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• Pablo J. Boczkowski is a professor in the School of Communication at Northwestern University.
• Umbreen Bhatti is the director of the KQED Lab, the northern California public media organization’s innovation lab.
• Yvonne Leow is president of the Asian American Journalists Association.
• Jennifer Coogan is chief content officer of Newsela.
• Nikki Usher is an assistant professor at the George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs.
• Hossein Derakhshan is a journalist and analyst, and coauthor of Information Disorder: Toward an interdisciplinary framework for research and policy making.
• Millie Tran is global growth editor at The New York Times. Stine Bauer Dahlberg is managing director, brand at The New York Times.
• Raju Narisetti is CEO of Gizmodo Media Group.
• Lam Thuy Vo is a data reporter at BuzzFeed News.
• Amie Ferris-Rotman is Foreign Policy’s Moscow correspondent and founder of Sahar Speaks.
• P. Kim Bui is editor-at-large for NowThis News.
• An Xiao Mina is director of product at Meedan and project lead at the Credibility Coalition.
• Mary Meehan covers healthcare policy for the Ohio Valley ReSource.
• Jared Newman is an analyst at betaworks ventures.
• Marcela Donini is cofounder of Farol Jornalismo. Thiago Herdy is a reporter at O Globo and president of Abraji.
• Michelle Ferrier is an associate professor of journalism at Ohio University.
• Mariano Blejman is chief digital officer at Grupo Octubre and leader of MediaFactory.
• Monique Judge is a staff writer at The Root.
• Betsy O’Donovan and Melody Kramer are coauthors of “F is For Future: How to Think about Public Media’s Next 50 years.”
• Jessica Parker Gilbert is digital creative director for McClatchy.
• Errin Haines Whack is The Associated Press’ national writer on race and ethnicity.
• Mira Lowe is director of the Innovation News Center at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.
• Nancy Watzman is managing editor of the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive.
• Ståle Grut is a graduate student in new media and digital culture at the University of Amsterdam and on leave from NRKbeta.
• Mandy Velez is a contributing writer at Yahoo and a freelancer.
• Damon Krukowski is author of The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World and host of the Radiotopia podcast miniseries Ways of Hearing.
• Alice Antheaume is executive dean at Sciences Po Journalism School.
• S. Mitra Kalita is the vice president for programming at CNN Digital.
• Caitria O’Neill is a UX designer and researcher, formerly at Facebook.
• Daniel Trielli is a journalist and Ph.D. student in media, technology, and society at Northwestern University.
• Lanre Akinola is editor of African Business.
• Kawandeep Virdee works on product at Medium.
• Mary Walter-Brown is founder and CEO of the News Revenue Hub.
• Renée Kaplan is head of audience engagement at the Financial Times.
• Gordon Crovitz is former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and cofounder of the startup NewsGuard.
• Alfred Hermida is director and associate professor at the School of Journalism, University of British Columbia.
• Borja Echevarría is digital editor-in-chief of Univision News.
• Jennifer Brandel is CEO of Hearken. Mónica Guzmán is cofounder and editor of The Evergrey.
• Mi-Ai Parrish, current president and publisher of the Arizona Republic, is joining the faculty of Arizona State University.
• Mario García is CEO of Garcia Media and senior adviser on news design and adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
• Niketa Patel is head of strategy for news at Twitter.
• Feli Sanchez is a user advocate at Quartz.
• Kim Fox is managing editor of audience at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
• Pia Frey is cofounder of Opinary.
• Trushar Barot is the digital launch editor of Indian-language news services for the BBC in India.
• Steve Grove is director of the Google News Lab.
• Joyce Barnathan is the president of the International Center for Journalists.
• Sarah Marshall is head of audience growth at Vogue International, Condé Nast International.
• Sally Lehrman is a science and medical writer who created and leads the Trust Project.
• Andrew Losowsky is the project lead of The Coral Project at Mozilla.
• Corey Johnson is a reporter for the Tampa Bay Times.
• Tanya Cordrey is a digital non-executive director, former Schibsted board member, and former chief digital officer at Guardian News & Media.
• Burt Herman is director of innovation projects at the Lenfest Institute for Journalism.
• Rubina Madan Fillion is the director of audience engagement at The Intercept.
• Doris Truong is the weekend homepage editor at The Washington Post.
• Eric Nuzum is senior vice president for original content development at Audible.
• José Zamora is vice president of strategic communications for Univision News.
• Emma Carew Grovum is a product manager at The Daily Beast.
• Dan Newman is the deputy creative director at NPR.
• Raney Aronson-Rath is executive producer of the PBS investigative documentary series Frontline.
• Susie Banikarim is editorial director of the Gizmodo Media Group.
• Lucas Graves is senior research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin.
• Jim Brady is CEO of Spirited Media and public editor of ESPN.
• Matt Boggie is chief technology officer at Axios.
• Michelle Garcia is race and identities senior editor at Vox.
• Jassim Ahmad is global head of multimedia innovation for Reuters.
• Julia B. Chan is director of audience for Mother Jones.
• Craig Newmark is the founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
• Basile Simon is a coder-journalist at The Times and Sunday Times and a lecturer at City University, London.
• Edward Roussel is chief innovation officer of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones.
• Brian Lam founded Wirecutter.
• Amy Webb is founder of the Future Today Institute.
• Amy King is editor-in-chief and creative director of The Lily, a publication from The Washington Post.
• Dan Shanoff most recently oversaw programming for Monumental Sports Network.
• Elizabeth Jensen is the ombudsman/public editor of NPR.
• Hannah Cassius is a product manager at The New York Times.
• Debra Adams Simmons is executive editor for culture at National Geographic.
• Usha Sahay is managing editor of War on the Rocks.
• Dannagal G. Young is an associate professor of communication at the University of Delaware.
• Sam Ford consults and runs projects focused on media innovation.
• Cristina Wilson is the chief operating officer of Charlotte Agenda.
• Pete Brown is a senior research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia.
• Matt Thompson is executive editor of The Atlantic.
• Helen Havlak is editorial director of The Verge.
• Sydette Harry is editor-at-large of The Coral Project and an editor at the Mozilla Foundation.
• Rodney Benson is professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University.
• Miguel Castro is senior officer for global media partnerships at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Rodney Gibbs is chief product officer at The Texas Tribune.
• Claire Wardle is strategy and research director of First Draft News and a research fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
• Aron Pilhofer is the James B. Steele Chair in Journalism Innovation at Temple University.
• Vanessa K. DeLuca is editor-in-chief of Essence.
• Carrie Brown-Smith is director of the social journalism program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
• Caitlin Thompson is director of content for Acast and publisher of Racquet.
• Tim Carmody writes about media, technology, art, and culture.
• Corey Ford is cofounder and managing director of Matter Ventures.
• Rachel Davis Mersey is an associate professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.
• Sam Sanders is a reporter and host of It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders at NPR.
• Paul Ford is cofounder of Postlight, a digital product studio.
• Matt DeRienzo is executive director of LION Publishers, a national nonprofit that supports the publishers of local independent online news sites.
• Charo Henríquez is senior editor of digital storytelling and training at The New York Times.
• Mariana Moura Santos is CEO of Chicas Poderosas.
• Rick Berke is executive editor of STAT.
• David Skok is a news strategist and former top digital executive at The Toronto Star, The Boston Globe, and Global.
• Almar Latour is publisher and executive vice president of the Dow Jones Media Group.
• Jarrod Dicker is vice president for innovation at The Washington Post.
• Andrew Haeg is founder and CEO of GroundSource.
• Sara M. Watson is a technology critic and affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
• Ernst-Jan Pfauth is CEO of The Correspondent.
• Nushin Rashidian is cofounder of the news organization Cannabis Wire.
• Emily Goligoski is research director for the Membership Puzzle Project, a collaboration between De Correspondent and New York University.
• Andrew Ramsammy is founder of UnitedPublic Strategies.
• Monika Bauerlein is CEO of Mother Jones.
• Julia Beizer is a vice president of product in the media division at Oath.
• Frederic Filloux is editor of the Monday Note and leader of the News Quality Scoring Project.
• Francesco Marconi is strategy manager and AI co-lead at The Associated Press.
• Michael Kuntz is president of advertising sales and brand partnerships for the USA Today Network.
• Alan Soon is cofounder of The Splice Newsroom, a business intelligence service covering the transformation of media in Asia.
• Joanne McNeil is currently working on a book about internet users for FSG.
• Kinsey Wilson is a digital executive with The New York Times.
• Mike Caulfield heads the Digital Polarization Initiative at the American Democracy Project.
• Marie Gilot is the director of CUNY J+, the professional development arm of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
• Molly de Aguiar is the managing director for the News Integrity Initiative at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
• Joanne Lipman is chief content officer of Gannett and editor-in-chief of USA Today.
• Jesse Holcomb is an assistant professor of journalism at Calvin College.
• Imaeyen Ibanga is senior context producer with AJ+.
• Tamar Charney is managing editor of NPR One.
• Vivian Schiller is executive editor in residence at Weber Shandwick.
• Matt Carlson is an associate professor at Saint Louis University.
• Kyle Ellis is a senior product manager at American City Business Journals. His views do not necessarily represent those of his employer.
• Manoush Zomorodi is host of the WNYC podcast Note to Self.
• Luke O’Neil is a writer-at-large for Esquire.
• Jake Levine is a venture fellow at betaworks and a former general manager of Digg.
• Felix Salmon is host and editor of Cause & Effect.
• Juliette De Maeyer is an assistant professor at Université de Montréal.
• Heather Bryant is the founder of Project Facet, an open source project to support editorial collaboration.
• Adam Thomas is director of the European Journalism Centre.
• Neha Gandhi is editor-in-chief and chief operating officer at Girlboss.
• Nicholas Quah writes the podcasting newsletter Hot Pod.
• Jim Moroney is publisher and CEO of The Dallas Morning News.
• Alexios Mantzarlis is director of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter.
• Kelsey Proud is managing editor for digital at ‎WAMU.
• Christopher Meighan is director of emerging news products at The Washington Post.
• C.W. Anderson is a professor of media and communication at the University of Leeds.
• Ariana Tobin is an engagement reporter at ProPublica.
• Kathleen McElroy is associate director of the University of Texas School of Journalism.
• Alastair Coote is a developer at the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab.
• Jennifer Choi is associate director for strategic partnerships at the News Integrity Initiative.
• Dheerja Kaur is head of product at theSkimm.
• Justin Kosslyn is the lead product manager of Jigsaw at Google.
• Federica Cherubini is head of knowledge sharing at Condé Nast International.
• Ray Soto is director of emerging technologies at Gannett.
• Rasmus Kleis Nielsen is director of research at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
• Will Sommer writes Right Richter, a weekly newsletter about right-wing media.
• Taylor Lorenz is a technology reporter at The Daily Beast.
• Rachel Schallom works on newsroom transformation and digital strategy at The Wall Street Journal.
• Richard J. Tofel is president of ProPublica.
• Zizi Papacharissi is a professor of communication and political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
• Nathalie Malinarich is the mobile and new formats editor for BBC News.
• Bill Keller is editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project and former executive editor of The New York Times.
• Jacqui Cheng is editor-in-chief of Wirecutter.
• John Keefe is a developer in the Quartz Bot Studio.
• Carlos Martínez de la Serna is director of digital innovation at Univision News.
• Juleyka Lantigua-Williams is the founder and CEO of Lantigua Williams & Co., a podcast and film production company.
• Kristen Muller is chief content officer of Southern California Public Radio.
• Laura E. Davis is digital news director of the Annenberg Media Center and assistant professor of professional practice at the University of Southern California.
• Cory Haik is publisher of Mic.
• Eric Ulken is managing editor for digital operations at the Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com.
• Ruth Palmer is assistant professor of communication at Spain’s IE University.
• Nicholas Diakopoulos is an assistant professor of communication at Northwestern University.
• Cindy Royal is a professor and director of the Media Innovation Lab at Texas State University.
• Valérie Bélair-Gagnon is an assistant professor of journalism studies at the University of Minnesota.