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NENF founding collaborators include editors, citizens, academics

Submitted by Bill Densmore on Tue, 2006-11-07 22:46.

Here is a list of New England News Forum founding collaborators, as of Dec. 7, 2007. Affiliations are for identification purposes only. Names are in alphabetical order.

Founding collaborators have agreed to advance the mission of NENF by participating when possible in NENF-sponsored events and helping spread knowledge of forum activities and services.

  • Joe Bergantino (MA)
    Co-chair, NENF advisory board and
    former investigative reporter, CBS-4

  • James Boylan (CT)
    retired editor, Columbia Journalism Review

  • Bob Casell (ME)
    exec. director, public affairs, Univ. of Southern Maine

  • Michael Dukakis (MA)
    faculty, Northeastern Univ.; former Massachusetts governor

  • Tom Fiedler (MA-NC)
    Fellow, Shorenstein Center, Harvard Univ. &
    retired editor,
    The Miami Herald.

  • George Geers (NH)
    New England Society of Newspaper Editors

  • Loren Ghiglione
    dean emeritus, Medill School of Journalism
    former publisher,
    Southbridge [Mass.] Evening News

  • Irwin Gratz (ME)
    news director, Maine Public Radio, ex-SPJ president

  • Tarcy Hineline (ME)
    city editor, Lewiston Sun Journal

  • Elizabeth Kolbert (MA)
    writer, The New Yorker

  • Ray Lamont (RI)
    executive editor, The Westerly Sun

  • Meredith McCulloch (MA)
    Retired librarian, Bedford, Mass.

  • Daniel Okrent (MA)
    ex-editor, New England Monthly
    first
    New York Times public editor

  • Katie D. Paine (NH)
    Principal, K.D. Paine & Partners

  • Larry Parnass (MA)
    managing editor, Daily Hampshire Gazette

  • Laurisa Sellers (MA)
    Co-chair, NENF advisory board and
    ex-director, Minnesota News Council

  • Norman Sims (MA)
    journalism professor, UMass Amherst

  • Michael Socolow (ME)
    journalism professor, Univ. of Maine-Orono

  • Michael Waller
    ex-publisher, Hartford Courant

  • Robert Whitcomb (RI)
    editorial-page editor, Providence Journal

  • Ralph Whitehead (MA)
    journalism professor, UMass Amherst

  • Lisa Williams (MA)
    placeblogger, Center for Citizen Media

  • Stephen Wilmarth (CT)
    Director, Center for 21st Century Skills


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