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