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Legislative Update: May 13, 2021

The Senate was in session this week; the House was last in session the week of May 3rd . Both chambers reconvene May 24. Urgent: Hearing on public notices May 26 The…

Wayne D. Pelland, Gannett

In his position as Senior Vice President of Operations and Commercial Services at Gannett, Mr. Pelland is responsible for GPS (Manufacturing & Distribution and Commercial Services across all of Gannett). Mr. Pelland…

Ryan Dohrn, Brain Swell Media

Ryan Dohrn is the founder of media strategy firm Brain Swell Media and the creator of the 360 Ad Sales System taught to over 15,000 ad sales reps in 7 countries. Ryan…

Rob Weber, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Robert Weber is the Director of Operations for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. A passionate supporter of the newspaper industry, Rob began his newspaper career with the Gannett Media Company and shortly thereafter Trib…

Gary Owen, Muller-Martini

Gary started his newspaper career designing control systems for printing presses for Publishers Equipment Corporation (PEC), Rockford, IL. PEC later was acquired by KBA and Gary relocated to York, PA as the…

John Frahm, New York Daily News

John Frahm has served in a variety of roles at Tribune Publishing since December of 2001. He began at The Baltimore Sun Media group as the Pressroom Manager and progressed to the…

Shane Fitzgerald, Bucks County Courier Times

Shane Fitzgerald is Sub-Regional Executive Editor for Gannett Inc. Media, overseeing content for 15 daily and six weekly newspapers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia. He has been executive…

Mike Blinder, Editor and Publisher

Mike Blinder is a multi-talented, multi-media maven and entrepreneur. From radio to TV to print, from morning personality to sales to management, he has walked the talk. Working at Radio Shack as…

Dean Ridings, America’s Newspapers

Dean Ridings joined America’s Newspapers as it first CEO in November 2019. America’s Newspaper is the largest newspaper association in the US serving more than 1,400 newspapers. Prior to joining America’s Newspapers,…

Scott Blanchard, WITF

Scott Blanchard is editor of StateImpact Pennsylvania, an award-winning public media collaboration among WITF, WHYY in Philadelphia and The Allegheny Front in Pittsburgh that covers the state’s energy economy.Before joining StateImpact in…