Pennsylvania News Leaders Association (PNLA)
Pennsylvania News Leaders Association (PNLA)
In 2022, the Pennsylvania Society of News Editors (PSNE) and the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors (PAPME) groups merged to join forces as the Pennsylvania News Leaders Association (PNLA). PNLA is a committee of PNA and plans to continue the work that both PSNE and PAPME have been addressing over the years and move forward with even more opportunities and ideas. Read more about the merger here.
PNLA is a committee of the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association (PNA) and works closely with the PNA Foundation to provide and promote timely and affordable training opportunities. In addition, we support the Student Keystone Media Awards Contest, the Student Keystone Media Awards Event and training for scholastic and collegiate journalists to help prepare the next generation of media professionals. PNLA also helps organize the Keystone Media Awards Celebration, where top editors, reporters, photographers, designers, digital content producers and broadcasters gather to share ideas and experience excellence through panel discussions and the presentation of the Professional Keystone Media Awards.
Have an issue you’d like the PNLA Board to address? We’d love to hear your ideas, thoughts and/or suggestions. Email Teresa Shaak or phone 717-703-3003.
2023 PNLA Board of Directors
Chairperson: Marta Gouger, The Times News, Lehighton
Vice Co-Chairs: Larry Holeva, Times-Shamrock Communications, and Marea Mannion, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State
Board Members: Ashley Fontones, Pocono Record; Jeff Gerritt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Tim Lambert, WITF, Harrisburg; Cindi Lash, WESA, Pittsburgh; Mark Lawrence, WKOK, Sunbury; Dennis Lyons, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc.; Matt Martin, Erie Times-News; Cassie Miller, Pennsylvania Capital-Star; Tom Murse, LNP | LancasterOnline; Burke Noel, PennLive/The Patriot-News, Harrisburg; Patrick O’Shea, Beaver County Times and Ellwood City Ledger; Christina Paciolla, The Associated Press; and James Williams, Uptown Standard, Philadelphia.
Advisory Board (past presidents of the two former organizations and other retired media leaders):
Liz Allen, Cate Barron, Tom Barstow, Becky Bennett, Scott Blanchard, Sandra Clark, Michael Days, Jim Deegan, David Erdman, Nick Falsone, Wade Fowler, Ced Kurtz, Garry Lenton, Susan Martin, James McClure, Chip Minemyer, Terry Rang, James Sacchetti, F. Hope Stephan, Ted Sickler, Kim Strong and David Troisi.
Lifetime members:
John V. R. Bull, Harry J. Deitz Jr., Woodene B. Merriman and Ernest J. Schreiber.
About PSNE
Since 1949, the Pennsylvania Society of News Editors (PSNE) offered many opportunities for editors to network statewide and find real solutions to the challenges they face. Editors are under the constant demands of fast-paced deadlines, newsroom management issues, and ever-changing industry developments. PSNE’s purpose was to not only help with those concerns, but to improve the craft of journalism and recognize the best in news coverage from across the state.
In 2022, the Pennsylvania Society of News Editors (PSNE) and the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors (PAPME) groups merged to join forces as the Pennsylvania News Leaders Association (PNLA). PNLA is a committee of PNA and plans to continue the work that both PSNE and PAPME have been addressing over the years and move forward with even more opportunities and ideas. Read more about the merger here.