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Mike is a senior lecturer at the University of Illinois-Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai, a free website featuring AI tools and training videos. He’s the author of two books: “Data + Journalism” (Routledge, 2023) and “Journalist’s Toolbox Handbook” (Routledge 2024).

Mike spent seven years teaching Google News Initiative and other digital and AI-driven tools to more than 14,500 journalists and educators in 425 trainings in 41 states. He also is co-founder and trainer with Penny Press Digital LLC, a consulting and training company that has several clients, including Gannett. When he’s not doing training, he teaches data and multimedia journalism at UIC, where he is a full-time faculty member.

A former reporter at the LA Times and web editor at the Chicago Tribune, Mike served for 13 years as a faculty member at Northwestern, Arizona State University and DePaul University, teaching digital journalism to hundreds of students and professional journalists. An early adopter of the web, he is one of the 11 founding editors of ChicagoTribune.com.

He holds journalism degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (undergrad) and Northwestern University (master’s). Mike also runs the Chicago data-driven news site, The Red Line Project (redlineproject.news). Twitter: @itsmikereilley @journtoolbox | Email: mikereilley1@gmail.com

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Jim Falzone is the publisher of the seven newspapers that comprise North of Boston Media Group in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. In addition, he serves as vice president of production for parent company CNHI, LLC, and is president of the Northeast Association of Communication Executives.  Before working at North of Boston Media Group, Falzone held editorial, ad production, and operations roles at Gannett newspapers in upstate New York.

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Allie Ginwala has been the audience engagement editor for the Concord Monitor since March 2021. She manages the opinion section and oversees various community and audience engagement initiatives including the Monitor’s reader advisory board, annual Impact Report, the News for Your Neighbor program, and an opinion writing workshop series.

A New Hampshire native, she graduated from UNH and has written for several New Hampshire publications, including The Hippo Press and Keene Sentinel. Before joining the Monitor, she earned her master’s degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and coordinated The Open Newsroom, an initiative in NYC to make local news more collaborative.

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Tim is the founder and CEO of Blue Engine Collaborative, a coaching and consulting organization that has helped thousands of publishers around the globe generate hundreds of millions of dollars in incremental revenue to support good journalism. Tim understands the power that comes from a helping hand in the face of needed transformational change. He’s the former head of revenue products at The New York Times, where he was responsible for growing the digital subscription business and all other digital revenue products. In his 15 years with The New York Times, he also served as director of strategic planning and was the executive editor of a local NYT-owned newspaper in Wilmington, N.C. He’s also served as publisher of the Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan startup based in Austin, Texas.

Tim is a former coach in the Media Transformation Challenge at Harvard University and the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill; former program lead for the Table Stakes for commercial television program at the Cronkite School at Arizona State University; co-creator of the American Press Institute’s Better News hub; and co-author of Table Stakes: Getting in the Game of News.

He’s a recovering Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu addict and hopes to make his children laugh at least once per day.

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Timothy Dwyer is the president & publisher of The Day.

Dwyer began his career at The Boston Globe while a student at Northeastern University. Upon graduating from Northeastern with a degree in history, The Globe hired him as a staff writer. After seven years at the Globe covering everything from cops to politics, Dwyer joined the staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer. He received the George Polk Award for national reporting, along with colleague Robert Frump, in 1983 for a series of investigative stories on the U.S. maritime industry.

He was a national reporter based in New Orleans and a foreign correspondent based in London while at The Inquirer before joining the sports staff as a general assignment reporter. He served as deputy sports editor, a general sports columnist and sports editor. His work has appeared in The Best American Sports Writing literal anthology. Dwyer covered three Winter Olympics games, the World Series, the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup Finals, the NBA playoffs, the NCAA basketball tournament, the Ryder Cup, the America’s Cup and World Cup skiing.

After 20 years at the Inquirer, he became a metro reporter at The Washington Post. Dwyer covered President Bush’s second inauguration, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech massacre, and the trial of the only terrorist convicted in connection with 9-11, Zacarias Moussaoui.

He became Executive Editor of The Day in July 2007, and President and Publisher in February 2019.