Big News in Boston: The State of Boston Media
Presenters
- Carly Carioli
The Boston Phoenix
Carly Carioli is the editor of the Boston Phoenix. Carioli began working at the Phoenix 17 years ago as a music critic intern. Before becoming the editor, he was online editor for Phoenix Online, responsible for Web operations and content of the Boston Phoenix, the Providence (R.I.) Phoenix and the Portland (Maine) Phoenix; of WFNX-FM, based in Lynn, Mass.; and for Stuff magazine of Boston. Before that, he was assistant arts editor and events editor.
- Callie Crossley
WGBH
Callie Crossley is host of the Callie Crossley Show on WGBH. She draws on her rich experience as an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker to offer commentary on the media for Beat the Press, National Public Radio and other outlets. Producer of the Academy Award-nominated hour of the acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize, Callie has won nearly every top film and broadcast journalism prize, including an Emmy, a Peabody, an Edward R. Murrow and the Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia award (Gold Baton). A former producer for ABC's 20/20, she is currently program manager for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, guest lecturing at colleges and universities about media, politics and the intersection of race, gender and media. Callie also serves a judge for several major journalism awards and is a wine enthusiast and commentator who writes the blog "The Crushed Grape Report."
- Bill Forry
Reporter Newspapers
William P.(Bill) Forry is the managing editor of the Reporter Newspapers, a family-owned and operated community newspaper group which includes the weekly Dorchester Reporter, as well as the monthly publications Boston Irish Reporter and the Boston Haitian Reporter, which he co-founded in 2001. The four publications — and their companion websites— are all part of a newspaper business owned and operated by his family since 1973.
A lifelong resident of Dorchester, Mr. Forry is a graduate of Boston College ('95) and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government ('10). He has served as a fellow at UMass-Boston’s Center on Media and Society, where he assisted in the development of the university’s Ethnic Media Project. He has worked as a correspondent on BNN-TV’s Neighborhood Network News since 1996 and is a frequent guest on local radio and TV public affairs programs.
- Marcela Garcia
El Planeta
Marcela García became the editor of El Planeta in April 2007, but has been part of its news staff since February 2005, when she was hired as an intern. She has over 10 years of experience in journalism, including stints at Grupo Reforma and The Dallas Morning News, both in Monterrey, Mexico, her hometown; and as a freelance writer for the Boston Globe and other local media outlets. She received La Alianza Hispana’s “Women of Courage” award in 2009, an annual recognition honoring outstanding Latinas in Boston, and is also a frequent speaker and media commentator on immigrant and minority issues on “The Callie Crossley Show” in Boston’s WGBH radio, and “Basic Black,” the Emmy-award winning weekly television series aired on WGBH in Boston. Marcela received a graduate degree in journalism in 2005 from the Harvard Extension School, and also holds a B.S. degree in Economics.
- Charles Kravetz
WBUR
Charles Kravetz is the general manager of WBUR, the NPR radio station licensed to Boston University. Widely regarded as one of the leading NPR stations in America, WBUR originates four nationally distributed programs: Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now and Only A Game.
Before WBUR, Kravetz was the president and general manager of New England Cable News, the largest regional news channel in America. He also oversaw the creation and growth of the network’s newsroom as vice president of news and as station manager. NECN is the only regional cable news channel ever to win the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Broadcast Journalism Award, the highest honors in the television news industry.
Before launching NECN, Kravetz spent 12 years at WCVB-TV. While there, he held several positions, including assistant news director; senior executive producer of new programming; original producer and later executive producer of Chronicle, WCVB’s award-winning nightly magazine program; associate producer and later producer of Calendar, an Emmy-winning monthly newsmagazine.
A native of Sharon, Kravetz graduated magna cum laude from the University of Rochester and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
- Caleb Solomon
Boston Globe
Caleb Solomon is the managing editor for the Boston Globe. He was previously editor of the Globe's business section. Before joining the Globe, Solomon worked for the Wall Street Journal Europe for almost two years. He became assistant managing editor there in November 2001 and oversaw features and daily news. Prior to that, he oversaw a section devoted to technology, media, marketing and management. From 1997 to 2000, he worked for the Wall Street Journal New England and directed major stories involving the Big Dig, health care, the convention center, state finances and the nexus of business and politics in New England. Before that, he headed the Journal's regional section in Texas and was a Journal reporter in Houston for eight years, concentrating on the oil industry. Solomon graduated from Columbia College with a bachelor's in English. He also has a master's from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Video
Audio
- When
- Friday, April 8, 9:00am - 10:30am
- Where
- Harborview Ballroom 1
map (pdf) - Track
- Journalism and Public Media
Boston was the birthplace of America's first newspaper. Fast forward to today, and Boston is still at the center of debates about the future of journalism. In the past two years, the Boston Globe was on the auction block, the Boston Banner took a loan out from the city, and WGBH went to an all-news format. Boston neighborhoods boast a range of community media organizations, youth media groups and online reporting projects. But what does it all add up to? How is Boston's media adapting to the digital age, and what's the future hold? How's the media doing with the key issues facing Boston and whose stories still aren't being told? In this session, journalists and editors from across Boston will take a hard look at the state of media here and explore what it means for local communities.
