Kirsten Ballard

On July 22, the News Media Alliance hosted a policy maker breakfast and book launch event for An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang ... Read More

This year, we’re taking a look at the best TV shows featuring the news media industry that are worth binge-watching because it’s too cold to do anything else ... Read More

It’s time for the third annual News Media Alliance Halloween costume round-up. As always, these costumes are easy for when you’re tight on deadline ... Read More

Steph Solis knew she wanted to be a journalist since she was little. “I was one of those obnoxious kids who has known since sixth grade,” she laughs ... Read More

Sarah Jarvis was interested in journalism from an early age. Like many Rising Stars, she was on the yearbook committee in high school and she continued studying journalism in college ... Read More

On Saturday, October 13, International Newspaper Carrier Day, we want to take a moment to recognize and honor these hard workers ... Read More

Karri Peifer can recommend restaurants like a fortune-teller reading a palm – all she needs is a single one-on-one interaction to make the best recommendation. “And I do. And literally no one has ever acted on it,” she says. Karri ... Read More

Journalists seeking fresh, fast and thoughtful insight from the nation's foremost historians can now consult a database of experts assembled by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) ... Read More

Sarah Krouse didn’t mean to get into journalism. Now, she’s a reporter for The Wall Street Journal covering telecommunications ... Read More

The Detroit Free Press has garnered attention for its hip and snarky Twitter account.They strike the perfect balance between lambasting the Lions’ terrible start to the season and somberly covering breaking news ... Read More

Rachel Sadon didn’t study journalism in college. Now, as the Editor in Chief of DCist, she looks back on her undergraduate career and laughs ... Read More

We caught up with Jeff Rosen, Assistant Managing Editor/Sports, to talk about Sports Pass in this edition of Alliance 5 Answers ... Read More

Sally Hayden has traveled the globe reporting. She’s covered war-torn countries, but also has seen the perseverance of human kindness ... Read More

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s newest season of its true-crime podcast, “To Love and To Perish,” launches on September 12 ... Read More

For Melissa Turqman, age is only a number. At 27 years old, she is already a Vice President of Digital Advertising at Modern Luxury ... Read More

Nicole Hong moved around a lot as a child. But when she moved from Pennsylvania to Indiana in the 10th grade, she found journalism ... Read More

Rising Star Lilly Chapa is an award-winning writer for Security Management, an association publication that serves security professionals ... Read More

Rising Star Jon Sindreu started out majoring in computer science. He realized he didn’t find the idea of coding and math to be a fulfilling profession ... Read More

Katrease Stafford is the city government reporter for the Detroit Free Press. Get to know this amazing woman with this edition of Alliance 5 Answers ... Read More

Jeff Gray is on a mission to end homelessness. As the communications manager of Street Sense Media in Washington, D.C., he combines communication strategy, empathy and journalism to achieve this mission ... Read More

Mark Hannallah sees the forest instead of the trees. It’s what makes him a successful product manager at USA TODAY Network. “For me, the ‘why’ is about the forest, and that’s the first step in which other things are built ... Read More

Rising Star winner Adam Harris is the staff writer at The Atlantic, covering education. He had a winding path to journalism. He always knew he wanted to do something he found important and necessary. “I was always interested in telling ... Read More

Rising Star Georgi Kantchev's career has spanned the dawn of the social media age. When he was first published, people were only beginning to talk about how important digital was. “It’s a competition for eyeballs in the end,” he says ... Read More

Rising Star Deborah Swearingen has always loved to write. She’s a curious person who describes herself as “interested in people and in learning about people,” so it makes sense she found her way to journalism. In her current role at ... Read More

Imani Jenkins joins the News Media Alliance staff this summer as the communications intern. She is a rising senior at Marist College located in Poughkeepsie, NY as a Media Studies and Production student ... Read More

Since he joined USA TODAY Network in 2016, Haowei Qin has fueled growth by changing how the company views and leverages data from a strategic and operational perspective ... Read More

Margot Harris joins the News Media Alliance staff this summer as the public policy intern. She is working on her MFA in Creative Nonfiction and hopes to apply these skills to journalism ... Read More

Dorothy is a photographer for the Naples Daily News, part of the USA TODAY network. She started in 2015 after graduating from Western Kentucky University. She’d been interested in photography in high school and took portraits of her friends ... Read More

Rising Star Bridget Lane supports real news from behind the scenes – and behind a screen. As a computer software developer at USA TODAY Network, she supports over 140 websites across the United States ... Read More

Rising Star Adina Soloman has written for the Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, and many more. She shares what it's like to balance life as a freelancer and how she became involved in the death industry ... Read More

It’s time for our annual News Media Alliance summer reading list. The staff of voracious readers is plugged in to the news 24/7, but this summer, we’re making time for these amazing reads ... Read More

This year, the NC Insider newsletter celebrates 25 years of publication. We caught up with editor (and 2017 Rising Star winner) Colin Campbell to learn the secrets behind the publication’s longevity ... Read More

“Felonious Florida,” the highly-anticipated podcast produced by the South Florida Sun Sentinel and presented by Wondery, premiered at No. 1 for its first week on the Apple Podcast chart nationwide ... Read More

Tomorrow the News Literacy Project kicks off the first NewsLitCamp in Washington, D.C. at the Newseum. This full-day, interactive program is focused on connecting teachers with Washington Post journalists and NewseumEd staff ... Read More

The News Media Alliance today announced the recipients of its third annual Rising Star awards. The program provides an opportunity to showcase the talent and knowledge that young professionals bring to news media companies ... Read More

To celebrate Earth Day, April 22, use these five tricks to get new life out of your old newspapers. From crafts to better ways to clean, newspapers can do more than just inform and entertain ... Read More

As part of our celebration of Women’s History Month, we caught up with Amy King, editor in chief and creative director of Washington Post’s The Lily. This new publication launched last year with the mission of creating informing and powerful ... Read More

There is a misconception that diversity is not important when reporting the news. That news is a set of facts that exist in a linear timeframe. That anyone can do it ... Read More

Dana Canedy is a force to be reckoned with. She is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and the author of a book about to be made into a movie. She is the current administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes – the first ... Read More

Scripps Howard Foundation has donated 100,000 books to children across the nation in the past two years as part of the “If You Give a Child a Book” literacy campaign. This was the second year of the campaign, which coordinates ... Read More