Al Tompkins is The Poynter Institute’s senior faculty for broadcasting and online. For almost 10 years, thousands of people a day read his online journalism story idea column “Al’s Morning Meeting” on Poynter.org.

Butch Ward is Senior Faculty at The Poynter Institute. During his 27-year career as a journalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore News-American, Butch played a variety of roles, including managing editor at both newspapers.

Howard I. Finberg is the director of partnerships and alliances at The Poynter Institute. In this role Finberg looks for new training partners, oversees the business side of the Institute’s e-learning site and handles the business development aspects of Poynter’s international teaching. He also looks at new revenue opportunities, mostly related to Poynter training. Previously Finberg was responsible for the creation of Poynter’s e-learning project, News University. NewsU (www.newsu.org) launched in 2005 and has more than 220,000 users in 225 countries, accessing more than 300 training modules.

If you want to learn the secrets of being a great leader, ask Jill Geisler. As head of Poynter’s leadership and management programs, she guides managers–from the novice to the veteran–toward success. In Poynter-based seminars, offsite workshops and within organizations, she brings humor and humanity to her well-informed teaching and coaching.

Jill is the author of “Work Happy: What Great Bosses Know,” a workshop-in-a-book that’s helping leaders in all fields, worldwide.

Since joining The Poynter Institute in 2007, Ellyn Angelotti has helped Poynter explore the journalistic values and the legal challenges related to new technologies, especially social media. She also has helped create and develop Poynter’s use of interactive teaching tools like online chats and podcasts.

Rick Edmonds is media business analyst for The Poynter Institute, where he has researched and written for the last 10 years. Since December 2007, his commentary on the industry has appeared in The Biz Blog on Poynter.org. He has also been co-author of the newspaper chapter in all seven editions of the Project for Excellence in Journalism’s State of the News Media reports, 2004 through 2010.

Edmonds is frequently quoted for news stories on newspaper economic issues and new business models, including articles in The New York Times and numerous NPR reports.

Sara Quinn teaches visual journalism, leadership and multimedia. She leads Poynter’s college fellowship and its partnerships with universities. Sara directs Poynter’s EyeTrack research of newspaper, tablet and online reading habits, which helps journalists determine the best forms for storytelling. She also directs Poynter’s custom training with universities for students and educators.