Jan Winburn is senior editor for enterprise at CNN Digital, where she is bringing longform storytelling to a brand known for breaking news. Before becoming an online journalist in 2009, she spent 30 years as an editor and writing coach at newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Baltimore Sun, The Hartford Courant and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Among the many national awards her writers have won are the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the Ernie Pyle Award for Human Interest Writing, and the ASNE Award for Non-Deadline Writing.

Ron Reason has been closely affiliated with Poynter since the late 1980s, serving as a frequent guest presenter, then full time faculty and Director of Visual Journalism for five years, and later, Visiting Faculty. He is a Chicago based consultant specializing in rebranding and redesigning of newspapers worldwide.

Thomas French, a Pulitzer prizewinning journalist who reported at the
St. Petersburg Times for almost three decades, is the author of three nonfiction books.

French now teaches writing at the Poynter Institute, at Indiana University’s journalism school, and at newsrooms and conferences around the world. For the past ten years, he has been a member of the faculty at Goucher College’s creative nonfiction MFA program, where he coaches authors of all ages and backgrounds on how to develop, report and write their first books.

Aly Colón, serves as a writing, ethics and diversity consultant. He has conducted training in more than 50 newsrooms as well as for journalism organizations. His journalism experience spans more than 20 years as a reporter, writer and editor for newspapers, magazines and online sites. He taught for a decade at the Poynter Institute where he headed the Reporting, Writing & Editing Group, edited the Best Newspaper Writing book and the Poynter Report. He also supervised the Institute’s ethics and diversity programs.

Lillian R. Dunlap, Ph.D., Principal and CEO of Communication Research Enterprises, LLC, has an impressive record of success guiding primarily journalism organizations in the development of innovative leadership and diversity strategies. Lillian is a former resident faculty member and now affiliate faculty at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in Florida and a former professor of broadcast news at the University of Missouri School of Journalism.

Jeremy Caplan is Director of Education for the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he also teaches interactive and entrepreneurial journalism. He is also a Ford Fellow in Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Poynter Institute. In addition to contributing to Time Magazine on subjects ranging from business innovation to consumer technology, Caplan writes on occasion for The Wall Street Journal’s Digits.

Mark Briggs is the author of Entrepreneurial Journalism: How to Build What’s Next for News. He coined the term Journalism 2.0 in 2006 when he was invited to write a book about digital literacy for journalists based on a training program he had created at The News Tribune in Tacoma, Wash.

Award-winning journalist Jacqui Banaszynski worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 30 years, most recently as Associate Managing Editor of The Seattle Times, and before that as a senior editor at The Oregonian. While a reporter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, her series “AIDS in the Heartland,” which chronicled the lives and deaths of a gay farm couple, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.