The Non-Profit #CTNewsConsortium Is Adopting #TheWinstedCitizen Under Its 501 c3 Umbrella.

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This Move Will Help the Paper Survive

With Ongoing Support From the Community, We Will Flourish

BOARD  OF DIRECTORS 

The CT News Consortium

Susan Campbell, President 

Jedd Gould, Treasurer 

Robert Geiger

Virginia Apple 

Melissa Bird 

Andrew Kreig

Atty Philip Russell, Secretary / Agent of Service

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Susan Campbell is a distinguished lecturer at the University of New Haven.

The Charger Bulletin , Advisor
Communication, Film and Media Studies Department
College of Arts and Sciences

Susan Campbell is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a widely-read newspaper columnist, and the author of three books. She has worked across the media landscape as an award-winning print journalist, a regular commentator on WNPR, and a guest on CBS’ "Sunday Morning," the BBC, WTNH-TV, and the local news show "Face the State." She was also part of the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, an award-winning health and safety website.

Her work at The Hartford Courant – where she was a staff writer and columnist for 25 years – was recognized by the National Women’s Political Caucus, the New England Associated Press News Executives, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the Society for Professional Journalists, among numerous other organizations. She’s also written for Connecticut Magazine, Salon.com, the Ms. Foundation blog, and Patheos.com. She currently writes a weekly Sunday column for Hearst newspapers in Connecticut.

Her book, Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism and the American Girl, won the Connecticut Center for the Book’s Best Memoir in 2010 and was chosen as one of 15 "Must-Read Memoirs" by More magazine. Her other books include the biography Tempest-Tossed: The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker and Frog Hollow: Stories from an American Neighborhood, a Hartford neighborhood she describes as a springboard for generations of immigrants.

A frequent guest host on "Where We Live," a locally produced news/talk show, she’s a regular guest on "The Colin McEnroe Show." A former communications director at the Partnership for Stronger Communities, she is a sought-after speaker and panelist on poverty, homelessness, theology, and gender issues.

While teaching the next generation of journalists, Professor Campbell helped transform the campus newspaper, the Charger Bulletin, into a website, a series of podcasts, and a weekly television news show, "The Charger Bulletin News." She’s taught at Central Connecticut State University, and she has taught writing workshops at Wesleyan University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Hartford.

Professional Experience

HEARST NEWSPAPERS IN CONNECTICUT
Weekly columnist, 2020-present

CONNECTICUT HEALTH AND INVESTIGATIVE TEAM
An award-winning health and safety website at www.c-hit.org
Twice-monthly columnist, 2012-2020

Explore issues of health and safety for women

THE HARTFORD COURANT
Largest Daily Newspaper in Connecticut and The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper in the United States
Columnist, 1986-2012 and again as a freelancer from 2013-2020

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Andrew Kreig is editor and cofounder of the Justice Integrity Project, a news, investigative reporting and legal reform advocacy project based in Washington, DC, where he has worked as an attorney and non-profit executive since 1991.

www.justice-integrity.org

He began his career as a Hartford Courant reporter (1970-84) before becoming legal columnist for Connecticut Magazine and authoring in 1987 “Spiked: How Chain Management Corrupted America’s Oldest Newspaper,” a best-selling case history exposing disturbing national trends as conglomerates increasingly control or abandon local news.

Later, he served as a law clerk to a federal judge and then worked in the Washington, DC office of a national law firm heavily focused on communications law. He became president/CEO of the Wireless Communications Association (1996-2008), helping lead its advocacy before the FCC, Congress, the ITU and elsewhere around the world for the regulatory, technical and consumer environment that would enable Internet services delivered via wireless technology.

A member of the DC bar for three decades and listed in "Who's Who In the World" since the mid-1990s, he earned degrees from University of Chicago School of Law and Yale Law School. He is active with numerous professional, business and civic groups, including the National Press Club’s Free Press and Book/Author committees.

GINNY APPLE

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Currently serve on the Town of Barkhamsted Economic Development Commission and the Town of Barkhamsted Conservation Commission as well as the New Hartford/Barkhamsted Rail/Walking Trail Committee and Barkhamsted Historical Society Exhibition Committee.

Certified Master of Wildlife Conservationist by State of CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Member Board of Directors of Friends of American Legion and Peoples State Forests (FALPS).

Sportswriter and columnist, The Hartford Courant 1975 - 1986 · 11 yrs

 For most of her career there, she was the only woman on the newspaper's staff of sportswriters. She was the paper's first recreational sports editor and covered assignments ranging from college football to the 1984 Olympic trials.

Melissa Bird, Director of American Museum of Tort Law

Bird resides in Winsted with her husband Chris, daughter Lydia, a junior at UConn and son Dylan, a senior at St. Paul Catholic High School. The family chose to relocate to Winsted after spending a decade in the UK where Bird owned an award winning business.

Bird served three terms as a Town of Winchester Selectman and as a liaison to the Winchester Police Department, Laurel City Commission, Recreation Department and Board of Education. 

Bird was an elected member on the Home and School Board of St. Peter/St. Francis School as Publicity Officer for seven years as well as performed as the Advancement and Development Chair of St. Peter/St. Francis School for six years. 

She served on a Task Force for the Archdiocese of Hartford for St.Peter/St.Francis for two years tasked with the responsibility of creating a viable modality for increasing enrollment and received the 2016 H.O.P.E.S. John Neumann Award. 

She previously served on the Charter Revision Committee and currently is a member of the Hinsdale Renovation Committee for her fifth year. Bird continues to serve as the Chairman of the Laurel Commission for her seventh year. She has pursued social activism and volunteerism wherever she has lived including raising money and campaigning with the Manhattan Young Democrats throughout the 1990's and is currently a member of the Winchester DTC. She believes in thinking globally while acting locally.

Philip Russell, Esq.

Board Certified in Criminal Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 1994, Philip Russell has tried more than fifty felony trials to verdict, and has defended criminal cases throughout the metro New York area and Connecticut, in the Midwest and abroad.

Professionally, Russell enjoys an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell, the highest rating in ability and ethics that his colleagues can confer upon him.

Russell is a 1984 graduate of Brooklyn Law School. Prior to graduation, he worked for three years as a paralegal for a prominent criminal litigation firm in New York City, assisting in narcotics trafficking and homicide trials and investigations, larceny and extortion cases, appeals, clemency petitions and official corruption matters.

From 1984 through 1988 Russell was a prosecutor in the Bronx County District Attorney’s office, where he served in the Criminal Court, Grand Jury and Rackets/Investigations bureaus, prosecuting assaults, homicides, burglaries, thefts and official misconduct.

In 1988 Russell joined a medium-sized Greenwich law firm, where his practice included civil litigation involving secured transactions, bankruptcy and business reorganizations, commercial disputes, and real estate litigation. In 1993 he formed this firm, specifically focused on litigation.

Russell has lectured attorneys both locally and at national meetings and symposia on matters involving incarceration, police investigations, drunk driving enforcement. His firm has received awards and commendations for pro-bono work, for “friend of the court” briefs filed on behalf of professional organizations, and for service to the professional community.

Russell has served as President of the Greenwich Bar Association, as a board member of the Fairfield County Bar Association, the Westchester County Criminal Justice Section of the County Bar, and is member of the National and Connecticut associations of criminal defense attorneys. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Connecticut Law Tribune and the Brooklyn Law School Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Jedd Gould

Member, The Baltimore Banner Board of Directors

Jedd Gould serves as president and founder of Mediabids.com, Inc., a print media broker that has created an online marketplace offering publications a way to acquire new customers without increasing their sales force, and advertisers an opportunity to save money and time and make informed decisions about their marketing needs.

Prior to Mediabids.com, Gould was the publisher of 17 weekly newspapers in Connecticut & Pennsylvania “The Voice,” entirely written by the people in the community. He began his career as a reporter at the Register Citizen, a local daily newspaper in the Northwest region of Connecticut.

Gould holds a B.A. in philosophy and history from Denison University.

ROBERT GEIGER

Robert Geiger was brought in as town manager of Winchester to stabilize operations after a financial corruption scandal resulted in the state overseeing the town’s school system. He served nearly five years.

Geiger, a Barkhamsted resident, holds degrees from the Harvard Business School, Antioch College and Wright State University. He worked in the defense intelligence agency for the Navy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He later worked for a number of companies and had a long career in the printing industry.

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