About

Who we are

As individual newsrooms, we range from teams of two to 29 reporters and editors. 

A team of five shared services staff members support all of these roles, creating regionally relevant collaborative stories, amplifying our individual stories to reach larger regional and national audiences, and build a transformative digital strategy that meets our readers and listeners just where you are, and where you need us to be. 

“This is the work — bringing local journalism to the platforms people are already on, not waiting for them to come find us.”

Our Team

Ryan Van Velzer
Managing Editor
rvanvelzer@lpm.org
John Boyle
Deputy Managing Editor
jboyle@wpln.org
Andrew Henderson
Audience Editor
ahenderson@lpm.org
Christa Iwu
Project Manager
ciwu@lpm.org
Kate Roselle
Director of Development
kroselle@lpm.org


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