COURIER NEWSROOM - Key Persons


Amanda Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager

Amie Knowles

Job Titles:
  • Community Editor

Amie Rivers

Job Titles:
  • Community Editor

Araceli Cruz

Job Titles:
  • Social Media Manager

Ari Cunningham

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of People and Operations

Ashley Adams

Job Titles:
  • Content Producer

Billy Ball

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor

Camaron Stevenson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Political Corespondent Founding Editor

Carolyn Fiddler

Job Titles:
  • Dogwood Chief Correspondent

Carrie Adams

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Revenue and Partnerships

Cassandra Henry

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff to the Publisher

Cherita Booker

Job Titles:
  • Social Media Manager

Christina Lorey

Job Titles:
  • Community Editor

Crystal Harlan

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor

Dylan Rhoney

Job Titles:
  • Regional Community Development Manager

Ellie Konfrst

Job Titles:
  • Social Media Manager

Emily Ross

Job Titles:
  • Director of Data and Analytics

Francesca Daly

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer

Giselle Balido

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Graham Harrington

Job Titles:
  • Content Producer

Hope O'Dell

Job Titles:
  • Social Media Manager

Isaac Constans

Job Titles:
  • Content Producer

Isabel Soisson

Job Titles:
  • Political Content Producer

Jeremy Blackwell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Finance Manager

Jess Swarner

Job Titles:
  • Community Editor

Kate Bassett

Job Titles:
  • National Political Director

Keya Vakil

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Political Director

Kimberly Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Community Content

Kyle Kaminski

Job Titles:
  • Political Correspondent

Lisa Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Director, Community Content

Lizette Ortiz

Job Titles:
  • Data Analytics Engineer

Marc Blumenfeld

Job Titles:
  • Webmaster

Martin Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Regional Community Development Manager

Meghin Moore

Job Titles:
  • Content Producer Multimedia Reporter

Michael McElroy

Job Titles:
  • Reporter

Michael Shagoury

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President of Audience Development

Mivette Vega

Job Titles:
  • Reporter

Nikoel Hytrek

Job Titles:
  • Content Producer Multimedia Reporter

Pat Kreitlow

Job Titles:
  • Chief Political Correspondent Founding Editor

Pat Rynard

Job Titles:
  • National Political Editorial Director

Patrick Berkery

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor

RC Di Mezzo - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Communications

Rebecca Russ

Job Titles:
  • Design Director

Robert Gundran

Job Titles:
  • Content Producer

Shaun Sindelman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Video Editor

Tara McGowan - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder
  • Publisher
Tara McGowan is the founder and Publisher of Courier Newsroom and CEO of Good Information Inc, a civic incubator that invests in immediate solutions to counter disinformation online. A former political strategist with an early career in journalism, Tara has seen firsthand how America's information crisis has contributed to the rising threat of authoritarianism and the deterioration of social trust. In 2017, Tara founded a nonprofit, ACRONYM, to build online infrastructure for the progressive movement. Recognizing the need for new media infrastructure that deliberately reaches and informs the increasing population of passive news consumers across the country who are most susceptible to being targeted with disinformation online, Tara founded Courier Newsroom in 2019. Courier is a network of state and local newsrooms that deliver factual, cultural and relevant news through a pro-democracy lens to communities who have been left behind by traditional media, directly to their social newsfeeds and inboxes. She departed ACRONYM in 2021 to devote her full focus to scaling Courier and tackling the nation's information divide. Earlier in her career, Tara led multi-million dollar digital advertising and marketing programs for dozens of nonprofits and political groups, including Priorities USA, NextGen Climate, and President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign. She studied journalism and political science at NYU and began her career reporting and producing long-form journalism for both 60 Minutes and PBS Frontline.

Ty Rushing

Job Titles:
  • Chief Political Corespondent

Victoria Leandra

Job Titles:
  • Head of Social