Nicole Carroll joined the ASU Media Enterprise on May 1, 2023 as executive director of a new initiative focused on reimagining local journalism. Carroll is also a professor of practice in the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is an alumna of the Cronkite School and an inductee to its Hall of Fame.  

Nancy Barnes is the editor of The Boston Globe. A veteran journalist who has held the top job at news organizations across the country, Barnes has produced journalism of the highest caliber. Prior to joining the Globe, she was the SVP/News & Editorial Director of NPR from 2018 through 2022, where she led a team of more than 500 journalists and newsroom executives and oversaw NPR's journalism across platforms and around the world. Barnes has a proven track record of elevating metro news outlets to their highest potential.

Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as its editor in chief in October 2021. Under his leadership, the nonprofit newsroom was awarded an Edward R. Murrow Award for general excellence among large digital news organizations and an Online Journalism Award for breaking news coverage of the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde.

Ginger Thompson is ProPublica's chief of correspondents. A Pulitzer Prize winner, she previously spent 15 years at The New York Times as the Mexico City bureau chief and as an investigative reporter. Her work has exposed the consequences of Washington’s policies in Latin America, particularly policies involving immigration, political upheaval and the fight against drug cartels.