Covering a Beat with Tina Reed, Gabrielle Russon & Emily Wilkins

A Better Press for a Better World

Featured Speakers:

Tina Reed, FierceHealthcare
Tina Reed oversees FierceHealthcare and all of its publications. Tina has been reporting on health care for more than a decade and her work has appeared in the Washington Business Journal, the Capital Gazette, AnnArbor.com, The Ann Arbor News and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She has a bachelor’s in journalism with a specialty in health promotion from Michigan State University. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Gabrielle Russon, Orlando Sentinel
Gabrielle is a tourism reporter covering theme parks at the Sentinel. She previously covered higher education. A Midwestern native, Gabrielle has worked as a reporter at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the Toledo Blade and the Kalamazoo Gazette. She graduated from Michigan State University. Her hobbies are running and baseball.

Emily Wilkins, Bloomberg Government
Emily Wilkins is an award-winning congressional reporter for Bloomberg Government, covering the House, Senate and political campaigns. She previously worked for CQ Roll Call, covering education, labor and immigration, and was a city hall reporter at The Bryan-College Station Eagle in Texas. She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Michigan State University.

Moderated by Jeremy Steele, Michigan Interscholastic Press Association
Jeremy Steele is executive director of the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association and a specialist in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, where he teaches various reporting courses. Steele is an award-winning journalist who has also worked for one of Michigan’s largest independent public relations firms.