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Mike Wiggins

Mike Wiggins, President

Co-Publisher, Ouray County Plaindealer

Mike Wiggins, President

Co-Publisher, Ouray County Plaindealer
mike@ouraynews.com

Mike Wiggins, a Colorado native, is the former managing editor of The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction and the current owner and co-publisher of the Ouray County Plaindealer, which has been publishing for the past 142 years. Wiggins purchased the Ouray County Plaindealer with his wife in 2019 after 18 years at The Daily Sentinel. He graduated from Mesa State College in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in mass communication.

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Jerry Healey

Jerry Healey, Vice President

Publisher and co-owner, Colorado Community Media 

Jerry Healey, Vice President

Publisher and co-owner, Colorado Community Media
jhealey@coloradocommunitymedia.com

Healey is the owner and publisher of Colorado Community Media, which includes 18 different community newspapers and is read by more than 300,000 people. Last year, the company launched integrated marketing solutions that includes many digital advertising products as well as print. Healey has been involved in publishing on and off since graduating from Northeastern University with a degree in marketing.

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Niki Turner

Niki Turner, Secretary

Publisher and Editor, Rio Blanco Herald Times

Niki Turner, Secretary

Publisher and Editor, Rio Blanco Herald Times
editor@theheraldtimes.com

Niki Turner started working at the Rio Blanco Herald Times in 2000 in the front office, and worked her way through ad sales, copyeditor, reporter and graphic designer while homeschooling four children. In 2016, she bought the publication with her husband and oldest daughter and now serves as publisher and editor.

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Lisa_Schlichtman

Lisa Schlichtman, Past President

Editor, Steamboat Pilot & Today

Lisa Schlichten, Past President

Editor, Steamboat Pilot & Today
lschlichtman@steamboattoday.com

Lisa Schlichtman was named editor of the Steamboat Pilot & Today in July 2013. During her 25-year newspaper career, she has served in many capacities including: newspaper reporter, editor, and owner and publisher of newspapers and magazines in Southwest Missouri.

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Lee_Bachlet

Lee Bachlet, Director

Publisher, The Pueblo Chieftain

Lee Backlit, Director

Lee Bachlet is the Publisher of The Pueblo Chieftain, Pueblo West View, La Junta Tribune-Democrat, Bent County Democrat, Fowler Tribune and the Ag Journal. He has been involved with newspapers and media since he took his first job as a carrier in his hometown for Cheyenne, WY, in the mid-70s. He started his full-time newspaper career in the newsroom in the mid-80s, as a writer/editor in Cheyenne and Laramie. He spent the bulk of his career in the advertising end of the business in such markets as Santa Fe, Denver, St. Louis, Austin and Las Vegas. Since 2016, Lee has been publishing papers for GateHouse Media, with stints in Louisiana and Kansas. He assumed his current role -- Senior Group Publisher, Colorado, GateHouse Media -- in 2018. He and his family are elated to be back home.

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Susan Greene

Susan Greene, Director

Editor and Executive Director, The Colorado Independent

Susan Greene, Director

Editor and Executive Director, The Colorado Independent
susan.greene@coloradoindependent.com

Susan Greene is the editor and executive director of the online-only, nonprofit news site The Colorado Independent. She has reported news since before the first web server was built, writing for daily newspapers in California, Nevada and Colorado. She worked 13 years for The Denver Post and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism. Greene is one of the first nonprofit and online board members of any state press association.

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Jennifer_Hefty

Jennifer Hefty, Director

Regional Content Strategist, The Coloradoan

Jennifer Hefty, Director

Regional Content Strategist, The Coloradoan
JenniferHefty@coloradoan.com

Jennifer Hefty is the Coloradoan's content strategist, leading the news organizations breaking news and engagement (digital teams). Hefty joined the Coloradoan after graduating from the University of Colorado Boulder and has held roles as a reporter, copy editor, digital producer, editor, and multi-platform coach. She is committed to innovation and helping define the future of local news, especially in emerging technologies and the digital space. Hefty was named CPA’s 2016 Rising Star.

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Becky Justice-Hemmann

Becky Justice-Hemmann, Director

Publisher, Berthoud Weekly Surveyor

Becky Justice-Hemmann, Director

Publisher, Berthoud Weekly Surveyor
Becky@BerthoudSurveyor.com

Becky Justice-Hemmann has been an entrepreneur all her life and owned several successful businesses in Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado. Her background hasn’t primarily been in newspapers, but in sales and marketing, and she currently owns another business, Media Innovations. Hemmann and her son started the Surveyor in June of 2004. There was another newspaper in Berthoud at the time.

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Dan Petty

Dan Petty, Director

Director of Audience Development, MediaNews Group

Dan Petty, Director

Director of Audience Development, MediaNews Group
dpetty@medianewsgroup.com

Dan Petty is the digital director of audience development for MediaNews Group, the parent company of the Denver Post, Boulder Daily Camera and Loveland Reporter-Herald, among many others. He worked for seven years at the Denver Post starting in 2009 in a variety of digital roles, most recently as a senior editor for the breaking news team. He was a part of the 2013 staff that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for coverage of the Aurora theater shooting. Since 2017, he has traveled multiple times to Kazakhstan to serve as a digital media consultant for news organizations in the country at the invitation of the U.S. State Department.

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