The Team

Jack Brewster
Founder and CEO
The founder and managing editor of Newsreel, Jack has written for TIME, Newsweek, the New York Daily News and VICE News

Drew Chapman
Curator and Content Manager
Drew Chapman is a graduate of Connecticut College where he majored in English and minored in Classics. There, he wrote for Connecticut College's student newspaper, The College Voice

Mary Mapes
Advisor
Mary is currently the director of research for Integrity First for America. Mary previously worked as a producer for CBS News where she became famous for breaking the Abu Ghraib torture scandal

Tom Rosenstiel
Advisor
Tom is currently the executive director of the American Press Institute. Previously, Tom worked as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and MSNBC. He is also the author of eight books

Nicolas Robbe
Advisor
After a long stint at IBM, Nicolas recently founded an augmented reality company called Hoverlay
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Howie Schneider
Advisor
Howie is currently the executive director of the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University. Before founding Stony Brook's journalism program, he worked as a reporter and editor at Newsday

Ferd Protzman
Advisor
Currently the chief of staff to the president of Oberlin College, Ferd previously worked as a reporter at the New York Times and Washington Post
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Brandon Cardwell
Advisor
Brandon is currently an agency development partner at Indeed.com
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Leslie Lindenauer
Advisor
Leslie is a history professor at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut