Keynote Speakers
Monica Davey, New York Times Chicago Bureau Chief
Tales From A Bureau Chief: What it means to be a paper of record in a social media age?
Monica Davey was born and raised in Chicago. She grew up in Hyde Park, and graduated from Brown University in Providence, R.I. with a degree in linguistics. She returned to Chicago to work at City News Bureau, now closed but long a loved (and feared) training ground for generations of Chicago journalists. She spent ten years working at newspapers in Roanoke, Virginia and St. Petersburg, Florida, covering cops, courthouses, schools, city hall, politics and a beat roaming the state of Florida to parachute into anything intriguing. She came home to Chicago as a general assignment reporter for the Chicago Tribune in 1998, then moved six years ago to The New York Times’ Chicago bureau as a national correspondent covering 11 states in the Midwest. She became the Times’ Chicago bureau chief in 2007. She lives with her husband (Flynn McRoberts, a fellow journalist and Tribune editor) and two children (Jack, 3, and Clare, 2) in Hyde Park, four blocks from where she grew up.
Colonel Tribune, Chicago TribuneColonel Tribune is an online web ambassador for the Chicago Tribune Newspaper. He has online friends and followers on key social networking platforms like Facebook, Digg and Twitter. Through social media, Colonel Tribune builds rapport with his followers by listening to story ideas, news tips and site suggestions. He also helps the newspaper understand its readers and learn about emerging trends, issues and breaking news. Nonprofit organizations can connect with Colonel Tribune and let him know about the work they are doing to impact Chicago communities.
