2013 Speakers for Magazine and Digital Program

Mary K. Baumann is Partner at Hopkins/Baumann, a strategic design firm specializing in publication design. Baumann has lectured on visual trends both internationally and nationally and is presently creative director of American Craft magazine. She is also director of the conference “See Change: The Power of Visual Communication.” With her partner, Will Hopkins, she produced the best-selling astronomy book What's Out There: Images from Here to the Edge of the Universe, published by Duncan Baird Publishers in London. Her varied design projects include Kids Discover magazine, Claudia – the leading women's magazine in Brazil, and JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. Baumann has redesigned Body & Soul, People, Money, and GEO magazines and has served as both an editor and art director at Time Inc. Baumann is a graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota.

For nearly thirty years before Nayan Chanda joined Yale University, he worked for Hong Kong-based magazine The Far Eastern Economic Review as editor, editor-at-large, and correspondent. From 1989-90, Chanda was the Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, and from 1990-1992 he was the editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly. He is the author of the acclaimed Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization (Yale University Press, 2007), and Brother Enemy: The War After the War, and co-author of over a dozen books on Asian politics, security, and foreign policy. Together with Strobe Talbott, he co-edited The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11. He was the 2005 recipient of the Shorenstein Award for journalism, presented jointly by Stanford University and Harvard University. Chanda writes regular columns for the Times of India, Business World, and Straits Times of Singapore.

Roger Cohn is the editor of Yale Environment 360, an online magazine focusing on global environmental issues that is published at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Launched in 2008, Yale Environment 360 has received international recognition and numerous honors, winning the 2010 National Magazine Award in Digital Media for Best Video and receiving a nomination for the 2011 National Magazine Award in News Reporting for its coverage of global climate change. Yale Environment 360 also co-produced The Warriors of Qiugang, a film nominated for a 2011 Academy Award that was featured exclusively on its site. Cohn formerly served as editor-in-chief of Mother Jones and executive editor of Audubon, revitalizing both magazines. A graduate of Yale College, he has also served as a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Kevin J. Delaney is editor in chief and co-founder of Quartz, a global business news site from Atlantic Media found online at qz.com. He was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for a decade, with that time split between hardship postings in Paris and San Francisco. While covering Internet companies such as Google, Twitter, and Facebook for the Journal, he became convinced that newspapers could do much more to ensure that good journalism thrives in the digital age. Delaney returned to New York and became managing editor of WSJ.com, where he led efforts that helped greatly expand the Journal’s online readership and championed innovative journalism projects that went on to win prizes. Early in his career, Delaney was a reporter for SmartMoney Magazine and a TV producer in Montreal.

Duncan Edwards is the President and CEO of Hearst Magazines International, an EVP of Hearst Magazines, and Vice Chairman of the National Magazine Company (NatMag), Hearst’s publishing business in the U.K. He is responsible for all of Hearst’s magazine operations outside of the U.S., which include operations in nearly 60 countries. From 2005 to 2009, he was the Chief Executive of NatMag. He joined NatMag in 1989 and served in various executive roles, including publisher of Company magazine, director of business development, and managing director. During Edwards’ time at NatMag, through a mix of launches, acquisitions, and joint ventures, the company grew from publishing nine magazines in 2000 to twenty in 2009. He spent the early part of his career at the Media Week Ltd. He holds a dual honors degree in Geography and Politics from Sheffield University. 

Joseph Galarneau is founder and CEO of Mezzobit, a New York-based
start-up focusing on data interchange tools for web and mobile
properties. He also founded DataNeutrality.org, a non-profit
organization created to set standards of socially responsible data
collection. Prior to starting Mezzobit, Joe was chief product officer
for NewsRight, a consortium of 29 major media companies that created a
global marketplace for news content and data. NewsRight has partnerships
with more than 1,000 publishers in the US, and processed data monthly
related to 1 million articles, 6 billion impressions and 200 million
users. Previously, Joe served as chief operating officer and digital
general manager of The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company and was chief
technology officer for New York Magazine. A frequent speaker on digital
media, Joe was an adjunct faculty member at New York University, where
he taught digital product management and audience development. He
frequently teaches digital media internationally, having visited China,
India, and Eastern Europe to deliver dozens of seminars over the past
six years. Joe received an MBA from Duke University and a BS in physics
from N.C. State University, where he was editor-in-chief of the student
newspaper.

Jon Hart practices law in Washington, D.C., where he heads the Media and Information Technologies group at Dow Lohnes PLLC. Hart specializes in the representation of media and technology companies on a broad range of commercial, transactional, operational, content, privacy, and litigation matters. He has represented businesses that gather and distribute news and information, sell advertising, market goods and services, and build community on the Internet for as long as there has been a commercial Internet. His clients include websites and other digital publishers, newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, and technology and telecommunications companies. Hart is counsel to the Online News Association and served on the faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Courses from 1994 through 2008. He has also written extensively on media and technology law. His book, Internet Law: A Field Guide (BNA Books), is in its sixth edition. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Stanford Law School.

Will Hopkins is a specialist in magazine and book design. With his partner Mary K. Baumann, Will is currently creative director of American Craft magazine. He gained his early reputation working for Willy Fleckhaus at Twen magazine in Germany. He then worked as the art director of Look magazine in the U.S. He was a founding partner in the startups of American Photographer and American Health magazines. Hopkins has redesigned many magazines, including Forbes, Money, Sports Afield, GEO, and Food & Wine. He has also produced many photo-based books including King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Sinatra: Intimate Portrait of a Very Good Year. Hopkins attended Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan and has taught at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota.

Kim Kelleher is the president of SAY Media. In this capacity, she manages and executes SAY’s overall business strategy while leading the company’s sales, marketing, media solutions and content operations teams. Kelleher has spent more than 20 years working at some of the world’s most influential publications including SELF, Sassy, ELLE and Elle Décor, among others. Prior to joining SAY, Kelleher was worldwide publisher of TIME, where she contributed her professional expertise to manage the multi-platform brand globally. Previously, she was vice president, publisher for Sports Illustrated, the first female executive to lead the 66 year old brand. In October 2011, Kelleher was named Advertising Age’s Publisher of the Year. In addition to her professional achievements, Kelleher has led philanthropic initiatives with organizations involved with breast cancer, heart health and other important causes. She is on the Board of Governors for Cancer and Careers, the charitable arm of Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW), the Vice Chair of Women in Need, Inc. (a charity that serves homeless women and children of New York City) and is on the Board of Directors of the American Advertising Federation. Kelleher is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Corby Kummer edits articles on politics and public affairs and writes a regular food column. He is also the editor of The Atlantic Food Channel, a blog devoted to food. He has been called "a dean among food writers in America" by The San Francisco Examiner. As a reporter and a writer he takes his work very seriously. Kummer has been a restaurant critic for New York Magazine and Boston Magazine. He is the winner of five James Beard Journalism Awards (most recently in 2008), and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Less than a year after its launch, The Atlantic Food Channel was nominated in 2010 as best magazine department on the Internet. Kummer graduated from Yale University in 1979.

Kevin McKean has spent the last 20 years working to make digital publications profitable through great content and smart business strategies. In recent years, his interests have focused on building digital subscriber income – a source of revenue that still eludes many traditional and digital publications. As VP Editorial Director for seven years at Consumer Report, he oversaw all content for its magazines, newsletters, video feeds and online sites, which together counted more than 8 million paying customers (including more than 3 million online). Before that, McKean was CEO at InfoWorld and VP/Editorial Director at PC World, Executive Editor at Forbes.com, founding editor of Money.com, a writer and senior editor for Money and Discover magazines, and national science writer for The Associated Press. He is a cum laude graduate of Yale University, class of 1974.

Tracey Ryder co-founded Edible Communities, Inc., the nation’s largest publishing company dedicated to the local foods movement, in 2002. The company currently publishes 70 titles across North America, including Edible Boston, Edible San Francisco and Edible Vancouver, and is currently adding new magazines at a rate of 10 per year. The content for each publication is region-specific and focuses on the farmers, fishermen, chefs and food artisans from each area. Ryder has worked as a journalist, marketer and graphic designer for the culinary, tourism and agriculture industries for nearly 30 years. She is a regular speaker at conferences and events in the culinary and publishing fields. The company’s first book, “Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods,” was published by John Wiley & Sons in April 2010 and four community-based Edible Communities cookbooks are forthcoming from Sterling Publishing. In May of 2011, Edible Communities was honored with the first-ever award for Publication of the Year by the James Beard Foundation.

E.C. Schroeder is the Director of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. He has worked at the Yale University Libraries since 1989, first at Sterling Memorial Library and since 1995 at the Beinecke. Before becoming director, he was Head of Technical Services at the Beinecke where he directed units responsible for acquisitions, cataloging, preservation and digital projects. He has a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and a M.L.S. from the University of Illinois. 

Under Silberman's leadership, New York Media has grown its digital business substantially, more than doubling revenue and growing audience nearly fourfold. Silberman oversees strategy and day-to-day operations for New York Media’s digital properties nymag.com, vulture.com and grubstreet.com, with a staff of 90 across editorial, technology, marketing and sales. Silberman came to nymag.com from Rodale, where he was vice president and editorial director for Rodale Interactive. During his time at Rodale, he launched the Websites for Women's Health magazine and redesigned the Websites for Men's Health, Runner's World, and Bicycling magazines. Prior to Rodale, Silberman worked at MSNBC, most recently as deputy editor, East coast, partners & strategy, managing all MSNBC.com program production with NBC News and MSNBC Cable. He first moved to the digital realm in 1995, as a senior news producer for Microsoft, developing the MSNBC Website and its relationship to the cable channel and NBC News.

Richard Stolley has been a reporter, writer, bureau chief, senior editor, and managing editor at Time Inc. since 1953. He was the editor of three photographic books, including Photographic Histories: Life: Our Century in Pictures (1999). In 1974, Stolley became the founding managing editor of People, and after eight years moved over to the managing editorship of the monthly Life. He then was editorial director of all Time Inc. magazines before being named senior editorial adviser in 1993. Stolley is the past president of the Overseas Press Club and the American Society of Magazine Editors. He is also a current member of the board of the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, NM and the board of advisers at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He earned a B.S. and an M.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. 

Nina Willdorf is a nationally recognized expert on travel, affordable lifestyle, and wedding planning. She is the Executive Editor of ALL YOU, a Time Inc brand geared to the value-driven woman looking to enjoy life for less. Willdorf spearheads editorial development including special issues, digital content, and brand extensions for ALL YOU, which champions real women and peer-to-peer content sharing. Prior to joining Time Inc, Nina served as Travelocity’s national television contributor, advocating for consumer rights and deals on the Today Show and other programs. Nina has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of Budget Travel magazine, BudgetTravel.com, Girlfriend Getaways magazine, and GirlGetaways.com. Under her direction, Budget Travel was named Best Travel Magazine in the Lowell Thomas Awards in 2011. The publication, Web site, and e-newsletter also won numerous editorial and design awards from Media Industry Newsletter and Folio. Earlier in her career, Willdorf was an editor at Travel + Leisure, Child magazine, and Worth magazine, and she has contributed to Glamour, New York Magazine, Teen Vogue, Condé  Nast Traveler, and Real Simple. She is the author of Wedding Chic: The Savvy Bride’s Guide to Getting More While Spending Less and City Chic: The Modern Girl’s Guide to Living Large on Less.