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CANCELLED: Ideas Festival: Mary Barr Mann & Carolyn Parisi
March 25, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free
It Takes a Village (Green): Local News in the Age of the Internet
At this event, Mary and Carolyn will be receiving the Carol Buchanan Award for Outstanding Contribution to Civic and Intellectual Life
Mary Barr Mann and Carolyn Parisi are the co-founders of local news site VillageGreenNJ.com and the statewide calendar site NJNext
Mary is a past editor at Patch and worked for and with area business and neighborhood economic development agencies, including the Springfield Avenue Partnership. She now works as a Communications Specialist at Montclair State University.
Carolyn is also a former Patch editor, was a regular contributor for The New York Times “The Local” blog, and wrote for and edited Baristanet. She is a writer and editor with more than 25 years of experience in print and digital journalism, grant writing and development, marketing and public relations. Carolyn currently serves as publisher and managing editor of Village Green and NJ Next.
Their talk will be facilitated by Nancy Solomon, the managing editor of New Jersey Public Radio,
