Sharri Berg joined FOX News Channel (FNC) at its inception in 1996 and currently serves as senior vice president of news operations for the network. She is also the chief operating officer of news and operations for the FOX Television Stations (FTS) group.

Working in a dual capacity for both FOX’s cable news and broadcast divisions, Berg currently oversees all initiatives and talent development for news programs across the FTS group, and manages news operations for FNC. Additionally, Berg is responsible for driving innovations across all of FOX’s news platforms. Most recently, she developed the Fox Flight Operations, the network’s national drone program, LNS (local news sharing initiative), enhanced field reporting technology, and the Fox News Reporter Training Program, which just graduated its third class of multi-media reporters.

During her tenure, Berg notably helped launch FOX News Channel and has held key operational positions at the network. She started her career with FNC as a satellite operations manager and progressed into leadership roles, which encompass field operations and newsgathering. In October 2005, she was promoted to senior vice president of FNC and FTS.

As a 21st Century Fox and News Corp 30-year veteran, Berg began her career with WNYW-TV as a sales assistant. She graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in broadcast journalism

Alina Falcón assumes the role Senior Vice President of Daytime Programming for Telemundo network, after spending the past year as EVP, FIFA World Cup Programming.  In her new role, she’ll head the growth strategy for the network’s daytime programming, including shows “Un Nuevo Día” and “Suelta La Sopa.” The move was announced in an internal email from Ray Warren, President of Telemundo Deportes and Luis Silberwasser, President of Telemundo Network, to whom she’ll report. In the joint email, the executives state her recent role at Telemundo Deportes, overseeing World Cup programming “will be instrumental to showcasing our daytime entertainment properties to new audiences” during the 2018 event in Russia. Falcón joined Telemundo as EVP, News and Alternative Programming in 2011, after a 28-year career at Univision.

Rosanna M. Fiske, APR, Fellow PRSA, is Vice President of Corporate Communications for Wells Fargo & Co. in the Southeast U.S., leading all aspects of corporate and marketing communications including executive advocacy, social media, internal and external communications for six states, more than 1,200 branches and offices and nearly 31,000 team members.

A nationally recognized executive with more than 25 years of experience developing comprehensive marketing communications, brand positioning, advertising, and public relations strategies, Fiske has a proven track record driving successful, multi-channel campaigns working with some of the world’s leading brands such as American Airlines, GE, Charles Schwab, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Absolut Vodka, Visa USA and MTV Networks.

She has managed teams in corporate, non-profit and agency settings and is a recognized expert in matters pertaining to integrated marketing communications and diversity communications, having been honored by PRWeek as the industry’s 2014 “Diversity Champion.” In 2015, Fiske received the PRSA Miami Bill Adams Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into PRSA’s prestigious College of Fellows, an honorary community of less than 350 senior professionals worldwide who have each made substantial contributions to the profession and have vast accomplishments in the practice or education of public relations. She was also named “Professional of the Year” in 2010 by the Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) and has received three PRSA Silver Anvils, a Bronze Anvil, several Addys and Cannes-Lions awards throughout her career.

Fiske graduated with a master of science from Florida International University’s Integrated Communications: Advertising & PR program and is a source for and a guest contributor to The Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, DigiDay, PRWeek, and AdAge. She was the first Latina CEO of the Public Relations Society of America, the world’s largest communications organization with 32,000+ members, and was named one of the Top 100 Influential Hispanics in America by Hispanic Business Magazine.

Susan Goldberg is editorial director of National Geographic Partners and editor in- chief of National Geographic Magazine.  Named editor-in-chief of the magazine in April 2014, she is the 10th editor of the magazine since it was first published in October 1888.  Under her leadership, in 2015, National
Geographic magazine won two National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. In March 2015, she received the Exceptional Woman in Publishing Award from Exceptional Women in Publishing (EWIP).  Before joining National Geographic, Goldberg was executive editor for federal, state and local government coverage for Bloomberg News and was voted one of Washington’s 11 most influential women in the media by Washingtonian magazine. She also served as editor of The Plain Dealer, executive editor of the San Jose Mercury News and deputy managing editor of the News, Life and Enterprise sections at USA Today, among others.

Suzette Espinosa Fuente joined the Arsht Center in 2005 and played an instruments role in its 2006 Grand Opening, which secured extensive national and local media coverage. She oversees media relations activities for more than 100 performances and programs presented by the center each year and has developed strong relationships with local, regional. national and international media. her career also includes work with major multi-national corporations ( British Airways, MTV) lifestyle brands (Louis Vuitton, Guess?, Donald J Pliner), non-profit organizations and smaller start-ups in a variety of industries.

Aminda (Mindy) Marques Gonzalez is Vice President and Executive Editor for Simon & Schuster.

Born in New York to Cuban immigrant parents, Marques began her career as an intern at The Miami Herald and rose through the ranks to become the paper’s first Hispanic editor in 2010. She is only the second woman to hold the post.

Her career has included assignments as a metro reporter, assistant city editor and deputy metro editor, directing The Miami Herald’s local, state and community news operations. She also was Miami bureau chief for People magazine, overseeing coverage for the southeast U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America.

She returned to The Miami Herald in 2007, where she was a multimedia editor and Sunday/features editor before being named managing editor. Under her leadership, The Miami Herald was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its 2010 coverage of the earthquake in Haiti. In 2012, The Miami Herald was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in public service for a series detailing Florida’s systemic failures in regulating assisted-living facilities. The Miami Herald has won 20 Pulitzer Prizes in its history.

Marques is a 1986 graduate of the University of Florida, where she was honored as an Alumni of Distinction by the College of Journalism and Communications.

She serves on the boards of the Pulitzer Prize, the Associated Press Media Editors (APME) and the Poynter Institute’s advisory council.

Cynthia Hudson is senior vice president and general manager of CNN en Español and Hispanic strategy for CNN/U.S. Hudson oversees all aspects of CNN’s Spanish-language media businesses, including newsgathering, editorial content, programming, production, operations and personnel, of the CNN en Español 24/7 television news network, CNN en Español RADIO and CnnEspañol.com

Since 2010, Hudson re-launched CNN en Español’s multi-platform business with expanded feeds for Latin America, Mexico and the US Hispanic as well as revamping the logo, branding and programming.  She changed the channel from a news wheel to a program-based information network and added a studio in Miami as well as expanding production in Mexico, Argentina, Washington DC and Los Angeles.  Hudson launched CNNEspañol.com and expanded the radio business to include over 50 affiliates in the US Hispanic Market and another 100 in Latin America and Europe. Hudson added new talent and hit shows such as Cala, Café CNN, Conclusiones and CNN Dinero, and launched originally produced documentaries, investigative series and live programming.

In addition to an extensive bilingual staff at CNN headquarters in Atlanta, CNN en Español’ s operations include newsgathering Spanish-speaking personnel based at the CNN bureaus in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Buenos Aires and Jerusalem, and a worldwide network of nearly 50 Spanish-speaking contributing journalists.   Under Hudson, CNN en Español has won three National Emmys, three Glaad Awards, two Promax-BDA awards, as well as an honorable mention at the Shortly Awards for Best Multi-Platform Campaign for Social Coverage of 2014 Venezuelan Crisis.

In 2016, The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) recognized Cynthia Hudson with a Presidential Award for her unwavering commitment to journalism, the pursuit of the truth and her leadership in journalism.

Before joining CNN en Español, Hudson served as chief creative officer and executive vice president for SBS and managing director of Mega TV. There she was responsible for SBS’ expansion, directly overseeing flagship TV network Mega TV, as well as the company’s internet site lamusica.com and other new media development.   In addition, Hudson supervised the strategic expansion of SBS content across multiple media platforms and development of branded entertainment synergies among all SBS properties.  Mega TV saw tremendous growth under her watch and garnered the network 27 EMMY awards in just four years since its launch.

From 1997 to 2005, Hudson served as senior vice president and editorial director of Cosmopolitan Television (a Hearst Entertainment and Syndication Group division), heading up the creation and development of the Cosmopolitan TV Networks, including Canal Cosmopolitan Iberia and Canal Cosmopolitan Latin America as well as the foundation for Cosmo TV Canada.  There she led the research, development and creation of Cosmo TV, overseeing design of original programs, on-air packaging, promotions and program acquisitions, as well as the creation and production of original formats and the overall business strategy for the networks.

Hudson also wrote and created the original drama, Miami Sands, Promark’s internationally successful English-language American telenovela.

Prior to Cosmopolitan TV, Hudson was senior vice president of programming and creative services for United International Holding’s joint venture channel service, United Family Communications (UFC), now MGM Networks Latin America. While at UFC she created Casa Club TV, the first pan-regional Home channel for Latin America (today MGM).

Hudson was the vice president of programming and production for the Telemundo Network from 1992-94. During her tenure, the network’s programming line-up was redesigned, achieving its highest ratings to date and developing its first in-house telenovela production unit with successes such as “Tres Destinos,” a prime-time scripted drama series that debuted in 1994.

Dr. Dianne Lynch became the 24th president of Stephens College in June 2009.  Under her leadership, the College has developed a strategic focus on the creative and performing arts and the health sciences, earning national honors since 2019 in recognition of its communication design/student publications, performing arts and undergraduate research.

Dr. Lynch earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in mass communication and feminist history, and her Ph.D. in Art History and Communications from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.  Her research focuses on the social identity development of digital natives – children growing up in online environments.

Prior to coming to Stephens in 2009, Dr. Lynch served as Dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, and as a faculty member and chair of the Department of Journalism at Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, Vt.  She was also the founding executive director of the national Online News Association (ONA); the editorial director of the first national study of the credibility of online news; the editor of the first textbook on the ethics of digital news; and the inaugural recipient of the ONA’s Rich Jaroslovsky Founder Award for contributions to digital journalism.  She wrote a biweekly column about women and technology for ABCNews.com, and a weekly column on new media ethics for the Christian Science Monitor; was a longstanding member of the Journalism Advisory Board of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; and an inaugural member of the panel of judges for the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge Awards competition.  Dr. Lynch’s national study of the future of American journalism and journalism education was commissioned by Knight.

Dr. Lynch was the 2019 recipient of the Mid-Missouri NAACP Distinguished Service Award. She was selected as among the 50 Missouri Top Influencers by the Kansas City Star, which sought perspective and opinions from the group weekly prior to the 2018 midterm elections.  In 2017 she was named by the Columbia Business Times as one of the ten most influential women in Columbia, Missouri. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Athena Leadership Award, presented annually in recognition of exceptional community service and career achievement.

Dr. Lynch serves on the Boards of Providence Bank, Boone Hospital Center, and the Lillian Kopenhaver Center for Women’s Leadership at Florida International University, among others.  She is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Midwest athletics conference, for which she served as president from 2012-2018.

Dr. Lynch is married to Philip Coleman. They have four children: Andrew, Amelia, Nick, and Annie.

Geneva Overholser is a journalism consultant and adviser.  A former editor of the Des Moines Register now living in New York City, Overholser speaks and writes about the future of journalism. She has advised numerous organizations, including the Trust Project, Report for America, SciLine, the Democracy Fund and the Public Face of Science project at the Academy of American Arts and Sciences. She serves on the boards of the Rita Allen Foundation, Northwestern University in Qatar and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Foundation.

Overholser was until 2013 director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. Prior to that post, she held the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism, based in the school’s Washington bureau.  She was for seven years editor of the Des Moines Register, leading the paper to a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.  While at the Register, she earned recognition as Editor of the Year by the National Press Foundation and was named “The Best in the Business” by American Journalism Review.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Wellesley College, a master’s in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a French language certificate from the Sorbonne.  She has honorary doctorates from Grinnell College and St. Andrews Presbyterian College, and alumnae achievement awards from Wellesley, Northwestern and Medill.

Sharri Berg joined FOX News Channel (FNC) at its inception in 1996 and currently serves as senior vice president of news operations for the network. She is also the chief operating officer of news and operations for the FOX Television Stations (FTS) group.

Working in a dual capacity for both FOX’s cable news and broadcast divisions, Berg currently oversees all initiatives and talent development for news programs across the FTS group, and manages news operations for FNC. Additionally, Berg is responsible for driving innovations across all of FOX’s news platforms. Most recently, she developed the Fox Flight Operations, the network’s national drone program, LNS (local news sharing initiative), enhanced field reporting technology, and the Fox News Reporter Training Program, which just graduated its third class of multi-media reporters.

During her tenure, Berg notably helped launch FOX News Channel and has held key operational positions at the network. She started her career with FNC as a satellite operations manager and progressed into leadership roles, which encompass field operations and newsgathering. In October 2005, she was promoted to senior vice president of FNC and FTS.

As a 21st Century Fox and News Corp 30-year veteran, Berg began her career with WNYW-TV as a sales assistant. She graduated from American University in Washington, D.C. with a B.A. in broadcast journalism

Ms. Ellen Weiss has been the Chief of Washington Bureau and Vice President of The E. W. Scripps Company since February 11, 2013. Ms. Weiss joined Scripps from The Center for Public Integrity. She served as Senior Vice President of News at National Public Radio, Inc. until January 14, 2011. She oversees NPR’s worldwide journalism operations, including 18 domestic and 18 foreign bureaus, more than 400 staff members, more than 50 hours of news programming weekly, and NPR’s award-winning investigations, longform series and other special reporting. She served as Vice President of News at National Public Radio, Inc. since April 2007. Ms. Weiss joined NPR News in 1982 and served as its Acting Vice President for News since October 2006. Ms. Weiss, an award-winning broadcast news executive who served as head of the NPR News National Desk and Executive Producer of the top-rated daily NPR News magazine All Things Considered.

From 2001 to 2006, she served as Senior Editor of the National Desk, managing 80 reporters, editors and producers covering all national issues including politics, business, religion, education, immigration, police and prisons. She oversaw coverage of major national events, among them, NPR News’ critically-acclaimed work covering 9/11, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the 2002 and 2004 elections. Ms. Weiss also edited many of NPR News’ investigations including Daniel Zwerdling’s award-winning coverage of the use of dogs in detention centers, Carrie Kahn’s report on mercy killings at New Orleans hospitals during Hurricane Katrina and John McChesney’s investigation into the final hours of the only Abu Ghraib detainee whose death was ruled a homicide. For 12 years, she served as Executive Producer of the daily NPR News magazine All Things Considered. She was responsible for its broadcasts from around the U.S. and the world – including Berlin during the fall of communism, San Francisco after the 1989 earthquake, L.A. in the midst of the 1992 riots and Jerusalem during the 1996 elections. Ms. Weiss also served as a senior producer, editor, field producer and director at NPR News. She has been part of the NPR News teams that have received such honors as Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, George Foster Peabody Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, Overseas Press Club Awards and American Women in Radio and Television Awards. Ms. Weiss is a graduate of Smith College with a B.A. in international relations.