Events MJF has hosted
MJF has hosted many events, with the following speakers:
2018
Brooke Gladstone of "On The Media"
Kate Fagan of ESPN
Jessica Contrera of The Washington Post
Alicia Elsner of KSDK in St. Louis
Mary Patrick of Jasculca Terman Strategic Communications
Jeremiah Shuff of Saturday Night Live
David Spunt of CBS3 of Philadelphia
Steve Susi of OmniCom agency Critical Mass
Alex Tyree of Spike DDB
James Francis Flynn, documentary filmmaker
Tana Weingartner of WVXU
Mark Curnutte of Enquirer Media
David Eicher of Astronomy Magazine
Kathryn Miles, author of "Quakeland"
2017
Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, producers of the "Making of a Murderer"
George Packer, author, journalist and New Yorker contributor
Dawn Porter, filmmaker
Lynn Berry Smith, host of Weekend Express on HLN’
Jeff Pegues of CBS News
Amy Storer Scalia, editor of of Cincy Chic
Laura Melillo Barnum , former executive director of Yum! Brands Foundation
Chris Molnar, producer of NCIS: Los Angeles
Irene Lusztig, documentary filmmaker
Katty Kay, BBC Anchor
Kevin B. Lee, film critic and filmmaker
Gary Moore, journalist and author
Rick Ludwin, former executive vice president of late night and entertainment programming at NBC
Ibukun Ibraheem, assistant project manager for Adidas
James Earl Cox III of game design company Seemingly Pointless
Cristina Rue of SKD Knickerbocker
Arsalan Iftikhar, media commentator and human rights lawyer
Thomas Evans, who directs CNN news operations of 14 bureaus in Europe, Africa and Asia
2016
Wil Haygood, author and journalist
Eric Deggans, NPR media critic
Jay Brock of First Group
Brianne Kistler of Wordsworth Communication
Darcy Schwass of Vehr Communications
Walter V. Robinson of The Boston Globe
Charles M. Blow, the Visual Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times
Jennifer Duck of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360
Ida Lieszkovszky Hargitai of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
David Kelbaugh of Tacklebox Brand Strategy
Yvette Simpson, attorney and Cincinnati city council woman
Chad Wollett of the Tonight Show
Rick Ludwin, former NBC-TV senior vice president for late night and entertainment programming
Jason Mittell, professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College
Branson Wright, Cleveland Plain Dealer sports writer
Beth Whelley of Fahlgren Mortine
Marni Goldberg, director of public affairs for the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker
Emily Siedlak, a foreign service officer at the U.S. Department of State
Joe Stephens, the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton
Michael Perry of Vehr Communications
J.D. Vance, author of the New York Times bestseller "Hillbilly Elegy"
Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
2015
Fred Cook, Golin CEO
Alissa Quart, author and freelance journalist
Carrie Cochran, Enquirer Media
Paul Daugherty, Enquirer Media
Elana Levine, associate professor in the Department of Journalism, Advertising and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wil Haygood, author and journalist
Eric Harvey, a media scholar, music critic, and journalist as well as an assistant professor in the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University
Rick Green of Enquirer Media
Peter Bhatia of Enquirer Media
2014
Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist
Juan Williams of NPR
Carolyn Washburn of The Cincinnati Enquirer
Jose Antonio Vargas, journalist/immigration reform advocate
Alex Kotlowitz, author/journalist
Ron Haviv, photo journalist
Bruce Watson, author and journalist
Andrew Revkin, New York Times reporter
Piper Kerman, author of "Orange Is the New Black"
Keith Beauchamp, filmmaker
Alex Blumberg, former producer of “This American Life” on NPR
Rick Ludwin, former Vice President of Late Night & Prime Time Entertainment at NBC
Ashley Mallon Walters of Powerhouse Factories
Pulkit Datta, a writer filmmaker
Beth Stebner, a lifestyle editor/digital for the New York Daily News
Christine Brennan, a USA Today sports columnist
