Ren LaForme

I am the managing editor of The Poynter Institute, a media news organization (and so much more). I graduated with a bachelor’s from the University at Buffalo and a master’s from the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg. I’m proud to be from Gasport, New York, a hamlet on the Erie Canal with a lot of charm. Follow me on Twitter, sign up for my sporadic newsletter of essays, read my thoroughly cobwebbed blog, check out my beer nerd Insta or peek at my resume. (It also deserves an update. Maybe my LinkedIn is better. Or maybe not.)