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Kyle Plantz (he/him/his)

Senior Program Manager
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Kyle Plantz is the senior program manager for the J+ professional development team at the Newmark J-School. He has run various programs related to executive leadership, entrepreneurial journalism, product development and management, video business, and artificial intelligence.

As a journalist, Kyle is passionate about the intersection of journalism and education and how he can work with others on addressing the challenges relating to trust and truth in the digital age.

He started his career as a political reporter covering the 2016 elections in New Hampshire. He then went to Science News magazine where he helped experiment with ways to build reader trust and worked on bringing the magazine and related educational resources to high schools across the United States. He also worked with the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), where he oversaw member management and organizational partnerships and helped with programming for initiatives like U.S. Media Literacy Week.

He is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the The Daily Free Press, the independent college newspaper at Boston University, where he previously served as Editor-in-Chief. He is also a solutions consultant with the Solutions Journalism Network, where he vets climate, environment, and agriculture stories to be added to its database of rigorous and evidence-based reporting on responses to social problems. He is a freelance fact-checker focused on history, science, politics, and current events.

Previously, he was a journalism mentor for the nonprofit Paper Airplanes, where he worked with students from conflict-affected regions around the world to understand the foundations of journalism, ethics, and freedom of the press. He has also been a conference coordinator for The Power of Narrative conference, which helps narrative journalists learn more about their craft.

Kyle has a B.S. in Journalism from the College of Communication at Boston University with minors in History and Political Science.

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