NLP Annual Report FY24 - Report - Page 5
A transition in NLP’s
board leadership
Karen Wickre, NLP’s vice chair, will succeed
Greg McCaffery, our longest serving board chair,
who is term-limited. Greg had a three-decade
long career with Bloomberg Industry Group, a
legal, tax and regulatory data company, before
retiring in 2019. He joined NLP’s board in 2015,
and has helped steer exponential growth. Since
he became chair in 2017, NLP has grown from
12 to more than 40 employees, with a budget of
almost $8 million last year. He ended his term
Sept. 15, 2024. We are incredibly grateful to
Greg for his leadership.
Wickre, a longtime communications strategist
and editor, joined NLP’s board in 2016. Based in
Silicon Valley, she spent 15 years at Google and
Twitter (now X) before she formed KVOX Media,
a business communications consultancy,
in 2016. Karen is committed to ensuring
we continue to scale our reach and provide
equitable access to our resources and programs
at no cost, removing any barriers to news
literacy education. We look forward to continued
growth under her leadership.
Karen Wickre
BOARD CHAIR
“Having seen 昀椀rsthand how quickly
mis- and disinformation spreads
online, it’s imperative that we give
everyone the tools to help them discern
fact from 昀椀ction in the ubiquitous
feeds where they see news.”
Walt Mossberg will succeed Karen as vice chair.
Walt was a reporter, columnist and editor at
the Wall Street Journal before launching the
pioneering technology conference Recode in
2014 with his friend, colleague and pioneering
tech journalist Kara Swisher.
To learn more about the new
board chair and vice chair, visit
newslit.org/about/team/.
Walt Mossberg
BOARD VICE CHAIR
“The battle against misinformation is
a crucial part of saving our democracy
and NLP is on the front lines. And that
includes teaching students to discern
generative AI and to use it responsibly.”
THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT
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