Agenda:
10:00 Welcome
10:15 Morning Keynote
11:15 Break
11:30 MLS Business Meeting
12:00 Affiliate updates
12:15 Lunch
1:15 Afternoon Keynote
2:15 Closing Remarks
Book signing with Meg Medina immediately following the program
Emmy nominated
National Murrow winner 
Best of Boston 2023
“WBZ’s Matt Shearer, whose on-the-nose Greater Boston news reports have made him both a Tik Tok sensation and the current top arbiter of what makes things, well, the most Mass.-ish."
-Boston Globe
"Shearer’s stories give me hope the visual format can feel additive rather than just another task bogging down producers’ and reporters’ to-do lists."
-Bloomberg
"Boston is such a goldmine for pristine word-on-the-street interviews. Give any random pedestrian around here a platform, and you’re likely to hear something profound, alarming, or gut-bustingly hilarious. It’s the way we are. There is, at present, no one who understands this phenomenon better than WBZ NewsRadio’s Matt Shearer, a seasoned interviewer of these sages of the street who’s been collecting pearls of wisdom in this way now for over a decade."
-Boston Magazine
"#1 Producer Matt!
-Rob Gronkowski
Meg Medina is the current National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. She is the author of the Newbery Medal–winning book Merci Suárez
Changes Gears, which was also a 2018 Kirkus Prize finalist, and which was followed by two more acclaimed books about the Suárez family: Merci Suárez Can’t Dance and Merci Suárez Plays It Cool. Her young adult novels include Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, which won the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award, and which will be published in 2023 as a graphic novel illustrated by Mel Valentine Vargas; Burn Baby Burn, which was long-listed for the National Book Award; and The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind. She is also the author of picture books Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away, illustrated by Sonia Sánchez, Jumpstart’s 2020 Read for the Record selection; Mango, Abuela, and Me, illustrated by Angela Dominguez, which was a Pura Belpré Author Award Honor Book; and Tía Isa Wants a Car, illustrated by Claudio Muñoz, which won the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award; and the biography for young readers She Persisted: Sonia Sotomayor. The daughter of Cuban immigrants, she grew up in Queens, New York, and now lives in Richmond, Virginia. Please visit her online at: https://megmedina.com/