Matt Bean is the Editor in Chief of Sunset Magazine and an entrepreneur advising start-ups and early-stage companies. He is the former editor-in-chief of Men’s Health. Formerly he was senior vice president of editorial innovation at Time Inc., where he led a group charged with extending the company’s award-winning content. Bean came to that role from Entertainment Weekly, where he was editor. … Continued

Ellen has been covering the Bay Area food scene since 2014, breaking news and reporting on the latest trends and restaurants. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Greystone in St. Helena, Ellen is well-versed in the workings of restaurants and kitchens; she also spent several years working and living in Napa Valley, soaking … Continued

JIM GORDON, Editor, Wines & Vines magazine since 2006, is responsible for the editorial content of the monthly trade magazine founded in 1919 and its related digital publications and conferences. He directs the editorial staff and assigns and edits articles on grape growing, wine making and wine marketing. He regularly researches and writes reports on … Continued

Previously a newspaper, magazine, and publishing company editor-in-chief, Dianne Jacob became a full-time writing coach, author, and freelance editor in 1996. She coaches writers across the US, Canada, Europe and Asia on writing and publishing books, freelance articles, and blogs. Authors she has coached have signed with major publishers including Chronicle Books; Little, Brown; Ten … Continued

Louise Kiernan, an associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, was formerly a writing coach, editor and reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Louse was the lead writer on “Gateway to Gridlock,” a report on the American air-traffic system, which won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. After joining the Tribune as an intern in … Continued

Erin Kirschenmann is senior editor for Wine Business Monthly and has been with the magazine since 2012. In addition to production responsibilities for the monthly trade magazine, she writes about wine industry trends, including business, technology and sales and marketing topics. Erin serves as a judge in the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles and Catad’Or Wine … Continued

Cyril Penn is editor in chief of Wine Business Monthly and winebusiness.com, part of Wine Communications Group, the leading supplier of information to the wine industry.  Penn has been with WBM since 2000. His work on the wine business has appeared in a number of publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, where he contributed the … Continued

Lettie Teague is the wine columnist for The Wall Street Journal. Her column “On Wine” is published every Saturday (except one) she wrote another weekly column “Uncorking New York” for The Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York section until that section was discontinued. She has won three James Beard awards. Lettie joined The Wall Street … Continued

Molly Watson is the editor-in-chief of Edible Communities, a network of websites, podcasts, and more than 80 magazines dedicated to telling the stories of local, sustainable food systems across the US and Canada. She has a long list of publishing credits, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Elle, Sunset … Continued

San Francisco Magazine has called Alder Yarrow “The Wine World’s Brightest Cyberstar” and he is widely accepted as a pioneer of wine blogging. He has been publishing Vinography.com daily since 2004 and was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2013. In addition to writing for outlets as diverse as the World of Fine Wine and Fine Cooking Magazine, he is … Continued