U.S. News & World Report Media Critic, 4 Journalists Are 2019 Yankee Quill Winners The Academy of New England Journalists says this year’s honorees are Ross Connelly, Callie Crossley, Dan Kennedy, Angelo Lynn and John C. Peterson. Kennedy is a critic and journalism professor at Northeastern University. Lynn is the owner of Vermont’s Addison Press and publisher-editor of the Addison Independent.