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Looking for a speaker for your group? These ICOG representatives are available to visit with community groups and associations. Please make direct contact with speakers to make arrangements. There are no speaker fees.

  • Keith Robinson
  • Tony Fargo
  • Gerry Lanosga
  • Steve Key
  • Kyle Elyse Niederpruem

  • Keith Robinson is ICOG's president and a former bureau chief for The Associated Press in Indianapolis. He is a founding board member of the Indiana Debate Commission. Before coming to Indiana, he was AP bureau chief for Connecticut for two years and served on that state's FOI council. Robinson entered the AP in 1984 in Columbus, Ohio, where he became night supervisor, news editor and then assistant bureau chief. Before the AP, he was editor of The Madison Press, a daily newspaper in London, Ohio. He also worked at a weekly newspaper in his native Philadelphia. Keith can be reached at .

    Tony Fargo is an ICOG board member and an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Journalism in Bloomington, where he specializes in media law. He is available weekdays or weeknights and can travel statewide. He can discuss Indiana laws about open records and open meetings, as well as reporter’s privilege issues. Contact Tony at or by phone at (812) 855-5420 or (812) 219-0806.

    Gerry Lanosga is an ICOG board member and an assistant professor at Ball State University's department of journalism, where he teaches, among other things, media law. Before entering academia, he spent nearly a decade as an investigative producer at WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis. Before that he was a reporter and columnist for The Indianapolis News and The Indianapolis Star. Gerry can be reached at .

    Steve Key is an ICOG board member and general counsel for the Hoosier State Press Association, an organization serving approximately 175 paid-subscription newspapers in Indiana. The HSPA offers advice on legal questions and lobbies the Legislature for better access laws. Before earning his law degree, Key worked 13 years in the Indiana newspaper industry, both as a managing editor and an assistant news editor in Hamilton and Johnson counties. Steve can be reached at .

    Kyle Elyse Niederpruem is an ICOG founder and president of Kyle Communications. She previously served the Society of Professional Journalists as a state sunshine co-chair and is a former national president of SPJ. She is available on weekends during the day and will travel to groups within an hour’s drive of Indianapolis for meetings of 20 people or more. Niederpruem can speak about national access trends and state laws in general, as well as the history of the Indiana Coalition for Open Government. Kyle can be reached at or by phone at (317) 509-7334.