2025 Media Roundtable

    December 10, 2025
    5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Matter Communications
    2601 Blake Street, Suite 400
    Denver, CO 80205
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    PRSA Colorado Annual Media Roundtable

    🎤 The Media Roundtable returns!

    Meet, mingle, and learn from leading Colorado journalists as they share how to make your pitches stand out — and your stories heard.

    You’ll hear their candid insights on what makes a pitch stand out, how to build lasting media relationships, and what communicators need to know heading into the new year.

    💡 What to Expect:

    • An interactive panel of leading journalists sharing real-world perspectives

    • Guidance on crafting pitches that resonate in today’s newsroom

    • Candid discussion about what reporters really want (and what to avoid)

    • Time to connect, ask questions, and network with fellow PR pros

    Hors d’oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided.

    Thank you to our sponsor, Matter Communications!

    When: Wednesday, December 10, 5:30 - 8 p.m.

    Where: Matter Communications, 2601 Blake Street, Suite 400, Denver, CO 80205

    MEET OUR Moderator:

    Michelle Ellis
    Founder & Chief Communicator, Ellis Communications Marketing

    Michelle Ellis is the principal at Ellis Communications Marketing and a veteran communications professional with more than 20 years of experience in local, regional and national public relations programs, marketing communications, social media campaigns, strategic partnerships, and event promotion, as well as broadcast journalism. A respected local industry leader, Michelle is a past president of the Colorado Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA Colorado) having served as the 2021 Chapter president, her agency was presented the 2019 Small Practice Award by PRSA Colorado, she was named one of Denver’s 2016 top 40 Under 40 business leaders by the Denver Business Journal, and was recognized as the 2015 PR Person of the Year by PRSA Colorado. A Colorado native and Colorado State University alumna, Michelle is passionate about helping brands with a Colorado connection stand out in a crowded marketplace through strategic storytelling and memorable marketing communications that engage their audiences and influencers.

    MEET OUR Panelists:


    Esteban L. Hernandez is an award-winning, bilingual journalist with Axios based in Denver. His primary beat includes covering politics, local government, healthcare, and homelessness, as well as occasionally covering sports and culture. He previously worked at Denverite, CPR News, the New Haven Register, and the Register Citizen, where he won a First Place award for investigative reporting from the Connecticut Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He's a graduate of the University of Colorado.

    Denver 7 Morning Anchor Dan Grossman has covered presidential campaigns, hurricanes, tornadoes, and wildfires from the front lines. He’s won awards for his work, but what he values most is the connections he's made with people in the process of telling their stories. After graduating from Syracuse University in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism, Dan worked for television stations in Virginia, Arkansas, Florida, and Colorado before returning to Denver during the pandemic to work as a national correspondent for Scripps News.

    Linnea Covington is the managing editor of DiningOut Denver. She has a long background in food, restaurant, and drinks journalism. Over the last two decades, she's
    written for tons of publications, including the Denver Post, the Washington Post, and ForbesTravel Guide, 5280 Magazine, New York Magazine, New York Times, Time Out New York, and more.




    Sheila Flynn is a news and features journalist with more than 22 years of experience across the US and Ireland. She began her career at The Associated Press, reporting for the wire in Alabama, New York and Texas, before moving to Dublin, where she worked in various writing and editing roles for DMG Media for more than a decade. She returned to the US in 2017, moving four years later to Colorado, where she has covered crime, human interest and general news for outlets including The Independent, Daily Mail and 5280.

    Jackson Guilfoil covers technology, energy, aerospace and major public employers for the Denver Business Journal. He previously covered politics, courts and housing in addition to writing human interest features for several publications across California including the Eureka Times-Standard, Bay City News and OC Weekly. He is based in Denver. 

    Yoselin Meza Miranda is a Digital Reporter at Univision Colorado with a background in radio who previously covered Northern Colorado news at KUNC in Greeley. A proud Coloradan, Yoselin auditioned for a kids’ news segment at her current station when she was only eight years old and later earned her bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from MSU Denver. She considers it to be a true blessing to be able to report the news and connect with her community.


    Cancellations
    All tickets are non-refundable but may be transferred. Ticket transfers must be made at least 24 hours in advance of the event, by phone or email. If the event is cancelled, the full cost of the event ticket will be refunded within 30 days from the notice of cancellation. 

    Tickets

    $20.00 Student Ticket
    $10.00 Earlybird rate before December 6

    $40.00 PRSA Member Ticket
    $30.00 Earlybird rate before December 6

    $55.00 Non-Member Ticket
    $45.00 Earlybird rate before December 6