Staff

Sabrina Halvorson, Chief Executive Officer

Sabrina Halvorson joined NDNC in early 2025. She has worked as a journalist since 1994 in print, television and radio broadcasting. She got her start as a journalist in the Central Valley of California, shifted to agriculture reporting and later moved to North Dakota, where from 2018 onward she worked as a broadcaster for the Dakota News Network before becoming the national show host for AgNet Media. She has won a number of awards, including an Edward R. Murrow Award and RTNDA Best Newscast Award, and was named the 2024 Farm Broadcaster of the Year by the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. You can reach her at sabrina@newscoopnd.org.

Michael Standaert, Correspondent

Michael Standaert joined NDNC in July 2022. He has worked as a journalist and writer since 1998, first from the Midwest and later from California, Europe and Asia. From early 2007 to early-2022 he was based in China, first Beijing, then Shenzhen, where he served as a correspondent accredited with Bloomberg Industry Group from 2009 onward. Standaert's NDNC article 'Weird' newspaper calls out pipeline protests eight years later earned him recognition from the National Press Club, as it was included in the series that won the 2025 Arthur E. Rowse Award for Excellence in Examining the News Media. You can reach him at michael@newscoopnd.org.

Cecile Wehrman, Secretary

Cecile Wehrman is the executive director of the North Dakota Newspaper Association and president of Journal Publishing, Inc., which publishes The Journal in Crosby. A journalist for nearly four decades, she worked in radio, television and newspapers since 1985. Wehrman is also the project leader of Kid Scoop ND, a literacy project delivering a kid-oriented monthly newspaper to elementary students in the state. You can reach her at director@ndna.com.