Staff

Sabrina Halvorson, Chief Executive Officer, 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 American Ag Network and later a national correspondent for AgNet Media.

You can reach her at: sabrina@newscoopnd.org

Michael Standaert, Correspondent, 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.

You can reach him at michael@newscoopnd.org

Cecile Wehrman, Secretary, 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.