Emily Brill | Executive Editor and Founder

Emily Brill is the executive editor and founder of The Canine Review.
A lifelong, committed journalist, Brill has more than two decades of professional newsroom experience in a variety of mediums from broadcast to print to online. She’s worked everywhere from Fox News Channel during its early days with Shepard Smith, to Charlie Rose, to CNN; even CBS News’s Beijing Bureau. Before TCR, she was a full-time freelance reporter. In addition to production jobs in broadcast and radio, her reporting was published everywhere from The New York Times’s China edition to The Daily Beast to Buzzfeed.  Brill is the proud owner of a high-energy, bird-loving, quail hunting American field Labrador, “Nellie” who, like her mom, likes to spend a lot of time with veterinarians.

“Emily Brill might be the most hated woman in the pet industry.” – Business Insider

Chris Valentino | Chief Technology Officer

Chris Valentino (Bean Labs) has been with TCR since Day 1. You can thank him (or blame him), at least in part, for some of TCR’s most celebrated illustrations, graphics, and cover art. Chris’s talents were recently highlighted in this NYT piece.

ADVISORY BOARD

Our advisors provide input and subject-matter expertise. They have no direct role in the governance or management of the organization. For starters, it includes:

Dr. Ann Hohenhaus, DVM, DACVIM

Dr. Hohenhaus is a double-boarded, third generation senior veterinarian and Director of Pet Health Information at the world’s largest nonprofit veterinary hospital, Schwarzman Animal Medical Center (“AMC”) in midtown Manhattan. In addition, she is an award winning journalist, having received the DeBakey Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Foundation for Biomedical Research. Among other things, Dr. Hohenhaus is known for her blockbuster SiriusXM show, Ask The Vet. 

Louise Story

Louise Story is a journalist and media executive. After more than a decade at The New York Times where she was an award-winning reporter and then worked on the paper’s growth strategy and technology platforms, she was, most recently, Chief Product and Technology Officer of The Wall Street Journal as well as a senior Masthead Editor.

Steven Brill

Co-Founder of Newsguard Technologies. Journalist and Author – and Founder of Court TV, The American Lawyer Magazine, American Lawyer Media, Brill’s Content Magazine, Journalism Online, and The Yale Journalism Initiative.  Most recent publication: The Death of Truth: How Social Media And the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen And Demagogues The Weapons They Needed To Destroy Trust And Polarize The World – And What We Can Do About It (June 2024, Knopf)