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Selection Panel

Joaquin Alvarado	Christopher Anderson
Glenn Burkins	Larry Eichel
Jon Funabiki	Ellen Goodman
Kathy Gosliner	Michael Greenle
Jan Schaffer

Joaquin Alvarado
Senior Vice President for Digital Innovation - American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio
Alvarado has previously served as senior vice president for Diversity and Innovation at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), where he spearheaded initiatives in expanding the scope of and diversity within public media. Alvarado also served as the Founding Director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University. During his time leading INGI, the group developed the Digital Media Advisory Council and Digital Sister Cities projects, enabling communities around the world to connect and advance digital growth, diversity and economic development. In 2008 Alvarado launched CoCo Studios to develop media collaboration and information platforms for mobile and fiber networks.

Christopher Anderson
Assistant Professor of Media Culture - College of Staten Island in New York
In 2009, Anderson served as the lead research assistant for the Columbia University report, “The Reconstruction of American Journalism.” He is a Knight media-policy fellow with the New America Foundation and holds a doctorate in communications from Columbia University. Anderson explored journalistic collaboration in Philadelphia with his doctoral dissertation, “Breaking Journalism Down: Work, Authority and Networking Local News, 1997-2009.”

Glenn Burkins
Editor and Publisher - Qcitymetro.com
Burkins is a former business editor and deputy managing editor at the Charlotte Observer, where he worked for eight years. He was a labor and White House correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and a foreign correspondent and business columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Qcitymetro.com is an independent, locally owned website that provides news and information specific to the African-American community in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Larry Eichel
Project Director - Philadelphia Research Initiative
The Philadelphia Research Initiative is a new research unit at Pew Charitable Trusts. The Research Initiative provides research and analysis that help Philadelphia’s citizens understand and address key issues facing the city. Before his time at Pew, Eichel was a senior editor and reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer, working as national political writer, political columnist, national editor and suburban editor. He was also a foreign correspondent based in London and a national correspondent based in Los Angeles.

Jon Funabiki
Professor, Executive Director and Founder - Renaissance Center for Journalism at San Francisco State University
The Center aims to identify and spark promising new journalistic models and practices that serve, strengthen and empower communities. Funabiki is the former Deputy Director of Media, Arts & Culture at the Ford Foundation, where he was responsible for grant-making initiatives in journalism. Funabiki has also served as founding director of SFSU’s Center for Integration & Improvement of Journalism. Funabiki is a former reporter and editor with The San Diego Union, where he specialized in U.S.-Asia political and economic affairs.

Ellen Goodman
Distinguished Visiting Scholar - Federal Communications Commission (FCC)‘s Future of Media Project and Professor of Law - Rutgers University
The Future of Media Project is an initiative that aims to shape government communications policy in the digital age. Goodman is also a professor of law at Rutgers University and teaches courses in intellectual property, media law and property law. She is based in Philadelphia.

Kathy Gosliner
Fundraising Consultant
Gosliner is a member of the board of directors for Generations on Line (GoL), an online platform designed to ease Internet access and provide Internet literacy to elders. GoL created a software program that provides on-screen, step-by-step instruction to help people over 65 use the web. She is also the former Associate Director and Vice President of Development at the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, former Director of Communication for Temple University, and served as the press secretary to former Philadelphia Mayor Bill Green.

Michael Greenle
Project Leader - William Penn Foundation
Greenle is currently leading a collaborative journalism initiative that will aim to develop strategies to advance public interest journalism in the greater Philadelphia area. This project is meant to be the next step in creating networks for journalists and developing resourcing strategies and innovations in creating a networked community around public affairs issues. Greenle previously served as the Communication Director for Penn Praxis at U-Penn, which launched planphilly.com.

Jan Schaffer
Executive Director - J-Lab
Schaffer is a former Business Editor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia Inquirer, is executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and one of the nation’s leading thinkers in the journalism reform movement. She left daily journalism in 1994 to lead pioneering journalism initiatives in the areas of civic journalism, interactive and participatory journalism and citizen media ventures. She launched J-Lab in 2002 to help newsrooms use innovative computer technologies to engage people in important public issues.