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Ann-Marie
Adams is the editor and publisher of The Hartford Guardian
news magazine. Before that, she worked for The Hartford Courant and
other daily newspapers for 10 years. Adams has also freelanced as a
regional reporter for People magazine and worked for News 12 Connecticut,
FOX News Network and NBC News Channel 4 in New York City. She was a
2004 Independent Press Association George Washington Williams Reporting
Fellow. In 2001, she won a national award, the Lincoln University Unity
Award, for best education series. She has garnered numerous fellowships
inlcuding the Hechinger Institute at Columbia University, Education
Writers Association, Poynter Institute and the Investigative Reporters
and Editors. Additionally, she is the immediate past president of the
Connecticut Association of Black Journalists. Elana
Angell currently serves as a technology manager
for the Orlando Sentinel, supporting editorial and advertising systems
as well as web
development. Her most recent project is to develop a solution to enable
local community members to submit articles and events for the Sentinel’s
new weekly publications. Prior to joining the Sentinel, Elana spent fifteen
years in the publishing systems industry; previous employers include
Atex Media Solutions, Baseview, and CText. Brian
Baer is the online editor for Fredericksburg.com, the Web
site for the Freelance Star in Fredericksburg, VA. He has held this
position
for six months and before that served as producer/news editor for Fredericksburg.com
for four and a half years. He began as a copy editor for two years
at the Freelance Star, then he worked for three years as
a reporter in the print newsroom before working with Fredericksburg.com.
Danylo
Berko’s career started in 1997 at
the Rocky Mountain News Web site in Denver as an overnight producer.
He took the helm at the
Daily Camera's Web site a year later and was there through a redesign,
a new CMS and Columbine. Berko joined Washingtonpost.com in 2000 as a
Metro producer. This year, he became the Tools editor in charge of a
group developing newsroom and site user applications and tools, assisting
in both the development and launch of larger applications and daily site
production.
J.D.
Bruewer is the Internet Content Editor for the Lima News family
of web sites, which include LimaNews.com, LimaOhio.com, VWTimes.com,
PutnamTimes.com, and their ancillary pages. He is responsible for coordinating
and supplementing traditional newsroom content on the sites. He has worked
for The Lima News, a Freedom Communications newspaper, for 7 1/2 years.
He played an instrumental part in transitioning from a single site with
limited stories to multiple sites, including on-line print and area specific
data-base driven sites. He was previously an assistant city editor and
lifestyle editor for The Lima News with some Web responsibilities. Previous
positions include reporter and web content manager at the Goshen News
in Goshen, Ind., and reporter/editor of the Twin City Journal Reporter
in Gas City, Ind.
Amy
Brunjes is the Multimedia Editor/New Project Development for Scripps
Treasure Coast Newspapers and is responsible for developing convergence
opportunities with radio, television, cable and internet partners and
for creating new opportunities, both in print and online, to drive both
readership and revenue. Prior to assuming her position in January, Amy
served as features editor for the Treasure Coast's four daily newspapers
and as managing editor of Scripps' twice-weekly Jupiter Courier. Prior
to joining Scripps five years ago, Amy worked as an editor at the Miami
Herald and in various editorial capacities at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel
and The Palm Beach Post. Joshua
Brustein is the editor of GothamGazette.com's Community
Gazettes, a community journalism project with a Web page for each
one of New York
City's neighborhoods. GothamGazette.com has been covering political,
policy, and economic issues that affect New Yorkers since 1999.
Chris
Celek is the
Warren County Editor for Cox Ohio Publishing, which publishes the
Dayton Daily News plus two smaller daily and four
weekly newspapers in the fast-growing counties between Dayton and Cincinnati
in southwest Ohio. Chris moved into this role in April and his responsibilities
include development of on-line content for the weeklies’ Web
sites. He previously was the regional editor of the Dayton Daily News. Clay
Clifton is the Internet News Editor for The Palm Beach Post. He
has worked on the Web for Cox Enterprises for 7 1/2 years, starting with
Cox Interactive Media's Miami Beach site SoFla.com before joining PalmBeachPost.com.
Prior to joining Cox, Clay worked as a reporter for a travel magazine
and a production assistant for a video production company. Jon
Cornetto is a graduate of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass
Communication. In 1995, he founded and managed Mother Jones Online, the
first general interest magazine on the Internet. He has been a correspondent
for National Public Radio and InfoWorld magazine. He went on to be the
Senior Online News Producer at KTVU-TV in the San Francisco Bay Area
and WSOC-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is now a producer at McClatchy
Interactive in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Chet
Czarniak has been Managing Editor of USATODAY.com since 2000. He joined
the online news staff as Sports Editor in 1999 after 16 years as a
reporter
and editor at USA TODAY's print publication. Benin
Dakar is a freelance opinion writer and essayist. She writes about social,
economic, and political issues that affect the
African-American
community. Her work has appeared in numerous newspapers and other periodicals
including The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Christian Science Monitor,
The Urban Think Tank, and Global Black News. Dakar is the founder of
the new business Major Multimedia, Inc. She plans to create and publish
an African-American
citizen media publication tentatively titled “The Black American Discussion”,
which is a subsidiary of Major Multimedia, Inc. Currently, Dakar publishes
the Weblog Benin Dakar Chronicle. She received her education from The
Johns Hopkins University, School of Professional Studies in Business
and Education. Eric
Darbe is an online producer at The Telegraph of Nashua, NH. Eric has
been the first member of the new media staff at The Telegraph to move into
the newsroom as the paper begins the process of completely converging its
print and online operations. Eric, a native of southern New Hampshire and
graduate of Bates College, is in charge of managing the layout and functionality
of The Telegraph's Web site. He works daily with the offline editorial staff
to come up with ways to enhance print content for web presentation and to
develop online-only content including video and, increasingly, user-generated
content.
Tamar
Datan is an independent consultant to public and private
clients in sustainable community and economic development, conservation,
and
philanthropy. She was formerly Vice President & Director of The Nature
Conservancy’s
Compatible Ventures Group, where she promoted development compatible
with conservation in rural communities nationwide. Prior to that, she
was Venture
Fund Officer with The Pew Charitable Trusts, where she managed a diverse
grants portfolio totaling more than $100 million over seven years. Tamar
holds a master’s degree from Harvard University and a bachelor’s
from Swarthmore College. She currently resides in northern Virginia,
where she is Vice Chair of the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission
and President of the Taylorstown Community Store, Inc. She also serves
as
Chair of Green Advantage, Inc. and on the Advisory Board for the Rural
Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Jim
Davis is editor and manager of the DuPage editions of the Daily
Herald in suburban Chicago. He oversees a staff of about 45 reporters,
photographers and editors, directly edits the work of the office's metro
reporting staff.
The DuPage bureau is the largest at the Daily Herald, third-largest newspaper
in Illinois with a daily circulation of more than 150,000. Susan
DeFife, President and CEO of Backfence.com, has proven
experience in customer acquisition, revenue growth, business integration
and product
development. Most recently she served as Vice President of Software and
Games at the NPD Group, a leading global market information company,
where she was responsible for multimillion-dollar P&Ls, customer relationships,
sales and marketing and product development. Under her leadership, the
businesses experienced strong revenue growth: from 4 percent in the
more mature video
games business to 26 percent and 31 percent in the recently acquired
PC Games and Non-Games Software businesses, respectively. Susan also
has experience
running early-stage companies. Prior to the NPD Group, she was CEO of
StreamingText, which combined proprietary processes and technology
to create digital text
from live audio and stream it via the Internet. Susan developed the business
plan and strategy to expand the company into vertical markets with the
largest and earliest revenue-generating opportunities, initiated and
closed sales
to nearly triple the customer base, and ultimately positioned the company
for acquisition by Media Map (renamed FDfn and later acquired by CCBN).
Susan also was the founder and CEO of womenCONNECT.com, the leading Internet
portal for professional women and women business owners. WomenCONNECT.com,
which focused on content and community, generated high CPMs, consistently
sold out ad inventory and achieved a clickthrough-to-sales-ratio for
e-commerce partners that was more than four times the industry average.
The company
had partnerships with major media companies including CNN, USAToday.com,
Lycos, and CompuServe.
Laura
Doggett is a Media Trainer at Appalachian Media Institute, Appalshop,
Inc. She works with young people in Eastern Kentucky through Appalshop’s
youth media training program, the Appalachian Media Institute. During
her first year at Appalshop, she directed and administered AMI’s
summer documentary institute and after school media program, the Media
Lab. As part of this work, Laura has been active in bringing together
community and youth media groups from across the country to share their
work and experiences. Before joining AMI and Appalshop, Laura directed
various youth media projects in Washington, D.C. for teens from public
and bilingual charter schools. She has a BA in English from Wesleyan
University. Jodi
Enda is a Washington-based reporter who specializes
in politics and government. During more than two decades as a newspaper
reporter,
she covered the White House, Congress and presidential politics for Knight
Ridder Newspapers and was a national correspondent based in Washington
for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She covered the arrest of O.J. Simpson,
the Oklahoma City bombing and President Clinton’s impeachment.
She won back-to-back deadline writing awards for coverage of President
Clinton’s trips to Africa and the Balkans. In addition, she has
written extensively on women’s and abortion rights and race relations.
She has been published in numerous newspapers nationwide as well as magazines
and Web sites, including the American Prospect, Conscience, Lifetime
Magazine, Elle, Mirabella, motherjones.com and Women’s eNews. She
is past president of the Journalism & Women Symposium and a former
member of the board of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Lorren
Elkins is the CEO fo the American Town Network. ATN has built
86 town community sites throughout the northeast United States. Thousands
of citizen journalists and even more organizations have participated
in these sites since the company's inception five years ago. He joined
earlier this year with the mandate of expanding ATN's footprint to more
markets across the USA. Prior to ATN, Mr. Elkins served as the CEO of
PowerOne Media, a company that provided the newspaper industry with online
publishing and classified solutions. Lorren also spent time with a number
of Internet start-ups. He began his career at The New York Times where
he held managerial positions in advertising sales, circulation, strategic
planning, marketing, and technology. He worked at the flagship newspaper
as well the company's regional newspaper group. Lorren is a graduate
of Harvard College where he served as Publisher of The Harvard Crimson. David
Feld is news director for interactive media
at The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer and leads the staff responsible for the content on
newsobserver.com and triangle.com. The former was one of the first newspapers
online and one of only two U.S. newspaper sites to be honored with the
gold award in this year's Best of New Media competition by the Society
for News Design. Prior to joining the News & Observer, he was new
media director at the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, N.Y.; editor
of the Edwardsville (Ill.) Intelligencer; managing editor of Journal
Newspapers of Southern Illinois; city editor of The Telegraph in Alton,
Ill., and a reporter for several newspapers. Ken
Ficara, is the new Internet Product Development Director
at Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. He is a 15-year Dow Jones veteran and a
pioneer in Ottaway's
parent company’s
Internet publishing efforts.
In his role at ONI, Ken will oversee and be responsible for the design,
building, testing, deployment and maintenance of all components of the
company’s
emerging Internet technology platform. Ken also will supervise the work of Internet
product and design specialists at Campbell Hall. At Dow Jones in the
early 1990s, Ken was one of the first to suggest that The Wall Street
Journal be published on the web, and he played a major role in creating
the tools that transferred the Journal’s content online (for years, these
tools were known at Dow Jones as “Ficara-ware”). He also led the
2001 redesign of wsj.com that significantly expanded that site’s traffic
and advertising base. Ken began his career in community journalism, working as
an investigative reporter for weeklies in Staten Island and Brooklyn and later
as a government-affairs
reporter for Knight-Ridder’s Centre Daily Times in State College, PA. A
native of Brooklyn, he holds bachelor’s degrees in political science and
journalism from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and in computer science from Rutgers
University.
Adam
Glenn is a veteran journalist and former
senior producer at the web site of ABC News. Most recently he has worked
as an independent online
consultant, with clients including NBC Universal Chairman & CEO Bob
Wright. Adam has also partnered with blogger Amy Gahran to develop a
citizen journalism training program, I, Reporter. He has organized many
professional training workshops and seminars, and in 2002 was awarded
a journalism training fellowship in India. Mary
Glick joined the executive staff at API in January of 2001.
Previously, she was director of the journalism program at the State
University of
New York, College at Oswego. There, in 1998, she founded the Center for
Community Journalism, an institute for continuing education of journalists
working in weeklies and small dailies. She began teaching journalism
in 1991 at California State University, Long Beach, where she was advisor
to a daily student newspaper and quarterly student magazine, in addition
to teaching a variety of writing and editing courses. In 1994, the California
Newspaper Publishers Association named her Outstanding Journalism Educator.
For nine years, Ms. Glick held editorial positions for several daily
newspapers in Southern California, including posts as features editor
for the Star-News in Pasadena, lifestyles editor for Copley Los Angeles
Newspapers in Torrance and Santa Monica, and copy editor for the Daily
Report in Ontario. Prior to her newspaper work, she had a career in public
relations as director of communications for Disneyland Hotel, and later
as a partner in RML Associates, a public relations agency. She holds
a bachelor's degree in English from SUNY Oswego and a master's in communications
from California State University, Fullerton. Sarah
Goodwin is the New Media Editor at The Herald in Everett, Washington
. She has a Bachlor of Science in Agricultural Communications and worked
for a media agency in print negotiations prior to returning to The Herald,
where she was previously a new media intern.
Scott
Hersey is editor of MaineToday.com, where he supervises all content
for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, Kennebec Journal
and Waterville Morning Sentinel. He has a staff of four full-time producers
and one part-time producer working for MaineToday.com, and an ever-growing
list of bloggers and citizen media contributors. Before working in Maine,
Scott was a reporter and editor for a dozen years, most recently at the
Daily Southtown in Chicago. He was one of the original producers of New
Jersey Online, worked in marketing for a Boston-area ISP, and ran his
own web development business. He's recently married, with an 8-year-old
daughter, and used to like hiking and running before breaking his leg
and ankle in five places in July while mountain biking in the White Mountains
of New Hampshire. Now he's looking for new, lower-impact hobbies, which
pleases his wife and daughter greatly. Sharon
Hill joined Classified Intelligence Group
full time as a writer/analyst this past July after 2 years of freelance
writing and research for the
consultancy. Her 17 year newspaper career includes advertising representative
and management positions with the Sacramento Bee, The Herald in Rock
Hill SC, Chapel Hill (NC) News, and Topics Newspapers in Indianapolis.
She also worked as a circulation district manager for the Anchorage Times.
Sharon's freelance writing credits include co-authorship of "Implementing
and Managing Telework: A Guide for those who make it Happen," published
by Praeger Press. Ann
Hoffman is the Publisher of Cox Ohio Publishing's Southwest Group of
papers (2 daily community papers and 5 weekly papers). Previously,
she was Deputy Managing Editor at Dayton Daily News. She has worked for
Cox since 1994. Prior to that, Hoffman worked for the Virginian-Pilot
for 16 years.
Kevin
Hoppes joined Times Shamrock Communications based
in Scranton, PA in February of 2001 as Corporate Internet Director.
He developed a
business plan which was quickly implemented to provide Times Shamrock
papers with profitable high quality Web sites. The New Media department
manages over 30 corporate Web sites as well as develops strategic planning
for continued profitable growth of Times Shamrock’s New Media division
which includes 6 daily newspapers, 7 alternative papers, a number of
weeklies, several shoppers, a monthly business publication and a number
of radio stations. Prior to joining Times Shamrock Kevin was the Regional
Manager and early founding member of AdQuest Classifieds which later
became PowerAdz and
then PowerOneMedia, a newspaper Web service company. With Kevin’s
help the company grew from a few hundred newspapers to well over fifteen
hundred and what is today a successful dot com company based in Troy,
NY. Kevin has been involved in New Media development long before the
Internet existed developing the INFO-CONNECT Audiotext System with over
160 installed
systems at newspapers world wide, bring the Easy-To-Read phone directory
to the U.S, creating a Bulletin Board system prior to the existence of
Web browsers, designing a special priority telephony switching device
and having it manufactured for resale and a building a custom made Uniform
Call Distributor. Kevin has been a frequent speaker at state, national,
and international press associations and conferences on emerging media.
He has also has
worked as a consultant to papers seeking to find their way in the new
media world. Rob
Humphreys, 30, is managing editor of the Culpeper (Va.)
Star-Exponent, a 7K daily about 70 miles southwest of Washington,
D.C. He has worked
at the High Point (N.C.) Enterprise, Orlando Sentinel and Daily News-Record
in Harrisonburg, Va. Barbara
Todd Kerr is the publisher of the Plainfield Plaintalker (launched
6/2005), the only in-town news source for this central New Jersey city
of nearly 50,000 residents. In the recent past she was Senior Managing
Editor for the Freedom To Marry web site during the critical period leading
up to and including the 2003 MA Supreme Judicial Court ruling allowing
marriage for same-sex couples. Her tenure continued into 2005 encompassing
the 2004 national election campaign and the ensuing political fallout
over perceptions that restrictive constitutional initiatives may have
swayed the electorate. Barbara began her career at WPLG-TV (Miami, FL)
during the Nixon administration. Between then and now Barbara has produced
documentaries for WNYC-TV in the mid-80's and, since 1995, she has been
building and running web sites beginning with McGraw-Hill's enterprise
networking site data.com (now inactive). For developer Mediapolis, she
project managed sites that include a dotcom-era online pharmacy, Bowl.com,
AMFAR.org, and others. Several sites have received professional recognition
and one was a 2001 Webby finalist. She has a B.A. in Mass Communications
from the University of Miami.
Andrew
Langhoff joined Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., as General Counsel
in January of 2003. In August, 2004, Andrew was named VP for Internet
Development. Immediately
prior
to joining us, Andrew was Vice President, Business Development of Virage
Inc., a publicly-traded Silicon Valley technology
firm. He previously held a similar position with the Walt Disney Company,
with responsibility for launching Internet sites such as ABCNEWS.com
and ESPN.com. Earlier, he had been with Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. supervising
day-to-day legal affairs of that company's publishing operations, including
magazines and newspapers such as the Kansas City Star and Fort Worth
Star Telegram. He began his legal career as a litigator with White & Case,
a prominent New York City law firm. Andrew is a graduate of the University
of Virginia Law School and Tufts University. He lives in Bronxville,
New York with his wife Katy, son William (7 years) and daughter Caroline
(6 year) and Elizabeth (8 months). Henry
Loeser is a 20-year veteran of US and international commercial
radio management having worked in Milwaukee, Sacramento, San Francisco,
and San Diego. He also served in the United States Peace Corps as advisor
to the radio trade association of the Czech Republic. Later he was VP-Market
Development in Europe for Metromedia International overseeing the creation
of radio stations in 10 countries of the former Soviet bloc. Mr. Loeser
is currently developing the non-profit organization Earth Island Radio
to collaborate on internet connectivity, internet radio, and local fm
radio broadcasting with NGOs in at-risk communities worldwide. Karen
A. Mann is a content producer for newsobserver.com,
the Website of the daily News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. She has
worked for newsobserver.com, as well as the newspaper's arts and entertainment
portal
site, triangle.com, since 2000.
Ann
Marchand is the editor for Metro, Health and Education news
at washingtonpost.com, coordinating coverage between the newspaper
and the Web site. She has
led the coverage of the sniper trials, Hurricane Isabel, local elections
and, most recently, the panda cub. She has worked at washingtonpost.com
since 2000. Before that, she was a copy editor for The Washington Post.
A native of Kansas, she lives in Alexandria, VA. Kevin
McCrea, 35, Vice President, Community Affairs,
Pegasus News. Kevin is an experienced legislative team leader, lobbyist
and attorney. A native
of Dallas, Kevin has spent a majority of his professional career in Washington,
D.C., where he worked for two members of Congress before serving as a
political appointee at the Small Business Administration. He has also
worked as a lobbyist for a Washington, D.C. law firm and in Dallas as
a Director of Government Affairs for Associates Corporation of North
America. Kevin is also an internet entrepreneur, having created a successful
interactive e-commerce site to sell photographs of all fifty state capitols
and all of Texas’ historic courthouses. Kevin received his JD from
the University of Texas and a BA in International Studies from Johns
Hopkins University.
Karen
Menichelli is executive vice president of the Benton Foundation, a
private grantmaking institution that operates
primarily in the field of communications, focusing on media policy and
public service media. She has been on staff there since 1982. She provides
day-to-day executive leadership, vision and oversight for all operations
of the
foundation
to assure
effective
implementation and coordination of policies and procedures that enable
the foundation to achieve excellence in all of its work. She has overseen
the Sound Partners for Community Health program since its inception in
1996. Active in the philanthropic community, Karen was a founding board
member of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers. She is
founding
board member and treasurer of The Communications Network and served on
the board of Funders Concerned About AIDS. She has served on the Communications
Committee of the Council on Foundations, the Program Committee of Independent
Sector, and the Committee of Affinity Groups. Prior to joining the foundation,
she was a telecommunications policy analyst at the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration
in the U.S. Department of Commerce. Prior to entering government service,
she was a research associate at the Rand Corporation. She holds a Bachelors
of Arts from the University of Maryland (summa cum laude) and completed
a Masters degree and her doctoral coursework
in cognitive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Charlie
Meyerson has served as columnist, editor
and senior producer for the Chicago Tribune Internet Edition, chicagotribune.com,
since 1998.
A winner of dozens of journalism awards, including a national UPI award
for investigative reporting, he authors the site's weekday e-mail news
briefing, "Daywatch," and
serves as the Web site's interactivity (blog and chat) coordinator. Meyerson
also reports daily for WGN-AM 720 – continuing a career of more
than 25 years in Chicago radio news, including more than 10 years at
the city's legendary progressive rock station, WXRT-FM 93.1, and almost
nine years at pioneering "smooth jazz" station WNUA-FM 95.5.
Elizabeth
Osder is currently Sr. Director, Products, for Yahoo News where
she is focused on search, local and social media product innovation.
She
is also the Principal of The Osder Group, a consultancy specializing
in new media product innovation. She has been an editor, producer,
and consultant for publications, broadcasters, and online services
including The New York
Times, NPR, Nexis, New York Daily News, News Corp, Financial Times (UK),
Time Warner, The Poynter Institute, and most recently at Yahoo's
Overture Services Division. She began her media career as a freelance
photojournalist and later became a photo editor for the Associated
Press; Executive Producer for Advance Internet; Development Editor
and Director of Product Development for The New York Times on the
Web and Director of New Media for The New York Times News Services.
In 2001-2002 Osder was awarded a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford
University. Randy
Parker is the Managing Editor of the York Daily Record/Sunday
News in York, Pa. Randy started at the Daily Record as a correspondent
while in college, and has worked there as a reporter, copy editor, news
editor and city editor. He has also been closely involved with the newspaper's
Web sites since its first site, ydr.com, launched in 1996.
Jennie
L. Phipps publishes a subscription newsletter and online
community, Freelance Success (http://www.freelancesuccess.com),
for professional nonfiction writers. Most of the subscribers are
former newspaper and
magazine staffers who now freelance full time. The venture started out
as an income drain and grew first to a income trickle and then to an
income stream. Besides nurturing Freelance Success, Phipps is a contract
editor for Better Investing and a contributing editor for Bankrate.com.
She writes regularly for the New York Times marketing department, Television
Week, Lowe's Pros and Home Appliance. She's the editor of the recently
published Complete Idiot's Guide to Foreclosures and a contributor to
the 2005 Mobil Travel Guide NASCAR Travel Planner. John
Reetz is general manager of COXnet, the online and print
strategy and support group for Cox Newspapers. Cox consists of 17 daily
newspapers and 30-plus non-daily newspapers. Reetz grew up working on
a weekly newspaper, has owned his own weekly, and has worked at several
papers, large and small, across the South, including reporting stints
at The Atlanta Journal and Savannah Morning News. He was managing editor
of the now-defunct Gwinnett (Ga.) Daily News. He has been with Cox 19
years. As general manager of COXnet, Reetz manages two groups: Print
content and support, including Cox News Service and the New York Times
News Service relationship, plus creation of a large variety of ready-to-use
paginated pages and special sections made available within Cox and sold
through Universal Press Syndicate; and the Web component, which is a
full-strength Internet support and strategy group for Cox Newspapers,
including Creative, Product, Information Technology, Audience Development,
Operations, Content and Business Operations.
Lou
Rutigliano is a doctoral student in
journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently researching
connections between weblogs
and other social software, community development, and urban planning,
particularly in low-income neighborhoods. Lou is also the founder of
UnknownCity.com, a group weblog with more than 170 members that produce
an open-source budget travel and city guide. The site was nominated for
an award at the 2005 South By Southwest Interactive Conference." Nancy
Schwerzler is a 30-year journalism veteran, with more than 16
years as a reporter, editor and Washington correspondent for The Baltimore
Sun. She was also a pioneer of online news, as vice president for news
at the legislate subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. She created
Legislate News Service, the first online news service to receive congressional
press credentials in 1995. She was also editor in chief of National Journal
News Service, and an assistant professor of journalism at the Northwestern
University School of Journalism Washington News Center. Ben
Shaw is Corporate IT/ Systems Services for Shaw Newspapers,
Dixon, IL. He is a member of the sixth generation of family ownership.
Ben
received his
Bachelors Degree in Outdoor Education from Montreat College in 1998 and
Master of Arts in Teaching: Curriculum and Instruction from Carson-Newman
in 2000.
Andrew
Sherry is Deputy Managing Editor, News, for USATODAY.com. Formerly
an international wire service correspondent and editor at the Far
Eastern Economic Review, Andrew has been working online since he
helped launch a tech start-up in Hong Kong in 1999. In his four
years at USATODAY.com, he has alternated between strategic development
projects and news coverage. Martha
Steffens, professor and endowed chair,
University of Missouri School of Journalism. She teaches Business and
Financial journalism,
as well as Journalism and Democracy. organizing seminars for business
journalism professionals. She assumed the chair in 2002, after a 30-year
career in newspapers, including executive editor of the San Francisco
Examiner, and earlier the Press & Sun Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y.
She was an editor at the Los Angeles Times business desk. She held other
editing and reporting roles at the Minneapolis Star, St. Paul Pioneer
Press, Orange County Register, Dayton Daily News and Evansville (Ind.)
Courier. In civic journalism, she has led several award-winning projects,
including Kids in Chaos in Dayton, Ohio, and Facing our Future in Binghamton.
Steffens is a frequent lecturer at conferences across the United States,
and has lectured in China, Taiwan, Russia, Norway, Jamaica, Italy and
the Czech Republic. For four years, she worked with Colombian journalists,
helping them plan community-based citizen projects. In 2004, she was
a visiting professor at Moscow State Univerity. Steffens is a graduate
of Indiana University, and is a past officer of the New York State Associated
Press Association. She has served on the boards of the Pew Center for
Civic Journalism and CBS Marketwatch. Hal
Straus recently headed up development of a new opinions
and commentary area on washingtonpost.com, and helped
launch the site's first blogging platform and its first batch of blogs.
Before that, he started the newsroom's interactive tools team, helped
develop the site's content management system and produced a number of
data-based features, including washingtonpost.com's Home Sales and
Federal Worker lookups
and its Best Bets contest.
Straus worked for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution before joining
washingtonpost.com, and helped launch that paper's web site after covering
a variety of beats, including health, science, national politics and
prisons. Jim
Van Nostrand is senior editor, national news at Knight
Ridder Digital, based in Washington, D.C. He manages nation, world
and politics coverage
on 28 Web sites across the country. His team won a 2005 NAA Digital Edge
award for "Echo Company," a multimedia reporting project that
showed readers the human side of 12 U.S. Marines killed in an ambush
in Iraq. He was deeply involved in Knight Ridder's coverage of the Iraq
war, the 2000, 2002 and 2004 Olympics, and the 2000 and 2004 presidential
campaigns. A former newspaper reporter and editor, he has been involved
in Internet journalism since 1995, when he launched Leadernet, the online
venture of the Times Leader newspaper in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Lauren
Ward is the editor of The Northwest Voice and its online companion,
NorthwestVoice.com, in Bakersfield, Calif.
The Voice asks residents of
the Northwest area of Bakersfield to write the news and take the pictures
that appear in both the print and online versions. They are "the
voice" for the community. Ward graduated magna cum laude and Phi
Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California in 2002. She wrote
for The Voice's sister publication, The Bakersfield Californian, before
joining the Voice staff in 2004.
Junius
Williams is a noted attorney, educator and musician. He is
the Director of the Abbott Leadership Institute at Rutgers University,
Newark,
and former Chairman of the Board of the Education Law Center. His work
in both instances is centered on implementation of the school reform
remedies guaranteed by the New Jersey Supreme Court case entitled Abbott
vs. Burke. The Abbott Leadership Institute teaches leadership skills
to community people around school issues. We are currently designing
an interactive
website which will be used to bring more information to the community.
As an attorney, he was elected President of the National Bar Association
in 1978, the youngest person to be so designated. While NBA President
he presented a critique of the proposed constitution for the African
nation of Zimbabwe to the United Nations. As a teacher, he trains Parents
to become leaders and advocates for school reform in New Jersey. As a
musician, he uses music and other forms of media to integrate arts with
academics in the classroom. He is the writer and producer of "Long
Journey Home", a teaching curriculum using African American music
to teach American history and language arts; and "The Story of Brown",
a multi-media history of the cases known collectively as Brown vs.
Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Angela
Winters is the Director of Leadership Programs
at NAA, where she oversees four mentoring and development fellowship
programs for women
and minorities in the industry including the New Media Fellowship. In
addition to heading the annual Newspaper Career Day effort, she is also
the staff liaison for NAA’s Diversity Board Committee and a writer
for NAA’s Diversity newsletter, FUSION. She comes to NAA from the
financial services industry where she worked in diversity consulting,
recruiting, retention, succession planning and employment branding. She
is currently a member of the National Association of Black Journalists,
National Association of Minority Media Executives, the Washington Network
Group and Society for Human Resources Management. She received her bachelor’s
degree in Communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. David
Wiseman is managing partner of Loudoun Forward,
a micro-local news project reporting the rapid growth of Loudoun County,
Virginia.
Loudoun Forward is one of the inaugural New Voices grantees. Through
a printed publication, a Web site, blog, e-newsletter and public forums,
the project aims to give residents the tools to make better public decisions
about such topics as housing, economic growth, crime, education and health
care. Wiseman is also managing partner of Useful Studios, an information
design company in Leesburg, Va., that focuses on improving the usability
of Web sites and printed media. Prior to forming Useful Studios, he served
as the creative director for Iconixx, a large interactive design and
technology consultant. During his tenure there, Wiseman oversaw the development
and evolution of the company’s design methodology and directed
projects for ExxonMobil, Geico, Riggs Bank, Pepco and Sprint, among others.
He has earned regional and national awards for his designs during his
14-year career. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communications
and a BFA in design from Virginia Commonwealth University. Wiseman has
also served on the Board of Directors for the Washington Chapter of the
American Institute of Graphic Arts.
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is a center of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College
of Journalism. It is a spin-off of the Pew Center for Civic Journalism
(www.pewcenter.org). © 2004
University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism
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