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Jan
Schaffer, Executive Director | jans
AT j-lab DOT org
 Jan
Schaffer, 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 at the University of Maryland’s College
of Journalism to help newsrooms use innovative computer technologies
to engage people in important public issues. As a federal court reporter,
she helped write a series that won freedom for a man wrongly convicted
of five murders. The stories led to the civil
rights convictions of six Philadelphia homicide detectives and won several
national journalism awards, including the 1978 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal
for Public Service. More...
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Julie
Drizin, Assistant
Director | julie AT j-lab DOT org
 Julie Drizin
has been a news and talk producer in public radio since 1984, when
she began
hosting
interview programs at WXPN-FM in
Philadelphia. After a six-year, award-winning stint as the station's
News and
Public Affairs Director, she moved to Washington, D.C., to lead
Pacifica Radio’s
Washington Bureau. There, she produced a nightly newscast, reported
from the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, anchored national
programs and launched Democracy
Now!, a ground-breaking daily program
of citizen activist news. The Institute for Alternative Journalism
named her a "Media
Hero" of 1996 at its historic Media and Democracy Congress.
In 1999, she helped create and went on to produce Justice
Talking,
an NPR program of live debates on constitutional issues, sponsored
by the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
She was Managing Producer of The
Intersection, a daily interactive
regional news-talk program on WETA-FM. Most recently, she was a
judge in
the Public Radio Talent
Quest, an online participatory contest
to find a new generation of hosts for public radio. She is a graduate
of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Kira
Wisniewski,
Project Coordinator | kira AT j-lab
DOT org
Kira
Wisniewski joined J-Lab in September 2007. She completed her
undergraduate work in 2006 at the University of Miami double
majoring in print journalism and political science.
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Craig
Stone, Web Editor | craig
AT j-lab DOT org
Craig
Stone joined J-Lab in June 2005. A native of Laurel, Maryland,
he earned a bachelor’s degree in print journalism from
the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of
Journalism in 2005.
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