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Fellows
Monika Bauerlein has been the Features editor for Mother Jones magazine since June 2000. In 2001, Mother Jones won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence for the first time in its history. Prior to her current position, Bauerlein was interim editor/managing editor and staff writer of City Pages a news and arts weekly in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. She also has been an adjunct faculty member in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota; vice chair of the Minnesota News Council; and contributed to several news publications and radio programs including Business Week and National Public Radio. Bauerlein has won several awards for her excellence in journalism including the Brook Center Award for Agriculture Writing (1997) and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Bronze Reel (1995). She also was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and participated in the Gannett Foundation Graduate Fellowship program. Bauerlein has a Master’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota.
Eric Black is a reporter for the Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune’s Nation/World team. His key responsibilities include writing background pieces about national and international news and covering the news media. He regularly writes about the allegations of bias in the media, about the “retreat from substance” and the “triumph of entertainment values,” and about the points of view of various media critics. During election years, he writes a weekly column called Media Watch that addresses the connection between political campaigns and the news media. Black also has contributed to several magazines including The New Republic and The Washington Monthly. He has written five books based on work originally done for the Star Tribune, the most recent of which -- Our Constitution, the Myth that Binds Us -- was published in 1988 by Westview Press. Black graduated from Oberlin College with high honors in English and History. He since was awarded a congressional fellowship from the American Political Science Association (1979-1980) and the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University (1995-1996).
Ward Bushee is the editor and vice president of The Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer. Under his direction, The Enquirer recently received the 2002 Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism for its coverage of race issues in Cincinnati in the aftermath of 2001 race riots. The newsroom also initiated an ambitious project of community meetings to focus on race relations in the 109 townships and mini-communities of Greater Cincinnati. The project, Neighbor to Neighbor, resulted in 145 facilitator-led race relation meetings involving 2100 residents over a five-month period that ended in February. Before joining The Enquirer, Bushee spent eight years as editor of the Reno (NV) Gazette-Journal, winning Gannett’s Most Improved Newspaper award. He also has been executive editor of the Argus Leader at Sioux Falls, SD; assistant managing editor/sports at Gannett Westchester Newspapers; assistant sports editor at USA Today; and sports editor at the Marin (CA) Independent Journal. Bushee was named Gannett Editor of the Year in 1992 and 1996 and has won Gannett’s President’s ring award, honoring the companies leading editors, eight times. Bushee has a Bachelor’s degree in history from San Diego State University.
Daniel Fost is a media columnist at the San Francisco (CA) Chronicle, where he won a Peninsula Press Club award for a feature about Lucasfilm spinoffs. Fost began his journalism career in 1984 as a senior reporter for Tab Newspapers in Newton, MA. He has since been a reporter at USA Today and The Ithaca (NY) Journal; contributed to the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post and the Oakland (CA) Tribune; been contributing editor for American Demographics magazine; a stringer for The New York Times and a reporter at the Marin Independent Journal in Novato, CA. While at the Marin Independent Journal, he was on of two national winners that won the Davidoff Scholarship to the Wesleyan Writers Conference (1997) and won California Newspaper Publishers and “Best of Gannett” awards for 1996 stories on education and agriculture. Fost graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University.
Steven Kaylor is senior editor/business at The Tampa (FL) Tribune/WFLA-TV, where he leads the daily print business section and created a daily morning television business segment. Kaylor first joined The Tribune in 1987 as regional editor of editorials, and has since been editor of the Pinellas/North Edition, assistant metro editor, state editor, and public life team leader, respectively. Prior to joining The Tribune, he was city editor for the Clearwater Sun. Kaylor has a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Florida.
David Lieberman covers the media and entertainment industries and writes a bi-weekly column for USA Today. Prior to joining USA Today in 1993, he was a reporter for TV Guide; media and entertainment editor for Business Week; and economics reporter for The MacNeil/Leher NewsHour. He also has been an editorial writer for The Hartford (CT) Courant and reported for The Hartford (CT) Advocate. He has won several awards including the 2001 Cable Center Maxwell Media Award and the USA Today Enterprise All-Star Award in 1999. Lieberman graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degrees in history and political science from Washington University and has Master’s degrees in journalism and American culture from the University of Michigan.
Tom Lowry is media editor at Business Week magazine, where he coordinates media and entertainment coverage of AOL Time Warner, Viacom, Cablevision, Comcast and U.S. operations of Vivendi Universal, Sony and Bertelsmann among others. Lowry was previously the corporations editor at Business Week; general assignment business writer at USA Today; Business writer at the (New York) Daily News and The (Bergen County, NJ) Record; and special projects reporter at The Morning Call in Allentown, PA. Lowry is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors and the New York Financial Writers Association. He has a Bachelor’s degree in political science and journalism from the University of Delaware and spent a year as a Knight-Bagehot fellow studying business and economics journalism at Columbia University.
Michael McGough is editor of the editorial page at the Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette. McGough joined The Post-Gazette in the summer of 1968 as a copy boy and literally worked his way up, becoming an intern in 1970, reporter in 1973, associate editor and editorial writer in 1974 and assumed his current position in 1985. McGough is also an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a finalist in the Nieman Fellowship competition in 2000 and shared the William Schnader Award for Outstanding Reporting in the Field of Law and Judicial Administration in 1994. McGough graduated cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in English from Altheny College in Meadville, PA and has a Master of Studies in Law from Yale Law School, which he completed participating in the Ford Foundation’s Fellowship in Law and Journalism.
Thomas Mitchell is the editor of the Las Vegas (NV) Review-Journal. Mitchell first joined the Review-Journal in 1989 as managing editor, and was promoted to editor in 1992. He also has been assistant city editor at the Miami (FL) News; city editor at the Shreveport (LA) Journal; editor of the Lewisville (TX) Daily Leader and city editor at the Mid-Cities Daily News in Hurst, Texas. Mitchell has won numerous news, feature, column and editorial writing awards – including a Best of the West for editorial writing in 1990 and Nevada Press Association Sweepstakes for editorial writing in 1996. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and their FOI committee; Investigative Reporters and Editors; and past president of the Nevada Press Association. Mitchell has a Bachelor’s degree in technical journalism from Colorado State University.
Monique Nazareth is the producer of Fresh Air on WHYY in Philadelphia, PA. She has brought a number of international stories to Fresh Air, including shows on rape and AIDS in South Africa, forensic anthropology in former war torn countries, Guatemala Truth Commission, Honor Killings in Jordan, Gorillas amidst warfare in Africa, and the 25th anniversary of the Asian Expulsion from Uganda, among others. Before joining WHYY as the associate producer of Fresh Air in 1997, she was associate producer of (The Christian Science Monitor) Monitor Radio’s Weekend Edition. Nazareth has Bachelor’s degrees in communication studies and journalism and mass communications from The University of Iowa.
Neal Pattison is assistant managing editor at the Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, where he has directed a number of award-winning projects, including: “Mining and the West,” which won the John B. Oakes Award for environmental journalism; “Abuse and Silence,” which documented a national pattern of sex abuse at schools for the deaf; and “The Power to Harm,” which examined dozens of questionable sex-abuse prosecutions in a single county. Prior to joining the Post-Intelligencer, he was managing editor at the Albuquerque (NM) Tribune, assistant managing editor at The (Spokane, WA) Spokesman-Review, and assistant Metro editor at the Arizona Republic, respectively. Pattison has been president of the Society for News Design (1997) and New Mexico APME. (1995), and is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Manning Pynn is the public editor (ombudsman) at The Orlando (FL) Sentinel. Pynn joined The Sentinel in 1984 as deputy managing editor in charge of business news, before becoming associate managing editor and then editor of the editorial pages where she directed and edited a series awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. She also has held a variety of editing positions at The Miami (FL) Herald and was a reporter and ultimately night city editor at The Tampa (FL) Tribune, respectively. Prior to launching her journalism career, she was an information specialist in the U.S. Army Reserve. Pynn has a Bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of South Florida, Tampa.
Mary Ellen Schoonmaker is an editorial writer and opinion columnist for The Record in Bergen County, NJ. She joined The Record in 1990 after serving as assistant editor of The Columbia Journalism Review. She also has been a copy editor at Business Week magazine, and has had her work published in The Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, Village Voice, Mother Jones, The Progressive, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Working Mother and American Film. Schoonmaker has a Bachelor’s degree in literature from Brooklyn College, CUNY and a Master’s degree in journalism from Pennsylvania State University.
Seth Sutel covers the media beat for The Associated Press (New York), which includes the entertainment, broadcasting, and publishing industries. He’s been on the beat for three years, and before that was a general assignment reporter and an editor at the AP’s business news desk in New York. He also worked in the AP's Tokyo bureau for seven years, where he covered a variety of business and economics topics, politics, culture and general news. He has traveled widely in Europe and Asia, and has reported from Thailand, Turkey and France. He speaks Japanese and French fluently. Sutel graduated with honors with Bachelor’s degrees in English and History from the University of California, Berkeley.
Kathleen Williams is assistant managing editor at Contra Costa Times in Walnut Creek, CA. Williams first joined The Times in 1994 as news coordinator where she planned Page 1 centerpieces and enterprise projects among five daily Lesher newspapers. She then became features editor and then business editor where she won Society of American Business and Economic Writers awards for coverage in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, she left The Times to become executive editor of Upside Today for one year, where she directed a bi-coastal staff of 12 in coverage of daily tech new and tech financial news for the Web site. Williahms also has held editing positions at The Fresno (CA) Bee, Asbury Park Press and The (Cleveland, OH) Plain Dealer. She has won several awards including a certificate of merit from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 1999 and 2000. Williams has a Bachelor’s degree in English from California State University, Hayward.
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What fellows have to say about past seminars:
"Thanks so much for this opportunity. It really demystified much of online journalism for us and gave me a very useful hands on experience in the tools of the trade. Well done."
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