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Fellows
Aaron Barnhart has been the television critic for the Kansas City Star since 1997. In addition, his Web site, TVBarn.com, covers television topics daily. Before the Star, he lived in Chicago and contributed articles on television to the Village Voice, New York Observer and New York Times. He has a bachelor's degree in classics from Northwestern University and a master's degree from the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He is marking his 40th birthday and 10th wedding anniversary this month.
Hal Boedeker covers local and national television for the Orlando Sentinel, where he has worked 10 years. He writes reviews, commentaries, features, business reports and trend stories. He has received a criticism prize from the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors as well as four Green Eyeshade Awards for criticism. He worked for nearly 11 years at The Miami Herald, where he was the television critic for five years. He also worked at newspapers in Columbia, Mo., and Anderson, S.C., and has written about movies and theater. He received a bachelor's of journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Ammara Durrani has been working as an assistant editor with The News International, Pakistan since February 2001. She holds an M. Phil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and Honours and Masters degrees in General History from the University of Karachi. She was previously a lecturer in Medieval Indian History at the Pakistan Study Centre, University of Karachi (1998), and a research assistant with the Ford Foundation and Department of International Relations, University of Karachi Research Project (1998). She was awarded the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust and the Sir Patrick Sheehy Cambridge Scholarship in 1998, and a Gold Medal for her Masters programme from the University of Karachi (1998). In 1999, she was made Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. Durrani was awarded the WISCOMP Scholar of Peace 2003-2004 Fellowship by Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP), India. In October 2004, she won the WASH Media Award for her reporting on Pakistan‚s water crises by the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), Switzerland. She has recently been awarded the Daniel Pearl/Alfred Friendly/Helen Baldwin Press Fellowship 2005 to work at the Los Angeles Times (USA) from March-September 2005.
Patricia Garcia-Rios is a documentary filmmaker with thirteen years experience in national public television programs. She was recently nominated for a Writers Guild award. Her work has also been recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy for Best Research) and the Organization of American Historians (Erik Barnouw award for outstanding historical program). As a producer and co-producer at WGBH-Boston she has worked on the historical documentary series They Made America (PBS, November 2004), Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS, January 2004) and Chicago: City of the Century (PBS, January 2003). Before that, she worked on The Rockefellers (PBS, 1999) and Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery (PBS, 1998). Garcia-Rios started her career as a filmmaker at Blackside, Inc., the production company behind Eyes on the Prize. A print journalist in her native Spain, she moved to the U.S. in 1990 after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship to pursue graduate school in Boston.
Matea Gold just began a new assignment in New York covering television media and entertainment for the Los Angeles Times. Most recently, she spent the last five years writing about local, state and national politics for The Times. In this capacity, she covered both the 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, traveling with former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, former Vice President Al Gore, Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. In her nine years as a Times staff writer, she has written about urban affairs, gangs, education, City Hall and the U.S.-Mexico border. She graduated with honors from University of California, Los Angeles, where she was editor-in-chief of the UCLA Daily Bruin.
Peter Hartlaub is the pop culture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, working in that position or as a television writer for three years. He covers television and the media, contributes movie and video game reviews, and writes a pop culture column. Before his tenure at the Chronicle, he worked for seven years as a courtroom reporter, including four years at the San Francisco Examiner and Los Angeles Daily News on an entertainment-related court beat. He grew up in the Bay Area with a Chronicle paper route, and later went to journalism school at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. He was only allowed to watch public television growing up, although he frequently snuck a small black and white television in his room after hours to watch "Knight Rider."
Li Jing is a reporter, producer and anchor for the Voice of America (VOA) television in Washington DC covering cultural, entertainment and current affairs. Jing hosts the weekly mandarin TV shows "Cultural Odyssey" and "American Report." She is also a substitute anchor for daily news talk show "Issues and Opinions." Jing covered September 11 live in New York and interviewed newsmakers such as Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Michael Phelps and Kenneth Cole. VOA broadcasts in 44 languages to a weekly 100 million audience worldwide. In 2004, Jing became one of the first Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) members to receive a Wharton Business Journalism Award. Jing also worked for the United Nations Radio, Sinovision Television and Network News Service in New York as an intern, anchor and producer. In her leisure time, Jing pursues her interests in swimming, modeling and Chinese calligraphy. Jing graduated with a Master's degree in Social and Public Policy from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. She speaks fluent Mandarin.
Neal Koch a lawyer by training, has covered the media and entertainment industries for years in such publications as The New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review and Inside.com. He also contributes to Current, the newspaper about public broadcasting, and is on the adjunct faculty of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications. Koch has been a senior editor of Channels, the business magazine about television, acting business editor of The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, associate editor of Institutional Investor’s Wall Street Letter, a senior writer for Entertainment Weekly, a contributing writer for Radar and on staff at Forbes. His work has also appeared in Business Week, The Financial Times of London, Newsday and The Los Angeles Times. He holds degrees from Haverford College, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He recently retired from the board of PEN Center USA.
Stephen Maly is the Executive Director of Helena Civic Television (HCTV), a relative newcomer to the world of non-profit PEG (public, educational, and governmental) channels on cable TV. HCTV serves Montana's capital city, and has a contract to produce and transmit C-Span style coverage of state government proceedings. Maly and his colleagues aspire to make HCTV into a "mega-PEG", providing home-grown as well as imported public affairs programming across Montana, and serving as a model of independent media for application elsewhere in the world. Maly has also been engaged in paradiplomatic activities for the state of Montana, helping to formulate and implement official relationships with the western provinces of Canada, Taiwan, and the Kyrgyz Republic in Central Asia. He has written and produced three video documentaries: The Invisible Border (about U.S.-Canada relations in the West); On Tour with the Blue Berets (about a UN peacekeeping operation in Macedonia); and Big Sky/Silk Road (a work in progress about Montana's connections to Kyrgyzstan). Maly's academic training is in international affairs (B.A. University of Colorado; M.A. the Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies.) In 1989 he was awarded a fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to write about the cultural nations of Canada.
Manuel Mendoza has covered television for The Dallas Morning News since 1994, writing reviews, profiles and trend stories. Before that, he was the paper's pop music critic for two years. He started his journalism career at the Miami News in 1979 and has worked at the Bergen N.J. Record and the Milwaukee Journal. In 1997, he won a year-long National Arts Journalism Program fellowship, which he used to study art, film and literature at Columbia University. He has been a finalist for the statewide Katie Award and is also a winner of the Florida Bar Award for an investigation into police corruption. He is a graduate of the University of Florida journalism school.
Edward P. Smith is the arts and entertainment editor for The Denver Post where he supervises a staff of 15 critics, reporters and editorial assistants. He has been in the position since 1998. He joined The Post in 1989 as Sunday magazine editor. Prior to moving to Colorado, Smith lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. He worked for eight years as a reporter and editor at the Marin County Independent Journal and later as a desk and features editor at The San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle. He was raised in Connecticut and graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.A. in English and Journalism. Before moving west, Smith worked as a reporter at two newspapers in Connecticut. He also holds a master's degree in radio and television from San Francisco State University. He has traveled widely in Europe, India and Mexico. He is a longtime marathon runner with 20 finisher's medals hanging on the wall.
Patrick Yack has been the editor of The Florida Times-Union for more than six years. Before coming to Jacksonville, he was the senior editor of the papers in Greensboro, NC, and Eugene, Ore. He is the former national editor of the Atlanta Constitution and Washington Bureau Chief for The Denver Post. Prior to entering the newspaper business, Pat worked in politics. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. Pat was president of FSNE for two terms. He is on the board of advisors at the University of Florida School of Journalism and the American Press Institute. Pat graduated from SMU in Dallas with a degree in journalism. His travels abroad have included Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, England, Italy, Germany, Austria, South Korea, and Russia. He is a frequent guest on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday.
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What fellows have to say about past seminars:
"I am so grateful you were open-minded enough to accept a photographer, not
succumbing to the stereotypes that we can't write anything beyond our names.
That you chose to respect my abilities will help me carry this rich
information to the right editors in the newsroom. The variety of speakers
was so incredible. Thank you!"
- Peggy Peattie, San Diego Union Tribune |
