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Speakers
Eric Alterman is currently the media columnist for The Nation and MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has also been a contributing editor to Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and IntellectualCapital.com. He is the author of Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (HarperCollins, 1992 and Cornell University Press, 2000), winner of the 1992 Orwell Award; Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (Cornell University Press, 1998), and It Ain’t No Sin to be Glad You’re Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (Little Brown, 1999, 2001), and winner of the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. In 2003 he plans to publish What Liberal Media? (Basic), and Four Lies: The Costs of Presidential Deception (Viking). A senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University, and an Affiliated Faculty Member in the magazine journalism program at New York University, he has also taught media history and theory at NYU and Hofstra University. Alterman has a Bachelor’s degree in government from Cornell, a Master’s degree in international relations from Yale University, and hopes to earn his Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford University later this year. In 1999 he was named one of the fifty “best, most important and most influential” journalists on the Internet. He lives with his family in Manhattan.
Ben Bagdikian is an emeritus professor and dean of the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He also has been assistant managing editor of national news at The Washington Post, where he was a strong advocate for the highly controversial publication of the Pentagon papers. Bagdikian spent most of his career as a correspondent for newspapers and national magazines. He has published three books on the media, including The Media Monopoly. Other books include his most recent, Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life and Profession. Among his awards is a Peabody Award for analysis of broadcast commentary.
Felicity Barringer is the media reporter for The New York Times, covering the newspaper industry, the rise of online news and the economic and journalistic developments in the news business. She took over the beat four years ago, after three years as the editor of the Monday Business section, which is devoted to the media, computer, software and Internet industries. Barringer joined The New York Times as a contributing correspondent in Moscow in 1986, reporting on the political and cultural upheavals of the Gorbachev era. From 1989 through June 1993, Barringer covered demographics and social policy from Washington. From August 1993 through March 1995, she was deputy editor of The Week in Review. She has also written for Columbia Journalism Review, Art News, The New York Times Book Review and The New York Times Magazine and is the author of the book, Flight From Sorrow, a biographical study of a survivor of Nazi Germany and the camps of Stalin’s Soviet Union, published by Atheneum in 1984. Prior to joining The Times, Barringer worked on The Washington Post’s metropolitan and national staffs and at The Record in Bergen County, NJ. In 1972, she received her Bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University, where she served as editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily. She is married to Philip Taubman, deputy editorial page editor of The Times. They have two sons, Michael and Gregory.
John Battelle is currently a teaching fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, focusing on media studies and publishing models. Previously, Battelle was founder, chairman, and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI), publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Battelle also served as executive producer for many of SMI’s industry conferences. Prior to founding The Standard, John was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures, where he worked for five years in various senior management positions. Formerly, he served as general assignment reporter for the Los Angeles Times and wrote for numerous industry publications. Battelle has been responsible for or involved in the launch of more than 30 magazines and websites, including more than a dozen in international markets. He was recently named a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as well as a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year. He holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He serves on numerous award juries and academic and corporate advisory boards.
Lowell Bergman is a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He spent 16 years as a producer with CBS' “60 Minutes,” where he was honored with several Emmys and a Peabody Award. More recently he has been a frequent contributor to The New York Times and served as both producer and correspondent for numerous PBS Frontline documentaries. The story of his investigation of the tobacco industry for 60 Minutes was chronicled in the feature film “The Insider.” He graduated from UC Santa Barbara and was one of the founding members of the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Robert Calo is an associate professor in the television program at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and is also a broadcast producer for NBC News. He graduated from SUNY Buffalo and began working for KQED TV in San Francisco as a current affairs producer before moving on to ABC News’ “Prime Time Live.” He has been a producer for NBC News’ “Dateline” since 1994. Calo produced the PBS documentary, “J.B. Jackson & The Love of Everyday Places,” a profile of the late landscape historian.
Roger Cohn took over the editorship of Mother Jones in April 1999. Since arriving at Mother Jones, he has led a resurgence of the magazine, which has seen its circulation grow from 135,00 to 167,000. Under his leadership, the magazine has emphasized strong, hard-edged reporting and featured such writers as Ian Frazier, Pete Hamill, Molly Ivins, Verlyn Klinkenborg, and Bill McKibben. Before coming to Mother Jones, Cohn spent seven years as executive editor of Audubon magazine. From 1977 to 1987, he was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, reporting on urban affairs and environmental issues. He was awarded an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship in 1984 for reporting on the state of public housing in the United States. A 1973 Yale graduate, Cohn has written for many publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, New York Observer, and Outside.
Deirdre English is the former editor of Mother Jones magazine (1980-1986). She has worked as a freelance editor, consultant and writer, and has written for magazines including San Francisco Magazine, the S.F. Chronicle Sunday Magazine, Vogue and The Nation. Her book reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post Book Review. She has been a writer for independent documentaries for PBS and a TV debate host and commentator for KQED TV and radio. She has taught American studies, journalism and magazine production at The State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, and at The University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich, of For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women. She is currently a lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, the coordinator of Editing Workshops, a program for teaching feature writing, and is a faculty mentor in the Graduate School of Sociology, at the Center for the Study of the Working Family.
Clay Felker was the founder of New York Magazine and has been a reporter for Life Magazine. He received the National Magazine Award for “Best Magazine,” while editor of New York Magazine. He was on the development staff of Sports Illustrated. He has served as the head of the NY Magazine Company, during which he bought Village Voice and was editor-in-chief. Felker also started New West Magazine. He has also been editor of Esquire, Manhattan Inc., and Ad Week. He is currently the director of the Felker Magazine Center, at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Felker received his Bachelor’s degree and an honorary doctorate degree from Duke University.
Andrew Finlayson is the news director of WSMV-TV in Nashville. He was news director of KTVU Fox 2 in Oakland, CA, from 1999 to 2004. Before that, he was KTVU’s associate news director. Finlayson joined the station in November of 1989 to work as a news producer for the then titled “2 At Noon” program. He later became the producer of KTVU’s nationally syndicated business newsmagazine show, “On The Money” with Brian Banmiller, and managed the station’s special features department in addition to being the stock market reporter for the “KTVU Morning News” and “Mornings On 2.” Prior to coming to KTVU, Finlayson was a news producer at KCBS AM, San Francisco, where his duties included producing documentaries and election coverage. He also worked for ABC News as a production assistant covering the Democratic National Convention, and as an assistant librarian for the network. Finlayson has received numerous prestigious news awards including “Best Serious News Feature” from the Radio and Television News Directors Association, (RTNDA) the 1994 Livingston Award for Best International Reporting, a National Press Foundation Fellowship in 1995, and a RTNDA Fellowship in 1996.
Brooke Gladstone is co-host and managing editor of National Public Radio’s “On the Media,” heard by about a half-million listeners across the country each week. She started her career in radio in 1987, as senior editor of NPR’s “Weekend Edition with Scott Simon,” then moved on to the same job at the network’s daily news magazine, “All Things Considered.” After spending a blissful year on a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 1991-92, she reported from Moscow from 1992-1995 on post-Soviet chaos, including the bloody insurgency of the Russian Parliament, for NPR. When she returned, she was given the job of NPR’s first (and, so far, only) media reporter. After six years at that post, she moved to “On the Media,” produced at WNYC, New York. Gladstone started out as a print reporter and editor in Washington, covering several beats, including national security issues, the arts, and the cable and public broadcasting industry. She has also freelanced on a variety of topics for The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The London Observer, American Journalism Review, Channels and In These Times, among others.
Tom Goldstein is former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. He is currently chair of the Mass Communications department at UC Berkeley. He is the author of “The News at Any Cost: How Journalists Compromise Their Ethics to Shape the News” (1985), “A Two-Faced Press” (1986); co-author of “The Lawyer's Guide to Writing Well” (1989); and editor of “Killing the Messenger: 100 Years of Press Criticism” (1989). He has worked as a copy editor for Newsday; a reporter for the Associated Press; editor-in-chief for Juris Doctor Magazine; a reporter for The Wall Street Journal; a reporter and columnist for The New York Times; and media writer for New York Newsday. He also served as press secretary to Mayor Edward I. Koch of New York and a consultant for ABC News' "Nightline." He received his Bachelor's degree from Yale University and Master's and Juris Doctorate degrees from Columbia University.
Cynthia Gorney is the associate dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. She worked at The Washington Post as a metro reporter, West Coast-based Style reporter, national correspondent, and South American bureau chief. She left the Post in 1991 to write her first book, Articles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion Wars. She has been published in numerous publications including The New York Times Magazine, Health, Harper's Bazaar and Money. She is married to a labor lawyer and has two children.
Jay T. Harris holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he joined the faculty in October 2002. He also serves as the founding director of The Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy, which is located at the school. Harris is also founder and president of Deep River Associates and has held the post of Robert C. Maynard Fellow in the Graduate School of Journalism at the UC Berkeley, where his work focused on journalism as a public trust. From 1994 to 2001 Harris was chairman and publisher of the San Jose Mercury News. During his seven years as publisher the paper rose to national prominence for the quality of its journalism. The Columbia Journalism Review ranked it one of the ten best newspapers in the country. Harris began his journalism career in 1970 at the Wilmington (DE) News-Journal papers where he worked as a reporter and editor. Between 1975 and 1982, he was on the faculty of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and served as assistant dean of the school. In 1982 he moved to Washington, D.C. where he worked as a national correspondent and columnist for Gannett News Service. Harris joined Knight Ridder, the parent company of the Mercury News, in 1985 as executive editor of the Philadelphia Daily News. In 1988 he joined the Knight Ridder corporate staff as assistant to the president of the company’s Newspaper Division. Two years later he was promoted to vice president/operations, a position in which he eventually had oversight responsibility for nine of the company’s newspapers. His professional work has been recognized with awards from numerous universities, public benefit corporations, social justice organizations, and national journalism and journalism education organizations. He is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board of Directors and the National Advisory Board of the Poynter Institute. He has received honorary doctorates from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, his alma mater, and Santa Clara University in California. Harris is married and has three children and lives with his family in Los Gatos, CA.
Don Hazen has been executive director of the Independent Media Institute (IMI) since 1992, where he also serves as executive editor of www.AlterNet.org, IMI's online web magazine and syndication service. He is the former publisher of Mother Jones magazine and has edited several books, including most recently, After 9/11 Solutions for a Saner World and We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy. Hazen has written many articles for weekly newspapers and magazines on media criticism, social and cultural trends and politics. Hazen conceived of and organized the two Media & Democracy congresses, attended by 2,000 people, which took place in San Francisco and New York City in 1996 and 1998. He has managed successful political campaigns in New York City for candidates Ruth Messinger and David Dinkins and maintains his bi-coastal credentials splitting time between New York and San Francisco. He is currently president of the board of the Oakland, CA-based television production company, The Working Group. Hazen has a Master’s degree in counseling from the University of Massachusetts and a Bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton University.
Katrina Heron joined Wired magazine in 1995 as editor-at-large and became editor-in-chief in 1997. She took Wired's circulation over the 500,000 mark and repositioned it as a general interest magazine for the 21st century. Heron resigned in the summer of 2001 to explore in greater depth many of the issues she covered at Wired, including digital technologies and the future of publishing, and to package and edit a range of book projects. Prior to joining Wired, Heron was an editor and writer at the The New York Times Magazine, a senior editor at Vanity Fair and a senior editor at The New Yorker. She graduated from Yale and was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 1994-1995.
Samir Husni is professor of journalism, the Hederman Lecturer and the director of the University of Mississippi’s Magazine Service Journalism Program. He is the nation’s leading authority on new magazines. His expertise grew out of a childhood pasttime of collecting magazines, which grew into an addiction and snowballed into a doctoral thesis, a teaching career and then a book. For the past 11 years, Husni has published Samir Husni's Guide to New Consumer Magazines (Hearst Magazine Enterprises). It has become the de facto standard of what's hot and what's not in the magazine industry. He is the author of Launch Your Own Magazine: A Guide for Succeeding in Today’s Marketplace and is a contributing editor to Magazine Retailer. He has presented seminars on trends in American magazines nationally and internationally and is frequently interviewed on the topic of magazines. He has a Master’s degree from the University of North Texas and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.
Michael Janeway is professor of journalism and the director of the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. He is the former executive editor of The Atlantic Monthly; managing editor and editor-in-chief of The Boston Globe; and executive editor, trade division, of Houghton Mifflin Co. Janeway also served as the dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. He is the author of Republic of Denial: Press, Politics and Public Life (Yale University Press, 1999); editor and contributor, Who We Are: An Atlantic Chronicle of the United States and Vietnam (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1969.) His articles, essays and book reviews have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune and other publications. He has a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard.
Alex Jones is director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He covered the press for The New York Times from 1983 to 1992 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his articles on the collapse of the Bingham family’s newspaper empire. In 1991, he co-authored (with his wife and fellow journalist Susan E. Tifft) The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty. In 1992, he left the Times to work on The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times (also co-authored with Tifft in 1999), which was nominated for the National Book Critics’ Circle award. From 1993 to 1997, Jones was host of National Public Radio’s “On the Media.” He is currently the host and executive editor of PBS’ “Media Matters.” In 1998, Jones and Tifft were jointly named Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism at Duke University. Jones has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize competition. In 1981-82 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. He sits on the advisory boards of the Columbia Journalism Review, the International Center for Journalists, the Committee of Concerned Journalists, and the Bertelsmann Foundation’s New York Media Project; and on the board of the International Center for Journalists. He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University.
Peter W. Kaplan is the editor of the New York Observer. He grew up in South Orange, NJ. He began his career as a desk assistant at ABC Radio, then worked for the journalist Richard Reeves as his assistant on Convention, a book on the 1976 Democratic Convention. He then worked as an editor at New Times magazine, Esquire and as a Style section correspondent for The Washington Post. He freelanced for many magazines including Esquire, The New Republic and Rolling Stone. He then worked on the dummy for Manhattan, inc., a business magazine, in 1983. In 1984, he became a cultural correspondent for The New York Times covering the television industry. He became executive editor of Manhattan, inc. for its founding editor Jane Amsterdam, and later editorial director, under Clay Felker. He then attempted to start a men's magazine, Smart for Men, which never made it to the printer. In 1992, he went to work for the Conde Nast Traveler, although he hadn't left the U.S. since 1984. Following that, in 1993, he became the executive producer of Charlie Rose's nightly television program on PBS. He became editor of the New York Observer in 1994. He has never won an award of any kind. However, he has three amazing children. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976 with a Bachelors’ degree in American Studies.
Rick Kaplan has been a broadcast journalist for more than 30 years. As president of CNN-US (1997-2000), he was responsible for all news and programming at the CNN News Group. Kaplan galvanized CNN’s ability to provide extensive and up-to-the-minute live coverage and analysis of both breaking and on-going news events. Kaplan joined ABC News in 1979 as a senior producer for “World News Tonight.” From 1979 to 1997, he was executive producer for a variety of ABC News and ABC television network programs, including “Good Morning America,” “Nightline” (1984-89), “Primetime Live” (1989-94), “World News Tonight” (1994) and ABC-TV Special Projects. Prior to joining ABC, Kaplan was a producer for “The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.” He is the recipient of many awards, including 34 Emmy Awards, three Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, Overseas Press Club awards, and two George Polk awards. Kaplan is teaching at Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
Bill Kovach is currently chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists. Kovach has been a journalist and writer for 40 years. He began his career at the Johnson City (Tennessee) Press Chronicle (1959-1960) and later served as a reporter for the Nashville Tennessean (1960-1967) where he covered the civil rights movement, southern politics, and Appalachian poverty. After a year of study on a journalism fellowship at Stanford University he joined The New York Times (1968-1986), where he worked as a reporter and later as the chief of the Times’ Washington bureau. He served as editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution for two years, during which time he won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first awarded to the paper in 20 years. He was appointed a Nieman Fellow in the class of 1988-89 and remained as curator. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As an editor Kovach supervised reporting projects that won four Pulitzer Prizes. He has also delivered a number of journalism lectures, served on Pulitzer juries, co-authored Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media with Tom Rosenstiel, and contributed to a number of other books. He attended East Tennessee State University.
Richard Leibner is president of N.S. Bienstock, Inc. and is one of America’s most successful broadcast journalism talent agents. His firm represents the largest number of TV news talents including Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Paula Zahn, and Jane Clayson. Leibner attributes his success more to his style of representation than the mega-salaries he commands for his clients. Armed with a Bachelors’ degree in accounting, a Master’s degree in taxation, and a Certified Public Accountant license, Leibner, in 1963, went to work in the family accounting firm. The next year, he and his father, Sol, were given the chance to acquire the agency of Nate Bienstock. The company has expanded its scope into reality-based and programming projects as well as production and directorial talent. N.S. Bienstock, Inc. has a staff of 28, 11 of whom are agents, including his wife and partner, Carole Cooper.
Kerry Smith Marash is a veteran ABC News producer and manager. She was named vice president for editorial quality in February 2000. Marash reports to David Westin, president, ABC News. As vice president for editorial quality, she is responsible for maintaining the journalistic integrity and editorial standards of ABC News. In addition, she serves as a senior advisor to the president for editorial matters and continues as the executive in charge of “This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts.” Marash has also been the senior Washington editor for ABC News. In that position she supervised Washington news coverage and coordinated the bureau’s editorial product for all ABC News programs. In addition, she was instrumental in the startup of “Political Points,” the ABCNEWS.com daily webcast on politics produced with The New York Times, and she supervises the project on behalf of ABC News. Previously, Marash was senior producer of the Washington bureau’s Magazine Unit, supervising a 25-person production office. During her more than 20-year career as a television news producer and program executive, Marash has worked for “PrimeTime Live,” “World News Tonight,” “Good Morning America” and “Nightline.”
Paul Mason is the executive producer of the weekend edition of ABC’s “World News Tonight.” He has reported and produced for various ABC News broadcasts for 21 years, working in London, New York, Miami, Berkeley as well as Johannesburg, South Africa. Mason spent several years covering national issues including politics and the drug war for World News Tonight’s “American Agenda.” Mason has also produced for the ABC News magazine shows “20/20” and “PrimeTime Live,” where he co-produced “Judgment at Midnight,” a behind-the-scenes examination of an execution at Louisiana’s Angola prison. In 1998, Mason joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where he spent two and a half years as an acting associate professor. He did his undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University, where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Classical Civilizations; and graduate studies at Columbia University, earning an Master’s degree in journalism. He and his wife, Evelyn Adelsohn, have an 8-year-old daughter named Olivia.
Dori J. Maynard is president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. Prior to being named president in January 2001, she directed the institute's History Project, which leads the way in preserving and protecting the contributions of courageous journalists of color who broke into the mainstream media against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s and 1970s. She also heads the Fault Lines project, a framework that helps journalists more accurately cover their communities. In addition, she is the co-author of "Letters to My Children," which is a compilation of nationally syndicated columns by her late father, Bob Maynard, with introductory essays written by her. As a reporter, she has experience on both coasts -- The Bakersfield Californian, and The (Quincy, MA) Patriot Ledger, as well as a stint at the Detroit (MI) Free Press, covering senate and mayoral campaigns, and City Hall. In 1993, she was selected as a Nieman scholar at Harvard University, where she specialized in research on public policy and poverty. She also worked regularly with her father in researching and preparing for his appearances on "This Week With David Brinkley" and the "MacNeil Lehrer Report." She has a Bachelor's degree in American history from Middlebury College in Vermont.
Dale Peskin is executive director of New Directions for News, a Minneapolis-based think-tank that explores innovation in the media and critical issues impacting the future of news. Peskin has served as a strategist who led corporate initiatives in media convergence and online media, a leader of ideas about change in news and news organizations, an award-winning investigative reporter, and a developer of new approaches in print and online media. Prior to joining NDN, he served as vice president of A.H. Belo Co., the Dallas-based media company, and as a founding officer of its interactive media subsidiary, Belo Interactive. He formerly served as a senior editor at The Dallas Morning News and at The Detroit News. At The Dallas Morning News, he was awarded the Digital Edge Award for pioneering online journalism. At The Detroit News, he was a member of the team that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. His other awards include the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, and four Gold Medals from the Society for News Design.
Deborah Potter is a journalist and educator who spent 16 years as a network correspondent for CBS and CNN. Since 1998, Potter has been executive director of NewsLab, a non-profit journalism training and research center in Washington, DC.
From 2003 to 2004, Potter also served as executive director of RTNDF, the research and training arm of the Radio & Television News Directors Association. An experienced journalism trainer, she conducts workshops across the country and around the world. For several years, she has been a featured speaker at the annual conventions of the Radio & Television News Directors Association and the National Press Photographers Association. She has taught journalism at The American University, and as a faculty associate at the Poynter Institute where she led writing, reporting, management and ethics seminars for professionals. Potter is a featured columnist for the American Journalism Review, writing about broadcast news. Her work has been published by RTNDA Communicator and News Photographer. She is the co-author of the Poynter Election Handbook: New Ways to Cover Campaigns (Third Edition, 1999). At CNN, Potter reported on national politics and environmental issues. She joined CNN in 1991 after 13 years at CBS News, where she served as White House, State Department and Congressional Correspondent. She also was a frequent contributor to the prime time CBS News magazine 48 Hours, and hosted the interview program, Nightwatch. Before joining CBS News, Potter worked as a news anchor for KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia; as a reporter for the Voice of America in Washington; and as a news producer for the ABC TV affiliate in Washington. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree from The American University.
Rem Rieder is editor and senior vice president of the American Journalism Review, a monthly magazine that covers all aspects of print, broadcast and online media. Rieder, who writes a monthly column in AJR commenting on media issues, has edited the magazine since 1991. Rieder has held senior editing positions at a number of major newspapers, including the The Washington Post (deputy metropolitan editor), The Miami Herald (national editor and city editor) and Milwaukee Journal (assistant managing editor/news). He also has served as executive editor of States News Service in Washington D.C.; managing editor of the Trenton Times in New Jersey; reporter, Washington correspondent and deputy metro editor at the Philadelphia Bulletin; and reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Rieder has taught journalism ethics, magazine editing and production and advanced public affairs reporting as an adjunct professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He is a graduate of Harvard University.
Dan Rosenheim is news director of KPIX-TV, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco. He was news director at KRON-TV in San Francisco from 1996 to 2000. Rosenheim joined KRON in 1996 from the San Francisco Chronicle, where he had been managing editor since December 1993. Previously, he was the Chronicle’s city editor from 1987 to 1993, after serving as economics editor from 1985 to 1987. Rosenheim worked for the Chicago Tribune from 1984 to 1985 as a financial writer. He joined the Tribune from the Chicago Sun-Times, where he was special economics writer and financial writer from 1981 to 1984. Before that, he was business/labor editor at the Hammond (Indiana) Times from 1978 to 1981, and a general assignment reporter at the Lansing (Illinois) Sun Journal from 1977 to 1978.
Orville Schell is dean of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. From his days as a student of Far Eastern history at Harvard College, through his UC Berkeley Master's degree and Ph.D. (abd) in Chinese history, to his latest work on China, Hong Kong and Tibet, Schell has virtually devoted his professional life to reporting on and writing about Asia. Author of 14 books - nine about China, including Virtual Tibet, Mandate of Heaven, and Discos and Democracy - Schell has also written widely about Asia for Wired, The New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, Harper's, Newsweek and other national magazines. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim and an Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship and numerous writing prizes. Schell has also served as correspondent and consultant for several PBS “Frontline” documentaries as well as an Emmy award-winning program on China for CBS' “60 Minutes.”
David Shaw is the media critic for the Los Angeles Times. He has worked at the Times since 1968 and has been its media critic since 1974. Before joining the Times, he worked for the Huntington Park Daily Signal and the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram. Among his awards are the Pulitzer prize for criticism (1991); the Society of Professional Journalists award for best non-deadline reporting (1999); a James Beard Foundation award for newspaper writing about wine and spirits (1997); the Lowell Mellet Award for best media criticism (1982). He has received honors from PEN, the American Bar Association, the California Bar Association, the American Political Science Association and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. In 2001, Shaw was named a Fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists, the society’s highest honor. He is the author of five books, most recently The Pleasure Police: How Bluenose Busybodies and Lily-Livered Alarmists Are Taking All the Fun Out of Life (1996). He has written for many national magazines-including Esquire, Condé Nast Traveler, Rolling Stone, GQ, New York, Cigar Aficionado, Food & Wine and Bon Appetit. He is a member of the national restaurant awards committee of the James Beard Foundation. Shaw was born in Dayton, OH, in 1943. He decided he wanted to be a journalist in 1953 and got his first professional newspaper job in 1959. He graduated from UCLA in 1965. He is married to Lucy Stille and they live in Los Angeles with their son, Lucas, who is 12.
Howard Shelanski graduated from the UC Berkeley Boalt School of Law in 1992 and received his Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley the following year. After graduating from Boalt, he clerked for Justice Stephen F. Williams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Judge Louis Pollack, U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and Justice Antonin Scalia, U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Boalt faculty, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd & Evans. Shelanski’s research focuses on telecommunications law, regulation and antitrust. His recent publications include “The Speed Gap: Broadband Infrastructure and Electronic Commerce” in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (1999); “Economic Welfare and Telecommunications Regulation: The E-Rate Policy of Universal Service Subsidies” and “Administrative Creation of Property Rights to Radio Spectrum” in the Journal of Law and Economics, with Peter Huber (1998). During the 1999-2000 academic year, Shelanski was on leave to serve as chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission. During the 1998-99 academic year, he served as a senior economist to the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Terence Smith is media correspondent and senior producer of PBS’ “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” A veteran television and print correspondent, Smith joined “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” in August 1998 to organize and lead the media unit as its senior producer and correspondent. His work has quickly drawn praise: Smith won the 2000 Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism, as well as both the 2000 and 1999 Arthur C. Rowse Award for Media Criticism, given by the National Press Club. His work also garnered Emmy nominations in 2000 and 2001. The “NewsHour’s” media unit offers timely reporting on how the media perform, giving special emphasis to accountability and responsible decision-making. It covers issues such as ethics, tabloidization, technological advances and the increasing pressures of competition. Smith was senior correspondent for CBS News’ “Sunday Morning” from 1990 to 1998. From 1989 to 1990, Smith was a Washington correspondent covering a wide range of national and international news for the CBS Evening News’ “48 Hours” and other CBS News broadcasts. Previously, Smith was CBS White House correspondent from 1986 to 1988, and served as Washington correspondent for the “CBS Morning News” from 1985 to 1986. Smith earned two Emmy Awards at CBS: in 1990, for his work on “48 Hours: Hurricane Watch,” which focused on Hurricane Hugo; and in 1989, for “48 Hours: Nightmare Next Door,” a look at the dangers confronting people who live near nuclear power plants. In 1998, Smith won the George Foster Peabody Award for General Excellence, along with the staff of CBS’ “Sunday Morning.” He also won the 1994 Exceptional Merit Media Award given by the National Women’s Political Caucus and Radcliffe College. Before joining CBS News in 1985, Smith spent two decades with The New York Times as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. He reported from 40 countries and won The Times’ Publisher’s Award 22 times. In addition, he has published articles in numerous magazines, anthologies and publications. Smith received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1960. He is married, has two grown children and lives in Washington, D.C.
Robert Steele is a senior faculty member and leader of the ethics group at The Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, FL. He has taught ethics sessions in over 150 Poynter seminars since he joined the Institute in 1989. He also stays closely connected to newsrooms through his real-time coaching of journalists and news managers on ethics issues and by leading ethics workshops for over 50 newspapers, television stations and newspaper and broadcast groups. He’s frequently on the receiving end of the reporting process, having been interviewed hundreds of times as a source for broadcast, newspaper, magazine and online stories on journalism ethics. Steele has written articles, guidelines and case studies for a number of publications and for professional journalism organizations including ASNE, RTNDA, SPJ and NPPA. He spent a decade as a television reporter, executive producer and news director in Maine, Wisconsin and Iowa, and he hosted “Media Watch” on Maine Public Television. He holds a doctorate from the University of Iowa where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on journalism ethics. He also earned a Master’s degree from Syracuse University in television-radio and a Bachelor’s degree in economics from DePauw University.
Joan Walsh is vice president of news at Salon.com, and an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, Vogue, Glamour, Health and dozens of metropolitan newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. Prior to joining Salon.com she worked as a freelance writer specializing in race, education, poverty and urban development issues, and was a consultant, on those same issues, to government, foundations and non-profit groups. Her report, "Stories of Renewal: Community Building and the Future of Urban America," published by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1997, is in its fourth printing. Before that, she was an editor at In These Times in Chicago and the Santa Barbara News and Review.
Louis Wiley, Jr. has been involved in the creation and supervision of documentary programs for the past 26 years. A graduate of Yale University and Georgetown Law School, Wiley began his career at WGBH, Boston’s public television station in 1970. For seven years, Wiley worked on local news programs and national news specials. In 1977 he became the series editor for the international documentary series “World.” Wiley was instrumental in shaping the show’s editorial mission and its production rationale. The special World broadcast, “Death of a Princess” (1980), marked a turning point in the ability of PBS to present controversial public affairs material. In 1983, World evolved into a new documentary series called “Frontline.” Wiley had a major role in shaping the editorial mission of the new series as well as the journalistic standards and practices that would govern it. As executive editor he played a formal and informal role in all aspects of the series that concerned editorial integrity, editorial direction, and the editorial process. Over the years “Frontline” has consistently won all the major broadcast journalism awards. After a seven-year personal hiatus from 1992 to 1999, Wiley returned to “Frontline,” again as executive editor. In addition to “Frontline” responsibilities, he has undertaken various special projects for WGBH. In 2001, Wiley wrote a 28-page station Web Code that addresses fundamental questions of journalistic and ethical standards for the new publishing platform.
Tom Wolzien is a senior media analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., based in New York City. For the last ten years Wolzien has provided financial research on large publicly traded media companies to institutional investors including pension and mutual funds. Most of his career was spent in television news including street reporter and photographer in Denver, local news show producer and news management in Green Bay, WI and St. Louis, MO and as White House field producer, show producer, executive producer and vice president of operations of NBC News. As senior vice president of NBC Cable and Business Development, he was part of the team that helped start CNBC. He is a graduate of the University of Denver, served as officer in charge of an Army combat photo unit in Vietnam, and holds several patents for his inventions in the area of interactive television.
Caroline Yu joined ABC 7 News in San Francisco in January 2000 as a general assignment reporter. She reports for the ABC 7 News at 11 p.m. Prior to joining ABC 7, Yu worked as a reporter at the ABC station in Fresno. She’s also worked at television stations across the country including Chicago, Champaign (IL), and New York City. Yu is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a Bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism.
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What fellows have to say about past seminars:
"I wasn't sure what to expect, but came away with a wealth of information and lots of doable ideas. Makes me want to quit editing and be a water reporter."
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