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Speakers
Barbara Abrash is associate director of the Center for Media, Culture and History and the Center for Religion and Media at NYU, where she teaches a graduate seminar in the Public History program. Her publications include a special issue of Wide Angle on the career of media activist and film maker George Stoney, and contributions to Cineaste, Radical History Review, and Visual Anthropology Review, as well as the web publication "9/11 and after: a virtual casebook", which tracks the uses of old and new media in Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001 and in the days after. An independent producer and curator, she has for 25 years been an advocate for independent media and has served on the boards of Women Make Movies, Center for Social Media, Hartley Film Foundation, among others.
Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, DC, and the director of the Center for Social Media there. She is the author of "The Daily Planet" (University of Minnesota Press), and of "Communications Policy in the Public Interest" (Guilford Press). She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others. Aufderheide is a prolific cultural journalist, policy analyst, and editor on media and society, and has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards. Aufderheide currently serves on the board of directors of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She also serves as a film advisor to the National Gallery of Art, and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications, including Communication Law and Policy and In These Times newspaper. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.
Orlando Bagwell joined the Ford Foundation in February 2004 as the new Media Production Program Officer in the Media, Arts and Culture unit, in the Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program. Orlando has a distinguished career of over 25 years as an independent filmmaker and producer. His long list of achievements includes 4 Emmy Awards and numerous Emmy nominations, 3 George Peabody Awards, and the 1994 New York Film Festival Grand Prize, among many others. He was one of the lead producers/directors of Blackside, Inc., and its award-winning series, "Eyes on the Prize," and was executive vice president in charge of production for this pre-eminent film company from 1991-94. Since 1989 he has been president/filmmaker of Roja Productions, Inc. As executive producer/filmmaker at WGBH Educational Foundation during 1995-2000, he supervised all aspects of the multi-part historical documentary series "Africans in America" for PBS national broadcast and the attendant national educational and community outreach programs; he has produced and represented a number of documentary television series and single programs for national PBS distribution. Bagwell has also curated visual exhibits for the national Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, and the Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in film and a Masters degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University.
Steven Bass is president and chief executive officer of Nashville Public Television and has held the position since on November 1998. During his tenure, he led the organization's transformation from local government ownership to independent, non-profit status. Prior to joining NPT, Bass served as vice president and manager of television stations for WGBH/Boston (where he created several award-winning programs including Greater Boston), and vice president and general manager of WGBY/Springfield, MA for seven years. Prior to his service with WGBH, Bass spent nine years with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in Washington, DC. At NPT he has led the station's efforts to build a strong resume of local, regional and national production, and served as executive producer of “Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues” (American Masters, 2004) and “The Carter Family: Will The Circle Be Unbroken” (American Experience, 2005). From 2002 to 2004, Bass served as chairman of the Association of Public Television Stations, the Washington-based trade association that represents public television stations to the Congress, the FCC and other government entities. He holds a bachelor degree from Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin's Graduate School of Business.
Steve Behrens is editor of Current, the major periodical about public TV and radio. During a break in his work with Current he served four years as senior editor of Channels, a magazine about television and new media founded by Les Brown and the Markle Foundation. He earlier wrote for and edited suburban weeklies and edited an environmental newspaper before co-founding Current in 1980 with James Fellows, head of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. Current is an editorially independent, paid-circulation biweekly newspaper that has been administered for most of its 25 years by WNET, New York.
Naomi S. Boak is executive producer in the National Production Department at Twin Cities Public Television. Boak was the executive producer of the critically-acclaimed and Primetime Emmy Award-winning “The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's,” which premiered on PBS in January 2004. She has written and produced Emmy Award-winning primetime children's specials for CBS and was executive producer for the daily comedy show “Snap Judgment” on Court TV, which she helped bring to life as a start-up production. She also was in charge of television production and public television sponsorship worldwide for the IBM Corporation. Her television experience also includes being executive producer and director of New Programming for the Lifetime Medical Television Network and senior vice president of production for Reeves Television. As senior producer for the Merrill Lynch Video Network she created the a live national broadcast featuring President Ronald Reagan that combined for the first time, local networks, cable and satellite. Boak's Internet experience includes design, content creation and marketing for clients such as Scholastic and Court TV, as well as being executive producer for The Forgetting Web site on pbs.org. She received an A.B. in anthropology from Stanford University and attended the UCLA Graduate School of Film and Television.
Bill Buzenberg is senior vice president of News for American Public Media/Minnesota Public Radio. Upon joining MPR in 1998, he expanded the News division to strengthen regional news coverage, talk programming, and national news programming. During his tenure, KNOW-FM has doubled in audience size and is one of the highest rated major market public radio stations in the nation (The weekly news audience is 533,000 in Minnesota, and Morning Edition is the second highest rated program in morning drive in the Twin Cities.) Buzenberg also launched American RadioWorks, public radio’s largest national documentary production unit, and serves as its executive producer. He also launched and serves as executive producer of MPR’s new program on belief, meaning, ethics and ideas, called Speaking of Faith. Currently, he is leading the third annual Public Radio Collaboration project on globalization. The Collaboration is a coalition of public radio stations and networks across the country sharing programming and special events during the same week to create a national conversation. (The Collaboration week is May 16-22, 2005.) Buzenberg has been a journalist for 30 years, and has worked in public radio for the last 25 years. He joined National Public Radio in 1978 as a reporter to assist in the launch of Morning Edition. He worked as an NPR foreign affairs correspondent for 11 years, covering Central and South America, and later the Philippines, and Western and Eastern Europe. For three years he was NPR’s bureau chief in London. In 1989, Buzenberg returned to Washington D.C. to become the first managing editor for NPR News. Nine months later he was named vice president of News and Information, a position he held for 7 years. Buzenberg launched NPR's Talk of the Nation program, expanded NPR's newscast service to 24 x 7, and extended All Things Considered to two hours. During Buzenberg's tenure, NPR was honored with nine DuPont-Columbia Batons and 10 Peabody Awards. In recognition of his achievements at NPR, Buzenberg was presented in 1997 with the Edward R. Murrow Award, the highest honor in public radio. He co-edited “Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism,” published in the fall of 1998. Buzenberg is a journalism graduate of Kansas State University (1969). He has also been awarded fellowships to study at the University of Michigan (1977), Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (1978), and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1997).
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.
Laurie Cirivello is the executive director of the Community Media Center of Santa Rosa and has served in that capacity since its start-up. Opened in July, 1997, the Community Media Center is a training and production facility for local public, educational and government use of cable television. Prior to the Santa Rosa operation, she held positions in public access and public television in Ohio. Cirivello is active in The Alliance for Community Media, a national organization that provides support and advocacy services for community use of media technology. She is the past chair Alliance regional chair for six western states and still serves on the Board. Cirivello is a frequent speaker and trainer at seminars related to community media start-up and operations, and provides one-on-one support for fledgling access centers.
Nick DeMartino is senior vice president, Media and Technology for the American Film Institute. His work focuses on strategies and programs that harness the power of the digital revolution. In his 15 years at the Institute, he has created a wide range of programs and operating units, including AFI New Media Ventures group, which he has directed since its inception in 2000. The group runs AFI websites and builds applications, and operates innovative programs like the AFI Digital Content Lab and AFI Screen Education Center. He also manages new business alliances with a host of companies, among them ProQuest, TCM, Baseline/Filmtracker, Hypnotic, Microsoft, and CPB. The Los Angeles Business Journal named DeMartino a leader in the technology industry in 1995, and one of 20 leaders in broadband technology in 1999. Prior to joining AFI, DeMartino held a number of positions in advertising and marketing. He held a number of positions at the AFL-CIO Labor Institute of Public Affairs, including Director of Marketing and Distribution and Acting Director. He was staff member and principal author of A Public Trust: Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Future of Public Broadcasting and co-author of the Carnegie-commissioned Keeping Pace with the New Television. He was an award-winning documentary television producer. He was founder of the Washington Community Video Center and TeleVISIONS Magazine and a consultant to television stations and production companies focusing on new technologies.
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Garry Denny is currently the associate director of programming for Wisconsin Public Television. Denny's career in public television began in 1982 while attending Howard University in Washington, DC as a traffic assistant at WHMM (now WHUT). In his second year at WHMM Denny worked as assistant to the director of programming while continuing to serve as traffic assistant. Upon graduation with a B.A. degree in film directing Garry moved to Madison, WI, to be the traffic supervisor for WHA. A number of promotions and organizational changes have lead to Denny's current position of associate director of programming. In his tenure as chief programmer for Wisconsin Public Television Denny has served on numerous system-wide committees, including the PBS Communications Advisory Committee and the CPB-funded Programmers' Research Council. Denny has also served on panels directly associated with content selection, including P.O.V. Editorial Committee and Open Call activities for ITVS. Denny is currently serving as president of the Public Television Programmers Association. In 2001, Denny was named PBS Programmer of the Year.
William J. Drummond is a professor of journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Drummond began his career reporting for the Louisville Courier-Journal and later reported for many years for the Los Angeles Times (including stints as bureau chief in New Delhi and Jerusalem). Professor Drummond served as associate press secretary to President Jimmy Carter and also worked as editor and national security correspondent for National Public Radio. He has been honored with a National Press Club Foundation Award, the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for Journalism Excellence, and the Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Black Condition from the National Association of Black Journalists. He received his bachelor degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and his master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. While teaching, he remains an active freelancer in both print and radio.
Jon Else a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, is best known for his documentary, “The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb,” as well “Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven” (produced for the Sundance Institute), and “A Job At Ford's,” part of the PBS series “The Great Depression”. He produced and directed “Cadillac Desert: Water” and the “Transformation Of Nature,” “Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle” and most recently, “Open Outcry”. He was series producer and cinematographer for Henry Hampton's “Eyes On The Prize: America's Civil Rights Years,” and has shot hundreds of documentaries for PBS, the BBC, ABC and HBO, including the BBC/PBS “History Of Rock And Roll,” “Who Are The DeBolts “(Academy Award 1976), and the new Paramount/MTV feature documentary, “Tupac Resurrection”. Else was a MacArthur Fellow from 1988 to 1993, and has won four National Emmys (for writing, producing, directing, and cinematography), several Columbia-DuPont and Peabody Awards as well as several Academy Award nominations, the Prix Italia, the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Sundance Filmmaker's Trophy. He graduated from the University of California in 1968, and earned a Master's in Communication from Stanford University in 1974. He has just returned from doing camera work on a documentary about Afghanistan's constitutional Loya Jirga, and is beginning a new film about nuclear weapons.
Sally Jo Fifer is president and CEO of Independent Television Service (ITVS), which has helped create and present more than 450 independently-produced programs for public broadcasting-programs that explore complex issues, represent diverse communities, and express points-of-view seldom seen on television. Sally oversees ITVS's core operations which include funding, production management, promotion, and distribution of independently produced programming. She is also executive producer of “Independent Lens,” a 29-week national series for PBS. Prior to taking the helm at ITVS, she spent nine years as the executive director of Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC). She received her bachelor degree from the University of California, Berkeley and master’s degree from Stanford University.
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.
Tim Goodman is the television critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. In addition to reviews, he covers the industry and writes trend and analysis pieces. A journalist for 20 years, he has worked at the San Francisco Examiner, Contra Costa Times, San Jose Mercury News and the Peninsula Times-Tribune, after graduating from San Jose State University. Among his national awards are a first place for criticism from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, the 2003 Herb Caen Memorial Award from The National Society of Newspaper Columnists and in 2001 he was named best TV critic in the country from the media web site newsblues.com. He has written for Business 2.0, Ironminds.com and was once the golf writer for South African Sports Illustrated. He recently taught a course in criticism at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Belinda Griswold is an attorney and the media director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an Oakland-based non-profit organization working to replace the punishment industry with increased opportunities, economic development, and community-based solutions. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Political Economy, Griswold began her career as a reporter and news editor at the Bay Guardian. The former program director at Media Alliance, she has provided media strategy services for Bay Area electoral and grassroots campaigns, including mayoral candidates, ballot measure campaigns, and direct actions. A graduate of the Northeastern University School of Law, Griswold was a visiting student at Hastings School of Law as well as the research and development editor of North by Northwest, the Hastings environmental law journal. She has served on the boards of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco and the Tibet Humanitarian Project.
Luis Guardia is senior director for media technologies at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). At CPB, he distributes over $182M of special appropriations for public radio and television's conversion to digital broadcasting. In this role, his portfolio includes investments at stations, national distribution hubs, commissioned technical research, new digital service applications, and public televisions and radio's interconnection systems. Prior to his current position, he was director of budget for CPB for 5 years and served as both budget director and business affairs director for NPR for years. Guardia earned his master’s degree in information systems from the George Washington University and his master’s degree in business administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA. He attended the University of Virginia where he received his bachelor degree. He serves on a variety of community boards and the PBS Technology and Distribution Committee. Guardia lives in Potomac, MD with his wife and two children.
Dennis L. Haarsager has led Washington State University's public broadcasting and educational telecommunications organization since 1978, serving as associate vice president and general manager, Educational Telecommunications and Technology since 1995. His organization includes 13 public radio stations operating as Northwest Public Radio, two public television stations, the country's busiest statewide distance learning network, and WSU's instructional support services. From 2001-2003, he took a half-time leave of absence to head up the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Digital Distribution Implementation Initiative and has done consulting work for several other organizations. Haarsager is on the boards of the Association of Public Television Stations and the Integrated Media Association and served two terms on the board of the Public Broadcasting Service where he has chaired the New Technologies and Interconnection Committees. He previously chaired public radio's Station Resource Group and public television's Small Station Association. He serves on numerous national committees in public radio and television, on Network Technical Steering Committee of the State of Washington K-20 Educational Network and is president of the Washington Public Broadcasting Association. Currently, he is one of the principals behind the Public Service Publisher initiative and he edits a weblog at technology360.com. Prior to WSU, Haarsager served as state coordinator for Idaho Public Broadcasting and as director of administration for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Haarsager has his master’s degree in public administration and a bachelor degree in political theory, both from the University of South Dakota.
Chris Haws has been an active participant in the international documentary production community for three decades. During that time he has written, directed, and produced a host of award winning documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Discovery, PBS, ABC – and many other broadcasters around the world. He founded and ran the internationally successful production company, InCA, and has represented the interests of documentarians on numerous industry bodies, such as PACT, IDFA, the IDA and NATPE. He chaired the European Union Documentary project for seven years and created the Amsterdam Documentary Forum. He was appointed as Discovery Europe’s first Vice President and Commissioning Editor and went on to become senior vice president and executive producer for Discovery Networks International, based in Maryland. Currently, he consults to the CPB, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WETA, Discovery Communications, the World Bank, the EU and the United Nations, as well as many other broadcast, production and distribution companies around the world. Over the years he has taught a range of documentary production skills, from scriptwriting to co-production development at the National Film School, the European Film Academy, Ludwigsburg University, the Sorbonne and the Banff Executive Training Centre. In 2004 he was invited to become an adjunct professor at the School of Communications at American University in Washington, DC where he teaches International Media Studies.
Evan Henshaw-Plath is the lead engineer for Odeo, a San Francisco based internet company specializing in podcasting and participatory radio production and distribution tools. He is a principle organizer and technical lead in the free software inspired community and participatory media movement, indymedia. His work has included
co-organizing dozens of indymedia centers in Latin America, the United States, Europe, and South Asia.
David Hosley (pronounced hoss-lee) is the president and general manager of KVIE Public Television in Sacramento. He has led the station through the digital transition, raising $5 million dollars and putting KVIE-DT on the air in June, 2004. The station operates KVIE-TV Channel 6 and a cable channel for Sacramento County Comcast viewers, and is now providing Video On Demand for Comcast as well as partnering with them on a new children's cable service, Sprout. Dr. Hosley spent the first quarter century of his career as a journalist, starting at age 14 and going on to be a reporter, anchor and news director in San Francisco, Miami and New York. He has been in public broadcasting management since 1987, turning KQED-FM into an all-news station, managing KQED TV in San Francisco and KCSM TV/FM in San Mateo before moving to Sacramento seven years ago. He holds a co-terminal master's degree from Stanford University in communications and a Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University. Dr. Hosley has taught at the University of Florida, Stanford University and Florida International University. He is the author of “As Good As Any,” about foreign correspondence on American radio during World War II, and “Hard News: Women in Broadcast Journalism”. He has extensive production experience with a special interest in the history of emerging ethnic groups in America. Last year, he was co-executive producer of “Searching For Asian America,” with Eddie Wong of the National Asian American Journalism Association, which was broadcast on PBS.
John Lawson began service as president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations in April 2001. Lawson leads the association's efforts to secure federal funding and favorable public policies for the nation's 357 public television stations. Priorities include digital conversion, an expanded role for public television in education, use of DTV datacasting for homeland security, and universal access to public television through all distribution technologies. Under Lawson's leadership, APTS entered into a historic, voluntary carriage agreement with cable multiple system operators to ensure that local Public Television stations' digital programming will be carried on cable systems serving the vast majority of the nation's cable subscribers. Securing cable carriage of America's local public television stations' digital offerings achieved one of the most important strategic objectives of the public television industry. The agreement was particularly important given the decision of the Federal Communications Commission to deny mandatory carriage for all broadcasters of the type secured by APTS. Also, during Lawson's tenure as president of APTS, public broadcasting persuaded Congress to approve the first federal funds specifically targeted for the digital conversion of stations. Federal funding for DTV conversion has exceeded $300 million so far. Congress also approved the extension and expansion of public television's Ready to Learn and Ready to Teach programs in the "No Child Left Behind Act." And the FCC ruled that public stations can use a portion of their DTV transmission capacity for revenue producing activities. In 1993, Lawson founded Convergence Services, Inc., a consulting and lobbying firm that focused on educational technology policy and which he ran until accepting the APTS position. Lawson also has produced and hosted seven major satellite videoconferences on educational technology, reaching thousands of schools, libraries and colleges across the U.S. Previously, he worked at South Carolina ETV Network and headed an environmental foundation. Lawson was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission's Media Security and Reliability Council in 2002. Lawson also served on the board of the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training. Lawson holds BA and MA degrees in International Studies from the University of South Carolina. He serves on the National Advisory Council for the university's College of Liberal Arts.
George Lewinski is the senior producer of the weekly KQED/NPR program Pacific Time, which explores the ideas, trends and cultural patterns that flow back and forth between Asia and America. He is also a Don Fisher Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, who teaches courses in radio. Lewinski graduated from McGill University, is a former editor at the CBC in Canada and foreign bureau chief and correspondent for Public Radio International's daily program Marketplace.
Robert G. Magnuson has 26 years of experience in the media business. He has been a reporter, editor, publisher, CEO and consultant. He currently is president of Magnuson & Company, a consulting firm based in Laguna Beach, California. Magnuson was president and CEO of InfoWorld Media Group, a leading enterprise IT magazine and media company owned by International Data Group. Before that, he spent nearly 20 years at the Los Angeles Times, where he started as a business reporter and went on to serve as deputy metropolitan editor, state editor and for six years was the newspaper’s business editor. He later was president of The Times’ Orange County edition and senior vice president of The Times responsible for many of the newspaper’s sales, marketing, production and distribution operations. Earlier in his career, Magnuson was Hong Kong bureau chief of the Asian Wall Street Journal, business editor of the Oakland Tribune and an associate economics editor for Business Week magazine. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. Magnuson graduated from UC Berkeley and holds master’s degrees in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and in journalism from Columbia University. He and his wife, Los Angeles Times staff writer Shawn Hubler, have three daughters.
Cara Mertes is currently the executive director of P.O.V./American Documentary, Inc (www.amdoc.org). Mertes is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, consultant and programmer whose work has been featured widely in museums, festivals, PBS and internationally. Since 2000, she has received three Primetime News and Documentary Emmy's, two Peabody and two duPont-Columbia Awards as executive producer for P.O.V. In that time, Mertes has also launched a series of new initiatives expanding the public culture mandate of P.O.V./American Documentary, including P.O.V.'s Borders, a Webby-Award winning on-line showcase for original non-fiction web-based materials, Youth Views, P.O.V.'s youth-targeted national screening and training initiative, the Diverse Voices Project, a co-production and mentoring initiative for emerging filmmakers that has resulted in multiple awards for funded films, an innovative partnership with Netflix and Docurama and True Lives, a new series featuring important documentaries returning to public television broadcast, currently available from American Public Television. Previously Mertes was the creator and executive producer/director of "SIGNAL TO NOISE: Life with Television,” a three-hour award-winning PBS series examining the impact of television on everyday life, as well as series producer for “New Television,” an annual PBS series featuring international experimental work and “Independent Focus” for WNET/New York, at the time the premiere public television showcase for American independent video and film. Mertes is contributing dditor for The Independent and frequently serves as an advisor and panelist for foundations, festivals and other organizations concerned with public television, public media and independent documentary.
Mette Hoffman Meyer is chief executive for co-productions and documentaries and factual programming at TV 2/DANMARK. TV 2 is the biggest TV network in Denmark consisting of three Channels TV 2, TV 2/Zulu and TV 2/Charlie. TV 2/DANMARK is the market leader - a public broadcaster holding 40% market share. She has been involved in many documentaries including Oscar, Sundance, IDA and Peabody award winners. Most recently she has co-produced and or commissioned “Why We Fight”; “Control Room”; “To Live Is Better Than To Die”; “Prostitution Behind The Veil: A Decent Factury” and “The Trial of Milosevic”. She is a board member of STEPS Int., the initiator of the big worldwide event DEMOCRACY.
David Michaelis serves on the Board of Directors for Internews Network and is the director of Current Affairs for Worldlink Studio in San Francisco. Born in Jerusalem in 1945, Michaelis studied at Hebrew University and received his degree in philosophy and sociology. He has produced and directed documentaries on social-political issues for the BBC Channel 4 in the UK as well as for ARD and ZDF in Germany. Michaelis served as a news editor in London and Washington for ARD. His work on various talk shows and documentaries has always been on the forefront of legitimizing the rights of minorities in Israel. With Internews, he created the first satellite two-way link between Tunis and Jerusalem in October, 1993. Michaelis also helped produce, with the Jerusalem Film Institute, the Palestinian Broadcasting Conference held in Jerusalem in January 1994. Michaelis recently won a Peabody award for his television magazine program, Mosaic.
Patricia Mitchell was named president and chief executive officer of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in March 2000. Mitchell brings to the post a broad and distinguished background as a journalist, network correspondent, award-winning producer, television executive and college-level educator. She is the first producer and first woman to lead the $2 billion public service broadcasting enterprise, and has led PBS to significantly expand its international and independent programming offerings. In addition to her work at PBS, Mitchell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Afghan Women's Council, and also serves as a director of Knight Ridder, Inc. and Bank of America. She is the vice chair of the Sundance Institute, and is also a founding member of Mikhail Gorbachev's global environmental organization as well as an advisor to the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Harvard University. Mitchell speaks extensively on the role of media in society, including testimony to both the U.S. Congress and the British House of Lords. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia, with a master's degree in English literature, she has also been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Emerson College, Hollins University, Bloomsburg University and Converse College. She is a resident of both Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Judy Muller an Emmy Award-winning ABC News correspondent and National Public Radio commentator, joined the faculty of the USC Annenberg School for Communication in August 2003 as an assistant professor of journalism, sharing her vast experience as a radio and television reporter with USC students. She remains a contributing correspondent to ABC News broadcasts, including "Nightline" and "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings." Muller, who went to work for ABC News in 1990, covered the 1992 Rodney King trial and ensuing riots, the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil trials, among other stories. As part of a "Nightline" team, she received an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and an Emmy Award for coverage of the Simpson case. A regular contributor to NPR's "Morning Edition," she also wrote a book about her experiences as a journalist titled "Now This? Radio, Television and the Real World." Before joining the ABC News team, Muller was a CBS News correspondent who contributed to "CBS News Sunday Morning" and the "CBS Weekend News." She did double duty on CBS News Radio, anchoring "First Line Report" and "Correspondent's Notebook." Muller was also a summer anchor for "The Osgood File." She joined CBS News in 1981 and, during her nine years with the network, covered the space shuttle program, the 1988 political conventions and George H. W. Bush's presidential campaign. She is a graduate of Mary Washington College and has received numerous journalism honors, including the New Jersey Broadcasters Association Award (1979), the American Bar Association Award (1980) and the Colorado Sigma Delta Chi Award (1981).
Alyce Myatt is a multimedia consultant providing analysis and strategic planning services for independent media organizations and the philanthropic community. Chief among her clients are the Center for Digital Democracy, a media policy organization, MediaWorks, a media funder network, and Free Speech TV, a 24-hour progressive television network; other recent clients include OneWorld TV, Emerson College, TVE Brasil, the Heinz Endowments, Roundtable Media, and the Annie E. Casey and Skillman Foundations. Prior to her return to consulting, she was vice president of programming for the Public Broadcasting Service. Her responsibilities included project development and oversight of independent film, PBS Kids, and the Ready To Learn initiative. Previous to re-joining PBS, Myatt was program officer for media at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation where she administered their grant-making for documentary film and television, community outreach related to media, community-based media arts centers, and public radio. Preceding her work at the foundation she was president of her own consulting firm, providing program development services, strategic planning, and brand management to a variety of clients in television, radio, and multimedia. Clients included Rainbow Media, Blackside Inc., EchoStar, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., the Independent Television Service (ITVS), Sunbow, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, WGBH, WNET, and WNYC Radio. Myatt was creative consultant for Sesame Workshop's cable venture and was previously director of Children's Programming for the Public Broadcasting Service. Her production credits include the Smithsonian Institution, Nickelodeon, and ABC's "20/20." Myatt serves as a board director or advisor to Auburn Media at the Center for Multi-faith Education, the Center for Rural Strategies, the Center for Social Media at American University, the Emerson College Alumni Association, mediarights.org, the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture and Witness.
Spencer Nakasako is a documentary filmmaker who most recently directed and produced “Refugee,” a film about young Cambodian's return to his native country and reunion with the father and brother he became separated from when he and his mother came to the United States as refugees. Nakasako received a National Emmy Award for “a.k.a. Don Bonus,” the video diary of a Cambodian refugee teenager that aired on the PBS series P.O.V. and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival. “Kelly Loves Tony,” a video diary about a Iu Mien refugee teenage couple growing up too fast and too soon in Oakland, CA also aired on P.O.V. Nakasako wrote the screenplay and co-directed a feature film about Hong Kong, “Life is Cheap . . . But Toilet Paper is Expensive,” with Wayne Wang, and was one of the producers on “School Colors,” a documentary for Frontline about the 1994 graduating class at Berkeley High School. He produced and directed “Monterey's Boat People,” about the conflict between Vietnamese and local fishermen in his hometown of Monterey, CA, and “Talking History,” about the history of Asian women in the US. Both films received numerous awards and aired nationally on PBS. For the past fifteen years, Nakasako has been working in the Southeast Asian communities of San Francisco and Oakland, training at-risk refugee youth to make films about their own lives. In addition to teaching film in the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California at Berkeley, he has also had artist-in-residencies at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the University of Toronto and, most recently Stanford University.
Ellin O'Leary is the president and executive producer of Youth Radio, based in Berkeley, CA. In 1992 Ellin O'Leary founded Youth Radio along with a group of Bay Area high school students, based on her work as an award-winning journalist. Ms. O'Leary originally worked in youth media in 1979, as the startup Producer for Youth News in Berkeley. Previously, she was a reporter covering the White House, Capitol Hill & Foreign Affairs for Pacifica Radio in Washington, DC where she also Co-founded the Pacifica National Network, serving community stations around the country with a daily news feed. Ms. O'Leary also worked as a reporter for National Public Radio, based in San Francisco, as News Director for KPFK in Los Angeles and KRE-KBLX in the Bay Area. Later, as News Director at KQED-FM she was in charge of launching the all-news format, including starting the talk show Forum and hosting “Call City Hall,” a live call-in show from the San Francisco Mayor's office. In her seven years at KQED-TV, Ellin served as director of documentary research, producer and investigative reporter (winning two Emmys as reporter). O'Leary attended George Washington University, Universidad Catolica in Quito, Ecuador and Antioch College. Her husband Tim McGovern is the director of engineering at Skywalker Sound. They have three children ages 14, 18 and 20 and they are active in the Berkeley Public Schools. O'Leary currently leads Youth Radio's strategic development and award-winning productions, including radio, web, TV and print.
Michael Pack an award-winning independent film and television producer, was named Corporation for Public Broadcasting's senior vice president, television programming, on February 19, 2003. Before joining CPB, he was president of Manifold Productions, Inc., which he founded in 1977. Pack's most recent project, "God and the Inner City," narrated by Phylicia Rashad, was nationally broadcast by PBS in June 2003. Among his other major television credits are "Rediscovering George Washington," hosted by Richard Brookhiser (2002); "The Fall of Newt Gingrich," narrated by Blair Brown (2000); "The Rodney King Incident: Race and Justice in America," narrated by Robert Prosky (1998); "Inside the Republican Revolution: The First Hundred Days," hosted by Don Lambro (1995); "Hollywood vs. Religion," hosted by Michael Medved (1995); "Campus Culture Wars: Five Stories about Political Correctness," narrated by Lindsay Crouse (1993); "America's Political Parties," hosted by Ben Wattenberg and David Gergen (1988 and 1992); "Fire from the Sun: The Search for Fusion Energy," hosted by E. G. Marshall (1990); and "Hollywood's Favorite Heavy: Businessmen on Prime Time TV," hosted by Eli Wallach (1987). All have been nationally broadcast on PBS, except "The Rodney King Incident," which premiered on The Learning Channel. Pack's work has received awards including the Silver and Bronze Award from the Houston International Film Festival, Silver Screen Award at the U.S. International Film and Television Festival, Finalist at the New York Festivals, the Red Ribbon Award from the American Film and Video Festival, the Chris Statuette from the Columbus International Film Festival, and the CINE Golden Eagle. In 2002, President Bush nominated and the Senate confirmed Pack to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, which oversees the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1993, Pack co-chaired CPB's International TV Council, which explored cooperative ventures between American public television and its counterparts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. From 1992-1993, Mr. Pack also served as director of WORLDNET, the U.S. Information Agency's global satellite television network. Pack attended Yale College and the University of California at Berkeley, and studied film at New York University. Before launching Manifold Productions, he served as a staff editor for RAI, the Italian TV network, and for Pathe News in New York.
Robert Pepper is chief of Policy Development at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In this capacity, Pepper serves as a direct advisor to the Chairman of the FCC on long-term policy planning including formulating and evaluating long-range policy options especially those that cut across traditional industry and institutional boundaries, particularly as a result of new technological developments and convergence. Among other responsibilities, he is co-chair of the Commission's Internet Policy Working Group and has primary responsibility for developing the Commission's overall relationship with the financial community. Before his appointment to his current position in March 2003, Pepper was Chief of the Commission's Office of Plans and Policy beginning in 1989. At OPP, Pepper's responsibilities included leading teams developing policies for digital convergence; implementing provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996; assessing the development of the Internet and electronic commerce; designing and implementing the first spectrum auctions in the United States; developing more market-based spectrum policies; assessing competition in the video marketplace; and assessing the impact of the development of the Internet on traditional communications industry and policy structures. He also was responsible for providing strategic advice on industry and policy developments to the Commission's Chairman and Commissioners. Pepper's previous positions at the FCC have included Acting Deputy Chief of OPP and Senior Advisor to Commissioner Dennis. Before joining the FCC, Pepper was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies, a joint project of the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania where he held an academic appointment. He also has been Director of Domestic Policies and Acting Associate Administrator for Policy Analysis and Development at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce and he developed a program on communications, computers, and information at the National Science Foundation. His academic appointments have included being a professor of Communications at the University of Iowa where he was program Chairman and he was a Research Affiliate of the Program on Information Resources Policy at Harvard University. He serves on advisory boards for George Washington University, Michigan State University, and the City University of New York. Pepper has published and lectured widely on telecommunications policy issues. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also received his doctorate.
Mary Pruess serves as president and general manager of WNIT Public Television in Elkhart, Indiana. WNIT's broadcast viewing area covers northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan. Prior to coming to WNIT, Pruess was chief content cfficer and general manager for WHRO-TV in Norfolk, VA. Her oversight at WHRO included television and radio programming, production, and contracted services; education and children's services; and program operations. Pruess was deputy director of PMN TRAC, a public television research company in Arizona and served as the chief executive officer to the Public Television Programmers Association. She began her media career at KICR radio in Iowa and has worked at PTV stations in Houston, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona. She previously served on the Editorial Committee for P.O.V., as well as numerous public television advisory committees. She has received several awards for community service, including a Capitol Region Emmy Award, a Best of the Best Outreach Award from the National Educational Telecommunications Association, a Woman of Courage Award from the 100+ Black Men of the Virginia Peninsula, the LD Britt Award for Community Service, and the Human Rights Award from the City of Virginia Beach. Her work has been profiled in several foundation publications. Mary currently serves on the boards of the Independent Television Service, the Small Station Association, the National Educational Telecommunications Association, and Indiana Public Broadcasting Stations.
Gordon Quinn is president and founding member of Kartemquin Films. Quinn has been making documentaries for over 35 years. His producing credits include such highly acclaimed films as “Hoop Dreams,” “Vietnam,” “Long Time Coming,” “Golub,” “5 Girls,” “Refrigerator Mothers” and “Stevie” for which he also won the Cinematography Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, Gordon executive produced “The New Americans” and directed the Palestinian segment of this intimate seven-hour series that chronicles the journey taken by new immigrants to this country and the obstacles they face once they have arrived. It premiered on PBS as part of the critically acclaimed Independent Lens series in March 2004.
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Mel Rogers is president and general manager of KOCE-TV in Orange County, California. He recently concluded two terms of service on the Board of Directors of PBS. He has been involved in public broadcast media since 1984 when he joined KBYU-TV in the Salt Lake City market as station manager. His career in media began in the 1970’s when he was a radio and television journalist for stations in Salt Lake area and later an adjunct professor of media courses at Brigham Young University and also at Chapman University. He holds a master’s degree in international communications and a bachelor of arts degree in broadcast journalism. He has been a public relations professional and is a principal in Ethos Institute a media-consulting firm to businesses and corporate CEO’s. At both KOCE and KBYU Rogers took under performing public television stations and dramatically grew them in size, viewership, revenues and community impact. He is an unapologetic, enthusiastic believer in media that exists to serve and not to sell. Roger has served on multiple task forces responsible for national planning and policy making for both PBS and CPB. He has been president of public television’s Small Station Association, Program Resources Group, California Public Television Stations Association, Beta Group Stations and also the Utah Broadcasters Association.
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.”
Barbara A. Serrano assistant entertainment editor/television at the Los Angeles Times, helps direct coverage of television and the news media. From October 2003 until November 2004, she was deputy political editor on the national desk, overseeing the Times' coverage of the 2004 presidential race. Serrano, previously worked at The Seattle Times, where she was deputy metro editor and political editor for three years. She has spent most of her career as a political and investigative reporter, and has worked at the Orange County Register and Stockton Record. She was a 2002 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She has a bachelor's degree in political economy from UC Berkeley, and a master's in international journalism from USC.
Sharon Tiller joined FRONTLINE in 1995. As senior producer, she works with independent producers to develop ideas, funding strategies and documentary proposals for the series and oversees the production of a number of programs each season. In 2002 Tiller and executive producer David Fanning also launched a new international magazine series FRONTLINE/World that features the work of a new generation of video journalists. In 1996, she helped establish the "FRONTLINE West" project at the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where producers-in-residence work with graduates of the documentary program on a number of FRONTLINE and “World” projects each academic year. Tiller also teaches a course at the journalism school. Her recent FRONTLINE credits include "Drug Wars," a critically acclaimed four-hour special on America’s thirty-year war on drug abuse and drug crime, and "Blackout," a joint FRONTLINE/New York Times investigation of the California energy crisis and the role of energy traders at the Enron Corporation. Before joining FRONTLINE, Tiller was the executive director for the San Francisco-based Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR). In 1989 Tiller launched and supervised an independent documentary unit at CIR, which has co-produced fifteen investigative documentaries for FRONTLINE. Tiller has received two Dupont-Columbia University Broadcast Journalism Awards, a George Polk Award for National Television Reporting, a World Affairs Council Award of Excellence for International Reporting, two National Education Writers’ First Prizes for Documentary Television, a National Emmy and the George Foster Peabody Award for "Drug Wars," as well as the Overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow Award for the 2004 season of FRONTLINE/World.
Pete Tridish was a member of the founding collective of Radio Mutiny, 91.3 FM in Philadelphia. He is also a founder of the Prometheus Radio Project. In 1997, he was an organizer for Radio Mutiny's demonstrations at Benjamin Franklin's Printing Press and the Liberty Bell; on both occasions the station broadcast in open defiance of the FCCs' unfair rules that prohibit low power community broadcasting.. He also worked on the first two microradio conferences on the East Coast --and organized radio barnraisings in 5 communities around the United States. He actively participated in the rulemaking that led up to the adoption of LPFM. He sat on the committee that sponsored the crucial Broadcast Signal Labs study, which proved to the FCC that LPFM would not cause interference. Tridish has helped to build a number of low power radio stations, and provided advice to hundreds. He has done radio trainings in Guatemala, Colombia, Nepal and other countries. He has spoken at colleges, coffee shops, living rooms, and even the CATO Institute. He has been interviewed for several segments on NPR, a number of college, public and pirate radio stations, CNN, for The New York Times, Maximum Rock and Roll, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Columbia Journalism Review, Radio Ink, Radio and Records, Associated Press, Democracy Now, Free Speech Radio New, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia City Paper, Baltimore City Paper, Albany Times Union, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia Inquirer, Freedom Forum, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, Current Biography, Washington Post, Broadcasting and Cable, Radio World, Hollywood Reporter, Z Magazine, Paper Tiger TV and other news outlets. He and Kate Coyer contributed an article to the recent book, News Incorporated. He holds a bachelor degree in appropriate technology from Antioch College.
Pat van Heerden grew up on a cattle farm in the Northern Cape of South Africa. She completed a bachelor degree in social science and a teaching degree at the University of Cape Town. She then taught history, English and physical education at an apartheid segregated school. In the final year of teaching there, the girls athletic team won all their inter-school 4x100 relay races. No longer permitted to teach after the school's boycotts of 1985 she joined a team making teaching materials for students who no longer attended government schools. At this point studied an honors degree in European and African History through the University of South Africa. After that received a scholarship to New York University to study film and history. Completed a master’s degree in history and film, and is presently, PhD(abd). In New York, she worked on countless New York University and Columbia University student films. She went on to co-direct “A Woman's Place,” screened on PBS stations across America, India and South Africa. She has taught history and film at New York University, as well as the University of the Witwatersrand. On return to South Africa, she made 5x30' minute films for broadcast on religious toleration and love. In 2001, van Heerden made the opening film to the Apartheid Museum and worked on other visual installations. In 2002 joined SABC as commissioning editor for Factual Programming on SABC1 and started to work on “Project 10: Celebrating Ten Years of Freedom,” a training and development project in narrative documentary for broadcast on the 10th anniversary of democracy. In 2004 she became head of entertainment for SABC and is currently enjoying the challenge of looking at developing comedy, local talent reality and all sorts of other things.
Tracy Westen is vice-chairman and CEO of the Center for Governmental Studies at the University of Southern California, which he founded in 1983. He has co-authored over 12 CGS reports and publications. He helped create key CGS projects, including the California Commission on Campaign Financing, the National Resource Center on State and Local Campaign Finance Reform, the California Channel, the California Citizens Budget Commission, the Democracy Network, the California Citizens Commission on Higher Education, and ConnectLA. He is also chairman of the Municipal Access Policy Board for Los Angeles Channel 35, adjunct professor of Communications Law and Policy at the USC Annenberg School of Communication (since 1983) and senior fellow for Electronic Democracy at the Aspen Institute. He was deputy director for Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission (1977-81). He is a recipient of the national "public service" awards from both Common Cause and the National League of Women Voters for his work on campaign finance reform and online voter information systems.
Eddie Wong has been the executive director of National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA) since November 1996. He served as executive producer for several NAATA public television projects including "Kelly Loves Tony," "Searching for Asian America," and "Discovering Angel Island." Wong received his bachelor and MFA degrees from UCLA in Film and Television production. He was also one of the founders of Visual Communications, the nation's first Asian American media production center. At VC, Wong wrote, directed and produced several documentaries on Asian Americans. Eddie currently serves on the PBS Program Services Committee, an advisory body to the PBS Board.
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