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years, a stringer for the Associated Press, a shooter at the Elyria Chronicle Telegram and The New Philadelphia Times Reporter. Barth has won numerous national and state awards for shooting and editing in the 28 years in the business. Jeff Beierman is staff photographer at the Omaha World Herald and graduated from Midland Lutheran Col-lege. Karen Bells has spent 20 years as a newspaper edi-tor, with stints as a page designer, features reporter, and columnist. Gigs have included dailies at the Cincinnati Enquirer, Palm Beach Post, and Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, as well as the Business Courier, a Cincinnati-based business weekly. Lori Bergen, Ph.D., is Dean of the Diederich College of Communication at Marquette University. Her research is focused on newspapers, journalists, media in communi-ties, children and television violence. An ASNE Program in Journalism Excellence fellow, she was a reporter for The Sacramento Bee in the summer of 1998. In 1999, she received a Kaiser Family Foundation grant for a public television documentary on health care in rural com-munities. Bergen was a national press staffer for a 1980 presidential campaign, worked for newspapers and maga-zines in Kansas and Indiana, and earned a Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1991. Charles Borst is currently the Director of Photography at Education Week, and has worked for over 30 years in newspapers, photo agencies, national magazines, and wire services as a director of photography, media executive, picture editor, and photographer. Sharynn Bowman is the classified advertising manag-er for the Garden City Telegram and has been employed there since 1993. Sharynn is responsible for managing classified sales staff, lay-out (dummy) paper, insuring that transient billing, tear sheets, call-backs, cold-calls, etc. are done daily. She assists retail sales staff and ad director, business office, and other departments as needed and is a member of marketing and employee’s benefit committees. Sharynn studied History at Fort Hays State University. Dr. Oliver Boyd-Barrett is professor of Journalism in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations, School of Media and Communication, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Dr. Boyd-Barrett specializes in news agency and international journalism. He is author, co-author, editor or co-editor of many books, including The International News Agencies (Sage, 1980), Le Trafic des Nouvelles (Alain Moreau, 1981), Contra-Flow in Global News (John Libbey, 1992), Educational Reform in Demo-cratic Spain (Routledge, 1996), The Globalization of News (Sage 1998), Communications Media, Globalization and Empire (John Libbey, 2005) and News Agencies in the Turbulent Era of the Internet (Government of Catalonia, 2010). Katherine A. Bradshaw, Ph.D., is an Associate Pro-fessor in the Department of Journalism and Public Rela-tions at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. She was a journalist in Denver and Kansas City for 15 years before pursuing graduate training. She earned her doctorate from Michigan State. She is a mem-ber of the editorial boards of American Journalism, Jour-nalism History, and Journalism and Mass Communication Editor. Sue Burzynski Bullard is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, teaching reporting and editing. She spent 30 years as a reporter and editor at small and large newspapers, including 21 years at The Detroit News. She was managing editor for three years, overseeing both print and online news. Alberto Cairo is Director if Infographics and Multime-dia at Editora Clobo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. He coordinates information graphics for 13 magazines and websites. Until December, 2009, he was James H. Schumaker dis-tinguished assistant professor at the School of Journal-ism, UNC-Chapel Hill. Before that, he was director of infographics at El Mundo online, in Spain. Between 2000 and 2005, his team won more Society for News Design and Malofiej online graphics awards than any other in the world. Mario Canseco is Vice President at Angus Reid Public Opinion, a global polling company. Mario has granted dozens of interviews to discuss poll findings and comment about Canadian and international politics. Mario is also the editor of the Angus Reid Global Monitor, an online source that provides daily information and analysis on

worldwide opinion of political, social, and economic affairs. He also served as Foreign Editor of La Razon, writing and editing articles for the Spanish-language Mexico City-based newspaper. John Carvalho is director of the journalism program at Auburn University. Before becoming a college professor, he was a magazine editor, working mainly with religious maga-zines (Sports Spectrum, Our Daily Bread’s Campus Jour-nal). He earned his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. Lona Cobb is a professor of Journalism in the Mass Communications Department at Winston-Salem State Uni-versity in North Carolina. She advises the student newspa-per and teaches print journalism courses. She has worked at WSSU since August 2008. Prior to teaching at WSSU, she worked at Bennet College in Greensboro, North Caro-line. During her 13 year tenure at Bennett, she advised the student newspaper, taught print journalism courses, and served as the coordinator for media internships. She has a BA in English/Journalism, an MAJ in Journalism, and a PhD in Journalism. Cobb is affiliated with various special interest groups, including AEJMC, College Media Advisers, and Black College Communications Association. Marshall Cook is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of 30 books, including Leads and Conclusions (Writer’s Digest Books), a handbook for feature writers. He and wife Eileen live in Madison. Son Jeremiah and his wife, Kim, live nearby. Joanna Corman is a freelance writer and former daily newspaper reporter in Sacramento, Calif., who covers reli-gion, travel, and business. Her stories have appeared in Religion News Service, Publishers Weekly and Science & Spirit, among others. She has a certificate of theological studies from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford. Jennie Coughlin is the Data/Online Editor at The News Leader, a community daily in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Prior to that, she was assistant city editor at The Leader, and a reporter for Community Newspaper Co. in eastern Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the University of Mis-souri and a member of IRE/NICAR. Carl M. Crothers is the executive editor of the Winston-Salem Journal, and a former deputy managing editor of The Tampa Tribune. He has been a newspaper journalist for 30 years. During his tenure, the Journal has won more than a dozen national journalism awards for investigative and pub-lic-service reporting. He is a member of the board of the North Carolina Press Association. David Croy is the Graphic Designer at the Omaha World Herald in Nebraska. Howard Decker is manager of the Houston Chronicle neighborhood newsroom, which includes 14 different weekly

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Bob Adams is the director of Student Publications at Western Kentucky University and an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Broadcasting. He is com-pleting his 43rd year at Western. In addition, he has been co-publisher of five weekly newspapers in Kentucky and Tennessee. Joe Adams is an editorial writer for the Florida-Times Union in Jacksonville and a former opinion page editor. He has won more than three dozen national, regional, and state editorial writing awards since 1999. His editorials have inspired new laws at both the state and local levels. Liz Allen is the public editor at the Erie Times-News, where she has worked for 26 years. She has won awards for her editorials and for her weekly column about “ordinary people,” which runs every Sunday on the City & Region page. She attended Marquette University’s College of Journalism on the advice of her high school journalism advisor, a nun, who served as her mentor. Widowed twice, she is the mother of two sons and has seven grandchildren. She and her new husband, also a Marquette grad, are active members of St. Andrew Catho-lic Church, where they sing in the choir. S. Leon Alligood joined Middle Tennessee State Uni-versity as an assistant professor in journalism in 2008. While at The Tennessean in Nashville, he was a war corre-spondent, with assignments in Afghanistan and Iraq as an embedded reporter with the 101st Airborne Division. Jake Arnold is the Assistant Copy Desk Chief at The Oregonian and graduated from the University of Kansas. Paola Banchero is a professor of journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She has worked as a journalist in many states and Mexico. One of her areas of research is religion and media. Kimberly Barth is the Director of Photography & Graphics at the Akron Beacon Journal in Akron, Ohio. Responsibilities include overseeing a staff of seven pho-tographers, two picture editors, and three artists for the 11,000 circulation daily paper and Ohio.com website. Barth joined the Beacon in 1998 as a staff photographer, worked as picture editor and assignment editor before becoming the DOP in 2005. Prior to the Beacon, Barth was a contract photographer in Cleveland for AFP for four

Award N1a, Best Front Page, Broadsheet, Second Place, Catholic Free Press, Worcester, Mass.

Award N8b, Best Feature Writing, 17,001-40,000 Diocesan Paper, Third Place, The Michigan Catholic, Detroit, Mich.

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printed sections and 18 interactive community Web sites. Decker, 44, has been with the Chronicle since March 1991 and has served as neighborhood newsroom manager since October 1994. Previously, he served as the lead news coor-dinator and sports coordinator for the neighborhood sec-tions. Prior to joining the Chronicle, Decker was executive editor the daily Vista Press and weekly San Marcos Couri-er and Mobile Homes Courier newspapers in northern San Diego County California. He has worked in a variety of capacities including news reporter, sports reporter, copy editor, and sports editor for East Texas newspapers including the Orange Leader, Texarkana Gazette, Atlanta Citizens Journal and the Cass County Sun. He began working in newspapers as a Chronicle carrier as a middle-school student. Jessica DeLorenzo graduated from the Art Institute of Philadelphia with a bachelor in graphic design. Currently, she is a designer at The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa., where she has been the recipient of three Keystone Press Awards in illustration and page design. She also owns and operates her own photography studio. William B. Dickinson is a distinguished professor of journalism at Louisiana State University. He spent 35 years as a writer and editor in Washington, D.C., the last 19 years as editorial director/general manager of the Washington Post Writers Group. John Duchneskie is the Graphics Editor at the Phila-delphia Inquirer, where he has worked since 1985. His work has been honored by the Society of News Design, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association. George Edmonson retired in 2005 after nearly 35 in newspapers, including work as a founding editor at USA Today, serving as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s first public editor and covering the 2001 Pentagon attack. He began as a reporter at the Richmond (Va.) News Leader and lives in Florida. Howard Elliott is a 30-year old newspaper and web veteran who has worked as an editor at all levels and also publisher at one point. He oversees commentary and web operations at the The Hamilton Spectator, and has been part of numerous award-winning projects at the national and provincial level. Scott Faust has been executive director for strategic communications at California State University, Monterey Bay, since 2008. Previously, he worked for 26 years as a newspaper journalist, including executive or managing editor roles at The Salinas Californian, the Reno Gazette-Journal, the Visalia (Calif.) Times-Delta, and the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star. Mike Fender is the Director of Photography at the Indianapolis Star. He has worked in Indianapolis for 22 years as a photo manager, but still considers himself a

photographer. He has also worked at newspapers in Cali-fornia and Ohio. His first job was as staff writer for the Xenia Daily Gazette. At the Star, he supervises a staff of seventeen multimedia journalists. As a photographer he has been honored as the NPPA regional photographer of the year and is a six-time Indiana POY. He is also past president of the Associated Press Photo Managers. Michael Finney was a newspaper editor at papers including Bradenton, Fla., Duluth, Minn., Denver, Colo., and Minneapolis, Minn. He is now retired and lives in Florida with his wife, daughter, son-in-law, and grandson. Jennifer Fiorentino is Vice President/Director of Marketing for the Center of Educational Leadership and Technology, a consultancy in Massachusetts specializing in K-12 school districts and educational organizations. She is a graduate of Johnson & Wales University in Prov-idence, RI, where she earned a baccalaureate degree in Marketing. She also attended Brown University, where she was awarded a certificate in management studies. Harry Fisher was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, and began his career in photojournalism as an intern and later, as a full time freelancer at The Los Angeles Times. In 1984, Harry landed a spot on the photo staff at The Morning Call in Allentown, where he has worked as a staff photographer, intern coordinator, and part time photo editor. From 1999 until 2004, Harry served as a full time photo assignment editor. Ellen Foley has been an executive in the media and higher education industries and a community leader for more than 12 years. She has led nationally-recognized teams in innovative efforts and has a reputation for strong strategic planning skills. She has been honored as a Pulitzer Prize Finalist during her tenure as editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. She is currently an executive and instructor in Journalism at Madison College in Madi-son, Wis., and writes a weekly column for Channel 3000, a local television website. David M. Fredette is the Assistant Creative Services Manager at The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y. His responsi-bilities include managing the daily production staff, as well as being the lead creative designer for house cam-paigns, special sections, and new product development. Fredette is an 18-year newspaper veteran. John Freeman is associate professor of journalism at the University of Florida, where he’s supervised the pho-tojournalism program for nearly 20 years. He’s worked professionally at the Los Angeles Times, The Wichita Eagle, and The Palm Beach Post newspapers. He was on faculty fellowship at National Geographic magazine in 1996. Joseph Frederickson retired in 2005 as vice presi-dent /marketing and public affairs for The Press-Enter-prise Co., of Riverside, California. He has since worked in marketing and public information roles for the University of California and Idaho State University. Joe is a past president of the International Newspaper Marketing Association. Wanda Garner Cash is a senior clinical professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and the first Fellow to the S. Griffin Singer Endowed Professor-ship. She also serves as chairman of the board of Texas Student Media, which publishes The Daily Texan. Cash is a community newspaper veteran with more than 25 years’ experience, and a past president of the Texas Press Association, Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, and Texas Associated Press Managing. Joyce Gemperlein is a freelance writer and editor who lives outside Washington, D.C. and contributes to many publications. She spent her full-time journalism career at the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Jose Mercury News and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Kurt Gessler is the Assistant Managing Editor/Online at the Daily Herald, a northwest suburban Chicago news-paper. He is responsible for the Herald’s site develop-ment and enhancements and for updating it with social media functions. Gessler is a graduate of Northern Illi-nois University. Joe Greco is the corporate design director for Gate-House Media, a company of more than 450 newspapers, magazines and Web sites around the U.S. Joe’s responsi-bilities include redesigning GateHouse publications, on-site training for design and production and developing niche products for GateHouse News Service. Phil Haslanger spent 33 years working as a reporter, city editor, editorial page editor, and managing editor at

the Madison (Wis.) Capital Times. He won numerous awards for reporting on education and his work on the edi-torial page. He was president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers in 2002. Joe Hedges is a Faculty Advisor at Murray State Uni-versity in Murray, Kentucky. Bobby Herbert joined the staff of The Free Lance-Star in 1987 where he has held various positions in the advertis-ing in both sales and training. Since 2004, Herbert has traveled to over fifteen states to deliver sales seminars with the company he co-founded, Prime Time Solutions LLC. William Hickman has 30 years of experience in journal-ism and public relations. He is currently a faculty member at the University of Central Oklahoma. He worked for daily newspapers in Oklahoma and Texas, including The Dallas Morning News, as a reporter and editor, and for Mutual of Omaha insurance company as a corporate communications specialist. Hickman worked 15 years part-time on the cen-tral desk of The Oklahoman as a copy editor, wire editor and headline writer. Research interests are in the Web as a news and information source, media law, military-media relationships and newsroom management. He was named a Fulbright teaching scholar in 1996. Holds a juris doctor (J.D.) degree from Oklahoma City University School of Law, a master of liberal arts (M.L.A.) degree from Texas Christian University, and a bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree in journal-ism from Oklahoma Baptist University. Barry Hollander is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. Before receiving his PhD, he was a reporter at daily newspapers in three states. He teaches basic and advanced reporting, feature writing, and graduate courses in public opinion. His research area includes the social and political effects of new media. Alex Horvath has been telling stories with pictures since he was twelve years old. After learning the ropes as a high school photographer, he majored in journalism at Ohio’s Bowling Green State University, were he was also photo editor of the BG News, the student-produced daily newspaper. After graduating in 1987, he interned at the Columbus Dispatch, and then went to work as a photogra-pher at the Rome Daily Sentinel in Rome, N.Y. In 1992 he joined the Mansfield News Journal as picture editor, where he worked for four years. In 1996, he became a picture edi-tor at the Buffalo News. He worked there until October of 2000, when he joined The Bakersfield Californian as photo director, and promptly converted the photo department to digital photography. Horvath is married and the father of three children. Cecilia Jamasmie is an international journalist with more than 10 years of experience in print media, TV and public relations. She holds a Master of Journalism (MJ) from the University of British Columbia, Canada, with a focus in online journalism. Ms. Jamasmie was the founder

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Award N12a, Best Photo Story, Second Place, Arlington Catholic Herald, Arlington, Va.

Award M13a, Best Coverage of the Year for Priests, Third Place, CUA Magazine, Washington, D.C.

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and Editor-in-Chief of Information Technology, a weekly supplement of El Diario, the most well-known financial newspaper in Chile. She is currently the Editor in Chief of MINING.com Magazine. Steve Jordan is currently the Quality Assurance Man-ager at the Omaha World Herald, and he is a graduate of Oxnard College. Kent Kaiser, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of commu-nication at Northwestern College in St. Paul, and adjunct instructor at the University of Minnesota. He advises U of M student publication, Minnesota Republic (circulation 2,000/month). He is the former editor of the Minnesota Family Council’s Pro-Family News (circulation 100,000/month). Renee Kaluza is a 36-year veteran of the news busi-ness who is currently the enterprise/training editor at the St. Cloud Times. She also teaches news-writing principles and methods at St. Cloud State University and does inde-pendent training on news and feature planning and writ-ing. Previous positions at the Times have included city editor, features editor, copy desk chief, reporter and writ-ing coach. Holly Karapetkova’s poems have appeared in a num-ber of literary journals, including The Crab Orchard Review, Mid-American Review, and River Styx. Her full-length collection, Words We Might Say One Day, is forth-coming (October 2010). She is also the author of over twenty books for children. She teaches at Marymount University in Arlington, Va. Sharen M. Kardon, principal of Kardon Communica-tions, a media consulting firm, has held a wide range of positions on both the news and business sides of the news-paper industry, most recently as director of Marketing for The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C., and Seminar Associate for the American Press Institute. Laura Kelly is an award-winning former newspaper journalist whose 26 year career included five years as an editorial writer and columnist for the Wichita Eagle. She is now a video producer and media consultant specializing in non-profit, education and government clients. Johanna Keller teaches writing and communications at Newhouse, directs the Goldring Arts Journalism pro-gram, and is a core faculty member of the Renee Crown Honors Program. In 2007, she was nominated by the Gold-ring arts journalism students and received the Excellence in Graduate Education Faculty Recognition Award that honors professors who are committed to graduate mentor-ing and who have made a significant contribution to grad-uate education at SU. Colleen Kenney of the Lincoln Journal Star has won many national writing awards, including the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for “Standing at the Cross-

roads,” a special section that chronicled how the sales of alcohol in Whiteclay, Neb., affected the youth of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. A story she wrote on a little girl dying of cancer was included in the college journalism textbook “Inside Reporting” as an example of “fine feature writing.” She was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at Michigan last year and has been a featured speaker at the National Writers Workshop as well as the American Press Insti-tute. Tiffany Kjos, the Arizona Daily Star regional editor, has worked in the news industry since she was 20-years old. After a relatively recent stint as a business reporter, then editor, she returned to her roots: community news. Today she edits three regional, community editions with a combined circulation of nearly 100,000. Brent Lancaster has worked as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers in Tennessee and North Carolina since 1998. He is currently the city editor at the Times-News in Burlington, N.C. Paul R. LaRocque is a free-lance writing coach. He has taught writing at several universities and has been a newspaper editor, writer and manager. He is the author of two journalism books – The Concise Guide to Copy Edit-ing and Heads You Win: An Easy Guide to Better Headline and Caption Writing. Steve Luxenberg, a Washington Post associate editor and award-winning author, has worked for 35 years as a newspaper editor and reporter. Post reporters working with Steve have won two Pulitzer Prizes. Steve’s 2009 nonfiction book, Annie’s Ghosts: A journey Into a Family Secret, was selected for The Washington Post’s Best Books of 2009 list, and chosen as a Michigan Notable Book for 2010 by the Library of Michigan. Mac McKerral is an Associate Professor at Western Kentucky University and Program Coordinator for the News-Editorial Unit within the School of Journalism & Broadcasting. Catherine McKinney has been designing, writing, photographing, and proofreading for various newspapers in the Downeast region of Maine for the past 20 years. She has been honored with several state and regional awards, and still looks forward to improving her abilities to engage a reader. Heather Meier is the Editor at the Puyallup Herald in Washington. Josh Meltzer joined the faculty at Western Kentucky University this August to work and teach as a photojour-nalist-in-Residence. He is and will be teaching photojour-nalism and multimedia storytelling. In 2008, after 9 years as a staff photographer and multimedia journalist at The Roanoke Times in Roanoke, Virginia, Josh Meltzer accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to work and teach in Mexico where he worked to create a multimedia project about the migration of indigenous families within Mexico. In addition to his own work, he taught photography to a group of 11-16-year-olds through a program called Listen to My Pictures, which culminated with a show at a large regional museum in Guadalajara in June, 2009. His still and multimedia work has been recognized by the NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism competition where he was the 2006 Photojournalist of the Year for markets less than 115,000 circulation. His audio slideshows, video stories and portfolios have been recognized by the Atlanta Photo-journalism Competition, Northern and Southern Short Course and the Society of Newspaper Design. Andy Mendelson is the Chair of the Journalism Department at Temple University and has a PhD in Jour-nalist/Mass Communications from the University of Mis-souri. His teaching areas include photojournalism, publi-cation layout and design, web publishing, visual literacy, communication theory and social science research meth-ods. I have worked as a photographer for newspapers, magazines and public relations organizations. I also worked as a freelance designer. Outside of the university, I have a great interest in camping. I sit on the board of directors of the Fiver Foundation, an organization that runs a camp for economically disadvantaged children from New York City. Jill Mercadante, after attending Syracuse University, became a page editor at The Journal News, covering Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties north of New York City. As a page editor she designs pages, edits copy and creates illustrations. Mark Mulholland’s extensive media career provides a broad based background of experience in sales, marketing,

and management across a wide range of markets at both corporate and field levels. Prior to joining API, he held senior positions at news organizations in Illinois, Iowa, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas. Phil Nesbitt is an independent design consultant who works on behalf of the American Press Institute, where he was an associate director from 1997-2000. He is a long time associate of API and has been a discussion leader since 1980. Nesbitt, a former president of the Society for News Design, has spent more than 25 years in the newspaper business. Prior to joining the API staff, he worked as a design consultant for seven years in Australia. His exper-tise includes newspaper design, electronic imaging, editorial management and structure, systems management, electron-ic editing composition and pagination, desktop publishing, digital technology and all facets of digital production. Before becoming a consultant in 1988, Nesbitt was assistant man-aging editor at The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey. He also spent two years in Singapore as managing editor/news systems and graphics at the Singapore Monitor and corpo-rate consultant to Singapore News and Publications Ltd. Before that he was assistant managing editor/photography and graphics at the Chicago Sun-Times. From 1976 to 1981, he served as the chief of the U.S. Army’s newspaper program with editorial, technology and design responsibil-ity for 287 newspapers worldwide. He has redesigned more than thirty newspapers on four continents. In 2000, Nesbitt directed the redesign of El Universal, Mexico’s oldest and largest newspaper. Paul Niwa is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Emerson College where he teaches broadcast, online and financial journalism. He has received national awards for his innovative teaching, scholarly research and creative work. During his professional career, Mr. Niwa launched two international television networks in Asia, six newscasts and a streaming media news program for NBC, Gannett and Stockhouse Media. Tamara L. O’Shaughnessy is the editor of Chicago Parent magazine and mom of three. She has been involved with newspapers and magazines for more than two decades. Dr. Brad Owens, a senior lecturer in the journalism department at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, is a vet-eran newspaper reporter and editor. Over the past 20 years, his work as a journalist, researcher and consultant has taken him on numerous assignments in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, to various republics in the former Soviet Union, and to Asia and Latin America. Dr. Owens teaches courses in Reporting, Editing, International Communica-tion, Media and Politics, and other topics. He earned his bachelor’s degree in religion and journalism at Baylor, his master’s degree in Latin American studies at the University

Award M9b, Best Illustration, Either with Art Work or Photo, Third Place, Soul Magazine, Washington, N.J. Award S5b, Best Personality Profile, Associate/Individual

Freelance Member, Third Place, El Catolico de Texas, Dal-las, Texas

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of Texas at Austin, and his doctorate in government at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Paul Owens is a senior editorial writer at the Orlando Sentinel special-izing in national, international and economic issues. He joined the Sentinel’s Editorial Board in 2002 after work-ing as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press in Maryland and as a columnist, editor and reporter for the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail. Karen Park is the Training Manager at the Atlanta Journal Constitution responsible for developing and teach-ing programs for online and newspaper staff members. She is also the newsroom recruiter and directs newsroom contest entries. Karen received her degree in Journalism from the University of Kansas. Neal Pattison is Editor at The Herald in Everett, Washington. He has been a reporter, editor, designer and educator in the news business for several decades. At the Herald, he and his staff are trying to demonstrate that a group of journalists who want to connect with their com-munity can find creative uses for all kinds of tools (tradi-tional and innovative). Mary Peskin joined API in 2005 as associate director and assumed digital operation and strategy responsibili-ties in 2008. She has worked and consulted in newspa-pers in the U.S., Europe, and South America. Before join-ing API, she was design director of the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group for 22 years. Ann Therese Palmer ended a 20+ year career as a prize-winning freelance business reporter for The Chicago Tribune Business Section and BusinessWeek Magazine in February. A non-practicing Chicago attorney, Palmer is a 1973 University of Notre Dame graduate where she was a member of the first undergraduate class of women diploma recipients and student newspaper campus news editor. She also has a Masters of Business Administra-tion from Notre Dame. In 2007, Palmer edited Thanking Father Ted: Thirty-Five Years of Notre Dame Coeducation, published by AndrewsMcMeel. The book contains let-ters from Notre Dame women graduates and prominent alumni thanking Notre Dame President-Emeritus Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. for the gift of coeducation and detailing how it changed their lives. Profits benefit the Thanking Father Ted Scholarship at Notre Dame. John Pfordresher , a native of Chicago, Ill., earned his B.A. from Georgetown in 1965 and his Ph.D. from the Uni-versity of Minnesota in 1970. he returned to Georgetown in 1973 where he taught in the English Department for 36 years, publishing on Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, and Pre-Raphaelite writers. In the late 1980’s Pfordresher joined in the development of a Catholic Studies program at Georgetown which he helped direct and in which he still teaches. His Jesus and the Emergence of a Catholic Imagination [Paulist Press 2008] develops a theory of Catholic art through inductive argument and the analysis of a wide range of imaginative works from the first eight centuries of Christianity. Steve Pona is associate editor/business editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. He has served in most senior news-room capacities, most recently leading projects to re-imag-ine the business model for newspapers. He advises on journalism education in the community and last year won a NATJA grand prize for travel writing. Lisa Rabasca is the former managing editor of PRESS-TIME magazine, which was published by the Newspaper Association of America. She worked for NAA for nearly 10 years. She also worked at the American Press Institute. She is a former daily newspaper reporter and a graduate of St. Bonaventure University. Suzanne Raitt began her career in packaged goods marketing at Hershey and others. She then joined cre-ative agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi and McCann-Erickson. More recently, she worked at the Toronto Star and she is currently at the Canadian Newspaper Associa-tion as VP Marketing. She holds three degrees, including an MBA. George Rede is Sunday Opinion Editor at The Orego-nian, where he edits the weekly commentary section of the largest daily newspaper in the Pacific Northwest. Rede previously was the paper’s recruiting and training editor. He is a frequent speaker at regional journalism confer-ences and has judged state and scholastic press associa-tion contests, as well as Newhouse Foundation scholarship applications. Keren Rivas obtained a BA in communications and broadcasting form Elon University, North Carolina,

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in 2004. For the past six years, she has worked as a reporter for the Burlington Times-News, a daily newspa-per in Burlington, North Carolina. A native of Peru, Ms. Rivas has also written and served as editor for La Voz de Alamance, a now-defunct bimonthly Spanish Times-News publication. Ernesto Rodriguez, Jr. is a 14-year veteran of The Monitor and is currently Internet Director. He holds a B.S. in Advertising from U.T. Austin and is an Eagle Scout. Volunteering in various charity organizations, hunting, watching Longhorn sports and spending time with his wife and two children are what he enjoys. Robert Rubrecht has worked for several newspapers including The Wall Street Journal and Bucks County Cou-rier Times in marketing circulation since 1986. He was the Director, Circulation Marketing for the Newspaper Association of America (2004-2009) writing and speaking extensively on newspaper marketing. Currently he is the Marketing and Membership Director for the Marine Corps Association. Jessica Sabbath is special Projects Editor at Virginia Business Magazine. Previously, she covered local govern-ment and politics at The Winchester Star. She received a master’s in journalism from the Medill School of Journal-ism at Northwestern University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Richmond. Tracy Simmons is the editor at Creedible.com, which is an online magazine that covers faith news in Con-necticut. She has been a newspaper reporter for nearly a decade, writing about faith news across the country. She holds a B.S. in print journalism and an M.A. in Commu-nication. Alan Smason, a New Orleans writer and editor, has worked for the Cleveland Jewish News following hurri-cane Katrina. He returned home as the New Orleans Edi-tor for the Deep South Jewish Voice and Southern Jewish Life Magazine. He has led six Ten Commandments Hikes for the Boy Scouts since 2004. John Sweeney is editorial page editor of The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. He is also co-editor of The Journalist’s Craft: A Guide to Writing Better Stories. Sweeney served as The News Journal’s ombuds-man and writing coach for 16 years. Janet Testerman is Editor of Knoxville Magazine, in Knoxville, Tennessee and the local edition of skirt! Magazine in Knoxville. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1991 and continued a communications career that began her sophomore year as a PR and marketing intern for Dallas accounting firm, Laventhol & Horwath. In ’92 she moved to Los Angeles to join the marketing team of Ernst and Young as a communications writer for the manufacturing, non-profit, healthcare, energy, real estate and entertainment

industries, among others. In early 2007, Janet made the decision to return to her communications roots as editor for the newly launched skirt! Magazine in Knoxville. Janet believes Skirt!’s directive toward, for and about women is fulfilling a long-overdue absence of sophistication and urbaneness available to area readers. She feels privileged to be apart of promoting a unique, outspoken and passionate voice for women and hopes to continue reflecting the independence, strength and accomplishments of those who are shaping the foundation of our local communities. She is also proud with skirt!’s presence in 15 markets, that Knoxville ranks 3rd in combined circulation and revenue indicating she has helped provide a source for women that previously did not exist.In 2008, Janet also became Executive Editor of Knoxville Magazine, Knoxville’s city lifestyle magazine. Her goal and leading objective is to provide readers with resourceful economic, political, cultural and social insight and to the city they call home. She has helped redirect the focus of the magazine to position it as Knoxville’s leading city publication. Nanny Torres has more than 20 years of experience with El Nuevo Dia, and is the editor of the OP/ED section. Sandra Villerrael is an assistant editor of the Puerto Rico’s El Nuevo Dia’s Sunday edition, that coordinates the editorial content and production of the news section. Editor of two weekly special sections: Puerto Rico se reinventa, covering ways to overcome unemployment; Puerto Rico Solidario, that publishes features about volunteering. Carol Van Valkenburg heads the Department of Print Journalism, has worked at the J-School for more than 25 years. Carol earned her B.A. from UM in 1972 and worked 10 years at the Missoulian as a reporter, copy editor and editorial writer. After teaching a few courses as an adjunct, she was asked to fill at the J-School in January 1982 for a professor on leave. She’s been at UM ever since, including serving a stint as acting dean in 1998-99. Her master’s degree is in interdisciplinary studies, concentrating in history and political science. Carol teaches various reporting classes, including the Native News Honors Project in which teams of reporters and photographers cover in-depth stories from Montana’s seven Indian reservations. Students in the class have won dozens of national writing awards for their Native News stories, including the Robert F. Kennedy Award in 2005 and the SPJ National Mark of Excellence Award in 2006 for online in-depth journalism. In addition to her teaching and administrative duties, Carol is also adviser to the Montana Kaimin, the student daily. It’s her favorite assignment, though one that’s given her most of her gray hairs. In 2000 the Freedom Forum honored her with a national teaching award. Dr. Eileen Wirth is chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Creighton University in Omaha. A former newspaper reporter, she is the author of six books, three on Catholic education. These include, They Made All the Difference, about the nation’s Jesuit high schools. Randall Wolf is the Director of Photography at The Journal News/lohud.com in White Plains, New York and is an avid bicyclist. Debra Yeo has been a professional journalist for 26 years. She has a Bachelor of Jouralism degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and has worked for five daily newspapers as a reporter, editor, and page designer. Her current job is with Canada’s largest daily newspaper, The Toronto Star, where she was recently promoted to team editor in the Entertainment department. Bob Zaltsberg has been the editor of The Herald-Times in Bloomington Ind., since 1985. He has taught courses in reporting at Indiana university and been a trainer at national, regional, and state conferences on such topics as building readership and creating a constructive culture. He has also trained journalists about freedom of the press in Feodosiya, Crimea, Ukraine. Jack Zibluk is associate professor of journalism at Arkansas State University. He has worked for various publications, including National Geographic magazine. He is an active parishioner at Blessed Sacrament parish in Jonesboro, Ark., and he has taught in its RCIA program. Carol Zuegner is an associate professor of journalism at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She worked for 10 years for The Associated Press as a writer and editor before embarking on her academic career. She continues to work part time as a copy editor. She teaches feature writing, editing, and social media.

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