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Molly de Aguiar Molly de Aguiar directs the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation’s media grants, which strengthen and expand New Jersey's news and information ecosystem, support and experiment with collaboration and resource-‐sharing, and encourage community engagement and civic participation throughout the state. She also directs Dodge’s communications initiatives, exploring the intersections of philanthropy, communications, media and community building. She led the overhaul of the Dodge website and brand update, and continues to oversee special projects that shine a spotlight on Dodge grantees. Prior to joining Dodge, Aguiar spent 10 years working for arts and education nonprofits in Philadelphia and was active in independent media issues. Kate Albright-‐Hanna Kate Albright-‐Hanna is an entrepreneur, political strategist, and Emmy Award-‐winning documentary filmmaker who covered 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the rise of the netroots for CNN. She launched “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” and “Up with Chris Hayes” as a senior editorial producer at MSNBC. In 2007-‐2008, she led the Obama presidential campaign’s online video program. Most recently, she served as the communications director for the Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu gubernatiorial campaign, and she is currently the deputy campaign manager for Ready for Warren. In the spirit of reviving the muckraking spirit, she is launching Tarbell, a political salon for journalists and activists. Diane Alverio Diane Alverio is the founder and publisher of CTLatinoNews.com, RILatinonews.com and MassLatinoNews.com, English-‐language sites that report on Latinos and Latino issues. Alverio is a former president of National Association of Hispanic Journalists; she has been quoted as an analyst in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post and USA Today. Alverio recently wrote “Beyond the Shingle: A Resource for Public Relations and Working with the Media.” Her professional background includes nearly two decades as an on-‐air journalist, producer of a national PBS magazine program, and vice president and general manager of WLAT-‐AM, the largest Spanish language radio station in Connecticut. Julia Angwin Julia Angwin is an investigative journalist at the independent news organization ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. Her book, “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance,” was published in 2014. In 2003, she was on a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. Natalia Antelava Natalia Antelava is a longtime BBC foreign correspondent; she is currently based in New Delhi. Originally from Georgia, Antelava started her career in West Africa but has since reported for BBC television, radio and online from the Caucasus, Central Asia, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, India,
Syria, Yemen, Russia and most recently from Eastern Ukraine. Antelava has won awards for her undercover reporting from Burma and Uzbekistan, and she was nominated for an Emmy for her 2012 investigation of child abuse deaths in the United States. Antelava also has written for The Guardian, Forbes magazine and The New Yorker, among other media outlets. Tracy Baim Tracy Baim is publisher and executive editor at Windy City Media Group, which produces Windy City Times, Nightspots, and other gay media in Chicago. She co-‐founded Windy City Times in 1985 and Outlines newspaper in 1987. Baim is the editor and co-‐author of 10 books including “Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America,” and she was executive producer of the lesbian feature film “Hannah Free.” Baim was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 1994 and was named a Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 leader in 1995. Alex Barinka Alex Barinka reports on East Coast technology companies for Bloomberg News in New York and frequently contributes to Bloomberg TV, Bloomberg Radio and Businessweek Magazine. Covering companies from IBM to startups in Silicon Alley, Barinka writes about topics including enterprise software, cloud services, data analytics and the business of tech. Before reporting on technology companies, Barinka covered North American equity markets and wrote the deals column at Bloomberg News. While in college, she served as managing editor of the University of North Carolina’s Reese Felts Digital Newsroom startup where she oversaw 25 engineers and reporters for journalism projects, Web and application development, and research efforts. Joyce Barnathan Joyce Barnathan is president of the International Center for Journalists, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing quality journalism worldwide. She helps develop and oversee high-‐impact programs that combine the best professional practices with new technologies. Previously, Barnathan served as the executive editor of BusinessWeek. Barnathan also completed a seven-‐year assignment as Asia regional editor and Hong Kong bureau manager for BusinessWeek. She came to BusinessWeek from Newsweek, where she served as State Department correspondent, Moscow bureau chief and special projects correspondent covering presidential elections. Sarah Bartlett Sarah Bartlett is the dean of the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Her journalism career began in 1979, when she joined a documentary film company in London as a research assistant. In 1981, she began covering business as a researcher/reporter at Fortune magazine in the U.S. She moved to BusinessWeek, where she served as a staff reporter and an associate editor from 1983 to 1988, and an assistant managing editor from 1992 to 1998. She was also a reporter at The New York Times from 1988 to 1992, a contributing editor at Inc. magazine, and the editor-‐in-‐chief of Oxygen Media. Elmira Bayrasli
Elmira Bayrasli is the co-‐founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted, a startup focused on increasing the number of women commenting on foreign policy in the media. She is also a fellow at the World Policy Institute and the author of the upcoming book, “Steve Jobs Lives in Pakistan: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs in the Developing World.” Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Forbes and Reuters. She is a commentator on foreign policy and global innovations for Al-‐Jazeera America. From 1994-‐2000, Bayrasli was a presidential appointee at the State Department. Leandro Beguoci Leandro Beguoci is editor-‐in-‐chief for F451 Digital, a journalism startup in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is also a professor in the graduate program for digital journalism for FAAP, a lecturer in creative writing for Escola Sao Paulo, partner at OrbitaLAB (a lab for innovation in journalism), and columnist on soccer and Brazilian culture. Currently he is a fellow at The Tow-‐Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism Fellowship Program. Previously, Beguoci worked for some of the largest mainstream media in Brazil, including the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo, the magazine company Abril and the Internet portal iG. Alison R. Bernstein Alison R. Bernstein is the director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership Consortium. She has initiated two new areas of focus for IWL: women and health, and women and media. She is also editing a new IWL book series called “Junctures: Case Studies in Women’s Leadership.” Previously, Bernstein served as a vice president for the Ford Foundation’s program on Knowledge, Creativity and Free Expression. A former associate dean of faculty at Princeton University, Bernstein is the author of four books. She has taught at Princeton University, Teachers’ College/Columbia University, Sangamon State University (now the University of Illinois, Springfield), Spelman College, and Staten Island Community College. Lauren Bohn Lauren Bohn is The GroundTruth Project’s inaugural Middle East correspondent, based in Istanbul, and a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. She’s the co-‐founder of Foreign Policy Interrupted, an initiative dedicated to amplifying female voices in foreign policy. She’s also the co-‐founder of SchoolCycle, a United Nations Foundation campaign in Malawi to provide bikes for adolescent girls to get to school. She's the founding assistant editor of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs in Egypt, where she was a Fulbright fellow and Pulitzer Center grantee. Jody Brannon Digital consultant Jody Brannon has directed online news for nearly 20 years, starting with The Washington Post’s Digital Ink in April 1995. She has held dot-‐com leadership positions in newspapers (The Washington Post, USAToday), magazines (National Journal, National Geographic), a portal (MSN), a standalone (News21) and mobile (Microsoft, Gannett). She is vice president of the Online News Association and teaches in American University’s Interactive Journalism master’s program. She holds three journalism degrees (Seattle, American and Maryland); her 1999 dissertation, “Maximizing the Medium,” examined online news operations at ABC, NPR and USA TODAY.
Jeanne Brooks Jeanne Brooks leads business and strategy for Hacks/Hackers as the network’s first executive director. A designer of immersive learning experiences, she’s passionate about helping newsrooms and mediamakers around the world leverage technology to better serve public information needs. Currently a nonresidential fellow with the Reynolds Journalism Institute and co-‐founder of New/s Disruptors, Brooks previously worked with the Online News Association, where she created the Midway and led production of training programs such as the annual conference and ONACamps, intensive digital journalism training. Carrie Brown Carrie Brown is the director of the new social journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. She teaches and does research on social media and engagement, newsroom change, and entrepreneurial journalism. Previously, Brown was an associate professor of journalism at the University of Memphis. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. Jeremy Caplan Jeremy Caplan is director of education for the Tow-‐Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches courses on entrepreneurial journalism, digital journalism, reporting and writing, and business fundamentals. Prior to teaching, Caplan wrote for Time magazine on business, technology and cultural trends. He was a Wiegers Fellow at Columbia Business School, where he completed his MBA, and a Knight-‐Bagehot Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School. Caplan holds a degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Before joining Time, he worked for The Paris Review, Yahoo! Internet Life, and Newsweek. Heather Chaplin Heather Chaplin is director of the Journalism + Design program at the New School. She is the recent recipient of a Knight Foundation grant for innovation in journalism education as well as the recipient of a Knight Foundation Prototype grant for modeling complexity in the news. Chaplin covered video games for 10 years, working for All Things Considered, The New York Times, Details, and The Los Angeles Times, among other places. She is the co-‐author of “Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution,” a New York Times Notable Book of 2006. Lisa Chedekel Lisa Chedekel co-‐founded the Connecticut Health I-‐Team in 2011 and is senior writer for the nonprofit news service, which distributes stories to more than 1.2 million readers across the state. She is an investigative reporter who wrote for the Hartford Courant for 15 years, covering a wide range of beats, from politics to healthcare. In 1999, she was among a team of reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting. In 2002, she was among a handful of
U.S. journalists who visited Saudi Arabia in the year after 9/11 to report on the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Jessica Clark Jessica Clark is a journalist and news futurist who founded media strategy and production firm Dot Connector Studio in 2013. From 2011-‐2014, she worked as AIR’s media strategist, focusing on national public media transformation production Localore. From 2007-‐2011 she led the Future of Public Media Project at American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact. Clark has developed research and convenings with several universities and national media networks, including NPR, PBS, CPB, USC Annenberg, and MIT. The co-‐author of “Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media,” she was the executive editor at national news magazine In These Times. Lena Schiller Clausen Lena Schiller Clausen is an entrepreneur, author and editor of REVUE – Magazine for the Next Society, which publishes long-‐form pieces on societal and economic change in English and German. She is helping the magazine transition to a digital platform. As a co-‐founder of the startup accelerator betahaus Hamburg, Clausen created one of Germany’s most famous hubs for entrepreneurs and startups in Hamburg – most of which have a strong focus on digital media. She has consulted with several large corporations on innovation, entrepreneurship and transformation. Clausen’s recent book, “New Business Order” discusses how startups change society and the economy. Dana Coester Dana Coester is an assistant professor at WVU Reed College of Media and creative director for the College’s Media Innovation Center. Coester’s work focuses on early adoption, the digital divide, and on women in technology, with special interests in audience building and new distribution networks for wearables and emerging products. Coester’s work in wearables, augmented reality and neuroscience, "The Reverberatory Narrative: Multimedia as Multisensory Network," was released in Neuroscience and Media, Routledge December 2014 and will be presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in summer 2015. Her work in mobile development was released as an open-‐source product at mstreet.io. Amy Costello Amy Costello is the founder and executive editor of Tiny Spark, a podcast and news program that investigates philanthropy, nonprofits and international aid. Prior to launching Tiny Spark, Costello was the Africa correspondent for The World, a co-‐production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston. She has reported for NPR, Marketplace and the BBC World Service and has taught at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, her alma mater. Costello’s television investigation about the Playpump, a celebrated idea designed to do good, exposed myriad problems with the technology and became the impetus for launching Tiny Spark. Lynne DeLucia
Lynne DeLucia is the editor and co-‐founder of the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, an in-‐depth news website focusing on issues of health and safety. Prior to launching C-‐HIT.org in 2010, DeLucia worked at the Hartford Courant for 17 years, holding the positions of assistant bureau chief, bureau chief, state editor and an assistant managing editor. DeLucia was the supervising editor of the Courant’s team coverage of the Connecticut lottery shootings, which won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. Before joining the Courant, DeLucia worked at the New Haven Register as a reporter and city editor. Gabriela Dias Gabriela Dias is an editor with print and digital background. Since 1996, she has worked for some of the largest publishers and media groups from Brazil and Spain, such as Globo, Abril, Folha, Terra, and Prisa. In 2012, Dias created Amigos dos Editores Digitais, a support group for digital publishing professionals in Brazil, and Alt+Tab, the group’s training initiative. Having coordinated projects in several media, from magazines and books to websites, e-‐books, and apps, Dias is now a digital consultant and entrepreneur. Her startup, Artéria, launched in 2014 with an exhibit, conference and app based on geo-‐located content about Rio de Janeiro. Amy Eisman Amy Eisman is director of the Media Entrepreneurship and Interactive Journalism MA programs at the School of Communication at American University. She started the first university partnership with media incubator 1776, the downtown hub for DC-‐area startups. She was a founding editor of USA TODAY; an executive editor of USA WEEKEND; and held several managing editor roles at AOL. Eisman has trained newsrooms in Web writing worldwide, as well as served as Fulbright lecturer in Moscow. Eisman co-‐authored online training modules for Gannett about breaking news online, interactivity and database journalism and co-‐wrote a module for Knight Citizen News Network. Angela Ferraiolo Angela Ferraiolo is a writer and filmmaker working on how computation might create procedural narrative. She has designed, written, and produced media for RKO, H20 Productions, Westwood Studios, and Electronic Arts. Her video work has screened nationally and internationally, including Courtisane (Ghent), the New York Film Festival (New York), AWXFF (New York), Collectif Jeune Cinema (Paris), and the Australian Experimental Film Festival (Melbourne), as well as the International Conference of Generative Art (Rome). New projects include large scale projection walls and playable videos for mobile devices. She currently teaches Playable Media at Sarah Lawrence College. Amie Ferris-‐Rotman Amie Ferris-‐Rotman is a British-‐American journalist. She has reported from 10 countries from over 30 datelines. Her work can be found in The Atlantic and Foreign Policy. Ferris-‐Rotman was a Reuters reporter for five years in Moscow, and their senior correspondent in Kabul for two years. Last year, she was awarded the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University, where she developed Sahar Speaks! Training, mentoring and publishing opportunities for Afghan female correspondents.
Margaret Wolf Freivogel Margaret Wolf Freivogel is the editor of St. Louis Public Radio. She was the founding editor of the St. Louis Beacon, a nonprofit news organization, from 2008 to 2013. Freivogel previously worked for 34 years at the St. Louis Post-‐Dispatch as a reporter, Washington correspondent and assistant managing editor. She has received numerous awards for reporting as well as a lifetime achievement award from the St. Louis Press Club and the Missouri Medal of Honor from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She has been a board member of the Investigative News Network and was president of Journalism and Women Symposium. Alexis Gelber Alexis Gelber is an editor and journalist with experience in digital and print media. A longtime top editor at Newsweek, and founding books editor of The Daily Beast, Gelber has been an adjunct professor at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute since 2010. She also hosts a lecture series on innovations in international journalism for NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. In 2011, Gelber was a fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Policy, where she published a research paper on women politicians and social media, “Digital Divas: Women, Politics and the Social Network.” Kelly Gilfillan Kelly Gilfillan is CEO and executive editor of Home Page Media Group where her team publishes four daily online news sites providing news to Brentwood, Franklin, Nolensville and Spring Hill, all in Tennessee. Gilfillan’s professional resume includes managing and marketing a startup occupational health center for a Quorum-‐owned hospital; assistant director of marketing for a Quorum-‐owned hospital, seven years of freelance medical technical writing for professors, facilities and charities; and various media sales. Gilfillan sits on the national board of Local Independent Online News Publishers and has served on various boards at Brentwood United Methodist Church. Dan Gillmor Dan Gillmor teaches digital media literacy and promotes entrepreneurship at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the author of several books on the media and journalism, including “We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People,” a book on citizen journalism. He writes frequently about media and technology. Gillmor has co-‐founded two digital media startups; has invested in and/or advised a number of startups; and serves on several nonprofit boards. Marie Gilot Marie Gilot joined Knight Foundation in 2012. She makes grants to institutions such as newsrooms, journalists’ organizations, and journalism schools. Gilot is experienced in both journalism and nonprofit management. Most recently, she was the publisher of Newspaper Tree, a nonprofit journalism project in El Paso, Texas. She also worked as the director of nonprofit legal services provider Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, and as the policy
director for a community organizing group, the Border Network for Human Rights, both in El Paso. Previously, Gilot was a reporter for the El Paso Times. Sarah Glen Sarah Glen is Chalkbeat’s product associate. Before joining the Chalkbeat team, she was a features producer at Digital First Media’s Project Thunderdome. She studied journalism and political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she also worked at The Daily Tar Heel, started a mobile-‐optimized news site with Reese News Lab and blogged about the 2012 election for The Washington Post. Susan Green After 23 years working as a producer, executive producer and managing editor in newsrooms in Phoenix, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York City, Green helped to launch Cronkite News Service at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Her company, Pretty Smart Women LLC, aims to generate ideas and create content; she is constantly looking for ideas and for different ways to communicate and tell stories. Green has served on the boards of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and UNITY: Journalists for Diversity. Lissa Harris Lissa Harris is the co-‐editor and publisher of the Watershed Post, an online hub for daily news, arts, culture and the environment serving the rural Catskills of upstate New York. Harris and her co-‐founder, Julia Reischel, launched the Watershed Post in 2010. The Watershed Post now reaches 50,000 readers each month online, and produces two annual magazines about local food and outdoor recreation. Prior to founding the Watershed Post, Harris was a writer and editor with a background in science writing, the alt-‐weekly press and community news. She was managing editor of Boston’s Weekly Dig from 2005 to 2007. Anna Hiatt Anna Hiatt is the publisher of The Big Roundtable, an award-‐winning narrative nonfiction startup launched with two professors from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As a research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Hiatt reported and wrote “All the Space in the World” about how five publications adapted — or failed to adapt — to the digital age, and organized and hosted The Future of Digital Longform Conference at the Journalism School in 2013. Additionally, Hiatt shoots and edits videos for The Truth About Trees, a documentary project funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. Michelle Johnson Michelle Johnson is associate professor of the practice, multimedia journalism, Boston University. Johnson is a former editor for the Boston Globe and boston.com. For more than 20 years she has conducted multimedia training workshops for student and professional journalists for a variety of organizations, including the Online News Association, the Maynard Institute, the National Association of Black Journalists, and the National Lesbian and Gay
Journalists Association. Johnson oversees Boston University News Service, a showcase for work produced by BU journalism students. She was named 2013 Educator of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. Odette Keeley Odette Keeley is chief of staff of New America Media, news anchor and executive producer as well as the organization’s director of national media network building. She hosts and produces NAM’s TV show, “New America Now.” She previously hosted and produced regular NAM segments on COMCAST’s “Upside” program, where she also occasionally filled in as show anchor. Keeley is a former freelance producer and regular guest for 88.5 KQED-‐FM’s “Pacific Time” program, which aired nationwide. Prior to NAM, Keeley was the news executive producer and head writer of “Balitang America,” ABS-‐CBN International’s premiere English daily newscast of Filipinos across North America. Laura Lorek Laura Lorek is the founder of Silicon Hills News, an online technology news site covering entrepreneurs and companies in the Austin and San Antonio region. Founded in 2011, SHN won a New Media Women Entrepreneur grant to provide seed stage funding to launch the site, which now has a staff of freelance reporters. Previously, Lorek worked as a senior writer covering technology and business news at the San Antonio Express-‐News, a senior writer for Interactive Week Magazine and a specialty writer and technology columnist at the South Florida Sun-‐Sentinel. She’s interested in startups, entrepreneurship, technology and storytelling. Karen Lowe Karen Lowe is an independent radio producer whose work has aired on “This American Life,” “Unfictional Living on Earth” and “Marketplace Radio.” She currently teaches a radio documentary course and creative radio at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. Previously, she was a correspondent for Agence France-‐Presse and the foreign editor at “Marketplace Radio,” where her collaborations with reporters won national recognition, including awards from the National Press Foundation, Columbia University’s Alfred I. duPont, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Overseas Press Club. Jaya Luintel Jaya Luintel is a broadcast journalist and president and co-‐founder of The Story Kitchen in Nepal, which aims to amplify women’s voices and their stories through traditional and new media tools. She began her journalism career at Radio Sagarmatha, the first community radio station in South Asia. During her 15-‐year broadcast career, Luintel has designed and executed several radio projects focusing on women’s empowerment, gender justice, health and nutrition, HIV /AIDS, and violence against women. The radio program she designed and directed at Equal Access Nepal received a One World Media Special Award in 2010. Rose Lukalo Rose Lukalo is a founder and program manager of the Media Policy Research Centre, a multi-‐stakeholder platform for media, the public, the government and institutions interested to
engage on the design and implementation of media policy, research and regulation. She began her career in media as a science journalist for a Kenyan newspaper and later worked in print, television and online media. She has overseen media productions used by local and international organizations to further their social justice and development work. Lukalo was a Hubert Humphrey fellow at the University of Missouri-‐Columbia, where she studied the impacts of convergence on news media. Fungai Machirori Fungai Machirori is a journalist, blogger and photographer who has written for various platforms including The Guardian, Chimurenga Literary Magazine and Voices of Africa. She is currently the director of Her Zimbabwe, a women’s Web-‐based platform that innovatively uses new media and social media to promote dialogue and exchange among Zimbabwean women. She is passionate about critical thought and consciousness-‐raising, as well as empowering women to tell and share their own stories as a way to increase their agency and opportunities. Natasha Madov Natasha Madov is journalist from Brazil who founded Ada, a website and email newsletter about technology and digital culture for Brazilian women. Madov was a fellow at the City University of New York’s Tow-‐Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism and is currently a master’s degree candidate at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. She has been a staff member or freelancer for some of the most respected media outlets in Brazil, such as Veja magazine, Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Editora Trip magazine publishing company and iG, a Web portal. Jane Maduegbuna Jane Maduegbuna is an entrepreneur and legal practitioner. She is executive director in charge of legal and external networks in FansConnectOnline Limited, a mobile application, digital marketing and social media startup in Nigeria. FCO Limited developed Afrinolly, www.afrinolly.com, which won Google’s Android Developers Challenge for Sub-‐Saharan Africa in 2011. Afrinolly is a mobile app that allows users to watch movies, music videos and comedy. Maduegbuna also manages the newly established www.AfrinollySpace.com. Prior to joining FCO Limited, Maduegbuna was CEO of Hardcover Books and Library Services Limited. Previously, she was managing director of Rappelle Ventures Limited, an entrepreneurial business in Lagos. Sally Mashaly Sally Mashaly has worked as a writer, reporter and editor for websites such as Islamonline, alarab.com.qa (Qatari journal, Cairo office) and hawaworld. In 2012, she became the editor-‐in-‐chief of Noreed e-‐channel, which aimed to raise political awareness among youth. In 2010, Mashaly was the shift manager for a leading Egyptian website, shorouknews. She is currently an International Center for Journalists fellow for “Unlocking the Economic Potential of Digital Media.” She also works as a journalist trainer, and is certified as a civic education and coexistence trainer by the University of Munich and Goethe Institute – Cairo.
Mindy McAdams Mindy McAdams is a professor at the University of Florida, where she teaches about digital journalism. She has trained hundreds of journalists in digital skills and strategy in 16 countries, including Argentina, Russia, Singapore, South Africa and Vietnam. Her book “Flash Journalism: How to Create Multimedia News Packages” was published by Elsevier/Focal Press in 2005. She worked at The Washington Post and Time magazine from 1988–1995. As the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar grants, McAdams lived in Indonesia (2011–12) and Malaysia (2004–2005). Lori McGlinchey Lori McGlinchey is an Internet Rights program officer for the Ford Foundation. Her grant making supports a field of organizations that promote universal access, open systems and clear protections for the public within the Internet environment. Previously, McGlinchey oversaw the Open Society Foundations’ Internet, media policy, journalism and government accountability grant making in the U.S. She also served as assistant director of OSF’s U.S. programs and created a new initiative to strengthen civil society organizations’ technology, governance, communications and leadership capacity. McGlinchey has also been a radio producer and created a series for NPR called “Jewish Short Stories from Eastern Europe and Beyond.” Susan Mernit Susan Mernit is CEO of Center for Media Change, a nonprofit that houses Hack the Hood and and Oakland Local. Hack the Hood is a 2014 winner of the Google Impact Challenge. A former vice president at AOL & Netscape, and a former Yahoo! senior director, Mernit has been a consultant for The Knight Community Information Challenge and a consultant to organizations including Salon.com and TechSoup Global. She led a startup that was a 2008 Tech Stars Company, and she is one of the founders of Code for Oakland, an open gov/hackathon event. Rahma Muhammad Mian Rahma Muhammad Mian is a Knight International Journalism Fellow in Pakistan where she is setting up data-‐driven media projects and creating partnerships between technology, journalism and open government communities. She created and led Mind Your Media, a media advocacy and public education project of the Pakistan Coalition for Ethical Journalism at PeaceNiche. She has worked with the IT University developing media and technology curricula and open data journalism partnerships for the Open Government Initiative. For over seven years, she worked in both print and broadcast journalism as an editor, reporter and producer with The Express Tribune, Express 24/7, Geo TV and The News. Arlene Morgan Arlene Morgan is special assistant to the dean for external affairs at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication. She joined the staff as a visiting professor in January 2014 after serving for more than a dozen years on the SMC advisory board. A 1967 graduate of the journalism program, Morgan worked as a reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer for 31 years. She retired from the paper in 2000 to join the staff of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism where she served as associate dean for prizes and programs until she retired in the fall of 2013.
Silvina Moschini Silvina Moschini is an international entrepreneur, an expert in digital innovation and a contributor to CNN en Español, where she co-‐hosts “Opinion2.0,” a weekly segment on the latest Internet trends, broadcast during the program “Encuentro.” Her columns have been published on more than 150 media channels throughout the world. Moschini is a co-‐founder of Yandiki, a company that aims to revolutionize cloud-‐based work by facilitating the export of talent and creative services from Latin America throughout the world. Moschini is also the CEO of Intuic | The Social Media Agency and the president of Transparent Business, a Web-‐based application that is revamping the virtual workplace. Rosemary Okello Orlale Rosemary Okello Orlale is a communication specialist and expert on media, gender and communication for development. She is the program officer for the Ford Foundation Eastern African office on Advancing Public Service Media Initiative, which promotes the public media sphere as a platform to give voice and visibility to the marginalized, and to add diverse perspectives to everyday struggles for social change while transforming alternative media into a critical and cohesive voice of civil society. Orlale has more than 20 years of experience and expertise in gender and development communication within the mainstream media, government, private sector, UN organizations and in NGOs in Africa. Ana Ormaechea Ana Ormaechea is a co-‐founder of Tablet Army, a startup focused on mobile content, digital publications and mobile application development. She is also a partner at Prodigioso Volcan, a digital agency focused on designing websites, information architecture and defining communication strategies. Ormaechea is co-‐founder of Tab Innovation, the first awards for tablet apps in Spanish, and she leads the Spanish chapter of Hacks & Hackers. She is also professor of digital publishing for tablets at the Universidad de Navarra (Spain) and a lecturer for several universities in Spain and South America. Currently, Ormaechea is a Tow-‐Knight fellow at CUNY. Geneva Overholser Geneva Overholser is a senior fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, and an independent journalist in New York City. She was until 2013 director of the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. She is a former editor of the Des Moines Register, ombudsman of The Washington Post and editorial board member of The New York Times. She held the Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism and a Nieman fellowship at Harvard. Overholser is co-‐author of “The Press” and author of “On Behalf of Journalism: A Manifesto for Change.” Jen Poyant Jen Poyant is a senior producer in programming at WNYC Radio. Her responsibilities include show running, live news broadcast editing, and planning, producing special projects and events, and content development. Poyant began her radio career at Virginia’s NPR member station
WVTF. She has contributed to NPR news as a feature and spot reporter. Her beats have included the State House in Trenton and the culture and politics of Newark. During her time covering New Jersey, Poyant was awarded the New Jersey Associated Press First Place Award for Best Sports Feature, Best Spot News Coverage, Best Public Service, and Best Newscast with WBGO’s Andrew Meyer. Citra Prastuti Citra Prastuti has been a radio journalist for more than 10 years with KBR, Indonesia’s largest independent radio news agency. KBR broadcasts eight hours a day and disseminates programs via satellite to more than 600 local radio stations under its network. Prastuti is responsible for two flagship programs of KBR: “Saga,” daily 15-‐minute radio feature stories and “Asia Calling,” a regional current affairs feature program on Asia. Starting in 2014, she has led the production department for both KBR’s radio and online platform. Prastuti also owns more than 10 blogs. Emily Ramshaw Emily Ramshaw is the editor of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit news organization that promotes civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics and government. Under her leadership, the Tribune has won three national Edward R. Murrow Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Gannett Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism and a general excellence award from the Online News Association. Before she was a Tribune reporter, Ramshaw spent six years at The Dallas Morning News, where she broke national stories about sexual abuse inside Texas’ youth lock-‐ups, reported from inside a West Texas polygamist compound and uncovered “fight clubs” inside state institutions for people with disabilities. Louisa-‐Marina Reynolds Louisa-‐Marina Reynolds is a freelance reporter who covers human rights cases, femicide and gender-‐based violence in Guatemala. She is the 2014-‐15 International Women’s Media Foundation Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow. Reynolds has contributed regularly to Latinamerica Press / Noticias Aliadas, Inter-‐Press Service, Plaza Pública, Proseco, El Periódico, and other publications since 2011. Previously, she was a reporter for El Periódico, where she covered business, finance and politics, and an editor for Inforpress Centroamericana. In 2013, Reynolds won the Gold Standard Award for Excellence in Economics and Business Journalism for an article in Estrategia&Negocios magazine. Susan Smith Richardson In 2013, Susan Smith Richardson was named editor and publisher of The Chicago Reporter, an award-‐winning, nonprofit investigative news organization that covers issues of race, poverty and income inequality. Richardson has more than 25 years of experience as a reporter, editor and columnist, much of her work focusing on social inequality. Her experience includes working as the public education editor at the Chicago Tribune; a freelance writer for The Boston Globe; a columnist for the Austin American-‐Statesman; and urban affairs editor at the Sacramento Bee. Richardson was a 2002 Nieman Fellow. Ju-‐Don Marshall Roberts
Ju-‐Don Marshall Roberts is an award-‐winning journalist and digital media strategist. She runs the Montclair State University Center for Cooperative Media, which works with more than 120 media companies across New Jersey to strengthen coverage, incubate media startups and foster collaborative journalism projects. Previously, she was general manager and senior vice president for Everyday Health. Prior to joining Everyday Health, Roberts was executive editor and senior vice president at News Corporation, overseeing Beliefnet.com, at the time the leading site for faith and inspiration. Roberts also spent 17 years at The Washington Post, most recently at the helm of its website. B.J. Roche B.J. Roche is a senior lecturer in the journalism department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she teaches digital media entrepreneurship, magazine writing and introduction to multimedia. She oversees two student-‐run news sites serves as internship coordinator, and runs a career prep course called The Journalism Launchpad, which has helped scores of students find jobs in the journalism business. For more than two decades, Roche covered western Massachusetts as freelance correspondent for the Boston Globe and the Boston Globe magazine. For several years, she ran her own website called fiftyshift.com; more recently, her blog Fiftyshift, a column about life after 50, appeared on Boston.com. Cindy Royal Cindy Royal is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Texas State University, where she teaches digital and data-‐driven media skills and concepts. She completed Ph.D. studies in journalism and mass communication at The University of Texas at Austin. Previously, Royal worked in marketing. In 2013, Royal received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching at Texas State University and was named AEJMC/Scripps Howard Journalism and Mass Communication Teacher of the Year. During the 2013-‐2014 academic year, she was in residence at Stanford University in the Knight Journalism Fellowship program, working on a platform to teach journalists how to code. Nanjira Sambuli Nanjira Sambuli is a research manager at iHub, where she leads the Governance & Technology research pillar. Sambuli is trained as a mathematician with experience as a new media strategist for organizations such as the United Nations Environment Programme, UN-‐Habitat, Africans Act 4 Africa, and Global Power Shift. Sambuli is also the editor of “Innovative Africa: The new face of Africa,” a series of essays on the emerging African tech landscape. With iHub research, Sambuli has developed a framework for assessing the viability, verification, and validity of crowdsourcing and Umati, an online dangerous speech monitoring project. Jan Schaffer Jan Schaffer serves as a consultant, speaker, researcher, trainer, author and Web publisher on the future of journalism, civic engagement and education. Schaffer is executive director of J-‐Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. She helps media outlets, universities and nonprofits with custom projects. A 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Schaffer left daily journalism to lead pioneering initiatives in civic, interactive and participatory
journalism and citizen media ventures. She launched J-‐Lab in 2002 to help newsrooms use digital technologies to engage people in important public issues. Schaffer serves on the Journalism Advisory Committee of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. Diana Jean Schemo Diana Jean Schemo is co-‐founding executive editor of 100Reporters, a Washington, D.C.-‐based investigative news consortium with members around the world. The site focuses on corruption and government and corporate accountability. Prior to 100Reporters, Schemo worked at The New York Times for 17 years and at The Baltimore Sun for nine years. She served as foreign bureau chief in Latin America for The Times and in Western Europe for the Sun. Schemo has reported from more than 30 countries and regions. She is the author of the 2010 book “Skies to Conquer: A Year Inside the Air Force Academy.” Vanessa Schneider Vanessa Schneider is the Geo Media program manager for Google. In this role, she helps journalists around the world tell stories with Google Maps and Google Earth. Before joining Google, Schneider worked at The New York Times as a community specialist, Time Inc. as a researcher and reporter, and at New York startup Hot Potato, acquired by Facebook in 2010. Andrea Sholler Andrea Sholler is the associate director of The Tow Foundation, where her responsibilities include administering a wide range of trustee-‐driven projects at, primarily, New York City-‐based Institutions and overseeing the general operations of the foundation. In addition to her work with The Tow Foundation, Sholler is the program consultant for the Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation and a trustee of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation. Sholler has worked as a program officer at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Altman Foundation, has managed performing arts organizations and led fundraising efforts for both performing arts and political organizations. Rachel Sklar Rachel Sklar is a writer and entrepreneur based in New York. She is the co-‐founder of Change The Ratio, which increases visibility and opportunity for women in tech and new media, and TheLi.st, a network and media platform for awesome women. A former lawyer who writes about media, politics, culture and technology, Sklar was a founding editor at Mediaite and The Huffington Post. She has written widely for publications including The New York Times, Newsweek/Daily Beast, Politico, Mashable, Medium, Mother Jones, Glamour, Elle and Marie Claire. She also co-‐created and hosted the first Daily Beast video interview show. Hanan Solayman In the interest of building independent and sustainable media in Egypt, Hanan Solayman shifted her journalism career from foreign to local reporting and editing. She quit her full-‐time job in 2010 and founded Mandara Portal. She also works as a freelancer covering entrepreneurship. Solayman is a member of the Euro Mediterranean Academy for Young Journalists; she is a journalism trainer and content consultant. Solayman has been a fellow of the World Press
Institute and the International Center for Journalists. In 2014, she was named among the 100 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business magazine. Aminatou Sow Aminatou Sow is the founder of Tech LadyMafia, a networking group that aims to reduce barriers of access for women in Tech. She also leads all civics and elections marketing at Google. DeShuna Spencer DeShuna Spencer, a social entrepreneur and journalist, is the founder/CEO of kweliTV, an Internet streaming TV network for black consumers. For the past five years, Spencer has been the founding publisher of emPowermagazine.com, an online magazine that focuses on social issues affecting people of color. Spencer is also the producer and radio host of emPower Hour on DC’s 89.3 FM WPFW, where she discusses social justice and human rights issues. She has written for The Clarion-‐Ledger, The Oakland Tribune, the Crisis Magazine, AOL and the Washington Examiner. Spencer, who also produces Web shows, recently completed her first documentary, “Mom Interrupted.” Amra Tareen Amra Tareen is the CEO and co-‐founder of LittleCast, Inc., a video distribution, monetization and marketing platform where publishers/artists can sell video directly to their fans via Facebook, embed players on their website and blogs, and LittleCast mobile apps. Previously, Tareen was senior vice president of Datran Media/Pulse Point and CEO and founder of ALLVOICES, Inc., a global social media site that allows individuals to report on-‐the-‐spot news, share opinions and understand each other’s perspectives through unedited conversations. Tareen was formerly a partner at Sevin Rosen Funds, where she evaluated and invested in startup companies in the software and networking industry. Elisabetta Tola Elisabetta Tola is a science journalist. Her project, Seedversity.org, won an Innovation and Development Reporting grant from the European Journalism Centre with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The project, which focuses on agrobiodiversity in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, published as a series of audio docs, a video Web doc and data stories. Tola is a lecturer in data journalism and science communication at the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy. She is the co-‐founder of the science communication agency Formicablu and a radio presenter of the daily science program Radio3Scienza on Italy’s RAI Radio 3. Jenny Toomey Jenny Toomey is the director of the Ford Foundation’s Internet Rights Unit, which grew out of her work as a senior program officer, managing the foundation’s U.S. Media Rights and Access program. Prior to her work at the Ford Foundation, Toomey founded and ran Future of Music Coalition, representing artists’ diverse views at the intersection of music and technology. Previously, she held positions at The Washington Post, co-‐ran Simple Machines Records,
released 70 records on that label and traveled the world as a punk rocker in her bands – Tsunami, Grenadine and Liquorice. Berta Valle Berta Valle is a the general manager of “Vos TV,” one of Nicaragua’s premier private TV Networks and the only television company in the country exclusively focused on producing and showing Nicaraguan culture and local media content. Valle, 30, is the youngest senior general manager of a major TV company in Central America. Previously, she anchored “Primera Hora” at Channel 2, a show she co-‐hosted for eight years; at the time, the morning show had the highest TV ratings in Nicaragua. Valle holds an MBA from INCAE Business School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Catholic University of Nicaragua. Marites Vitug Marites Vitug is editor-‐at-‐large for Rappler. She has been recognized for her reporting on Philippine justice, security and political affairs. Her book on the Philippine Supreme Court, “Shadow of Doubt,” earned her libel suits. Vitug’s first book, “Power from the Forests: The Politics of Logging” and her environmental reporting gained international attention. For this, she received the 1991 Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women’s Media Foundation. A former Nieman Fellow and Asian Public Intellectual, Vitug edited the political newsmagazine Newsbreak and has reported for Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor and Newsday. Her opinion pieces have been published in the International Herald Tribune and Asahi Shimbun.