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Alan C. Miller
Alan C. Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is the founder and executive director of the News Literacy Project. He was a reporter with the Los Angeles Times for 21 years before leaving the paper in March 2008 to establish the Project. He spent nearly 19 years in the paper’s Washington bureau, the last 14 as [...]
Alberto Ibargüen
Alberto Ibargüen is president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. With assets in excess of U.S. $2.5 billion, Knight Foundation is among the larger, private foundations in the United States. Its areas of interest are journalism in a new media age and the advancement of communities in the United States.
Ibargüen [...]
Alexandra Wallace
Alexandra Wallace was named senior vice president of “NBC News” in December 2008. In what is an expanded version of the role that she held from January 2006 until March 2007 when she became executive producer of “Nightly News,” Wallace’s responsibilities include overseeing “Nightly News,” news production, staffing, and, in partnership with VP David Verdi, [...]
Alison Bernstein
Dr. Bernstein is The Ford Foundation’s Vice President for the Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program (KC&F). She joined the Foundation in 1982 as a Program Officer and subsequently served as Director of the Education and Culture Program from 1992-1996.
As Vice President of one of the three program divisions of the Ford Foundation, Dr. Bernstein is [...]
Andrew Heyward
Andrew Heyward is a nationally recognized expert on journalism and a senior advisor to Marketspace LLC, a subsidiary of Monitor Group that specializes in helping companies transform their businesses by using digital media to drive growth and revenue.
Heyward was President, CBS News, from January 1996-November 2005.
During that time, CBS News programming grew significantly in audience, [...]
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. was named chairman of The New York Times Company on October 16, 1997. As the Company’s senior executive, he is responsible for its long-term business strategy. Mr. Sulzberger, who became publisher of The New York Times in 1992, continues to run the Company’s flagship enterprise on a day-to-day basis. Over the past [...]
Brady J. Deaton
Chancellor Brady J. Deaton became the 21st chief executive officer of the University of Missouri-Columbia on October 4, 2004. With 15 years of service to MU and 33 years of experience in public higher education, Dr. Deaton brings an international perspective, a record of national leadership, and a strong devotion to Mizzou to his new [...]
Clark Bell
Clark Bell is the McCormick Foundation’s Journalism Program Director. Clark, who joined the foundation in October 2005, oversees journalism grant-making initiatives and shapes the program’s focus on critical issues facing the news media.
Clark is a veteran reporter, editor, publisher and communications consultant. Prior to joining the McCormick Foundation, he was managing director for American Healthcare [...]
David Mindich
David Mindich is a professor of journalism and mass communication. He served as chair of the department for two three-year terms from 2000 to 2006 and during the spring 2008 term. Before coming to St. Michael’s College, Mindich worked as an assignment editor for CNN and earned a doctorate in American Studies from New York [...]
Evelyn Messinger
Evelyn Messinger, Director of Link TV’s Know the News Project, is Series Producer of the Link TV news comparison series Global Pulse, and Executive Director of Internews Interactive (InterAct), which was founded in 1998 to bring the public’s voice into US policy dialogue via digital technologies.
InterAct, a California 501c3 corporation, functions as a strategic partner [...]
Fabrice Florin
Fabrice Florin is executive director and founder of NewsTrust.net, where he manages creative and business development for the next-generation social news network. NewsTrust.net helps people find and share good journalism online, so they can make more informed decisions as citizens. The non-profit organization offers an integrated web service, which includes a quality news filter, news [...]
Howard I. Finberg
Howard I. Finberg is director of interactive learning at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was the founder and director of News University, an online training portal for journalists, educators, students and the public (http://www.newsu.org) that reaches more than 100,000 users in more than 200 countries. NewsU has more than [...]
Howard Schneider
Howard Schneider is the founding dean of the School of Journalism at Stony Brook University, spearheading the team that developed the proposal for the new School of Journalism. For more than 35 years, Schneider was a reporter and editor at Newsday. For nearly 18 of those years, he was managing editor and then editor.
Under his [...]
Dr. John V. Lombardi
Dr. John V. Lombardi is the fifth individual to serve as the President of the Louisiana State University System. As its Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Lombardi oversees 10 campuses in five cities, as well as 10 public hospitals located throughout the state. He is also a Professor of History at Louisiana State University and Agricultural [...]
Marcy McGinnis
Marcy McGinnis was named associate dean at Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism on September 1, 2007. As associate dean, McGinnis oversees development of the video curriculum, recruitment of faculty, fundraising, student recruitment, strategic planning, and development of satellite campuses for the journalism program. She also continues as director of the broadcast journalism program, a [...]
Nancy Cantor
Nancy Cantor is Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, as well as Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
A native New Yorker, Dr. Cantor came to Syracuse from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was chancellor. Previously, she had been chair of the department of psychology [...]
Neil Budde
Neil Budde joined the user-centric news provider DailyMe.com in April 2008 after more than 30 years of print and online news experience, including as founding editor and publisher of The Wall Street Journal Online and as vice president and editor in chief at Yahoo! News.
His career began with editor and reporter positions at The Richmond [...]
Sanford J. Ungar
Sanford J. Ungar became the tenth President of Goucher College on July 1, 2001. Founded in 1885, Goucher is a traditional liberal arts college in Baltimore, Maryland, with 1475 undergraduate students and several hundred others studying for Master’s degrees. Originally a woman’s college, Goucher has been coeducational since 1986.
Prior to assuming his position at Goucher, [...]
Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny
Dr. Shirley Strum Kenny is the first woman and first humanist to serve as President of Stony Brook University. After a distinguished career as a literary scholar, teacher, and academic administrator, she came to Stony Brook as its fourth President in 1994. Since then, she has worked to strengthen the core academic and research operations [...]
Siok Sian Pek-Dorji
As a print and broadcast journalist, and then as an independent writer and consultant, Siok Sian Pek-Dorji has worked closely with NGOs, government, the UN system, development agencies, and corporate and private organizations. She has been involved in projects in the media and projects related to culture, women and children, youth and other social issues.
In [...]
Susan Moeller
Susan Moeller is the director of the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda (ICMPA) at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the co-founder and the lead faculty member of the Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change.
Moeller is an associate professor of media and international affairs in the Philip Merrill [...]
Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel is a senior news analyst for National Public Radio and a contributing analyst for BBC America’s World News America. From 2006 to 2008, Koppel served as Discovery Channel’s managing editor. In this role, he anchored Koppel on Discovery, a series of long form programming examining major global topics and events for the largest [...]
Vivian Schiller
A media executive and journalist with more than 20 years experience in the industry, Vivian Schiller joined NPR as President and CEO on January 5, 2009. She comes to NPR from The New York Times Company where she served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of NYTimes.com.
As President and CEO, Schiller oversees all NPR [...]
