Media Academy 2005 - Harvard University

Nieman Foundation, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
January 8-16 & June 11-19, 2005

Renette Anderson
 
Renette Anderson
Renette Anderson is a sales manager in the classified advertising department at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News where she has worked for the past 14 years. In her tenure with both publications she has held several positions, beginning as a customer service representative and assistant supervisor. She has also held numerous other positions including advertising advisor and assistant supervisor and inside and outside sales representative. Her most recent promotion was to outside sales manager. For this work she was nominated for the James K. Batten Knight Ridder Excellence Award.
Donna Bell
 
Donna Bell
Donna Bell is senior human resources representative at Gannett's Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in New York. She began her career in human resources in 1988 and has held several positions with increasing responsibilities in her 17 years with the company including, personnel assistant, benefits specialist, compensation and benefits administrator. She has participated in several company-sponsored training programs, including Management Training, Leadership Through People Skills, and Leadership Through Results.
Brad Bennett
 
Bradley Bennett
Brad Bennett was named day assignment editor of The Miami Herald in April, 2004. He had previously been an assistant city editor in the paper's Broward County news operation. A native of Washington, D.C., with a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, he began his newspaper career in June 1990 as a copy aide for The Washington Post. Also, he was an assistant editor of The Prince George's Post, a black-owned weekly in Maryland. Since then, his career his taken him through a reporting internship with The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, leading to reporting jobs at the Press of Atlantic City, and the Asbury Park Press, both in New Jersey, the Detroit Free Press, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Herald.
Risa Brim
 
Risa Brim
Risa Brim currently is cross training as interim Communities editor at the Lexington Herald-Leader, where she has been a reporter for four years. She graduated from Western Kentucky University with a print journalism degree in 1997 and took her first internship at The News-Enterprise, a daily in her hometown, Elizabethtown, Kentucky. She moved to the Herald-Leader as a business reporter in 2000. She began cross training as a weekend metro editor in 2003 and is now about halfway through a six-month sting with Communities, a weekly Metro section that covers ÒhometownÓ news from Fayette and surrounding counties. Her long-term goal is to become a recruiter and writing coach.
Chonjira Choochan
 
Chonjira Choochan
Gail Choochan has been with the Potomac News and Manassas Journal Messenger in Woodbridge, Virginia for more than six years. She started as a copy editor and page designer for the features section and has been the features editor for more than two years. She has won several Virginia Press Association awards for her theater reviews and page designs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia and received her bachelor's degree in communications from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. In her free time, she enjoys going to the movies and biking and traveling.
Wilbert Curtis
 
Wilbert Curtis
Wilbert T. Curtis is a supervisor in the single copy department at the Akron Beacon Journal, where he began as a district manager in February 2002. He has spent most of his professional career in the corporate business sector. He joined First Merit Bank in Akron in 1982 where he received several awards and promotions for his service and rose to branch manager. In 1995 he became a quality auditor for Diebold, Inc., based in Green, Ohio. He is on several leadership committees at the Beacon Journal, and just recently completed the first Leadership Beacon program. He is a native of Akron. He is married and has four daughters.
Hector Fadraga
 
Hector Fadraga
Hector Fadraga is the son of Cuban immigrants. He was born in Havana and raised in Venezuela and Miami, before completing his high school education in New York and New Jersey. He attended Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication where he earned a degree in journalism in 2000. He was also awarded a B.A. in philosophy at Syracuse and briefly pursued a doctorate in philosophy at the City University of New York. Hector has been at the Herald News in West Paterson, New Jersey, for more than three years. He started as a part-timer then moved to the apprentice copy editor program. He completed the two-year apprenticeship in little more and now designs page A1 on a regular basis.
Phil Ferguson
 
Phil Ferguson
Phil Ferguson is the packaging center operations manager at the Des Moines Register. He has been in this position for the past four years. Previously, he worked as an assistant packaging center manager for three years at The Greenville News in South Carolina. He received his B.A. degree in economics and business administration from Furman University in 1988. After graduating, he played professional football with the Cincinnati Bengals in 1988 and 1989 and with the Orlando Predators of the Arena Football League in 1992. He enjoys exercising, spending time with his wife, and designing his home theater.
Steven Ibanez
 
Steven Ibanez
Steven Ibanez is the online editor at FLORIDA TODAY in Melbourne, responsible for content development, production and coordination of efforts between the newsroom staff and the new media department. His responsibilities include managing a staff of three full-time producers, integrating new technologies into the workflow process and helping develop long and short-term strategic goals for the newsroom. He served in a similar position at The Shreveport Times in Louisiana, helping redesign the web site and train newsroom personnel to update and maintain the web site. From 1999-2002, he worked at NOLA.com, the web site for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans where he helped develop web-only broadcasts, live 'cam' shows and sports content
Mary Irby-Jones
 
Mary Irby-Jones
Mary is the senior editor for metro at the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. She is one of two assistant managing editors in the newsroom with primary responsibilities for the metro operation. She began in 1988 at a small newspaper in south Mississippi. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1988 from the University of Mississippi. Over the course of her career, she has worked as a reporter, a copy editor, assistant features editors and state government and business editor. Among her most fun memories are of her days covering high school and professional football games. She has a son, Colton, 11, who vows to never become a journalist. Time will tell!
Eric Luchini
 
Eric Luchini
Eric Luchini is the regional (zoned) advertising manager/coach for The Sacramento Bee, the California capital's main metropolitan daily newspaper. He joined the Bee as a restaurant advertising specialist in 1995. Eric graduated from California State University, Sacramento in 1985 with a B.A. in communication studies and a minor in journalism. He moved into his first advertising sales position in 1987 at the Elk Grove Citizen in suburban Sacramento. After two years at the Citizen, he joined the Sacramento News & Review, an alternative weekly. In 1996 the Bee named him account manager of the year and team player of the year.
Julie Lynem
 
Julie Lynem
Julie Lynem is business editor for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California. She supervises a staff of five and writes several business stories each. She was previously a senior staff writer covering the city of San Luis Obispo. She came to The Tribune from the San Francisco Chronicle, where she worked as a staff writer for five years. At the Chronicle, she covered a variety of beats, including crime, education and business, and briefly wrote a workplace column. She also worked at the Indianapolis Star as a night police, courts and general assignment reporter for three years. She lives in Avila Beach with her husband, Kevin Ferguson, a pathologist.
Autumn Moon
 
Autumn Moon

Autumn Moon is an assistant inside sales manager in the classified department at The Greenville News. She began as recruitment advertising specialist in 2002. Previously she worked at Coats & Clark as an inside sales representative. She enjoys shopping and spending time with family and friends.

Brooks Newkirk
 
Brooks Newkirk

Brooks Newkirk is a community editor at the Reidsville Review in North Carolina. She graduated from North Carolina A&T State University with a B.S. in journalism and mass communications. Upon graduation, she began working full-time at the Reidsville Review as a features writer and eight months later was promoted to community editor.

Ade Olonoh
 
Ade Olonoh

Ade Olonoh is an IT Manager at the Indianapolis Star where he is responsible for editorial, production, and online IT Systems. He started working at the newspaper as an IT developer in 2002 working primarily with online. Prior to working at the Star, he worked for two years as a partner in a small software development firm based in Indianapolis.He graduated from Anderson University in 2000 with majors in computer science and mathematics.

Ivette Sayan
 
Ivette Sayan
Ivette is a credit supervisor with the North Jersey Media Group where she has worked for six years. She began working with the company as a customer service representative in the circulation department and was also a customer account specialist working with agency's larger receivable accounts. She received an associate's degree in business administration with a minor in finance in 1998. It was an accomplishment while juggling a family of four, with one on the way, and a full-time job and the opening of a new business.
Marquita Smith
 
Marquita Smith
Marquita Smith is the Portsmouth city editor at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia. She has worked as a journalist for ten years. She joined the Pilot as a local government editor three years ago. Before moving to Virginia, she worked as an assistant metro editor at the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. She also has worked as a reporter at the Lexington-Herald Leader, The (Biloxi) Sun Herald and in Knight Ridder's Washington bureau.
Jan Stoeckle
 
Jan Stoeckle
Jan Stoeckle is publisher of the Huron Daily Tribune in Bad Axe, Michigan. Her newspaper career began in 1992 with a part-time position in the classified advertising department. After two years in classifieds she was promoted to a full time position in advertising. From there she moved to the circulation department where she held the position of sales manager before being appointed Circulation Director in 1996. She was appointed to her current position in May, 2004. She is a native of Michigan's thumb area and a graduate of Michigan State University. She and her husband, Warren, have been married 21 yeas and have two daughters, Laura, 15 and Jessica, 11.
Darryl Swint
 
Darryl Swint
Darryl Swint works at his hometown paper, the St. Louis Post Dispatch as a visual reporter in graphics. At an earlier stint at the Post-Dispatch in 1998, he worked as lead sports page designer. He has also worked as a graphic artist and page designer at the Detroit News and at Gannett News Service. A 1995 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, he is dedicated to bringing visual journalists into content and decision-making masthead positions in American media.
Carole Thompson
 
Carole Thompson
Carole Thompson is one of three assistant city editors at the Herald News in West Paterson, New Jersey. She has been in the news business for more than 20 years, beginning at The Associated Press in New York and Hartford, Connecticut. She moved on to daily newspaper reporting six years later at The News Tribune in Woodbridge, New Jersey. She was a business reporter for the Daily Record of Morris County, New Jersey, and a business editor at Dow Jones & Co. at its Wall Street Journal online division in New York City. She earned a bachelor's degree in writing from Columbia University and a master's from its Graduate School of Journalism. She is a playwright who has had productions in regional theater and off-Broadway at the Manhattan Theater Club.
Diego Urrea
 
Diego Urrea
Diego Urrea is a real estate manager at the Journal News in White Plains, New York. He began at the Journal News in 2001 as an account executive and later worked as recruitment and real estate supervisor. In 2003, he received the sales person of the year award. Before joining the Journal News, he was an account representative with the Harrison Conference Centers. He also worked as sales representative and personal trainer at Club Fit and as an assistant manager and program director at Jenny Craig. He received a B.S. degree in business administration from Iona College in 1995.
Stacie Walker
 
Stacie Walker
Stacie Walker is a deputy editor on the Long Island desk at Newsday, which is the paper's central news desk. She supervises the demographics cluster - seven reporters who cover veterans, non-profits, religion, race, Hispanic affairs, immigration and the Census, and who have produced numerous, exclusive award-winning reports. She has worked at the paper for 12 years, starting as a copy editor where. She was replate editor when the black boxes from TWA Flight 800, a plane that crashed off the shores of Long Island, were found. It was after the closing of the first edition, and she, along with two other editors had to remake the cover and the upfront section of the paper to get in the breaking news. She was honored for her efforts when Newsday won the 1997 Pulitzer for spot news reporting.
Jewell Walston
 
Jewell Walston
Jewell is an assistant sports editor at The Cincinnati Enquirer. She began at The Tennessean in Nashville in 1986 as a score-taker for Friday night football.After completing her B.A. degree, she continued at The Tennessean as a gate clerk and in 1989, she took a position as copy editor/layoutat FLORIDA TODAY in Melbourne.In 1991 she took a similar position with the Orlando Sentinel. After several years away from journalism, she returned as a sports editor at the Asheville Citizen-Times, where she was responsible for improving local coverage. She later took the opportunity to improve local high school coverage at the Enquirer, where she currently is the high schools editor.
Liz Zavala
 
Elizabeth Zavala
Liz Zavala is an assistant metro editor at the Dallas Morning News. She is a 1985 graduate of Texas Woman's University and has held reporting and editing positions for five newspapers in Texas. She joined the Morning News in 2000, and has held various editing positions. She participated in the Total Community Coverage and Reality Checks/Content Analysis training pilot programs for the Maynard Institute while employed at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram during the 1990s. She is secretary for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and also a member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

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