Points South: Faculty Biographies

Faculty Biographies

JAMES BORCHUK (email) joined the photo staff of the St. Petersburg Times in August of 2000. Prior to that, Borchuck was a staff photographer at The Detroit News from 1995-2000 and the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph from 1990-1995. He is a 1989 graduate from Western Kentucky University who majored in photojournalism. Borchuck's favorite assignments are sports related and he has won awards in the Pro Football Hall of Fame photo contest and National Baseball Hall of Fame contest. He has covered the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, four Masters golf tournaments, two super bowls, two National League Championship Series, a World Series and numerous professional and college football, baseball, and basketball games. Borchuck is married with two daughters; Ava, 2 and Emma, 2 weeks. (Just for the record, we named our kid BEFORE Rachael on 'Friends' did.)

RON BRACKETT is executive news editor of the St. Petersburg Times. He supervises the Wire Desk, which designs and edits the A section of the paper; he helps select the 1A lineup; and he works with assigning editors to plan centerpiece packages for 1A and 1B. He is also responsible for making decisions on 1A stories after all the bigwigs have gone home. He has worked at the Times for 16 1/2 years. He is the father of Benjamin, 9, and Molly, 6, and the husband of Jan, who is a copy editor in the news features department at the Times. He began his career with the Greenville News in South Carolina after graduating from the University of South Carolina. In addition to renovating his 75-year-old house, Ron spends his off hours volunteering at his children's school and the family church.

STEPHEN BUCKLEY is the National Correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times. He joined the paper this summer from The Washington Post foreign staff. From 1999 to 2001, he was stationed in Brazil, where he opened the Post's first bureau in Rio de Janeiro. Prior to that, he was stationed in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1995-1998. During his African tour, Stephen covered the turmoil in Rwanda and wrote the series, "African Lives: Everyday Existence on a Complex Continent" that won the foreign reporting prize from the National Association of Black Journalists. Stephen is a former member of Poynter's Advisory Board who has been a part of the Poynter family since 1981, when he talked his way into the high school Writer's Camp by telling Roy Peter Clark he wanted to become the next Red Smith. From there he won a Poynter Scholarship to Duke and did internships at the St. Petersburg Times (in sports) and the Detroit bureau of The Wall Street Journal. In 1989, he joined The Washington Post where he covered night cops on the metro staff and worked in a suburban bureau. In 2000, Stephen spent six months as a Visiting Professional at Poynter where he helped lead the summer fellowship program and taught in several professional seminars. He lives in St. Petersburg with his wife Cathleen, a teacher, and their children, Olivia and David.

ROY PETER CLARK is Senior Scholar at The Poynter Institute, where he has taught writing since 1979. He is a graduate of Providence College and has a Ph.D. in English from SUNY at Stony Brook. He worked at the St. Petersburg Times as a writing coach, and served briefly as a reporter, feature writer, and critic. He founded the Writing Center at Poynter, lending support to the writing coach movement. Since 1980, Roy has also taught writing to children and their teachers. That work is described in a book titled Free To Write: A Journalist Teaches Young Writers, which was published in 1986 by Heinemann Educational Books. With Don Fry, he is the author of Coaching Writers, published by St. Martin's Press. He is the co-editor of the recent America's Best Newspaper Writing: A Collection of ASNE Prizewinners, and he was the director of the National Writers Workshops. In February of 1996, Roy wrote, Three Little Words, a book-length AIDS narrative that appeared as a month-long series in the St. Petersburg Times. In 1997, he wrote Sadie's Ring, published in The Miami Herald, The Charlotte Observer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. His newspaper novel on millennial themes, Ain't Done Yet, was commissioned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group and was published as a month-long series in more than two dozen newspapers.

J. DAMON CAIN (email) has been Director of News Design at The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, since October 1993. A graduate of the University of Iowa, he has 21 years of newspaper experience, including a dozen years at smaller papers in Iowa and Illinois where he worked as a jack-of-all-trades — reporter, photographer, editor, columnist, graphic artist, layout editor, news editor and AME. Cain has won awards for writing, photo editing, and graphics and design from state, national and international organizations. Most recently he took The N&O through a web reduction redesign and a redesign of the paper's local section.

ALY COLÓN is Poynter’s Director of Diversity Programs and on the Ethics faculty. He explores diverse approaches to covering news. He also teaches ethical decision-making, how to connect with under-covered communities and how to find the untold stories. He presents regularly at the National Writers Workshops. He edits the Poynter Report. He consults on ethical and diversity issues. Prior to Poynter, he worked at The Seattle Times as Diversity reporter and coach. As a reporter, he focused on the "intersections" where people of different races, cultures, gender, and abilities meet. As coach, he helped reporters and editors address diversity issues. He also was a Seattle Times assistant metro editor for urban affairs, health care, ethics & values, religion, and social issues. He worked at The Herald in Everett, Wash., as an executive editor over both business and features and at The Oakland Press in Pontiac, Mich. Some of Aly’s fellowships include: a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business at Columbia University, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in ethics, Knight Center for Specialized Journalism fellowships in health care and race, and a Robert Bosch Study Fellowship on European unity and German reunification. He got his B.A. in journalism from Loyola University in New Orleans and his M.A. in journalism from Stanford University. His wife Sheila is a marketing consultant. His seven-year-old daughter Christina is a Daddy consultant. His one-year-old Standard Poodle, Biscuit, is a doggie consultant. Biscuit doesn’t fetch the morning paper. He runs outside, sniffs the paper, then reads the headlines. He waits for Aly to pick it up.

ANDREW DEVIGAL was a Poynter Fellow in 2000, teaching and directing seminars in the area of New Media and Visual Journalism, and is now a frequent visiting faculty member. He is also involved with the Stanford-Poynter Project, research studying how users read online news using an Eye Tracking System. Formerly he was an interface designer for Knight-Ridder New Media in San Jose, designing many of the early verticals offered by Real Cities, a producer for chicagotribune.com, shaping the look and format of the original Internet version. In his other life, Andrew was an informational graphic artist for the Chicago Tribune and the Contra Costa Times. He has also redesigned several online publications including the Albany (N.Y.) Times Union website, timesunion.com. His work can also be appreciated from the design of Handelsblatt Interaktiv, Germany's financial daily, which was redesigned by Mario Garcia Media Group. He recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position in the School of Journalism at San Francisco State University. He will embark on this new teaching adventure this fall.

NURI DUCASSI (email) has been one of the most popular visiting instructors at The Poynter Institute for more than 12 years, first sharing her dynamic design work from her tenure at El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language edition of The Miami Herald, and later her work from the San Jose Mercury News, where she was features design director. In 1997, Nuri returned to her cultural roots as art director of The Miami Herald, which was redesigned under her direction. She also has redesigned Novedades in Mexico City. Nuri is the winner of numerous awards for design, illustration and art direction from SND and other organizations.

KAREN BROWN DUNLAP is Associate Director, Dean of the Faculty, and a Trustee at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. She is responsible for leading the faculty and academic programs. A teacher in writing, she has led seminars throughout the nation and abroad, including sessions in South Africa. She is co-author of The Effective Editor, and she was editor of the Institute's Best Newspaper Writing series. She continues as a regular contributor. Karen, who has served as a Pulitzer Prize jurist, publishes articles on award-winning writing. She was a reporter for Macon News, Nashville Banner, and the St. Petersburg Times, and edited a weekly. After ten years of teaching journalism at Tennessee State University in Nashville, she joined the journalism faculty at the University of South Florida in Tampa in 1985. She began her tenure at Poynter in 1989. Karen is a graduate of Michigan State University and Tennessee State University, and received her Ph.D. in mass communications from the University of Tennessee. Her husband, four children, and grandchildren are the "j" in her joy.

LILLIAN DUNLAP taught broadcast news for nearly 10 years at the Missouri School of Journalism before joining the leadership and ethics faculties at Poynter. She is a former news reporter/anchor for WTTV-TV in Indianapolis and founding director of the Audio Video Communication Center at Institut Teknologi MARA/Indiana University in Shah Alam, Malaysia. But, she may be most famous as the Floridian in the room when the November 7, U.S. Presidential election 'non-results' were announced to a large gathering in Johannesburg, South Africa. Back home again, Lillian serves as the national seminar leader for RTNDF's News Management Seminars for Women and Minority Journalists and is a frequent presenter at national and international media conventions. She worked as consultant to the multiple-award winning PBS production Eyes on the Prize II. Other consulting clients include radio and television stations in the United States, Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. Her research focuses on women and minorities in news management and the images and impact of African Americans in media. Lillian received a bachelor's degree from Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio, and master’s and Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington. When she is not helping news organizations maximize their impact, she enjoys singing, good films and preparing herself to glide across the finish line of her second triathalon.

KIMBERLY ELAM (email) is currently Head of the Graphic and Interactive Communication Department at the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida. Her professional work has comprised almost all forms of print media and screen media communications including: internet design, corporate identity design, publication design, packaging and point of purchase design, and exhibition design. Her first book, Expressive Typography, The Word as Image, for Van Nostrand Reinhold, identified and analyzed methods by which the written word can transcend didactic meaning and become an image. Last year she completed another book, Geometry of Design, for the Princeton Architectural Press. This book visually illustrates the connection between classic proportioning systems and modern design, illustration, and architecture.

GREGORY FAVRE recently joined the leadership faculty at The Poynter Institute. He was born in New Orleans and grew up working on the family newspaper in Mississippi. He was assistant sports editor at the Atlanta Journal; managing editor at the Dayton Daily News; editor of the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post; news director at WPLG-TV in Miami; editor of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times; managing editor of the Chicago Daily News; and managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. He served as executive editor of The Sacramento Bee from 1984 to 1998. Favre was appointed vice president of news of The McClatchy Company in 1989 and retired from there this year before coming to Poynter. He is a past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, past chairman of the Program committee, the Readership committee, the Journalism Education committee, and the Future of Newspapers committee. In 1992 he was named News Executive of the Year by the California Press Association. He is a recipient of the Silver Em Award from the University of Mississippi, 1996, and the 1997 National Association of Minority Media Executives Catalyst award for leadership in advocating and advancing diversity. He is past Chairman of the Foundation for American Communications, on the Board of Directors of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence. Favre serves on the Board of Visitors for the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, for the University of California, Davis, Medical School; and is past president of the California Society of Newspaper Editors. He is on the board of advisors for the UC Davis Foundation, National Co-chair of the Maynard Circle, and member of the Advisory Committee for The Lutheran magazine. His wife, Beatrice, is a clinical psychologist and they have two adult children, Monica Kauppinen and Jeff Favre and one grandchild, Melitta Kauppinen.

THOMAS FRENCH has been a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times for the past eighteen years. Over the past decade, he has specialized in serial narratives. These projects have included A Cry in the Night, which chronicles a murder case in Gulfport, Fla.; South of Heaven, which follows several students through one year at one Florida high school; and Babyland, which profiles two teen mothers. The first two series were later published in book form. For the past several years, Tom has been working with Times photographer Cherie Diez on several interconnected narratives, following the lives of a handful of people, ranging from a homicide detective to a minister to an exorcist. The first of these narratives, Angels & Demons, won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

DR. MARIO R. GARCIA (email | website) is President and CEO of Garcia Media. Mario has almost 30 years of design experience and has redesigned over 450 newspapers worldwide including The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit (Germany), El Mercurio (Chile), El Tiempo (Bogota, Columbia), The San Jose Mercury News, The Charlotte Observer, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of a dozen books including his most recent, Redesigning Print for the Web. He has served as professor at Syracuse University (New York) and the University of South Florida and since 1984 has been a faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, where he founded the graphics department and just completed the most in-depth research on eye-tracking for the web. He has won numerous awards from the Society of News Design as well as receiving their first Lifetime Achievement Award for his work as a newspaper designer.

JEREMY GILBERT (email | website): "I got my start as a paperboy for the Pittsburgh Press - a now defunct afternoon paper. I have been somewhat steadily pursuing my journalism career ever since. Despite the lure and glamour of first architecture, then Middle Eastern history and finally the riches of the Dot Com world, I am back in print journalism working as the Art Director of The News-Press' new Sunday magazine: Tropicalia. Before arriving in Fort Myers, Fla., I interned at a series of newspapers - The Austin American-Statesman, the Sun-Sentinel (twice) and the Portland Oregonian. In various places, I worked as a copy-editor, reporter, page designer and web designer. I attended the Medill School of Journalism where I earned a bachelor's degree in print journalism and a master's degree in new media." (Jeremy is a 1999 alumnus of Poynter’s Visual Journalism Fellowship program.)

ANNE GLOVER (email) is the assistant managing editor/copy desks at the St. Petersburg Times, where she has spent her entire 19-year journalism career. She directly supervises the 40 copy editors who work on the Times Metroplex, and does much of the recruiting and hiring of copy editors and designers for the newsroom. Anne also is the newsroom’s liaison in a partnership involving the local CBS affiliate. This involves navigating a lot of new issues that involve the buzzword "convergence." She has taught at API, for the Inland Press Association, at The Poynter Institute and at the Wilmington Writers’ Workshop. She’s a frequent presenter at the American Copy Editors Society, and she also teaches at a Dow Jones boot camp each summer.

ROBERT HAIMAN retired as President of The Poynter Institute in June of 1996 after 13 years of service. He is now President Emeritus and he was named Distinguished Editor in Residence and Senior Trustee of the Institute. He joined the Institute as President in 1983 after 25 years at the St. Petersburg Times as a reporter, copy editor, night city editor, national editor, managing editor, and executive editor. He was a director of the Times Publishing Company; member of Board of Trustees of The Poynter Institute, and is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, International Press Institute, and Associated Press Managing Editors. Bob has a B.S. in journalism from The University of Florida and has been a visiting lecturer at the journalism schools of the University of Florida, University of South Florida, Northwestern University, and Indiana University, and served as a Pulitzer juror in 1977, 1990, 1991, and 1996.

ED HASHEY (email) is a freelance illustrator and a design affiliate of Garcia Media Inc. Ed recently worked on the redesign of The Wall Street Journal and the San Francisco Examiner with Garcia Media in all aspects of the redesign and most notably the design style guides. He has teamed with Garcia Media on over 15 newspaper design projects and five websites. He is a '97 Alumnus of the Poynter Visual Journalism Program and enjoys returning to Poynter every summer to assist the program and learn from new fellows. Ed is also a 1997 graduate and trustee scholar of the Ringling School of Art and Design with degrees in both Illustration and Graphic Design. Ed resides in Sarasota, Fla., with his wife, Jeanne, and their Boston Terrier, Maggie.

ANNE HULL considers it a privilege to watch people’s lives unfold. She thrives on fieldwork. It excites her to capture the raw, uncut experiences of people she writes about. "When you’re in the field, you’re living someone else’s life and seeing it through their experiences," said Hull, a national reporter for The Washington Post. It is a gift of immersion she relishes. She never tires of it, even when it leads her to offbeat places and in strange directions. When she was a national correspondent for the St. Petersburg Times, she stayed in a trailer without plumbing in a Kentucky "holler." For another assignment, she rode buses for five days without getting off. Any lack of comfort faded with the thrill of being there. Her interest in such stories was nurtured when, as a high school senior, she went to work at the St. Petersburg Times as a "copy kid" and met narrative journalists David Finkel (now with The Washington Post) and Tom French. They encouraged her to read the "new journalism" writing of such authors as Tom Wolfe and Gay Talese. Those journalists, she said, told intimate stories in unconventional ways, conveying the truth of people’s lives more completely than conventional, "what happened," news. "It spoke to truth that was larger than a single event. It wove in people, context, histories, sociologies, and the fullness of life," said Hull, who spent 17 years at the St. Petersburg Times before joining The Washington Post two years ago. "It seemed to get to the bottom of people and their motivations…a kind of fullness of truth."

KENNY IRBY is an integral figure in visual journalism education. He is known for his insightful knowledge about photographic storytelling, innovative management ideas, steadfast ethical thinking, and evangelical charm. Kenny teaches seminars and consults in areas of photojournalism, leadership, ethics, and managing diversity. He has traveled to Singapore, Russia, South Africa, Jamaica and Denmark preaching excellence in photojournalism. He chaired the Unity '99 Visual Task Force, and was Poynter's representative to the Visual Edge board. Kenny contributed, as a photo editor, to three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects while working at Newsday. He was a juror for the Society for News Design, Annual Pictures of the Year Competition, and White House News Photographers' Competition. He is the recipient of numerous awards including NPPA's 1999 Joseph Costa Award for outstanding initiative, leadership, and service in photojournalism. Kenny was formerly a photographer and deputy director of photography at Newsday, Inc., and a photographer and assistant photo editor at The Oakland Press. He has a B.S. in photojournalism from Boston University, and was a Multicultural Management Fellow at the University of Missouri.

PAM JOHNSON recently joined the leadership faculty at The Poynter Institute. She previously was with Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. for 12 years, beginning as managing editor of The Phoenix Gazette in 1989. After three years, she became managing editor of The Arizona Republic, and was senior vice president/news and executive editor of The Republic, a position she held since September of 1996. Prior to that, she was assistant managing editor at the Kansas City Star where she worked for 13 years. Pam is a past president of the Associated Press Managing Editors and is a founder of the Journalism and Women's Symposium, which sponsors a weekend retreat once a year for women in newspapers. She is also a board member of ASNE and is affiliated with IRE, SPJ, the Foundation for American Communications (FACS), and the Missourian Publishing Association. She recently received The Missouri School of Journalism Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism, the highest honor the School of Journalism bestows, which is where she received her bachelor's degree. She also serves on the advisory committee for the Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center and is a member of the Maynard Circle, which informally advises the Maynard Institute. Pam has worked for the Joplin, Mo. Globe; The Evening Press in Binghamton, N.Y., and the Kansas City Times. She has judged many journalism contests, including the Pulitzers four times and the ASNE Writing Awards for three years. She shared in the staff Pulitzer that honored The Kansas City Star for its coverage of the Hyatt Skywalk collapse.

JEFF KLINKENBERG is the author of Real Florida and Dispatches from the Land of Flowers. He writes about people, places, and environmental issues in a St. Petersburg Times column called "Real Florida." He has also written general assignment and outdoor stories. Jeff has twice been a finalist in Scripps Howard Edward Meeman National Environmental Writing Awards. He is past winner of the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors Paul Hansell Award for distinguished journalism. Jeff graduated from the University of Florida, and has lived in this state for almost five decades. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, cycling, canoeing, bird watching, and fishing.

STEPHANIE GRACE LIM (email), a member of the international jet-set, resides in Silicon Valley and winters in Hawaii. An avid award and toy collector, she has won acclaim from the Society of News Design, National Press Photographers Association, Associated Press, National Headliners, and Nikon, as well as Michigan College Photographer of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In winter of 2003, Sherpas plan to scale the mountain of toys in Stephanie’s cubicle at the San Jose Mercury News. Previous heroic expeditions have taken place at The Charlotte Observer, Ann Arbor News and the University of Michigan. When she's not busy changing the world with revolutionary Potato Head art, she can be found honing her psychic skills, inhaling hair-dye fumes, and recovering from her frozen yogurt addiction. Her work has been featured in the illustrious publications of Life, People, Billboard, Photographer’s Forum, and Print Magazine. Among her life’s ambitions are to own a giant panda, become a backup dancer for a cheesy pop-star, and avoid being mauled by the aforementioned panda.

CHRISTINE M. MARTIN is the Dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University (WVU), and Co-Director of the News Reporting and Writing Fellowship program at Poynter. Chris was the 1999 Freedom Forum Journalism Professor of the Year, the 1998 CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teachers West Virginia Professor of the Year, AND the winner of the 1997-98 West Virginia University Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching. Under her leadership, the School of Journalism at WVU has established the Ogden Newspapers Visiting Professorship in Journalism, bringing renowned AP war and special correspondent George Esper into the faculty. Chris also has initiated several new visiting faculty training programs that have brought numerous experts to the WVU campus, including a C-SPAN-covered panel of women Vietnam War correspondents, a panel of Pulitzer Prize winning authors, and numerous panels of top international public relations and advertising CEOs. In addition, Chris launched the nation's only online, graduate-level Integrated Marketing Communications Certificate program. Before becoming dean, Chris worked at WVU for 10 years as a journalism professor and the Director of the Writing Program. Prior to WVU, she worked as a reporter, education writer, and news editor for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard. During her years as a reporter, Chris won the National Education Writers Association Award for investigative journalism and an American Cancer Society Award for health reporting. Chris holds a B.A. in English from California University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Journalism from the University of Maryland and is currently completing a Ph.D. in American Studies.

CLIFF MCBRIDE (email): I was born and raised in Evansville, Ind., and began taking photos at the ripe age of 14 for the Evansville Press. After a short stint in college, I accepted a staff photographer's position with the Evansville Courier & Press. I worked there for a year before coming to The Tampa Tribune. I have been on staff at the Tribune since September of 1983. During that time I have covered a variety of assignments, including extensive coverage of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and seven Super Bowls. Most recently learning a new skill, shooting & editing video for WFLA TV in our recent convergence plan enacted two years ago. I am married with two boys.

SUE MORROW (email): "My journey into the visual arts began at John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, where I gained an interest in photojournalism. That interest gradually led to a degree in journalism from Indiana University. I have worked as a designer at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a picture editor at The Boston Globe. In 1990, I went to the San Jose Mercury News, where I have been an assignments editor, daily picture editor, features picture editor, assistant art director for the Sunday magazine, West, and features design director, managing a staff of four designers/illustrators. I’ve been a faculty member for the Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop and have taught at The Poynter Institute and the Western Kentucky University Mountain Workshop. I have placed in POY and SND in various categories throughout the last ten years, placing first in individual picture editing portfolio in 1993 POY for work done at The Boston Globe and the San Jose Mercury News. In 1999, I assisted in judging the 56th Pictures of the Year Competition in Columbia, Missouri. In September of that year I joined the St. Petersburg Times as design director, and I am currently the director of photography."

MONICA MOSES joined the faculty of The Poynter Institute in 1999. She pushes journalists to approach their work with an editor's critical thinking skills, an artist's sense of wonder and a busy reader's impatience. Monica also preaches the benefits of collaboration and encourages participants to build clout by being change agents, supportive colleagues, and good newsroom citizens. Her teaching specialties include typography, visual journalism, work relationships and leadership. Before coming to Poynter, Monica was the award-winning first design director of The Charlotte Observer; AME/graphics and photo at the Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle; art director, Gannett Suburban Newspapers; design editor, The Arkansas Gazette; feature page designer, copy editor, and assistant features editor, The Anchorage (Alaska) Times. She has won almost 40 Society for News Design awards, including multiple medals. Print magazine, the Associated Press, Knight Ridder, and other press organizations have also recognized her work. She received her B.A. in English, Phi Beta Kappa, from St. Olaf College; studied literature and philosophy at Oxford University, Oxford, England; and earned an M.A. in visual communication from the University of Minnesota. She has done redesign, collaboration and management consulting for a number of news organizations, including The Tampa Tribune, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman and the Akron Beacon Journal.

JIM NAUGHTON is President of The Poynter Institute. Before joining the Institute in June of 1996, he spent 18 years at The Philadelphia Inquirer where his last job was executive editor. He went to work at the Inquirer as national news editor in 1977, after eight years as a correspondent in the Washington bureau of The New York Times. During that period, he covered urban affairs, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, The Nixon White House, the 1972 Democratic campaigns of Edmund Muskie and George McGovern, Congress, the Senate Watergate Hearings, the House of Representatives Inquiry into the Impeachment of President Nixon, the Ford White House, and the 1976 Republican candidacy of Gerald Ford. Jim taught as a Marsh Professor of Journalism in 1977 and 1985 at the University of Michigan. From 1962 to 1969, he was a reporter at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland. Jim served as an officer of the U.S. Marines from 1960-62. He graduated, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 1960. He and his wife, Diana, have four children.

ROBERT NEWMAN (email) is currently the creative director for Real Simple magazine in New York City. He has previously been design director of Inside, Vibe, Details, New York, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice and Guitar World, and was the editor of The Rocket in Seattle, WA. He is a past president of the Society of Publication Designers.

Originally from the "Blue Grass" state of Kentucky, CARRIE PRATT (email) as spent the past three years working as a staff photographer for the St. Petersburg Times in the Clearwater bureau. Alongside five other photographers, she is responsible for coverage for three daily regional sections, a twice-weekly tabloid, as well as contributing to the main run. In addition to her daily publication responsibilities, Carrie also enjoys longer-term projects. Recently her work has taken her into the Hispanic community of Clearwater covering the winning season of the Mexican-American women's basketball team called Las Nuevas Amigas. Prior to joining the Times, Carrie interned at The Indianapolis Star, The Oregonian, The Flint Journal, and the South Bend Tribune. Carrie graduated from Western Kentucky University with a bachelor's degree in photojournalism and a minor in art.

RON REASON (email | website) is a designer and educator with nearly 20 years in journalism. Based in Chicago, he is Vice President/Creative Director of Garcia Media, for which he directed the redesign (and conversion to tabloid) of The San Francisco Examiner and worked on the redesign of The Wall Street Journal. Previously, as an independent consultant, Ron redesigned papers including The Dallas Morning News, Orlando Sentinel and Boston Herald. He also has created training programs for newspapers around the world, including the largest papers in Brazil, Denmark, Iceland and Singapore. Ron served from 1995-1999 as Director of Visual Journalism at Poynter, where he remains a visiting faculty member, and ran the summer college fellowship during that time. Before joining Poynter, Ron worked for the St. Petersburg Times for a decade, in positions ranging from Copy Editor to Design Director. Ron has taught advanced typography and graphic design studio at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla., and has taught publication design at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He is a 1985 graduate of Indiana University's School of Journalism. His "Design With Reason" web site offers lots of tips, case studies and commentary about newspaper design and publishing.

BETH REYNOLDS (email): "I have a strong desire not only to take pictures, but to share the experiences of my subjects, and hopefully, to give something back to them through the act of recording their lives. I began shooting for my school newspaper in the 9th grade. Making photo-documentaries has been my passion for 14 years. In 1995 I received my MFA in photography from The Hartford Art School. It is my belief that I can make a difference in the lives of people who need it most with my camera. I have exhibited documentary projects in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Florida and California. In the last fourteen years I have dealt with the issues of inclusion, health care, welfare, the environment, immigration and aging. For four years I was a staff photographer for The Bristol Press Newspaper and a photography instructor at Tunxis Community College in Connecticut. Currently, I am part-time at The Arts Center teaching and coordinating the photography and digital imaging program. I am an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida and a PEL instructor for Eckerd College. I started my own publishing company, The Photo-Documentary Press, Inc. in 1998 and continue to photograph issues with social relevance and publish fine art coffee table books. My first book was Sisters of Courage: Survivors of Breast and Cervical Cancer (1999). My second title is Captain, He Bought Eggs: Stories from a Firefighter (2001).

GEORGE RORICK is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of print, broadcasting, and interactive visual journalism. He focuses on content first and is a strong advocate for new ideas and innovative design. He encourages better use of today's technology to expand creativity and productivity. George believes in change and cross training, and specializes in improving working relationships and communications between newsrooms and visual journalists. He helped pioneer the use of the Macintosh computer in newsrooms. He introduced the team concept of assigning researchers, graphics editors, and graphics reporters to work in conjunction with the newsroom. George is the winner of numerous awards for graphics and design; 1994 Knight-Ridder entrepreneur of the year award for the direction of the KRT Graphics service, launching Faces in the News, the KRT European Graphics Service, and News In Motion. He was a consultant to El Mundo, Spain; director of, KRT Graphics, KRT European Graphics, News In Motion, Washington, D.C.; assistant managing editor-graphics, The Detroit News; graphics director, St. Petersburg Times; part of the design and graphics team for USA Today, where he designed the original weather page; art director, The Denver Post and The Lansing State Journal; artist, The Herald Palladium, Benton Harbor, St Joseph, Mich. George is a graduate of Westport Connecticut School of Commercial Art, Design, and Illustration.

LESLIE RUBINKOWSKI started her journalism career as a college sophomore, selling stories to a newspaper near her hometown for $.35 each. Since then she has worked for six different newspapers, including the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, The Pittsburgh Press and most recently the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she wrote articles for the paper's magazine section and worked as a film critic. She is an assistant professor at West Virginia University's Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism and a faculty member of the Creative Nonfiction program at Goucher College. Her book Impersonating Elvis was published in 1997, and she is currently at work on a second book.

CHRISTOPHER SCANLAN is Senior Faculty on the Reporting, Writing, and Editing staff at The Poynter Institute and Director of the National Writers' Workshops. He joined the faculty in 1994 from the Knight-Ridder Newspapers Washington Bureau where he was a national correspondent. In two decades of reporting, he earned 16 awards including a Robert F. Kennedy award for international journalism. Chip is a graduate of Fairfield University and Columbia University Graduate School of journalism and spent the first years of his career at The Milford (Conn.) Citizen, Manchester (Conn.) Journal-Inquirer and Delaware State News. From 1977-85, he was a reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin, where he helped create and run the paper's writing program and edited How I Wrote the Story, a collection of newswriting accounts. From 1985-89, he was a feature writer at St. Petersburg Times. His articles, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, among them Redbook, The Washington Post Magazine, The Writer, The Mississippi Review, Fiction Quarterly, and The Boston Globe Magazine, and the online magazine Salon. His journalism textbook, Reporting and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century, was published in September of 1999, by Harcourt Brace College Publishers. Chip lives on St. Pete Beach with his wife, Kathy Fair, also a writer, and their three daughters.

DAVID SHEDDEN is the Researcher and Archivist for The Poynter Institute's Eugene Patterson Library. He provides reference and in-depth research services to Poynter's faculty and seminar participants. In recent years David has created a number of online library services for the Poynter.org website. These include "Links to the News" and "Today in Journalism History". He holds a BA degree in mass communications and an MLS and an MA in history from the University of South Florida.

ANDREW SKWISH (email | website) : "I am a self-employed illustrator. My work has appeared in Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Harvard Business Review, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and others that I can’t think of at the moment. I used to work for a bunch of different newspapers in a bunch of different jobs. Some of the newspapers are San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune and the St. Petersburg Times. Some of the jobs were designer, illustrator and graphics boy. I went to college for Business Administration, Finance and Accounting. I guess that was a mistake. I’m not too fond of puppets."

SREENATH SREENIVASAN (email | website) teaches full-time in the new media program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In May 2000, he became founding administrator of the Online Journalism Awards, the world's largest new media journalism prizes, run by Columbia and the Online News Association. In the New York City area, Sree can be seen once a week on WABC-7 -- every Thursday at 6:45 a.m. for the station's "Tech Guru" segments, discussing technology trends and gadgets on Eyewitness News This Morning. As a freelance journalist, he has recently written for Time Digital, The New York Times, Business Week, India Today and Rolling Stone. He has been published in several other periodicals, including the Fiji Sun (don't ask!), and has been a freelance producer for the Nightly Business Report on PBS and a reporter in India. He is co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Association and lives in Manhattan with his wife, Roopa Unnikrishnan, a management consultant and internationally-ranked sports rifle shooter. His personal Web site: www.sree.net

BOB STEELE is Senior Faculty and leader of the Ethics group at The Poynter Institute. He has taught ethics sessions in over 150 Poynter seminars since he joined the Institute in 1989. He also stays closely connected to newsrooms through his real-time coaching of journalists and news managers on ethics issues and by leading ethics workshops for over 50 newspapers, television stations and newspaper and broadcast groups. He also has conducted ethics seminars for journalists from around the world and has taught ethics workshops in South Africa and Mexico. Bob has written articles, guidelines and case studies for a number of publications and for professional journalism organizations including the American Society of Newspaper Editors and The Radio Television News Directors Association. He’s frequently on the receiving end of the reporting process, having been interviewed hundreds of times as a source for broadcast, newspaper, magazine and online stories on journalism ethics. Before turning to teaching, he spent a decade as a television reporter, executive producer and news director in Maine, Wisconsin and Iowa. He also taught reporting, journalism ethics and media law as a professor at the University of Maine. He holds a doctorate from the University of Iowa where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on journalism ethics. He also earned a masters degree from Syracuse University in television-radio and a B.A. degree in economics from DePauw University. Bob served three years in the army including ten months in Vietnam as a signal corps officer. The father of three adult daughters, Bob lives in St. Petersburg, with his wife Carol who is the economic development manager for the Center for Ocean Technology at the University of South Florida.

ELLEN SUNG is an online reporter and editor for Poynter.org. She came to Poynter in March 2001 as a one-year intern and participated in the 2001 Reporting and Writing Fellowship for College Graduates. Before moving to Florida, Ellen lived in Washington, DC, where she worked as a reporter and producer at Policy.com; a reporter and Web designer for Tax Notes; and a researcher at the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative journalism group. She holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and all-event tickets to the 2003 World Figure Skating Championships.

KEITH WOODS is Writing and Editing Group Leader at The Poynter Institute. He leads the Institute’s programs in writing and editing, teaches coverage of race relations, and coaches journalists on ethics. He is the editor of Best Newspaper Writing, the annual collection – now in its 24^th year – of winners and finalists from the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ writing contest. He is the author of Lessons in Excellence, a critical analysis of some of the country’s best reporting on race and diversity done in conjunction with Columbia University. He has contributed chapters to four books on ethics and diversity. He is a regular presenter at the National Writers Workshops each spring, specializing in feature writing and writing about race relations. He consults frequently with print and broadcast organizations and journalism school faculties around the country on issues of ethics, writing, diversity and coverage of race relations, and continues to write essays and analyses for newspapers, news magazines, and Poynter’s website. He joined the Institute in 1995 after 16 years with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, where his career began as a weekend sports clerk and concluded as an editorial writer and columnist. In between, he was an award-winning sportswriter and news reporter. As an assistant city editor, he reported from South Africa on the end of apartheid following the release of Nelson Mandela. As City Editor, he led the city desk through the coverage of ex-KKK Grand Wizard David Duke’s 1991 gubernatorial runoff. He was a writer and editor on the newspaper's nationally heralded series on race relations, "Together Apart/The Myth of Race." That series, which spanned seven months, claimed among its honors a 1993 National Headliner Award. Keith’s 1999 media-merger marriage to Tampa news anchor Denise White increased his family size from two children (Danielle, 20, Keith Jr. 16) to four (Andrea, 11, Matthew, 9). Now it’s holding at five, with the November 2000 birth of baby Noah.

DAVID YARNOLD (email) is Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of the San Jose Mercury News. He is responsible for all news coverage and the operation of the third largest newsroom on the West Coast. He has been in that position since May 1999. In March, 2002, the international Society of News Design named the Mercury News one of the five best designed newspapers in the world, calling the Mercury News, "The boldest American newspaper…" Prior to assuming his current position, he was Managing Editor of the Mercury News for four years and was responsible for the daily operation of the newsroom, with particular emphasis on business and technology coverage and the front page. He is a nationally recognized advocate for diversity and runs one of the nation's most diverse newsrooms with 32% people of color.

SEMINAR SUPPORT STAFF BIOGRAPHIES

NANCY EMINETH is the Writing Department Program Assistant. Before joining the staff in 1996, she was an Administrative Assistant III for the Provost at Temple University overseeing student grants worth five million-dollars. Prior to that, she was the head Secretary and office Assistant for the Associate Vice President of Finance at Temple University Hospital. She is a Philadelphia native who attended both Temple University and Drexel University. Presently she coordinates the Institute’s writing programs - from Summer Writers Camp to the Newspaper Writing and Editing seminars. Nancy moved to Florida in 1996. She is an avid scuba diver and is happily married with one child living in the Clearwater area.

JENNETTE SMITH is program assistant for Visual Journalism at Poynter. She began working at Poynter in August 1990 as a faculty secretary in the Management and Leadership programs. Jennette is a native of Florida who grew up in New Jersey and New York. She moved to St. Petersburg in 1979 and has held a variety of positions with the City of St. Petersburg, the now defunct Fotomat, and the St. Petersburg Times.