Bill Allman is the General Manager and Chief Content/Creative Officer of The HealthCentral Network, overseeing content creation, marketing and day to day operations of a suite of more than 30 health-related Web sites.
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Web Soup: Creating Content in the Digital Age

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Storytelling 2.0
Storytelling 2.1

Robert Benincasa is a producer for National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. He works mainly on Web and radio stories that involve data analysis and multimedia data presentations. Prior to joining NPR in October, he was database editor for Gannett News Service, the Washington bureau for the nation's largest newspaper publisher. During 10 years in that post, he produced database-driven enterprise projects and searchable online databases for use by the Gannett Company's daily newspapers and television stations. Benincasa won a 2006 Philip Meyer Award for an investigative project comparing the quality of heart care at more than 3,000 hospitals across the country. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Villanova University and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
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Computer-Assisted Reporting

Bruce D. Brown is a partner at Baker & Hostetler in Washington, DC where he has worked in the media law area since 1997. He specializes in libel and invasion-of-privacy, newsgathering, and copyright. A significant part of his practice is focused on working with in-house counsel on pre-publication review, author-publisher agreements, and website liability. He also regularly assists the Society of Professional Journalists on freedom of information matters. Prior to joining the firm, Bruce was a federal court reporter for Legal Times and a former newsroom assistant to David Broder at The Washington Post. Bruce is a 1995 graduate of Yale Law School and a 1988 graduate of Stanford University. In 1992 he received a Master’s degree in English Literature from Harvard University, where he was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. Bruce has been named one of Washington’s top media lawyers by Washingtonian magazine.
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Digging Up Controversy

Christopher Chambers is a former U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division and Environment & Natural Resources Division attorney, and has practiced corporate law for large firms in Washington D.C. and Baltimore. He served as associate counsel at a local minority bank. At Queens University in Charlotte, N.C., Mr. Chambers was a lecturer in business communications, public speaking, intercultural communications and creative writing. He is current a best-selling author of several novels and short stories published through Random House, HarperCollins and Tor. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Baltimore School of Law.
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Punditry 101: The Talking Head versus Public Intellectual in Contemporary Media

Estel Dillon has been a staff photographer/editor at NBC News in Washington D.C. for 26 years. In that period he has covered news stories all over the world. He has won a National Emmy, several First Place WHNPA (White House News Photographer's Association) awards, and a number of other awards for both photography and editing. His production company, "Dillon Production Services" has produced both feature length movies for DVD release, and Video News Releases (VNR's). Estel also provides media training to broadcast and corporate clients.
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Introduction to Video Production
Advanced Digital Video Production

Ken Dodelin is a Director of Business Development for AOL LLC where he identifies, evaluates and negotiates multiplatform partnerships in new media.  He has worked extensively with blog sites (e.g., TMZ, Engadget) to optimize their distribution and monetization and led broader strategic initiatives to identify and evaluate potential acquisition targets in the blogging space.  Ken’s diverse experience in new media includes strategy and BD roles at Turner Sports Interactive (NASCAR.com and PGA.com) in Atlanta, GA, The Walt Disney Internet Group in Los Angeles, CA, and Guideline, Inc. in New York, NY.   Ken holds a JD and MBA from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill and a BS in Psychology from the College of William & Mary.
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From the Classroom to the Newsroom

Linda Gradstein was the NPR correspondent in Jerusalem for almost 20 years. She has covered five Israeli elections, four wars, and major stories such as the immigration of more than one million people from the former Soviet Union to Israel, the rise of Hamas in Gaza, and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. She has won several awards for her coverage. Linda has a BS in foreign service and an MA in Arab studies, both from Georgetown University. She speaks fluent Hebrew and Arabic, and her most important productions recently are her four children, ages 14, 11, 7, and 4.
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Covering Conflict

Natalie Hopkinson is Associate Editor of The Root, a web magazine edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and launched by Slate magazine and the Washington Post Co. Previously, she was an assignment editor in the Washington Post's Sunday Outlook section, which publishes debate and commentary, and a youth culture writer in the newspaper's Style section. She is co-author of "Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation." A graduate of Howard University, she holds a doctorate in journalism and public communication from the University of Maryland-College Park.
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TheRoot.com: Mr. Obama's Washington
Feature Writing

Keith W. Jenkins, after 15 years with The Washington Post, recently became the Supervising Senior Producer for Multimedia at NPR.org. In this new role, Keith will lead a growing multimedia team of photo editors, videographers and multimedia producers, as well as help shape the editorial vision for NPR online. While at The Washington Post, Keith was a staff photographer, photography editor of The Washington Post Magazine, and Assistant Deputy Managing Editor for Photo. He also was the first photography director at washingtonpost.com and AOL.
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Multimedia Theory & Practice

Linda Kramer Jenning began her journalism career with the Associated Press in New York, San Francisco and Oregon. She worked in television at the CBS affiliate in Portland, Oregon, before returning to print journalism as a freelancer for Time magazine and other publications. She later joined People magazine and served as its Deputy Bureau Chief in Washington, DC. In 2007 she became the Washington editor for Glamour.
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Journalism of Conscience
Feature Writing

David E. Kaplan is editorial director of the Center for Public Integrity, one of the world's foremost nonprofit centers for investigative reporting. Kaplan oversees a staff of 30 reporters and researchers based in Washington, as well as the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a network of 100 reporters in 50 countries. Over a 30-year career, Kaplan has reported on organized crime, terrorist groups, corporate polluters, corrupt cops, neo-Nazis, the banking industry, and the intelligence community. In June 2007, he left as chief investigative correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, where he covered national security and wrote the magazine's popular Bad Guys blog. His stories at U.S. News included exposés of racketeering by North Korean diplomats, Saudi funding of terrorist groups, and the looting of Russia. A former Fulbright scholar in Japan, Kaplan is co-author of the book YAKUZA, widely considered the standard reference on the Japanese mafia; co-author of The Cult at the End of the World , on the nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system; and author of Fires of the Dragon, on the life and murder of journalist Henry Liu. His work has won or shared more than 15 awards, including honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors, the American Bar Association, Overseas Press Club, and World Affairs Council. Kaplan has reported from two dozen countries and has trained more than a thousand foreign reporters in his workshops on investigative journalism.
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Digging Up Controversy

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Basic Reporting and News Writing

EMMY and Peabody award-winning filmmaker Susan Koch directs and produces documentaries and non-fiction programming for worldwide distribution and broadcast. Her work has appeared on ABC, NBC, PBS, HBO, MTV, ESPN, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Turner Broadcasting, American Movie Classics, The Learning Channel, and the Travel Channel. Koch’s feature documentary, Kicking It, premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, was released theatrically and on DVD, and broadcast on ESPN. Koch directed the critically acclaimed documentary, City at Peace, featured at film festivals throughout the world and broadcast on HBO. Koch co-directed and produced Mario’s Story, about a young Latino, Mario Rocha, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison on the basis of one eyewitness and no physical evidence. Mario’s Story received the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival and is slated for broadcast on Showtime in 2009. Koch received a prestigious Soros Media Justice Fellowship for her work in connection with this film. Prior to forming her own company, Koch was a producer at NBC News and WETA-TV.
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Storytelling 2.0
Storytelling 2.1

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Zen Of Religion Writing

Peter Manseau is the author most recently of Vows, chosen by Amazon.com as one of the ten best memoirs of 2005. He has written for the Washington Post Magazine and the New York Times Magazine, and can be heard frequently on NPR's All Things Considered. His most recent book, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, a novel, was published in September 2008.
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The Reported Memoir
Search Magazine

Andrea McCarren is a veteran television journalist, whose reporting has earned 6 Regional Emmy Awards and dozens of local and national honors. In 2006, Andrea was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, where she developed and taught the first multi-media/broadcast journalism courses in Harvard history.
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This instructor has taught:
Flying Solo, Going Digital: The New Rules for Broadcast Journalists

John D. McKinnon is the White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. He began covering the Bush administration in 2004. Before that he wrote about tax policy, the federal budget and the economy for the Journal. Prior to joining the Washington bureau in 1999, he worked for the paper's regional edition in Florida. He previously reported for the Miami Herald, writing about the state's legal system and often working with the late Gene Miller, the legendary investigative editor. He also worked for Florida Trend, a regional business magazine, and for the St. Petersburg Times, covering government and politics in Tampa Bay and Tallahassee. He began his career covering state news, crime and city hall at the News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He earned B.A. (history) and J.D. degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Business Reporting

Asra Q. Nomani is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the author of "Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam" about her pilgrimage to Mecca and efforts to reclaim Muslim women's rights in the 21st century. She has also authored "Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love," a journey into the corners of her identity as a Muslim born in India and raised in America. She is a professor in the practice of journalism at Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies, leading the Pearl Project, a faculty-student investigation into the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, with Barbara Feinman Todd, associate dean of journalism. A select group of undergraduate and graduate students will seek answers related to the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Karachi, Pakistan. She was previously a visiting scholar at the Center for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and a Poynter Fellow at Yale University, and is co-founder of Muslims for Peace, a group dedicated to creating a unified voice of Muslims for peace and tolerance. The American Association of University Women named her a Women of Distinction awardee in 2007.
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The Reported Opinion Piece

Alisa Parenti is an award- winning journalist with more than two decades of experience in the fields of print and broadcast communications. She began her career as a production assistant at WBBM-TV (CBS) in Chicago, Illinois, and later went on to work as a broadcast reporter at WBBS-FM and WTVH-TV (CBS) in Syracuse, New York.After reporting for five years at the top-rated station in Syracuse, WIXT-TV (ABC), Alisa was chosen to anchor the 11 p.m. newscast in 2000. In 2002, Alisa joined WJLA-TV (ABC) and News Channel 8 in Washington D.C. as a broadcast correspondent on "Good Morning Washington." She later served as a Weekend News Anchor. Alisa graduated from Northwestern University in 1987 with a degree in Communications. She holds a Master's Degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, as well. Alisa is active in the Medill Mentoring Program, the Northwestern Alumni Association, the National Press Club and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards Committee. Alisa resides in Northern Virginia with her husband, Jim, and her two daughters.
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Flying Solo, Going Digital: The New Rules for Broadcast Journalists

Lonnae O’Neal Parker, on leave from the “Washington Post,” is currently writing a book on Michelle Obama and the cultural moment. She has written successfully all around the newsroom since beginning her journalism career at the “Washington Post” in 1995.
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Journalism of Identity

Claudia Ricci, Ph.D., has been a full-time faculty member at the University at Albany, SUNY, since 1998, teaching literature, journalism and creative writing. Before earning her doctorate in 1996, she worked for many years as a journalist, first for the Chicago Sun-Times, where she participated in a prize-winning investigation into illegal toxic waste disposal. Later, she was a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal in New York. Her first novel, Dreaming Maples, was published in 2002 after being nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Ricci’s short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous literary magazines nationwide, and her freelance journalism, book reviews and opinion pieces have been published by The New York Times and numerous other newspapers and magazines. She is currently a regular contributor to The Huffington Post. A graduate of Brown University (B.A.), the University of California, Berkeley (Master of Journalism) and the University at Albany (Ph.D., English), Ricci is married to long-time political activist Richard Kirsch. They have three children, Jocelyn, Lindsay, and Noah Kirsch.
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Journalism Upside Down
Bogus or True: Media Literacy in Info Age

Carlos Roig is product innovation manager at USA Today, where he leads the development of large-scale and long-range digital projects. As politics editor for USAToday.com he directed online coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, election and inauguration. His investigative work on data mining and terrorism prosecutions has been featured in The Washington Post. Previously, Carlos was associate producer at KQED, an NPR member station in San Francisco. He has contributed to print, broadcast, multimedia and consulting projects with the Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press, BBC Radio, Wired magazine and the Minneapolis Star Tribune, among others. Carlos holds an MS in journalism from Northwestern University (Medill), an MA in Hispanic literature from New York University and a BA in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Managing Multimedia Projects
From the Classroom to the Newsroom

Murray Schweitzer has been a producer at NBC4-TV in Washington, D.C. (WRC-TV) since 1982. Since 1994, he has been the Consumer Producer at the station specializing in consumer/investigative stories. Prior to 1982, he worked at both WUSA and WJLA TV in Washington, D.C. He has also held TV production positions in Richmond, Virginia; Columbus, Ohio; and West Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Schweitzer has 3 Emmy awards, several Emmy nominations, and a Society of Professional Journalists award for Excellence in Local Journalism. He has been inducted into the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Silver Circle. He is also a freelance writer having been published in several newspapers and magazines across the U.S. Mr. Schweitzer has a B.A. in Journalism from The American University and a M.A. in Nonfiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University.
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TV Writing & Reporting

Alicia Shepard is Ombudsman for National Public Radio. Her duties include investigating and responding to queries from the public regarding editorial standards in NPR’s news programming. She also writes an Internet column on www.NPR.org/ombudsman and presents her views on journalistic issues on-air on National Public Radio.
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Ethics in Journalism

Paul Singer is an investigative reporter for Roll Call, a newspaper that has covered Congress since 1955. Singer joined the newspaper at the beginning of 2007; his coverage areas have included investigations of the personal finances of members of Congress; lobbying, fundraising and money in politics; and the controversial process of "earmarking." Prior to joining Roll Call, Singer was the executive branch correspondent for National Journal, where he wrote extensively about White House oversight of federal agencies and the relationship of politics to policy-making. He spent most of 2006 covering the government's response to hurricane Katrina, and investigated the distribution of more than $100 billion dollars of hurricane relief money approved by Congress. In prior incarnations, Singer has served as head of the Cleveland Bureau of the Associated Press, where he covered the corruption trail of then-Rep. Jim Traficant (D-Ohio), and as White House Correspondent for United Press International. In 2000, working for UPI, Singer traveled extensively with Vice President Al Gore, and covered the disputed presidential election returns from a Tallahassee motel room. Singer got his professional start at Inside Washington Publishers, and credits owner Alan Sosenko with turning an energetic but utterly green kid into a reporter. A native of Pittsburgh, Singer started his first newspaper when he was 9 years old, a one-page, handwritten sheet delivered to a few houses on his block one otherwise uneventful summer. He has been involved in journalism to some extent ever since.
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Covering Capitol Hill

Steve Sternberg has covered medicine and public health for more than two decades for USA TODAY, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Miami Herald. As a freelancer, he has published articles in The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Medical Economics, Science, Science News and many other publications.
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Covering Global Health

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Storytelling 2.0

Howard Yoon is the Vice President and Editorial Director of the Gail Ross Literary Agency, where he began his publishing career 15 years ago as Gail's literary assistant. Since then he has worked as an agent, writer, and editor for numerous fiction and non-fiction book projects. In 2000, he was the founder and president of an online venture, AuthorsOnline, and in 2003 he co-authored a business book, Begging for Change (HarperCollins) with Robert Egger, which won the McAdams Award for Best Book.
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This instructor has taught:
Crafting Narrative Non-Fiction