Ryan Teague Beckwith is Features Editor at Roll Call. Previously, he served as deputy editor and editor of Congress.org, a news and information website launched by CQ Roll Call. He has worked as a journalist at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., and The Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash., and taught as a visiting instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State University and Grays Harbor College. Along with John C. Hughes, he wrote and edited "On the Harbor: From Black Friday to Nirvana." He received a bachelor's degree in rhetoric from Willamette University in 1997 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 2002.
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Fundamentals of Reporting and News Writing

Robert Benincasa is a producer for National Public Radio in Washington, DC.  He works mainly on web and radio stories that involve data analysis and multimedia data presentations. Prior to joining NPR, Benincasa was database editor for the Gannett News Service, the wire service subsidiary of the Gannett Company.  During 10 years in that post, he produced database-driven enterprise projects and searchable online databases for use by Gannett'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. 
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Investigative Reporting

Alan Bjerga is the author of the book "Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest" and the 2010 president of the National Press Club. He covers agricultural policy for Bloomberg News and in 2010-2011 was also the president of the North American Agricultural Journalists. He has received numbers awards for his work from organizations including the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the New York Press Club, the Kansas Press Association, the North American Agricultural Journalists, and the Overseas Press Club. Before working for Bloomberg News, Bjerga won the NAAJ's top writing award in 2005 while working for the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau.
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Business Reporting

Brooke Brower is the senior producer for MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd” and a contributor to the NBC News Political Unit and “First Read.” Previously, he was a producer for “Hardball with Chris Matthews.” For MSNBC, he has produced coverage of elections and conventions and helped moderators prepare editorially for presidential primary debates. Before joining MSNBC, he covered Capitol Hill for Congressional Quarterly and was a producer for the ABC News Political Unit, where he co-authored “The Note.” He graduated from the University of Virginia and received a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
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Political Reporting: Road to the White House

Bruce D. Brown is a partner at the Washington, DC law firm of Baker & Hostetler, where he has worked in media law since 1997. He specializes in cases involving libel, invasion of privacy, newsgathering, and copyright. A significant part of his practice involves 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, Brown was a federal court reporter for The Legal Times and a former newsroom assistant to David Broder at The Washington Post.
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Media Law for Journalists

Steve Buttry is the Director of Community Engagement & Social Media for Journal Register Co. Before joining JRC, he was the director of community engagement for TBD.com, the Washington D.C. local news cable channel/website owned by Allbritton Communications. Steve has spent 38 years in the newspaper business writing, editing and coaching. Immediately prior to joining TBD.com he was the editor of The Gazette and GazetteOnline in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He has pursued his journalism career in 43 states and eight Canadian provinces, as well as in Ireland, Venezuela, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and Russia. In 2010, Steve was named "Editor of the Year" by Editor & Publisher magazine and one of "20 Journalists to Follow" by Quill magazine.
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Social Media & Reporting

Dina Cappiello is the national environmental reporter for The Associated Press in Washington, where her beat encompasses the Environmental Protection Agency, offshore oil and gas drilling, nuclear energy, coal and global warming policy. Cappiello has contributed to AP’s coverage of the Gulf oil spill, international climate negotiations, and the Japan nuclear disaster _ and is in charge of covering the intersection between politics and the environment in Congress and in national elections.
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Environmental Reporting

Steve Chaggaris is the Director of Television Projects/Senior Executive Producer at Allbritton Communications, the parent company of Politico, WJLA-TV, NewsChannel 8 and other television stations.  He is preparing to launch a new local news cable channel/website in Washington, DC.  Steve has served as Political Director at CBS News, where he ran the Political Unit and helped direct the network's political coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign.  As a CBS producer during the 2004 presidential race, he traveled with and reported on the John Kerry campaign.  He has covered Capitol Hill and teamed up with then CBS National Political Correspondent Gloria Borger to produce stories for the CBS Evening News. He has worked for C-SPAN and WMUR-TV in Manchester, NH.  Steve graduated from Ithaca College in 1994.
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David Chalian is the political editor for PBS NewsHour.  In this position, Chalian directs the NewsHour's political coverage across all broadcast and digital platforms. In addition to campaign politics, Chalian manages the editorial content from the NewsHour's congressional, White House, and Supreme Court beats. He also serves as an on-camera political analyst, appears in regular political webcasts on the Online NewsHour (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/topic/politics/), co-authors the NewsHour’s daily political newsletter “The Morning Line,” and develops additional original digital political content.
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Political Reporting: Road to the White House

Christopher Chambers is a commentator and news analyst for the RT America cable channel (Russian TV) and edits the RT news site’s multimedia features content. He’s regular contributor to TheRoot.com, CNN’s newsblog and MSNBC’s TheGrio on politics, media criticism and culture. From 2000-2002 he was criminal courts beat reporter for The Charlotte Observer. In addition to serving as financial crimes attorney with the US Justice Department, Mr. Chambers is author of three crime novels published by Random House, and a comic book published by Tor/Forge. 
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Ken Dodelin is the Director of Mobile News Products at The Washington Post, where he manages the migration of news content from printed paper to smartphones, tablets and e-readers. Ken is also Founder and CEO of Mobile Surroundings, which produced the award-winning "It Happened Here" mobile app that detects a user’s location and reveals interesting events that have occurred nearby (e.g., historical events, movie scenes, famous crimes, etc.). Ken previously led mobile business development efforts for AOL where he identified, evaluated and negotiated multiplatform partnerships in new media. Past strategy and BD roles include stints 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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Entrepreneurial Journalism in the Digital Age

Tony Fratto joined the Bush Administration in 2006, serving as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy White House Press Secretary.  In this role Fratto, worked directly with President George W. Bush and senior cabinet officials as the White House's lead spokesman and communications adviser on a broad range of economic and legal policy issues.  He worked with the national press corps, opinion leaders, and foreign news media, regularly briefed reporters from the White House podium, and participated in on-camera cable and network interviews.
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The White House and the Press

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
Radio Reporting

Brian Healy is a distinguished veteran of CBS News.  He first joined the CBS Evening News in 1972 in New York, and served in the London bureau as a field producer from 1976 to 1979.  Healy has held positions as senior producer and producer for such broadcasts as the CBS Early Show, CBS Evening News, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, and CBS News Sunday Morning.  Healy worked with the legendary Ed Bradley, serving as his producer on the floor of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.  Healy was Election Night producer for Lesley Stahl (2000), Ed Bradley (2004), and Sharyl Atkisson (2008).  
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Introduction to Video Journalism
Advanced Video Journalism

Mandy Jenkins is the D.C. Social News Editor for the Huffington Post, where she heads up social strategy and community engagement for politics content. Mandy has served as the social media editor for TBD, a Washington, D.C. local news startup, and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Prior to her entry into social media, Mandy was an online news editor for the Enquirer and a news producer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Mandy frequently teaches social media to working journalists, working with organizations such as the Online News Association, American Society of News Editors and Associated Press Managing Editors.  
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Entrepreneurial Journalism in the Digital Age
Social Media & Reporting

Keith Jenkins is the Supervising Senior Producer for Multimedia at NPR.org.  In this role, Keith leads a team of photo editors, videographers and multimedia producers in shaping the editorial vision of NPR's online content.  Prior to joining NPR, he spent 15 years at The Washington Post, where he was a staff photographer, photography editor, and Assistant Deputy Managing Editor for Photo. He also was the first photography director at washingtonpost.com and AOL.  He began his photography career working for the graphic designer Dietmar R. Winkler, and spent five years as a staff photographer for The Boston Globe.
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Multimedia Storytelling

Linda Kramer Jenning began her journalism career with the Associated Press, serving 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 Acting Bureau Chief and Deputy Bureau Chief in Washington, DC. In 2007 she became the Washington editor for Glamour.
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MPS Journalism Capstone
Journalism of Conscience
Feature Writing

Mary Louise Kelly has spent the past decade covering intelligence and defense for NPR.  She has also served as a guest host for several NPR news programs. In 2004, she launched NPR's intelligence beat, covering the CIA, the NSA, and the policymakers that oversee these government agencies.  Prior to that assignment, she was the senior editor of NPR's award-winning newsmagazine, All Things Considered. She has worked as a producer for CNN and as a senior producer, host and foreign correspondent for the BBC World Service.
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Reporting on National Security

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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Documentary Storytelling

Robert L. Manuel, PhD is dean of the School of Continuing Studies (SCS) at Georgetown University. He has more than 20 years in higher education experience in specific areas such as admissions, technology development, events, financial aid, developing and implementing academic programs including graduate and online learning strategies at New York University and Georgetown University.
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City Lab Geneva Experience

Tom Mattesky is a veteran journalist with more than three decades of experience as a reporter, producer and network news executive.
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Reinventing Journalism

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 currently anchors business reports at MarketWatch Radio Network, providing custom live reports for top stations in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.  Alisa is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies, where she teaches graduate journalism courses.
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Fundamentals of Reporting and News Writing

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Journalism of Culture & Identity

Susanne Reber is NPR's Deputy Managing Editor of Investigations.  Prior to joining NPR, she led the investigative unit at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  Under Susanne's leadership, the CBC's investigative team earned top prizes, including the 2008 Michener, and awards from the Online News Association, the Radio and Television News Directors Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors.  Reber has also done extensive work as an investigative field reporter, covering stories in Czechoslovakia, Johannesburg and Saskatchewan.
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Investigative Reporting

Chip Reid has been CBS News Chief White House Correspondent since the beginning of the Obama Administration.  Chip joined CBS News in 2007 as Capitol Hill Correspondent and covered the 2008 Presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain.
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The White House and the Press

Carlos Roig is Senior Vice President of Digital Media and Broadcast Strategy at Home Front Communications, a media strategies and content creation firm based in Washington, DC. Roig develops digital media and broadcast plans for foundations, non-profits, government and corporate clients, with particular emphasis on engaging online audiences and building community around content. He also directs Home Front's social media initiatives and the strategic distribution of content on television, radio and the Internet.
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Digital Essentials for Journalists

Paul Singer is an investigative reporter and editor of the money and influence team for Roll Call, a newspaper that has covered Congress since 1955. Singer joined the news organization 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.  Singer has also served as head of the Cleveland Bureau of the Associated Press and as White House Correspondent for United Press International.  During the 2000 presidential campaign, he traveled extensively with Vice President Al Gore, and reported on the controversial presidential election returns from Tallahassee, Florida. 
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Ethics in Journalism
Covering Capitol Hill

Charlie Wilson serves as a video editor and engineer in the Washington, DC bureau of BBC World News America.  In addition to editing day-of-air pieces and special reports, he directs BBC training programs, bringing editors and photographers up to speed in the use of Final Cut Pro.  He has worked in the broadcast industry for 40 years, starting his career at WAMU-FM and later joining HBO as satellite distribution technology was being launched.  In 1977, he entered CBS News as a member of its first group of ENG camera crews, helping the network move from film to video technology.  Wilson earned a national Emmy Award in 1981 for his video coverage of the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.   His overseas assignments include covering the first Gulf War in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.  During his long career, he has worked for CBS Evening News, CBS Face the Nation, NBC News, Australian Broadcasting, RAI, and others, in various postions including editor, videographer, and news director.
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Introduction to Video Journalism
Advanced Video Journalism

Griff Witte is Deputy Foreign Editor of The Washington Post, overseeing a staff of20 correspondents across the globe. Witte has previously served stints as the Post’s bureau chief in Kabul, Islamabad and Jerusalem. He has covered the downfall of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the Egyptian Revolution.   Witte graduated in 2000 from Princeton, where he majored in history and served as Managing Editor of The Daily Princetonian. Before joining the Post, Witte was a reporter for The Miami Herald. He also served as researcher for Steve Coll’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.   Since joining the Post in 2003, Witte has reported for the Metro and Business sections, in addition to Foreign. He makes regular reporting trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has edited the Post’s Pulitzer-winning coverage of Iraq. He was appointed Deputy Foreign Editor in August 2010, after previously serving as the paper’s Middle East and Asia Editor.   Witte lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, his Pakistani cat and two dogs who are well-traveled but thoroughly American. 
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Cover the World: International Reporting

Howard Yoon is a literary agent and principal of the Ross Yoon Agency, where he began his publishing career 15 years ago as Gail Ross' 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