Master of Professional Studies in Journalism
Faculty
Matt Apuzzo
Matt Apuzzo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Associated Press in Washington. He has uncovered the locations of CIA prisons, revealed widespread cheating on FBI certification tests and identified the exclusive cadre of Wall Street bankers who get to call the Treasury secretary directly. He showed how haphazard discipline processes at the CIA resulted in promotions for officers who captured or killed the wrong people. And he explained how a simple relabeling trick allowed tobacco companies to avoid millions in new taxes.
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Matt Apuzzo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Associated Press in Washington. He has uncovered the locations of CIA prisons, revealed widespread cheating on FBI certification tests and identified the exclusive cadre of Wall Street bankers who get to call the Treasury secretary directly. He showed how haphazard discipline processes at the CIA resulted in promotions for officers who captured or killed the wrong people. And he explained how a simple relabeling trick allowed tobacco companies to avoid millions in new taxes.
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Ryan Beckwith
Ryan Teague Beckwith is politics channel manager at Digital First Media. Previously, he worked as an online editor for Congress.org and Rollcall.com at CQ Roll Call and as a reporter and blogger at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He has also worked 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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Ryan Teague Beckwith is politics channel manager at Digital First Media. Previously, he worked as an online editor for Congress.org and Rollcall.com at CQ Roll Call and as a reporter and blogger at The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C. He has also worked 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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Robert D Benincasa
Robert Benincasa is a computer-assisted reporting producer in NPR's Investigations Unit in Washington, D.C. Since joining NPR in 2008, Benincasa has been reporting on NPR Investigations stories, analyzing data for investigations, and developing data visualizations and interactive applications for NPR.org. He has worked on numerous groundbreaking stories, including an exclusive on the independence level of nursing home residents, the safety of automated aircraft, and a government mandate to produce $1 coins that Americans don't want.
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Robert Benincasa is a computer-assisted reporting producer in NPR's Investigations Unit in Washington, D.C. Since joining NPR in 2008, Benincasa has been reporting on NPR Investigations stories, analyzing data for investigations, and developing data visualizations and interactive applications for NPR.org. He has worked on numerous groundbreaking stories, including an exclusive on the independence level of nursing home residents, the safety of automated aircraft, and a government mandate to produce $1 coins that Americans don't want.
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Alan Bjerga
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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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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Brooke Brower
Brooke Brower is the executive 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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Brooke Brower is the executive 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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J.D., Yale Law School, 1995
Steve Buttry
Steve Buttry is the Digital Transformation Editor for Digital First Media. He was the director of community engagement for TBD, a short-lived Washington D.C. local news website and cable channel. Steve has spent more than 40 years in the news business as a writer, editor and writing coach. In 2010, he was named "Editor of the Year" by Editor & Publisher magazine for his work as editor of The Gazette and GazetteOnline in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Steve has pursued his journalism career in 44 states and nine Canadian provinces, as well as in Ireland, Venezuela, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and Russia, with conferences in France and Italy scheduled for April 2013.
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Steve Buttry is the Digital Transformation Editor for Digital First Media. He was the director of community engagement for TBD, a short-lived Washington D.C. local news website and cable channel. Steve has spent more than 40 years in the news business as a writer, editor and writing coach. In 2010, he was named "Editor of the Year" by Editor & Publisher magazine for his work as editor of The Gazette and GazetteOnline in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Steve has pursued his journalism career in 44 states and nine Canadian provinces, as well as in Ireland, Venezuela, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Ecuador and Russia, with conferences in France and Italy scheduled for April 2013.
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Dina Cappiello
Dina Cappiello is the national environmental reporter for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. 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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Dina Cappiello is the national environmental reporter for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. 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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Steve Chaggaris
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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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
David Chalian is the Vice President for Video Programming at POLITICO where he oversees all of the video efforts including POLITICO LIVE special events coverage and all new video program and product development. Prior to joining POLITICO, Chalian served as Washington Bureau Chief for Yahoo! News where he directed Yahoo! News' political coverage across the entire Yahoo! Media Network. In addition to campaign politics, Chalian managed editorial coverage of the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court.
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David Chalian is the Vice President for Video Programming at POLITICO where he oversees all of the video efforts including POLITICO LIVE special events coverage and all new video program and product development. Prior to joining POLITICO, Chalian served as Washington Bureau Chief for Yahoo! News where he directed Yahoo! News' political coverage across the entire Yahoo! Media Network. In addition to campaign politics, Chalian managed editorial coverage of the White House, Congress, and the Supreme Court.
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Kenneth Dodelin
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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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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Carole Feldman
Carole Feldman is director of News Operations and Finance for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., and the national education editor. She also conceived and is the overall coordinator of the joint AP-APME project Aging America, which is examining the aging of the baby boomers and the impact this so-called silver tsunami is having on society. In her current assignment, she is managing the budgets for the Washington bureau and the Broadcast News Center, working with the staff to help cover news more efficiently across all formats and facilitating training.
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Carole Feldman is director of News Operations and Finance for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C., and the national education editor. She also conceived and is the overall coordinator of the joint AP-APME project Aging America, which is examining the aging of the baby boomers and the impact this so-called silver tsunami is having on society. In her current assignment, she is managing the budgets for the Washington bureau and the Broadcast News Center, working with the staff to help cover news more efficiently across all formats and facilitating training.
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Garance Franke-Ruta
Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor and Voices columnist at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Politics Channel. She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City Paper, The New Republic and National Journal magazines. At The Prospect she won the 2007 Blog Hillman Prize awarded to its group blog, "Tapped." In 2006, she was fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., and in 2007, a summer fellow with The Iowa Independent, based in Des Moines, Iowa. She has lectured at the Kennedy School, the Harvard Art Museums, Williams College, Wellesley College, Brandeis University and Georgetown, as well as made numerous appearances on national and regional television and radio programs. Born in the South of France, Garance grew up in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico; New York City, New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has resided in Washington, D.C., since graduating from Harvard in 1997.
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Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor and Voices columnist at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Politics Channel. She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City Paper, The New Republic and National Journal magazines. At The Prospect she won the 2007 Blog Hillman Prize awarded to its group blog, "Tapped." In 2006, she was fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., and in 2007, a summer fellow with The Iowa Independent, based in Des Moines, Iowa. She has lectured at the Kennedy School, the Harvard Art Museums, Williams College, Wellesley College, Brandeis University and Georgetown, as well as made numerous appearances on national and regional television and radio programs. Born in the South of France, Garance grew up in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico; New York City, New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has resided in Washington, D.C., since graduating from Harvard in 1997.
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Tony Fratto
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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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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Brian Healy
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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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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Natalie A Hopkinson
Natalie Hopkinson is author of Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City (Duke University Press July 2012.) A contributing editor of The Root magazine and directs the IF…Urban and Arts & Society projects as a fellow of the Interactivity Foundation. A former editor and writer with the Washington Post’s Style and Outlook sections, Natalie is the author, with Natalie Y. Moore, of Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation (2006).
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Natalie Hopkinson is author of Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City (Duke University Press July 2012.) A contributing editor of The Root magazine and directs the IF…Urban and Arts & Society projects as a fellow of the Interactivity Foundation. A former editor and writer with the Washington Post’s Style and Outlook sections, Natalie is the author, with Natalie Y. Moore, of Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation (2006).
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Keith W Jenkins
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 13 years at The Washington Post, where he was a staff photographer, photography editor, and Deputy Assistant 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.
Jenkins is a distinguished speaker on photography and multimedia. He has lectured at The New England School of Photography, The Rhode Island School of Design, The Poynter Institute, Ohio University, Syracuse University, George Washington University, American University, The University of Miami, and the American Press Institute. In 2012, Jenkins served as jury chair for World Press Photo's Multimedia contest.
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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 13 years at The Washington Post, where he was a staff photographer, photography editor, and Deputy Assistant 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.
Jenkins is a distinguished speaker on photography and multimedia. He has lectured at The New England School of Photography, The Rhode Island School of Design, The Poynter Institute, Ohio University, Syracuse University, George Washington University, American University, The University of Miami, and the American Press Institute. In 2012, Jenkins served as jury chair for World Press Photo's Multimedia contest.
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Mandy Jenkins
Mandy Jenkins is the Interactives Editor for Digital First Media, where she oversees national data, video and curation strategy and coordinates editorial projects across the company's more than 200 local news sites. She was previously Social News Editor for The Huffington Post, where she managed social media efforts for the politics channel and coordinated the company's citizen journalism program, OfftheBus. Mandy was formerly the social media editor for Washington, D.C. local news startup TBD and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mandy is a member of the Board of Directors of the Online News Organization and she frequently teaches social media to working journalists both inside and outside the U.S. She blogs about news and social media at Zombiejournalism.com. A Midwesterner by birth, Mandy lives in Washington, D.C.
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Mandy Jenkins is the Interactives Editor for Digital First Media, where she oversees national data, video and curation strategy and coordinates editorial projects across the company's more than 200 local news sites. She was previously Social News Editor for The Huffington Post, where she managed social media efforts for the politics channel and coordinated the company's citizen journalism program, OfftheBus. Mandy was formerly the social media editor for Washington, D.C. local news startup TBD and the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mandy is a member of the Board of Directors of the Online News Organization and she frequently teaches social media to working journalists both inside and outside the U.S. She blogs about news and social media at Zombiejournalism.com. A Midwesterner by birth, Mandy lives in Washington, D.C.
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Linda Kramer Jenning
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, D.C. In 2007 she became the Washington editor for Glamour.
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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, D.C. In 2007 she became the Washington editor for Glamour.
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Ben de la Cruz
Ben de la Cruz is an award-winning documentary video producer and multimedia journalist. He joined NPR as the multimedia editor for the science desk in June 2012. In this role, he will serve as the visual architect for coverage of health, science, environment, energy, food and agriculture.
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Ben de la Cruz is an award-winning documentary video producer and multimedia journalist. He joined NPR as the multimedia editor for the science desk in June 2012. In this role, he will serve as the visual architect for coverage of health, science, environment, energy, food and agriculture.
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Greg Linch
Greg Linch works on projects for the local desk at The Washington Post, collaborating with reporters, editors and departments across the newsroom. This position follows an experimental role with the newsroom developer team building tools for documents, user submissions and more. Before the Post, he worked on two startups: Publish2, which offers software platforms for newsrooms, and CoPress, which aimed to create a better technical ecosystem for college news organizations online. A member of the Online News Association board of directors, he has also served as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism program in D.C.
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Greg Linch works on projects for the local desk at The Washington Post, collaborating with reporters, editors and departments across the newsroom. This position follows an experimental role with the newsroom developer team building tools for documents, user submissions and more. Before the Post, he worked on two startups: Publish2, which offers software platforms for newsrooms, and CoPress, which aimed to create a better technical ecosystem for college news organizations online. A member of the Online News Association board of directors, he has also served as an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism program in D.C.
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Tom Mattesky
Tom Mattesky is a veteran journalist with more than three decades of experience as a reporter, producer and network news executive. Mattesky joined CBS News as a producer in 1985 after an award-winning career at local newsrooms in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. During his 22 years at CBS News, Mattesky was assigned to some of the network’s more prominent beats including the White House. From 1995 until his retirement in 2007, Mattesky was the Washington deputy bureau chief for CBS News. In that capacity, he managed the day-to-day newsgathering efforts of the network’s largest bureau.
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Tom Mattesky is a veteran journalist with more than three decades of experience as a reporter, producer and network news executive. Mattesky joined CBS News as a producer in 1985 after an award-winning career at local newsrooms in Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. During his 22 years at CBS News, Mattesky was assigned to some of the network’s more prominent beats including the White House. From 1995 until his retirement in 2007, Mattesky was the Washington deputy bureau chief for CBS News. In that capacity, he managed the day-to-day newsgathering efforts of the network’s largest bureau.
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Doug Mitchell
Doug is a nationally recognized media trainer, project strategist and career coach. His former students, who are now working professionals, send him wedding invitations (he shows up) and birth announcements. Doug is a former Knight International Press Fellow and William S. Fulbright Scholar to Chile and spent 21.5 years as a producer and director at NPR, where he still consults on diversity-related projects. While at NPR, he created and managed a professional development program called "next generation radio" and built NPR's "Intern Edition." Currently, he’s co-director of a start-up camp funded by The Ford Foundation to develop journalists of color as tomorrow's media CEO's. He likes to create substantive, progressive media projects from scratch.
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Doug is a nationally recognized media trainer, project strategist and career coach. His former students, who are now working professionals, send him wedding invitations (he shows up) and birth announcements. Doug is a former Knight International Press Fellow and William S. Fulbright Scholar to Chile and spent 21.5 years as a producer and director at NPR, where he still consults on diversity-related projects. While at NPR, he created and managed a professional development program called "next generation radio" and built NPR's "Intern Edition." Currently, he’s co-director of a start-up camp funded by The Ford Foundation to develop journalists of color as tomorrow's media CEO's. He likes to create substantive, progressive media projects from scratch.
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Don Neal
A marketing thought leader, business strategist, entrepreneur and professor, Don Neal brings his Madison Avenue experience to help organizations see their opportunities and challenges in a new light. He has dedicated his career to the art and science of persuasion and is passionate about helping organizations and executives accelerate the trajectory of their success.
At the intersection of strategic communications, branding, advertising and live branded media,he works with global brands such as Mercedes Benz, Hershey’s, Marriott and Microsoft. Don is the Founder and President of 360 Live Media – a marketing and communications firm specializing in experience design. 360 Live Media provides strategic guidance to the nation’s leading trade associations and corporations.
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A marketing thought leader, business strategist, entrepreneur and professor, Don Neal brings his Madison Avenue experience to help organizations see their opportunities and challenges in a new light. He has dedicated his career to the art and science of persuasion and is passionate about helping organizations and executives accelerate the trajectory of their success.
At the intersection of strategic communications, branding, advertising and live branded media,he works with global brands such as Mercedes Benz, Hershey’s, Marriott and Microsoft. Don is the Founder and President of 360 Live Media – a marketing and communications firm specializing in experience design. 360 Live Media provides strategic guidance to the nation’s leading trade associations and corporations.
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Asra Q Nomani
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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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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Alisa Parenti
Alisa Parenti anchors business news at MarketWatch Radio Network, providing custom live reports for top stations in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She was recently honored with Dateline Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists in the business category for radio and as a finalist for the Washington Correspondent Award.
Parenti 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. While reporting and anchoring in central New York, she wrote a weekly column in Syracuse Parent magazine.
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Alisa Parenti anchors business news at MarketWatch Radio Network, providing custom live reports for top stations in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco. She was recently honored with Dateline Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists in the business category for radio and as a finalist for the Washington Correspondent Award.
Parenti 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. While reporting and anchoring in central New York, she wrote a weekly column in Syracuse Parent magazine.
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Lonnae O'Neal Parker
Lonnae O'Neal Parker, is a feature and long-form narrative writer for the Washington Post Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to Style, Sunday Style and Arts, and has written successfully all around the newsroom, including as an essayist, since beginning her journalism career at The Washington Post in 1995. Her Post Magazine story, on the Alaska plane crash that killed Sen.Ted Stevens, won the 2011 Maryland, Delaware, DC Press Association first prize for features. She has also penned magazine stories that included a look at drag performers struggling to work since the Washington Nationals new baseball stadium displaced a long-standing gay community.
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Lonnae O'Neal Parker, is a feature and long-form narrative writer for the Washington Post Magazine. She is a frequent contributor to Style, Sunday Style and Arts, and has written successfully all around the newsroom, including as an essayist, since beginning her journalism career at The Washington Post in 1995. Her Post Magazine story, on the Alaska plane crash that killed Sen.Ted Stevens, won the 2011 Maryland, Delaware, DC Press Association first prize for features. She has also penned magazine stories that included a look at drag performers struggling to work since the Washington Nationals new baseball stadium displaced a long-standing gay community.
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Emma Patti
Emma Patti is the Web Manager for Bethesda Magazine and Arlington Magazine where she runs the web operation from developing new modules, producing original content, to promoting the brand on social media. Previously, she was the Assistant Photo Editor and Video Producer for Washingtonian Magazine where she won a CRMA for video production. In addition, Emma has also contracted for The Washington Post, AOL and Foreign Policy Magazine.
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Emma Patti is the Web Manager for Bethesda Magazine and Arlington Magazine where she runs the web operation from developing new modules, producing original content, to promoting the brand on social media. Previously, she was the Assistant Photo Editor and Video Producer for Washingtonian Magazine where she won a CRMA for video production. In addition, Emma has also contracted for The Washington Post, AOL and Foreign Policy Magazine.
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Nina Pino-Marina
Christina (Nina) Pino-Marina is a freelance digital journalist and workshop leader whose experience as a digital media expert helps students, faculty and working professionals achieve literacy in multimedia by leveraging digital platforms and interactive learning technologies. Formerly of washingtonpost.com, she made the transition from print journalism to video journalism, covering local, national and international stories and winning awards across multiple platforms. Before working at washingtonpost.com, she wrote for the El Paso Times and USA Today.
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Christina (Nina) Pino-Marina is a freelance digital journalist and workshop leader whose experience as a digital media expert helps students, faculty and working professionals achieve literacy in multimedia by leveraging digital platforms and interactive learning technologies. Formerly of washingtonpost.com, she made the transition from print journalism to video journalism, covering local, national and international stories and winning awards across multiple platforms. Before working at washingtonpost.com, she wrote for the El Paso Times and USA Today.
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Susanne Reber
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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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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Chip Reid
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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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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Carlos Roig
Carlos Roig is senior vice president of Media Strategy at Home Front Communications, a media strategies and content creation firm based in Washington, D.C. Carlos leads the Media Strategy Division with a strong emphasis on creative content, strategic distribution and engagement on multiple platforms. He built and established the agency’s first Digital Media Strategy team before merging the digital, broadcast and print units into a single, integrated division.
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Carlos Roig is senior vice president of Media Strategy at Home Front Communications, a media strategies and content creation firm based in Washington, D.C. Carlos leads the Media Strategy Division with a strong emphasis on creative content, strategic distribution and engagement on multiple platforms. He built and established the agency’s first Digital Media Strategy team before merging the digital, broadcast and print units into a single, integrated division.
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Megan Rossman
Megan Rossman is the director of video at Teach For America, a nonprofit that helps place teachers in under-resourced schools. Before joining Teach For America, Megan worked at The Washington Post, where she won an Emmy for her coverage of Earth Day’s 40th anniversary and was honored by the White House News Photographers Association for her work on a project about maternal mortality in Africa, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to her work at Georgetown, she has taught multimedia journalism at the University of Maryland and a variety of workshops.
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Megan Rossman is the director of video at Teach For America, a nonprofit that helps place teachers in under-resourced schools. Before joining Teach For America, Megan worked at The Washington Post, where she won an Emmy for her coverage of Earth Day’s 40th anniversary and was honored by the White House News Photographers Association for her work on a project about maternal mortality in Africa, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to her work at Georgetown, she has taught multimedia journalism at the University of Maryland and a variety of workshops.
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Bonnie Shaw
Bonnie is an expert at making meaningful connection between people, place, technology and play to catalyze massively collaborative civic innovations for tangible real world impact. Bonnie brings a delightfully playful perspective to all her work, and offers over 10 years of international experience in innovation strategy, facilitation, digital strategy, urban design, civic engagement, and campaign implementation. She is an exceptional manager of people and projects, and has worked with global consumer brands, public/private media and broadcasting companies, real estate and development agencies, global financial institutions, libraries, non-profits and community service organizations, and federal, state and local government agencies. Working across Australia, UK and USA, she has produced global campaigns, revolutionary strategy, sustainable training programs, vibrant festivals, and long term community engagement.
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Bonnie is an expert at making meaningful connection between people, place, technology and play to catalyze massively collaborative civic innovations for tangible real world impact. Bonnie brings a delightfully playful perspective to all her work, and offers over 10 years of international experience in innovation strategy, facilitation, digital strategy, urban design, civic engagement, and campaign implementation. She is an exceptional manager of people and projects, and has worked with global consumer brands, public/private media and broadcasting companies, real estate and development agencies, global financial institutions, libraries, non-profits and community service organizations, and federal, state and local government agencies. Working across Australia, UK and USA, she has produced global campaigns, revolutionary strategy, sustainable training programs, vibrant festivals, and long term community engagement.
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Paul B Singer
Paul Singer is the Politics Editor at USA TODAY, where he directs and produces political coverage as well as designing and managing interactive on-line tools to engage readers in the conversation about politics. In the summer of 2012, while overseeing the paper’s 2012 election coverage, Singer led the creation of the USA TODAY/ Twitter Election Meter, a first-of-its-kind attempt to measure and display the overall sentiment expressed in tweets about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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Paul Singer is the Politics Editor at USA TODAY, where he directs and produces political coverage as well as designing and managing interactive on-line tools to engage readers in the conversation about politics. In the summer of 2012, while overseeing the paper’s 2012 election coverage, Singer led the creation of the USA TODAY/ Twitter Election Meter, a first-of-its-kind attempt to measure and display the overall sentiment expressed in tweets about Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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Jeff Sonderman
Jeff Sonderman is the deputy director of the American Press Institute, a think tank that conducts research, training, convenes thought leaders and creates tools to help chart a path ahead for journalism. He is an adjunct faculty at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, where he previously he was the digital media fellow, focused on innovations and strategies for mobile platforms and social media in online news. He previously has worked as the senior community host and managing editor of TBD.com, a local news website in Washington, D.C., and WJLA.com, the website of D.C.-area news station ABC7. Prior to that he was the internet content director and metro editor of The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pa., and also spent years reporting on health care, business and transportation. Find ways to follow him at jeffsonderman.com/connect.
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Jeff Sonderman is the deputy director of the American Press Institute, a think tank that conducts research, training, convenes thought leaders and creates tools to help chart a path ahead for journalism. He is an adjunct faculty at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, where he previously he was the digital media fellow, focused on innovations and strategies for mobile platforms and social media in online news. He previously has worked as the senior community host and managing editor of TBD.com, a local news website in Washington, D.C., and WJLA.com, the website of D.C.-area news station ABC7. Prior to that he was the internet content director and metro editor of The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pa., and also spent years reporting on health care, business and transportation. Find ways to follow him at jeffsonderman.com/connect.
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Derek Willis
Derek Willis is an interactive developer with The New York Times, working mainly on political and election-related applications. He maintains The Times' congressional and election data and contributes to other projects. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at The George Washington University, Northwestern University and Columbia Union College. Willis has worked at The Washington Post, The Center for Public Integrity, Congressional Quarterly and The Palm Beach Post. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and daughter, and is an avid college football and cricket fan.
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Derek Willis is an interactive developer with The New York Times, working mainly on political and election-related applications. He maintains The Times' congressional and election data and contributes to other projects. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at The George Washington University, Northwestern University and Columbia Union College. Willis has worked at The Washington Post, The Center for Public Integrity, Congressional Quarterly and The Palm Beach Post. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and daughter, and is an avid college football and cricket fan.
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Griff Witte
Griff Witte is deputy foreign editor of The Washington Post, overseeing a staff of 20 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, D.C., with his wife, his Pakistani cat and two dogs who are well-traveled but thoroughly American.
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Griff Witte is deputy foreign editor of The Washington Post, overseeing a staff of 20 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, D.C., with his wife, his Pakistani cat and two dogs who are well-traveled but thoroughly American.
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Howard Young Yoon
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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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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