Program Co-Directors
Anne Conneen
is adjunct faculty for visual journalism, and is
committed to teaching journalists the finer points of color, typography, and
design in the news media. Anne provides practical lessons that teach participants
the importance of understanding and interpreting content in visual storytelling.
She emphasizes conceptual, creative thinking in a collaborative environment.
She writes about design, information graphics, photojournalism, web design,
and interactive media for Poynter Online in a column called The Design Desk.
As Poynter's design editor, she conceptualizes, designs, and produces projects
for Poynter Online and Poynter's printed publications. A skilled visual journalist,
Anne joined Poynter in 1997. Her previous five years were spent honing her craft
at The Tennessean in Nashville where she
was the design and graphics editor, design coordinator, and a page designer.
She received the Award of Excellence from the Communication Arts Interactive
Design competition in 2002, and designed Poynter Online, which launched in November
of 2002. Anne received her B.F.A. from Ringling School of Art & Design,
Sarasota, Fla.
Kelly McBride teaches journalists from around the world how to do their jobs
better. She is a faculty member for The Poynter Institute, where she trains
reporters, photographers and editors in the skills of ethical decision-making,
critical thinking and reporting and writing. She is co-director of Poynter's
annual Summer Reporting and Writing Fellowship. Since coming to Poynter in 2002,
she has researched how newsrooms cover rape, gay and lesbian issues, sex and
children. Kelly speaks at National Writers Workshops and other journalism conferences
around the country. She provides in-house workshops for newsrooms, most recently
the Portland Oregonian, The (Memphis, Tenn.) Commercial
Appeal and
the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Prior to coming to Poynter, Kelly was a reporter
for 15 years, spending most of that time at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., where
she covered the police beat for six years and the religion and ethics beat for
eight years. She won awards for a series she wrote on gay Christians, a series
on the ethics of fertility treatments and a series on faith and medicine. Kelly
has a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism
and master's degree in religion from Gonzaga University. She is married to Shawn
Jacobson, a photojournalist. They have three children.
Sara Quinn teaches
in the areas of visual journalism and leadership at Poynter. She encourages
designers, photographers, artists, and copy editors to find their voices in
the newsroom by thinking beyond traditional job descriptions. She believes that
a publication is strongest when all staffers feel free to contribute their ideas,
passions and abilities. Former AME for visuals at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
and presentation director at the Wichita Eagle, Sara has also worked
as a magazine editor, illustrator, and book designer at various other posts.
She has won numerous awards from the Society for News Design and has been a
juror for the SND annual competition and the Best of Cox competition. A long-time
board member of SND and the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Sara has a B.A.
in journalism and graphic design from Wichita State University and an M.A. in
illustration from Syracuse University.
Keith Woods is
the Reporting, Writing & Editing group leader at The Poynter Institute.
He is a former sportswriter, news reporter, city editor, editorial writer, and
columnist who worked his way through those jobs in 16 years at the New Orleans
Times-Picayune. His professional writing
won statewide and national awards, including the 1994 National Headline award
he shared with colleagues for the 1993 series, "Together Apart/The Myth of Race."
He joined Poynter in 1995, and for seven years led the Institute's teaching
on diversity and coverage of race relations as part of the ethics faculty. In
his time at Poynter, he has written columns and essays on topics ranging from
fatherhood to race relations to the emerging journalism of the South African
press. Keith leads seminars for columnists and editorial writers (Persuasive
Writing), college graduates (Newspaper Reporting & Writing), and journalists
who must handle stories about race (Reporting on Race Relations). He is the
editor of Best Newspaper Writing, the annual collection of prize-winning stories
and photojournalism selected by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He
is a regular speaker at the Poynter-sponsored National Writers Workshops each
spring and consults with newspapers and television stations on matters of diversity,
race relations, writing, and editing. He is the author of two reports: "The
Essence of Excellence," a 2001 study for Columbia University's School of Journalism
analyzing award-winning stories on race and diversity, and "Do We Check it at
the Door?" a 2002 report for the McCormick Foundation tapping into the special
challenges faced by media executives of color. A third report, "What it Takes,"
which details the ingredients for success outlined by media executives of color,
will be published in 2003. Keith is married to local TV anchor Denise White.
They share the challenge of raising Keith's two children, Danielle (22) and
Keith Jr. (18), Denise's kids, Andrea (12) and Matthew (10) and Noah, 2, who
unites the family with his chronically sticky hands.
Additional Faculty
Roy Peter Clark is
Vice President and Senior Scholar at The Poynter Institute, where he has taught
writing since 1979. He is a graduate of Providence College and has a Ph.D. in
English from SUNY at Stony Brook. He worked at the St. Petersburg Times as a writing coach, and
served briefly as a reporter, feature writer, and critic. He founded the Writing
Center at Poynter, lending support to the writing coach movement. Since 1980,
Roy has also taught writing to children and their teachers. That work is described
in a book "Free To Write: A Journalist Teaches Young Writers," which was published
in 1986 by Heinemann Educational Books. With Don Fry, he is the author of "Coaching
Writers," published by St. Martin's Press. Bedford/St. Martin's Press published
the second edition of "Coaching Writers" earlier this year. In 2002, Roy with
Raymond Arsenault edited an inspirational collection of newspaper columns under
the title: "The Changing South of Gene Patterson: Journalism and Civil Rights,
1960-1968." He is the co-editor of "America's Best Newspaper Writing: A Collection
of ASNE Prizewinners," and he was the director of the National Writers Workshops.
In 1996, Roy wrote, "Three Little Words," a book-length AIDS narrative that
appeared as a month-long series in the St. Petersburg Times. In 1997, he wrote "Sadie's Ring," published in The Miami
Herald,
The Charlotte Observer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Philadelphia
Inquirer.
His newspaper novel on millennial themes, "Ain't Done Yet," was commissioned
by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group and was published as a month-long
series in more than two-dozen newspapers.
Andrew DeVigal is a tenure-track assistant professor at San Francisco State
University. He teaches visual and online journalism and is the coordinator for
the online sequence in the school's journalism department. DeVigal was a Visiting
Professional with The Poynter Institute in Florida, teaching and collaborating
in the area of New Media and Visual Journalism. Formerly, he was web producer/site
& interface designer for Knight-Ridder New Media, ChicagoTribune.com. DeVigal
is the founder of InteractiveNarratives.org (http://www.interactivenarratives.org/),
a site that celebrates the best of Interactive Journalism on the Internet. He
is also co-principal of DeVigal Design, a San Francisco based interactive firm.
Recent design work includes Albany's timesunion.com (http://timesunion.com/) and his J-Dept.'s online
publication Xpress Online (http://xpress.sfsu.edu/)
Cheryl Diaz Meyer has been a senior staff photographer at The Dallas Morning
News
since the year 2000. She covered the U.S.-led war in Iraq as an embedded journalist
attached to the Second Tank Battalion of the First Marine Division, and unilaterally
she lived the aftermath of the war with Iraqis in Baghdad. Aside from The
Dallas Morning News, her work from Iraq was published in The New
York Times,
The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and Spiegel magazines, and in the
books "Desert Diaries" and "Life." Her work was featured on MSNBC, ABC News
and CSPAN. She was awarded the Visa D'Or Daily Press Award 2003 in Perpignan,
France for her work in Iraq. She also won an Honorable Mention for her portfolio
in the 2003 Atlanta Photojournalism Contest; Best of Show in the 2003 Women's
National Press Photographers Association Photo Contest and the 2003 Asian American
Journalists Association Photo Contest. In late 2001, Ms. Diaz Meyer traveled
to Afghanistan to photograph the war on terrorism and its effects on the people
trying to free themselves from the oppressive Taliban regime. She has received
numerous awards for her body of work there including the John Faber Award from
the Overseas Press Club and Third Place, News Picture Story in the 2002 Pictures
of the Year contest. Her photography from Afghanistan and her writing were published
in the book "Digital Journalism: Emerging Media and the Changing Horizons of
Journalism." In April 2002, Ms. Diaz Meyer traveled to the Philippines and Indonesia
where she photographed Muslim and Christian extremism and the violence caused
by religious hatred. She has worked on such team projects as "Hidden Wars,"
where she visited Guatemala to document a country healing from 36 years of terror
and civil strife. Ms. Diaz Meyer was born and raised in the Philippines and
immigrated with her family to Minnesota in 1981. She attended the University
of Minnesota in Duluth where she graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in German in 1990. Later she attended Western Kentucky University where
she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 1994. She worked as a
photography intern at several newspapers including The Washington Post. After a summer internship
in Minneapolis, Ms. Diaz Meyer was hired as a staff photographer by the Star
Tribune
in 1994 where she worked for over five years. She covered stories such as the
disappearance of Gianni Versace murderer Andrew Cunanan, the second inaugural
of Bill Clinton and the Red River floods. She traveled to Russia, the Czech
Republic and Slovakia to photograph life after the end of the Cold War. In 1999,
she was awarded Minnesota Photographer of the Year.
Jamie Francis has
been a photojournalist at the St. Petersburg Times for five years. Born
in June 1962 in North Carolina, he graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Francis
is married to a former Times photographer, Pamela Royal;
their second child was born in January of 2004. Prior to joining the St.
Petersburg Times in July 1998, Francis worked at The State newspaper in Columbia,
S.C., the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., and the Durham-Herald in Durham, N.C. Since
he's been with the Times, Francis has covered daily assignments in St. Petersburg
and around the world. Most of the foreign assignments have teamed Francis
with Times senior correspondent Susan Taylor Martin. They
provided reports from Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bosnia during the 1999 NATO war
against Yugoslavia. A year later, they produced an award-winning series
looking at Iraq a decade after its invasion of Kuwait. They reported from Pakistan
at the start of the U.S. military campaign against Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
They have also reported from Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Morocco,
Syria, Turkey, and many times from the heart of the Middle East to cover the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Francis has originated two photo columns, "This
South Carolina Life" at The State and "Florida Found" in
St. Petersburg. Both columns were founded with the goal of documenting the most
everyday moments in readers' lives.
Dr. Mario R. Garcia is President and CEO of Garcia Media. Mario has almost 30 years of
design experience and has redesigned over 450 newspapers worldwide including
The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Asian
Wall Street Journal, Die Zeit (Germany), El Mercurio (Chile), El
Tiempo (Bogota, Columbia), The San Jose Mercury News, The Charlotte
Observer, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is the author of a dozen
books including his most recent, "Redesigning Print for the Web." He has served
as professor at Syracuse University (New York) and the University of South Florida
and since 1984 has been a faculty member at the Poynter Institute for Media
Studies, where he founded the graphics department and just completed the most
in-depth research on eye-tracking for the web. He has won numerous awards from
the Society of News Design as well as receiving their first Lifetime Achievement
Award for his work as a newspaper designer.
Jeff Goertzen is a graphic journalist with the St. Petersburg Times. He graduated in 1986
from California State University at Fresno with a bachelor's degree in journalism
and art. Since then, he has worked as a graphic artist at The Orange County
Register
and the Detroit Free Press. He spent over two years in Spain as a consulting
graphics editor for El Mundo in Madrid and then on to El Peri—dico, Barcelona. In 1992, while
at El Peri—dico, he was the recipient of the SND Gold Award for his coverage
of the Barcelona Olympics. He has won over 30 awards for his work. Jeff has
done infographics consulting for nearly 40 newspapers and magazines in Europe,
Central and South America, and recently in Asia. His work as a freelance graphic
artist took him to Israel to gather research on the Middle East conflict for
an infographic project for The Dallas Morning News. He is frequently a guest
speaker for various organizations including IFRA in Germany and IAPA/SIP for
Spanish speaking journalists. Jeff is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Ed Hashey
is a project
manager, designer, and illustrator for Garcia Media. Ed is currently working
on the redesigns of the Grand Rapids Press and the Portland Press Herald. Most recently, Ed managed
the redesigns of The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, The Gulf News, Dubai and the Staten Island
Advance.
Other Clients include the Wall Street Journal Europe, the Wall Street Journal
Asia,
The Charlotte Observer, The Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Hamilton Spectator
and OpinionJournal.com. Before joining Garcia Media, he was an illustrator and
page designer for the Bradenton Herald. Ed is a graduate of the prestigious Ringling
School of Art & Design where he was selected as a Presidential Trustee Scholar
for Illustration. He holds a BFA in Illustration and Graphic Design and was
a 1997 Visual Journalism fellow at the Poynter Institute where he has returned
every summer to teach visual journalism.
Kenny Irby is the Visual Journalism
Group Leader at The Poynter Institute. He is an integral figure in visual journalism
education. He is known for his insightful knowledge of photographic storytelling,
innovative management ideas, and steadfast ethical thinking. He is the founder
of Poynter's photojournalism program. Kenny teaches in seminars and consults
in areas of photojournalism, leadership, ethics, and diversity. He traveled
to Russia, South Africa, Singapore, Jamaica, and Denmark preaching excellence
in photojournalism. He chaired the Unity '99 Visual Task Force; and was Poynter's
representative to the Best of Photojournalism Committee. Among his many accomplishments,
Kenny contributed as a photo editor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning projects
while at Newsday. He was a juror for the Society for News
Design, Annual Pictures of the Year Competition, White House News Photographers'
Competition, and ASNE Community Service Photojournalism Award. Kenny is a recipient
of numerous NPPA awards including the 1999 Joseph Costa Award for outstanding
initiative, leadership, and service in photojournalism, and the 2002 Presidents
Award. Before coming to Poynter, Kenny was a photographer and deputy director
of photography at Newsday, Inc., and a photographer and assistant photo editor
at the The Oakland Press. He holds a BS in photojournalism
from Boston University, and was a Multicultural Management Fellow at the University
of Missouri.
Ron Johnson, Kansas State University, is editor of "The Best of Newspaper Design,"
editions 24 and 25, for the Society for News Design. Since 1989, Ron has been
director of K-State's Student Publications Inc. and news adviser to the students
who produce the Kansas State Collegian, one of the
nation's top collegiate dailies. He teaches editing and design, both beginning
and advanced, at K-State, and he speaks on news design and newsroom management
at collegiate workshops across North America.
J. Kyle Keener received a Polaroid Super Shooter in 1972 at the age of 12,
and his love of photography was born. An avid basketball player, his first photos
mimicked those he saw in magazines like Sports Illustrated. While in college at Central
Michigan University, the majority of his photo education came from outside of
class. Keener took photos for the yearbook and newspaper, and completed four
newspaper internships. He also spent a lot of time in the library studying the
work of the masters. Magazines such as "Life" and "Look," among others,
helped him to develop an appreciation for various types of photography. After
graduating from college, Keener landed a job with the Kansas City Times,
thanks to a recommendation from a good friend. He spent two years there before
joining the staff of the Philadelphia Inquirer. His nine years with the
Inquirer
helped him to develop his own style and to define himself as a photographer.
In 1995 Keener became a staff photographer for the Detroit Free Press and in 2001 he gained
the title of Chief Photographer. The same year he also began publishing his
own column entitled "Keenervision." His portfolio encompasses a wide
range of photographs and styles from fashion to features to photo illustrations
and more. He has won numerous awards for his work; in fact, he was named National
Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Regional Photographer of the year six
times. Once familiar with Keener's photography, it is easy to recognize his
singular style. He integrates his artistic flair with a true respect for the
subject, which often creates almost surreal looking pictures. Perhaps his most
interesting photographs are his photo illustrations where he can control every
aspect of the image. Keener views every day as a new challenge and is always
striving to see the world in different light. He continues to grow and learn
by constantly comparing his work to the best photographers, and he always keeps
a camera nearby just in case. J. Kyle Keener sees his job as much more than
just taking photographs. For him, photography has become a lifestyle and he
embraces his opportunity to capture pieces of life with his camera. He works
as a mentor to many aspiring photojournalists regularly teaches location lighting
seminars for the NPPA's Northern Short Course, and lectures and judges at state
photojournalism conferences. Beyond his employment at the Detroit Free Press, Keener feels that he
must also act as a civil service employee. In his words, "My job is to bring
beauty and truth to the public through photography, a role that I take very
seriously. There is a powerful emotional connection formed with my subjects
when the photographs are published and I get a great deal of satisfaction from
having a strong connection to the thousands of readers of this newspaper.
Vicki Krueger is the publications assistant at Poynter. She has a bachelor's
and master's in journalism form Northwestern University. She worked for 10 years
at newspapers in Indiana and Florida. Vicki has been a freelance editor/writer
for nine years. Projects include various Poynter publications as well as general
and special interest books.
Mike Lang has
been a staff photographer for the Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune since 1988. During that
time, he's seen a lot of changes in the newsroom, but one of the biggest came
five years ago when the Herald-Tribune launched it's own 24-hour
cable news channel. TV and print journalists sharing a newsroom - and sharing
information - was a new concept to many. Staff photographers were immediately
called upon to shoot video and contribute content to this new 'experiment'.
Since then, most of the photo staff has embraced the multi-media approach although
they are still trying to define their role in this converging media. Mike was
recently promoted to Director of Photography, overseeing a staff of ten photographers
and three imagers in four bureaus.
David Leeson has been a staff photographer for The Dallas Morning News since 1984. He has also
worked for the Abilene Reporter News (1977-82) and The Times-Picayune/The
States-Item
in New Orleans (1982-84). Leeson was embedded with the U.S. Army's Third Infantry
Division as they advanced on Baghdad at the beginning of the war with Iraq.
For his work, he was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
It was the fourth time Leeson had been a Pulitzer finalist. Leeson's other assignments
have included coverage of the FDN "Freedom Fighters" in their war against the
former Marxist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. Other Central and South American
assignments have included: El Salvador presidential elections (1984 and 88),
civil unrest in Panama (1988) Peru (1989) and coverage of Colombia's drug wars
(1989). In 1985 Leeson was a finalist for the Pulitzer for his photo coverage
of apartheid in South Africa. He made two more trips to South Africa in the
following years culminating with South Africa's first non-racial presidential
election in 1994.
In 1986 he lived on the streets of Dallas with the homeless
for two months. The photos, published in a 24-page special section by The
Dallas Morning News, won a Robert F. Kennedy
Journalism Award for Outstanding Coverage of the Problems of the Disadvantaged.
In 1991, Leeson arrived in Kuwait City with the 1st Marine Division and was
among the first journalists to photograph in the city following Iraq's withdrawal
during the Gulf War. The following year he returned to the gulf and gave readers
an exclusive look inside war-torn Baghdad. In 1994, he covered civil war in
Angola, earning him a second Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. In the same
year, a photograph Leeson made of a family evacuating floodwaters in southeast
Texas was named a finalist for the Pulitzer. For more than 14 months, 1996 thru
1997, he worked on an essay about death row in the United States. Following
that assignment, Leeson completed stories in China, Bosnia, the 1999 earthquake
in Turkey and civil war in Sudan. In the fall of 2000, Leeson began shooting
video for The Dallas Morning News
making him one of the first staff photographers in the nation shooting video
for a newspaper on a full-time basis. Since then he has completed more than
70 short features and three documentaries. Leeson has three teenage children
and is married to Kim Ritzenthaler who is also a staff photographer for The
Dallas Morning News.
Christine M. Martin is the Vice President for Institutional
Advancement and Director of Communications for West Virginia University. She
is the former dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia
University (WVU) and is the former Co-Director of the News Reporting & Writing
Fellowship program at The Poynter Institute for Media Studies. Martin was the
1999 Freedom Forum Journalism Professor of the Year, the 1998 CASE/Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teachers, West Virginia Professor of the Year,
and the winner of the 1997-98 West Virginia University Foundation Award for
Outstanding Teaching. Prior to becoming Dean, Martin worked at WVU for 10 years
as a print journalism professor and the Director of the Writing Program. Before
that she worked as a reporter for the Pittsburgh/Greensburg Tribune-Review and
reporter, education writer and news editor for the Uniontown (Pa.) Herald-Standard.
During her years as a reporter, Martin won the National Education Writers Association
Award for investigative journalism and an American Cancer Society Award for
health reporting. Martin speaks nationally on writing and reporting, and offers
workshops to newspaper groups across the region. She has presented seminars
and workshops at the Poynter Institute, Columbia University, the New York Press
Association and the National Writers Workshop. Martin is the recipient of two
1997-98 Freedom Forum Journalism Professors Publishing Grants Ð one to complete
the publication of a collection of biographies and oral histories of 16 women
correspondents who covered the Vietnam War, and the other to co-produce a documentary
film on the same subject. Martin holds a BA in English from California University
of Pennsylvania, an MA in Journalism from the University of Maryland and is
currently completing a Ph.D. there in American Studies.
Sue Morrow
began her
journey into the visual arts at John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, where
I gained an interest in photojournalism. That interest gradually led to a degree
in journalism from Indiana University. Sue has worked as a designer at The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a picture editor at The Boston Globe. In 1990, I went to the
San Jose Mercury News, where she has been an assignment editor, daily
picture editor, feature picture editor, assistant art director for the Sunday
magazine, West, and feature design director, managing a staff of four designers/illustrators.
Sue has been a faculty member for the Stan Kalish Picture Editing Workshop and
has taught at The Poynter Institute and the Western Kentucky University Mountain
Workshop. Sue has placed in POY and SND in various categories throughout the
last ten years, placing first in individual picture editing portfolio in 1993
POY for work done at The Boston Globe and the San Jose Mercury
News.
In 1999, Sue assisted in judging the 56th Pictures of the Year Competition in
Columbia, Mo. In September of that year she joined the St. Petersburg Times as design director, and
is currently the director of photography.
Denise M. Reagan
has designed
and art directed pages, coordinated projects, created new content and worked
on redesigns at the News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind., the Detroit Free
Press and
the Star Tribune
in Minneapolis. A graduate of the University of Florida's journalism school,
she approaches design as an extension of storytelling, one that distills the
crafts of reporting, writing, photography, illustration, graphics and editing
into a cohesive unit. She speaks about typography, photo illustration, idea
generation, creativity and color for the Society for News Design, college students
and other groups. She writes a sassy design advice column called Dear Update
for the SND newsletter (send questions to denisereagan@mac.com.
In her new role as media planning editor at the Savannah Morning News, she helps coordinate
stories for print, Web, radio and television. And although some friends think
she has abandoned design for the glamorous world of multiple media, she feels
this move is the culmination of everything she ever learned about teamwork,
conceptualizing, planning and organization through years in design.
George Rorick is a former member of the visual journalism faculty at The
Poynter Institute. He is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of print, broadcasting,
and interactive visual journalism. He focuses on content first and is a strong
advocate for new ideas and innovative design. He encourages better use of today's
technology to expand creativity and productivity. George believes in change
and cross training, and specializes in improving working relationships and communications
between newsrooms and visual journalists. He helped pioneer the use of the Macintosh
computer in newsrooms. He introduced the team concept of assigning researchers,
graphics editors, and graphics reporters to work in conjunction with the newsroom.
George is the winner of numerous awards for graphics and design; 1994 Knight-Ridder
entrepreneur of the year award for the direction of the KRT Graphics service,
launching Faces in the News, the KRT European Graphics Service, and News In
Motion. He was a consultant to El Mundo,
Spain; director of, KRT Graphics, KRT European Graphics, News In Motion, Washington,
D.C.; assistant managing editor-graphics, The Detroit News; graphics director, St.
Petersburg Times;
part of the design and graphics team for USA TODAY, where he designed the
original weather page; art director, The Denver Post and The Lansing State
Journal;
artist, The Herald Palladium,
Benton Harbor, St Joseph, Mich. George is a graduate of Westport Connecticut
School of Commercial Art, Design, and Illustration.
Chip Scanlan is Senior Faculty in the Reporting, Writing, and Editing group
at The Poynter Institute and Director of the National Writers Workshops. Chip
joined the faculty in 1994 from the Knight Ridder Newspapers Washington Bureau
where he was a national correspondent. From 1994-2000, he directed Poynter's
writing programs and edited the Best Newspaper Writing series. In two
decades of reporting, he earned 16 awards including a Robert F. Kennedy
award for international journalism. Chip is a graduate of Fairfield University
and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and spent the first years
of his career at The Milford (Conn.) Citizen, Manchester (Conn.) Journal-Inquirer
and
Delaware State News.
From 1977-85, he was a reporter at the Providence Journal-Bulletin, where he helped create
and run the paper's writing program and edited "How I Wrote the Story," a collection
of newswriting accounts. From 1985-89, he was a feature writer at St. Petersburg
Times.
His articles, essays, and short stories have appeared in numerous magazines
and anthologies, among them The American Scholar, Redbook, The Washington Post
Magazine, The Writer, The Mississippi Review Web, Fiction Quarterly, and The
Boston Globe Magazine, and the online magazine Salon. He is the author of "Reporting
and Writing: Basics for the 21st Century," (Oxford University Press) and co-editor
of "America's Best Newspaper Writing: A Collection of ASNE Prizewinners" (Bedford/St.
Martin's). In 2003, Chip and his wife, Katharine Fair, wrote "The Holly Wreath
Man," a 25-part Christmas-themed serialized novel for newspapers that appeared
in 27 papers nationwide. Chip and Kathy have three daughters and live on St.
Pete Beach.
David Shedden is
the Director and Researcher and Archivist for The Poynter Institute's Eugene
Patterson Library. He provides reference and in-depth research services to Poynter's
faculty and seminar participants. In recent years David has created a number
of online library services for the Poynter.org website. These include "Links
to the News" (http://poynter.org/dj/shedden/) and "Today in Journalism
History" (http://poynter.org/cftoday/today.cfm). He holds a BA degree in
mass communications and an MLS and an MA in history from the University of South
Florida.
Andrew Skwish is a self-employed illustrator whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Harvard Business Review,
The Village Voice,
The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and others. He used to work for a bunch
of different newspapers in a bunch of different jobs. Some of the newspapers
are San Francisco Examiner, Chicago Tribune and the St. Petersburg
Times.
Some of the jobs were designer, illustrator and graphics boy and went to college
for business administration, finance and accounting. Guess that was a mistake.
Not too fond of puppets.
After Joani Spadaro decided painting would not support her
shoe habit she attended the Academy of Art College in San Francisco where she
received a BFA with distinction in Advertising. She then attended Cranbrook
Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan where she received her MFA in Graphic
Design and once spotted Aretha Franklin at the local pharmacy! Joani is currently
the Director of the new Program in Graphic Design at University of South Florida,
St. Petersburg. Prior to this appointment, she chaired the Department of Graphic
Design at North Carolina State University and the Department of Graphic Design
at Ohio University. She is an avid educator, typographer and experimental image-maker.
As an educator, designer and painter, Joani has been invited to lecture at academic
institutions throughout the country. Her work has been recognized by ID Magazine, the ACD 100 Show, The
Type Directors Club and the AIGA. She is also an exhibiting painter. She continues
to have a shoe habit.
Pegie Stark Adam is
a faculty affiliate at The Poynter Institute. She served as director of the
Institute Graphics and Design programs from 1991 to 1994. Previously she spent
two years as a journalism professor at the University of Florida, was a graphics
editor at The Detroit News, graphics director at the Detroit Free Press, and art editor/designer
at the St. Petersburg Times. She is the author of
the Poynter Paper, "Color, Contrast and Dimension in News Design," is co-author
with Mario Garcia on "Eyes on the News," the book reporting the results of the
Poynter Eye Trac research, and designer for Garcia's third edition of "Contemporary
Newspaper Design" as well as "NewspaperEvolutions." Pegie is a design
consultant for corporate communications at Bank One, worked on the redesign
of the Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot-News, and has consulted with
news organizations including The Toronto Star, The Independent of
London,
The Ottawa Citizen,
which she's in the process of redesigning, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She is working with Garcia.media
as a designer and was part of the team that recently redesigned of The Staten
Island Advance. She also collaborated with Poynter's Design Editor,
Anne Conneen, to create the interactive version of "Color, Contrast and Dimension
in News Design" for which they received the 2002 International Interactive Design
Award from Communication Arts magazine. Pegie has taught drawing, lithography,
painting, photography, design and typography, and has owned and operated a print
shop. She was a visiting professor in the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
at Syracuse University 2002-2003, and is currently an associate professor in
the visual communications area of the Dept. of Journalism and Media Studies,
University of South Florida St. Petersburg. She holds a BFA in Fine Arts, printmaking,
and an MA and Ph.D. in mass communications from Indiana University.
Matt Thompson is with Poynter on a yearlong Naughton Fellowship. He reports,
writes, and produces stories for Poynter Online, and occasionally participates
in tightly choreographed musical extravaganzas. The television show "Buffy
the Vampire Slayer" was the focus of his senior undergraduate thesis, which
won him high honors from Harvard University, where he spent four years majoring
in English, singing a cappella, and becoming an online news junkie. Somewhere
along the way, he interned for WESH-TV in Orlando, and for the then-obscure
film production company recently flung into fame for creating "The Queer
Eye for the Straight Guy."
Paige West is a current Park Masters Fellow in the Visual Communication
- Multimedia sequence of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her time as a graduate
student at JoMC -UNC she has had the opportunity to produce three international
multimedia documentaries. A Living Stage, the first of these documentaries,
won 3rd place in the Interactive Media (small media) category of the 2003 Pictures
of the Year International (POYi) competition, the only student produced entry
to place. The same project also earned an "Award of Excellence" from
the 2003 Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts. Paige has
been involved in creating educational and entertainment-related multimedia with
Macromedia Director and Flash since 1999. Prior to her career as a multimedia
programmer and producer, Paige obtained a Ph.D. in Neurobiology, also from UNC-CH.
Her portfolio can be found online at http://www.jpaigewest.com.
David Yarnold, 51,
is Editor and Senior Vice President of the San Jose Mercury News. He has been in that position
since March 2003. Prior to assuming his current position, Yarnold was Executive
Editor for four years and Managing Editor for four years. In those positions,
he was responsible for the strategic goals and daily operation of the third
largest newsroom on the West Coast. He served for nearly a year as Vice President/Editorial
for Knight-Ridder New Media in addition to holding ten positions at the Mercury
News, ranging from reporter to Executive News Editor
to Assistant Managing Editor/Graphics. He was responsible for the afternoon
edition of the Mercury News when the paper's staff won the Pulitzer Prize for
General News Reporting for its coverage of the October 1989, Loma Prieta earthquake.
He was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Society of
Newspaper Editors. He is past president of the California Society of Newspaper
Editors and a member of the board of directors of the Associated Press Managing
Editors association. He also sits on the executive committee of the board of
the International Society of News Design. He serves on the executive committee
of the board of directors of the American Leadership Forum/Silicon Valley, and
on the advisory board of the Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley, where he is
a frequent program moderator. He served for approximately two years on the board
of RAFT, a non-profit that supplies resources to teachers. In July, he received
the Ida B. Wells award from the National Association of Black Journalists and
the National Conference of Editorial Writers for his work on diversity issues.
He was honored last year with the Catalyst Award, the highest honor given to
a print journalist by the National Association of Minority Media Executives.
He has received honors for leadership from the Society of Professional Journalists
(2002), the California Chicano News Media Association (2001) and he was named
the Distinguished Alumnus from San Jose State University's school of journalism
and mass communication (1996). He was the recipient of one of the highest honors
offered by the National Press Photographers Association in 1998, the Clifton
C. Edom award, which recognizes inspirational leadership in journalism. He has
been on the guest faculty of the Poynter Institute and the American Press Institute
and has appeared as a media expert on PBS' Lehrer News Hour, on MSNBC, CNN and
on National Public Radio, as well as on numerous Bay Area broadcasts. He has
worked for the Associated Press, for the Louisville Courier Journal
and the Longview
(Wash.) Daily News.
He is married to Fran Smith, a freelance consultant, editor and health writer.
David and Fran have a seven-year-old daughter, Nicole. He also has a 27-year
old son, Adam, a former Army Ranger who now works at UBS in New York City.
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