Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute

Eddie Alvarez

Eduardo Alvarez is the Presentation Editor at The Miami Herald. Eddie is one of three department heads that runs the newsroom, reporting directly to Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal. He is responsible for supervision of the design, graphics and illustrations work at The Herald, as well as visuals on the websites. Eddie also work across divisions with Advertising, Marketing, Circulation and Production when issues that intersect with the newsroom arise. In 2009, Eddie led a company-wide effort that created iPhone applications, the most notable of which was Dolphins 2009. That app was featured in Editor & Publisher and Poynter Online, and won the team a McClatchy President's Award, which is a company prize that recognizes outstanding innovation. Eddie was a 2006-07 NAA Breakthrough Fellow and his mentor was Frank Denton, Vice President for News at Morris. In 2008, Eddie led a team that redesigned MiamiHerald.com and in 2003, he was one of two designers that led a print redesign of The Miami Herald.

Peter Barclay

Peter has been a leader in information technology for the past 18 years in a variety of capacities including sales, product development & marketing and strategy. He has worked for leading brand across several industries, including Xerox, FedEx, and The Washington Post.

As the Director for Mobile Services at Washington Post, Peter was responsible for all mobile products, including eReaders, text messaging, mobile applications and the mobile web. He launched several new products and content services, including iPhone web apps for Washington Post and Newsweek, Going Out Guide for iTunes, Slate on the Kindle and sports, gossip and other content on the mobile web. Peter also created Washington Post’s integrated mobile strategy, which focused on increasing mobile usage and readership – metrics that increased significantly across all channels under Peter’s stewardship. Peter also managed all mobile business relationships, including Amazon, Blackberry/R.I.M., Sprint and AT&T Wireless.

Previously, in 1998, Peter had joined FedEx to lead the redesign of FedEx.com, which won Top Transportation Website and increased customer traffic by 100%. Over the following three years, he managed the Integrated Shipping Solutions portfolio team, which, in turn, supported FedEx’s top customers, including Amazon, LL Bean and 1-800- Flowers – a role in which he was responsible for overseeing over one million automated shipments per day.

Peter went on to manage FedEx’s global automation strategy for E-Commerce Marketing and FedEx.com. He coordinated with executive management from Finance, IT, and Marketing across all of the international regions to achieve consensus. As part of the Global Strategy execution, Peter led the Globalization Project, which improved delivery of localized content by 300%. Peter also led the redesign of the FedEx technology incentive program and associated placement processes, which required conducting extensive customer research and financial analysis to determine optimal incentive levels. After beginning his career in the federal government sector with American Management Systems, Peter joined Xerox, where he was assigned to support the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He developed a tracking system to manage and support all Xerox equipment for the various 100+ Olympic events and was responsible for publishing the Official Olympic Results Books within 24 hours after the conclusion of each event – an Olympic first.

Peter holds a BS in Management Information Systems from Rochester Institute of Technology and an International MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management.

Clyde Bentley

Professor Clyde Bentley worked for 25 years in the newspaper industry before earning his doctorate in journalism at  the University of Oregon in 2000. His dissertation, "Make My Day: Ritual, Dependency and the Habit of Newspaper Reading," grew out of his prior experiences as a reporter, editor, general manager and marketing director at newspapers in California, Oregon, Idaho and Texas.

Bentley studied at the Poynter Institute and the American Press Institute before joining the Missouri School of Journalism in 2001.Bentley’s research focuses on citizen journalism, Internet-facilitated journalism and the habits, preferences and comfort levels of digital media consumers.

Amy Gahran

Art Howe

Art Howe, a former journalist and publisher is CEO and co-founder of Verve Wireless, the largest provider of services to local media. 

Verve Wireless (www.vervewireless.com) provides local publishers, broadcasters and web sites, the ability to publish across all devices and applications.  Verve currently works with 1,700 local media properties as well as the Associated Press in the North America, as well as Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. It’s news applications for iPhone, Nokia, Blackberry and other platforms are consistently rated as the most innovative apps for news.

Previously, Howe was a publisher, and led a group that acquired Village Voice Media, LLC, the nation’s leading publisher of alternative newspapers including the Village Voice and LA Weekly. In the 1990s, Howe was president and publisher of Montgomery Newspapers, which he built into the Philadelphia region’s largest group of suburban newspapers, magazines and specialty publications.  The Montgomery publications were recognized as the best suburban newspapers in the nation. In 1998, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publisher’s Association awarded Howe its inaugural Ben Franklin Award for publishing excellence.

Howe began his career as a writer for a number of mid-sized and large daily newspapers, including the  Philadelphia Inquirer.  His writing was recognized in a series of awards, including the Scripps Howard Public Service Award. In 1986, Howe was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting by Columbia University. Howe later directed the Inquirer’s circulation marketing and strategic planning departments.

Howe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from Wharton School

Katie Juhl

Steve McGuigan

Steve McGuigan, a ten+ year veteran in the mobile space, is VP of Business Development and Sales for Handmark. In his role, Steve is responsible for building partnerships with global media companies and assisting them to produce, distribute and monetize branded smartphone applications for them.

Prior to Handmark, Steve managed Palm's Business Development teams responsible for third party software and hardware solutions. Before realizing his passion for mobile, Steve worked as a software engineer and product manager at companies including SGI and Zmode.

Will Sullivan

Will Sullivan is the Interactive Director at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, an adjunct faculty and tech writer for The Poynter Institute and a blogger at Journerdism.com. Sullivan's work has won more than a dozen professional awards from organizations including The Society for News Design, National Press Photographer Association, Editor & Publisher and The Online News Association and his website was recently recognized by Harvard University's Nieman Journalism Lab as one of the 10 best "future-of-journalism" blogs. He's worked at more than a dozen news organizations from Sydney, Australia to Toledo, Ohio in roles from staff photographer to Editor in Chief. He's a board member for the Society for News Design foundation, a Multimedia Committee member of the National Press Photographer Association and co-creator and co-director of the NPPA's Multimedia Immersion. Sullivan's background is in multimedia storytelling and design, and his recent research and leadership has focused on developing social and mobile media for journalistic endeavors.

 Andy Waters