Bill Densmore
Director/Editor, Media Giraffe Project and New England News Forum, University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Bill Densmore is an expert on Internet information technologies and Internet-related business models. Most recently, he headed up The Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has been an editor/writer for the Associated Press, ComputerWorld Magazine, the Boston Globe and trade publications in business and law.
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Margaret Duffy
Donald W. Reynolds Fellow; Associate Professor, Strategic Communication; Chair, Strategic Communication
Margaret Duffy teaches courses in strategic communication, research methods and media management. Her research focuses on new and interactive media, especially with regard to advertising and the news.
Duffy also conducts research in health communication, and she is the primary investigator for the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (MARRTC). Under the auspices of the grant, the MARRTC communication team disseminates information about arthritis and related conditions. It also seeks to improve both reporting on medical research and understanding about arthritis among those with the condition as well as medical professionals and policy-makers.
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Roger Fidler
Program Director for Digital Publishing
Roger Fidler was a journalist and newspaper designer for 34 years and has been on the leading edge of online and digital publishing development since the late 1970s. As program director for digital publishing at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI), he coordinates digital publishing research projects and the Digital Publishing Alliance (DPA). He has been at RJI since 2004, when he was named as the first RJI Fellow. Before that he was a tenured professor of journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University.
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Matt Thompson
Deputy Web Editor, the Minneapolis Star Tribune Co-creator of Flash movie EPIC 2014
Having graduating from Harvard, Matt Thompson was a Naughton Fellow at the Poynter Institute when he looked into his crystal ball and co-created “EPIC 2014.” This video startled the news industry by presenting an alternative history of the news media set in the future. The original, and its sequel “Epic 2015,” have attracted millions of viewers on the Web and have been cited in media throughout the world. Thompson’s fellowship year at RJI follows an award-winning stint as deputy Web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Jane Ellen Stevens
RJI Fellow 2008-09; Associate faculty, Knight Digital Media Center, University of California-Berkeley.
A freelance journalist, consultant and teacher who specializes in science and technology, Jane Stevens has conducted multimedia reporting for The New York Times, the Discovery Channel and MSNBC.com. Stevens consults with news organizations that are transitioning to the Web-centric world, including the Ventura (Calif.) County Star, the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, the Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World, NPR and the San Diego Union-Tribune. She helped develop the multimedia reporting program at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism, in addition to developing multimedia reporting workshops for mid-career journalists through the Knight Digital Media Center. She has written for magazines such as Discover, International Wildlife, National Geographic, National Wildlife, Science, and Technology Review. Stevens is co-director of the Violence Reporting Project, which encourages news organizations to include a scientific and prevention/public health approach to crime reporting. In 2007, she led a team that developed TOPP.org (Tagging of Pacific Predators), a new approach to science journalism, and the Great Turtle Race 2007 (http://www.greatturtlerace.com), which was a collaborative effort with Conservation International, Leatherback Trust, Yahoo! and MINAE, Costa Rica's environmental agency.
Jen Reeves
Associate Professor, Radio-Television Journalism
JENNIFER REEVES spent seven years producing newscasts in newsrooms including KBAK-TV in Bakersfield, California, KSBW-TV in Salinas, California, and WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She started her teaching career as Executive Producer at KOMU-TV at the Missouri School of Journalism.
After using technology to change the structure, organization and workflow of the KOMU newsroom, Reeves became interested in the many other ways newsrooms can use technology. She now works as KOMU's New Media Manager and leads the ongoing developments at KOMU.com. She is working on finding ways to expand traditional media by using non-traditional media delivery sources (podcasting, vodcasting and other on-demand and push technologies that can deliver content).
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Mike McKean
Associate Professor,Convergence; Director of the Futures Lab
Mike McKean is the Futures Lab director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught for 22 years. McKean created the School's convergence journalism program and chaired the convergence journalism faculty from 2005-2008.
He is a leader in teaching with technology at the local, national andinternational levels. Winner of the MU's Innovator Award, McKean is chairing the campus Information Technology Committee; coordinating partnerships with Apple, Inc., AT&T and Adobe Systems; and helping establish convergence curricula at Moscow State University in Russia and Shantou University in China.
McKean also has chaired the Radio-TV News faculty at Missouri, served as web director at KOMU-TV and news director of KBIA-FM. Before joining the School of Journalism, he was managing editor of KTRH NewsRadio in Houston and assistant news director at the Missourinet in Jefferson City.
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Roger Gafke
Director of Program Development
Roger Gafke is professor emeritus at the Missouri School of Journalism and director of program development for the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. In that role he builds partnerships for research projects, programs and funding from corporations, foundations, associations and individuals who share RJI's priority to advance the practice of journalism.
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Gary D. Forsee
University of Missouri System President
Mr. Forsee was appointed president of the four-campus University of Missouri on Dec. 20, 2007, with his presidency commencing on Feb. 18, 2008. Mr. Forsee received a three-year appointment from the Board of Curators to lead Missouri’s premier public higher education institution.
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