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Tanja Aitamurto
Tanja Aitamurto is a Finnish journalist based in Silicon Valley. She covers hi-tech and social media, but also topics such as cougar women and Bonneville land speed record racing. She is doing research about the business models for journalism, and is especially fascinated by the potential of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding in journalism.
Frank Barrows
Frank Barrows was managing editor of The Charlotte Observer for 13 years. In 2003 and 2004, he was chair of Knight Ridder’s Ethics and Values Committee, a group of senior editors who worked to establish standards for the company’s newspapers. Before serving as managing editor, he was one of the two editors who guided the work that won the 1988 Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service.
He has written for a range of publications, including The Atlantic Monthly. He spent the 2007-08 academic year studying innovation at Harvard Business School, under the auspices of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism.
Alfredo Carbajal
Alfredo Carbajal is the Managing Editor of Dallas-based Al Día, Texas largest Spanish-language newspaper, with an average weekly distribution of more than 400,000 copies. Carbajal oversees the newsroom which includes Web site operations. As the founding editor of Al Día, Carbajal recruited and trained the news staff. He developed systems, work flow procedures and standards that are still in use.
Milton Coleman
Milton Coleman is senior editor of The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 1976 as a reporter on the metropolitan staff, where he covered politics and government first in Montgomery County, Maryland and later in the District of Columbia. In March 1980, he became assistant city editor, and in May of that year, city editor.
In 1983, he moved to the national news staff, where he covered minorities and immigration, the 1984 presidential campaign, state and local governments, and Congress. In 1986, he was named assistant managing editor/metropolitan news, and for the next decade directed The Post’s local coverage. In July 1996, he was promoted to deputy managing editor and assumed his current position in May 2009.
Stephanie Craft
Stephanie Craft is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Before earning a doctorate in communication from Stanford University, she worked as a newspaper journalist in California, Arkansas and Washington. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a bachelor’s degree in history from Washington University in St. Louis.
Her research focuses on press practices and performance, journalism ethics and the role of journalism in a democracy. Current projects include a chapter on journalism transparency for the Handbook of Mass Media Ethics published by Lawrence Erlbaum in 2008 and a chapter in a 14-nation study of freedom of speech frames in coverage of the Danish cartoon controversy.
Bill Densmore
Bill Densmore is director/editor of the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and the New England News Forum. During the 2008-2009 academic year, Densmore served as a Reynolds Fellow at the University of Missouri working on a project titled “The Information Valet.”
He is a co-founder of CircLabs Inc., a Bay Area startup which is developing a new way for users to discover, share, create, discuss and exchange value with publishers through a product called Circulate.
Roger Gafke
Roger Gafke has focused his creative efforts over the past eight years on the use of the Internet and related digital technologies for public relations, fund raising and training and on the expansion of the university's international relationships. Since joining the Missouri School of Journalism faculty in 1968, Gafke has participated in virtually all aspects of the university's advancement program, with an emphasis on program development and evaluation. He currently serves as the coordinator of the Missouri Humphrey Program, which hosts broadcasters from developing countries for an academic year at the Journalism School.
John Hamer
John Hamer is executive director of the Washington News Council (WNC), an independent forum for media fairness that he co-founded in 1998. The WNC is a nonprofit 501c3 citizens organization whose mission is to help maintain trust and confidence in the news media in Washington state by promoting fairness, accuracy and balance.
Hamer was formerly associate editorial-page editor at The Seattle Times and previously associate editor with Congressional Quarterly/Editorial Research Reports in Washington, D.C.
Pam Johnson
Pam Johnson became the first executive director of the Reynolds Journalism Institute in November 2004. She previously served as a member of the Leadership Faculty at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, in executive and managing editor positions at The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette and as assistant managing editor at The Kansas City Star. Johnson also worked at The Joplin Globe and the Binghamton (N.Y.) Evening Press.
Martin Kaiser
Martin Kaiser has been editor and senior vice president of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 1997. He joined The Milwaukee Journal in 1994 as managing editor and became managing editor of the Journal Sentinel when The Journal merged with the Milwaukee Sentinel in April 1995. The Journal Sentinel won the Pulitzer Prize for local reporting in 2008 and was a finalist in explanatory reporting in 2003 and 2006. He was named Editor of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2009. Kaiser is president of the American Society of News Editors. He has twice been a Pulitzer juror.
George Kennedy
George Kennedy worked for 10 years at daily newspapers in Delaware and Florida before joining the Missouri School of Journalism faculty in 1974. At Missouri, Kennedy has served as chairman of the Editorial Department and as associate dean. Many recent Missouri alumni know him best as managing editor of the school’s teaching newspaper, the Columbia Missourian -- a position he held for almost 12 years. Kennedy’s academic interests center on journalistic practice and the future of the profession. He has been a Fulbright Lecturer in New Zealand and a visiting professor in Slovakia and Spain.
