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Jack McElroy
Jack McElroy grew up in Tucson, Ariz., where he attended the University of Arizona, earning a bachelor’s degree in English in 1975. His first newspaper job was as a reporter in the small Mexican border town of Douglas, Ariz.
In 1977 he joined The Albuquerque Tribune, an E.W. Scripps Co. newspaper in New Mexico, as a reporter. He worked there 14 years, ultimately as managing editor. While in Albuquerque, he earned a master’s degree in management at the University of New Mexico. In 1991, McElroy moved to another Scripps paper, the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colo.
Glenn Mott
Glenn Mott is managing editor of Hearst’s King Features Syndicate in New York, whose columnists include Amy Goodman, Stanley Crouch, Helen Thomas, Rich Lowry, and over seventy feature writers. For the 2008-2009 academic year he was a Fulbright Lecturer in Journalism at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
In 2006 he was part of the fact-finding delegation for the American Society of Newspaper Editors, meeting with some of China’s top leadership, including a meeting with officials in Zhongnanhai. He is author of the book Analects on a Chinese Screen.
David Offer
David B. Offer is spending this year as the C.W. Snedden Chair in Journalism at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Offer retired at the end of 2006 as editor of two daily newspapers in central Maine, ending a 42 year career as an editor and reporter. Before moving to Maine, he was the executive editor of the military newspaper, Stars and Stripes, but resigned after four months on the job to protest censorship of the newspaper. He was presented the Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism by the University of Oregon for that action and was honored by the America Society of Newspaper Editors for leadership.
Gene Policinski
Gene Policinski is vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center. A veteran journalist whose career has included work in newspapers, radio, television and online operations, he oversees operations and programs of the center, which has offices at Vanderbilt University and in Washington, D.C., and which is affiliated with the Newseum through the Freedom Forum.
He also is co-author of the weekly syndicated national newspaper and online column, “Inside the First Amendment,” and host/executive producer of the touring multimedia stage production “Freedom Sings.™”.
Doug Ray
Doug Ray is executive editor of The Tuscaloosa News, a role he has held for nine years. In addition to the print edition, he oversees content and development for four Internet sites, including a subscription-based sports news site that launched in September. The Tuscaloosa News has won numerous state and national recognitions during his tenure.
Doug has been active in ASNE since 1995. He has held top editing roles in Clarksville, Tenn., and Franklin, Tenn., and worked as a reporter at The Oak Ridger (Tenn.) and The Tennessean. Doug grew up in Nashville and graduated from Brown University.
Arnie Robbins
Arnie Robbins was named editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in December, 2005. He served nearly seven years as managing editor. Robbins joined the Post-Dispatch in April 1997 as director of staff and organizational development and was named deputy editor six months later.
Robbins spent 13 years at the Minneapolis Star Tribune as executive sports editor, assistant managing editor/features and change editor. He was a copyeditor and deputy sports editor at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1978-84 and a sports reporter and editor at the Suburban Trib from 1975-78.
Sharon Rosenhause
Sharon Rosenhause is the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics at the Cronkite School at Arizona State University. She is teaching courses in ethics and diversity.
Rosenhause retired in July 2008 as managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Before joining the Sun-Sentinel in 2001, she was managing editor of the San Francisco Examiner and editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s PM Edition.
Kathy Spurlock
Spurlock began her career as a reporter for the newspaper she now edits. After serving in various reporting and editing capacities on the features and city desks, she moved to Baton Rouge as a public information officer for the Louisiana Office of Tourism. But ink was in her blood, and she quickly returned to the newspaper business as managing editor of Louisiana Suburban Press, a weekly newspaper group in the Baton Rouge area, and then to the Morning Advocate in Baton Rouge as copy editor and assistant city editor.
Brian Steffens
Brian Steffens, the former senior vice president and editor of the Editor & Publisher Co., is executive director of the National Newspaper Association (NNA) and adjunct associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. NNA, representing nearly 3,000 community newspapers nationwide, moved its headquarters to the Missouri School of Journalism in 2002.
He has also been editor of Quill magazine and held newsroom leadership positions at several newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union, Orange County Register, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Miami Herald and Detroit News.
Robyn Tomlin
Robyn Tomlin is the first woman to serve as executive editor of the StarNews in Wilmington, N.C. She joined the StarNews in 2008. Before that she was the executive editor at the Star-Banner in Ocala, Fla., for three years.
Robyn has also served as executive editor and managing editor at the TimesDaily in Florence, Ala., metro editor, city editor and city hall reporter at the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times. She also worked in reporting roles at newspapers in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. She is a 1996 graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tom Warhover
Tom Warhover is an associate professor and chair of the newspaper faculty at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He also is the executive editor for innovation at the Columbia Missourian, a six-day community newspaper edited by professionals and staffed by student reporters, copy editors, designers and photographers. His role at the Missourian is to transform the newsroom for the future, experimenting with new approaches and technologies in content and delivery while honoring the best traditions of public service, integrity and independence.
