Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute

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.

Lucy Dalglish

Lucy A. Dalglish is the Executive Director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press,  a voluntary, unincorporated association of reporters and news editors dedicated to protecting the First Amendment interests of the news media. Based in Arlington, Va., the Reporters Committee has provided research, guidance and representation in major press cases in state and federal courts for 36 years.

Prior to assuming the position in January 2000, Dalglish was a media lawyer for almost five years in the trial department of the Minneapolis law firm of Dorsey & Whitney.

From 1980 to 1993, Dalglish was a reporter and editor at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. As a reporter, she covered beats ranging from general assignment and suburbs to education and courts. During her last three years at the Pioneer Press, she served as night city editor, assistant news editor and national/foreign editor.

Dalglish was awarded the Wells Memorial Key, the highest honor bestowed by the Society of Professional Journalists, in 1995. A year later, she was one of 24 journalists, lawyers, lawmakers, educators, researchers, librarians and historians inducted into the charter class of the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C.

Dalglish appears frequently in print, online and broadcast stories about issues involving the media and the First Amendment. She has been a national leader in supporting open meeting and open records laws at the state and federal level, as well as a key player over the past five years in the effort to pass state and federal reporters “shield laws.” She has spoken on these issues recently before journalists, lawyers, judges and citizen groups in Washington, D.C., New York, Nashville, Reno, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Austin, Eugene, Houston, San Diego, Orlando, Honolulu, Long Beach, Seattle, Tacoma, Philadelphia, Albany, Boston, Phoenix, Atlanta, Kansas City and Denver.

Dalglish earned a juris doctor degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1995; a master of studies in law degree from Yale Law School in 1988; and a bachelor of arts in journalism from the University of North Dakota in 1980. While attending UND, Dalglish worked as managing editor of the Dakota Student and as a reporter and editor for the Grand Forks Herald.

Charles Davis

Charles Davis is an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and the executive director for the National Freedom of Information Coalition (NFOIC), headquartered at the School. 

Davis' scholarly research focuses on access to governmental information and media law. He has published in law reviews and scholarly journals on issues ranging from federal and state freedom of information laws to libel law, privacy and broadcast regulation. He has earned a Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work in furthering freedom of information and the University of Missouri-Columbia Provost's Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching, as well as the Faculty-Alumni Award. In 2009, Davis was named the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Teacher of the Year. 

Davis has been a primary investigator for a research grant from the James S. and John L. Knight Foundation for NFOIC and another from the Rockefeller Family Fund for the study of homeland security and freedom of information issues. He was a co-investigator for an award from the U.S. Department of State for a curriculum reform project for Moscow State University in Russia. 

Davis worked for newspapers and as a national correspondent for Lafferty Publications, a Dublin-based news wire service for financial publications, Davis reported on banking, e-commerce and regulatory issues for seven years before leaving full-time journalism in 1993. He completed a master's degree from the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication and earned a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Florida in 1995. He received his bachelor's degree from North Georgia College.

Davis participates in numerous professional organizations, including the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Society of Professional Journalists and Investigative Reporters and Editors.m.

Phil Gailey

Phil Gailey worked for nearly 44 years as a newspaper journalist. A native of Homer, Ga., and a graduate of the University of Georgia, he began his newspaper career at the Atlanta Constitution and moved on to the Miami Herald, the late Washington Star and the New York Times Washington bureau before joining the St. Petersburg Times in 1991 as Editor of Editorials and Vice President. During his 18 years in Washington, he covered Congress, national politics and the White House. Before retiring in 2008, he edited a collection of columns by the late Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory, “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half Century of Washington Commentary.’’ 

Toni Locy

Toni Locy is the Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Legal Reporting at Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. 

She was a journalist for 25 years, specializing in the coverage of courts and law enforcement. Locy was a reporter for the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the Philadelphia Daily News and the Pittsburgh Press. She also covered the U.S. Supreme Court and national legal affairs for the Associated Press.

In 2008 a federal judge held Locy in contempt of court for refusing to divulge the identities of confidential sources who provided information to her for stories she wrote for USA Today about the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. The judge imposed fines of up to $5,000 a day on Locy, but a federal appeals court stayed the order pending her appeal. The Justice Department eventually settled the Privacy Act lawsuit brought by former Army scientist Steven Hatfill, and the contempt order against Locy was vacated.

Locy earned a Master's Degree in the Studies of Law from the University of Pittsburgh's School of Law in 2007. She graduated from West Virginia University in 1981 with a B.S. degree in journalism.

Stuart Loory

Stuart Loory is the first Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is also editor of Global Journalist, the magazine for the international news business, as well as the moderator of the "Global Journalist" weekly radio show for KBIA-FM. 

In 2004, Loory served as a visiting professor at Moscow State University as part of the Missouri/Moscow State Curriculum Reform Project. In 2003, he served as a visiting professor in theMissouri London Program. 

Before coming to the School in 1997, Loory spent 17 years working for TBS/CNN in various capacities, including vice president, Washington managing editor, Moscow correspondent and executive producer, among others. He is also a 28-year veteran of the newspaper business. Among Loory's positions were Moscow bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune and White House correspondent for the Los Angeles Times during parts of the Johnson and Nixon administrations. As a Los Angeles Times correspondent, Loory was included on Nixon's "enemies list" of political opponents. He later served as managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, where he supervised several award-winning investigative reporting series. From 1973 to 1975, Loory was the first Kiplinger Professor of Public Affairs Reporting at Ohio State University. 

With David Kraslow, Loory co-authored The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam, a prize-winning investigation of President Johnson's efforts to settle the Vietnam War through negotiation. He also wrote Defeated: Inside America's Military Machine, published in 1973.