 Jim Brady
Jim Brady led washingtonpost.com to numerous awards and accolades during his tenure as executive editor of the site from November 2004 to January 2009. Under his leadership, washingtonpost.com focused on combining the world-class journalism of The Washington Post with the endless possibilities of the online medium. Whether it was experimenting with new multimedia storytelling opportunities, providing readers with better access to journalists, developing the new tools of database journalism or many other innovations, Brady led the way in making washingtonpost.com a site that is not merely on the Web, but of the Web. Brady is currently serving as U.S. consulting editor for The Guardian newspaper.
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 Steve Buttry
Steve Buttry joined The Gazette and GazetteOnline as Editor in 2008. In his first week on the job, he directed coverage of a flood that was the biggest natural disaster in Iowa history. The Gazette staff won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for deadline reporting for its flood coverage. This year, Buttry became C3 Innovation Coach, guiding Gazette Communications in pursuit of the Complete Community Connection, Buttry’s vision for a new business model for local media companies.
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 Jerry Ceppos
Jerry Ceppos became dean of the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, after 36 years in the newspaper business. He had long been interested in journalism education. He has served 18 years on the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, which accredits and sets goals for journalism schools. He was president of the group for six years.
He is a former president of the Associated Press Managing Editors and the California Society of Newspaper Editors.
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Chris Cobler
Chris Cobler is editor of the Victoria Advocate. A native of Topeka, Kan., he has worked for newspapers for almost 30 years and was the first Donald W. Reynolds Nieman Fellow in Community Journalism at Harvard University. Chris is a member of the boards of VISD Education Foundation and the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas.
His wife, Paula, is communications manager at the University of Houston-Victoria. Their proudest accomplishments are their children, Nicole, a ninth-grader, and Paul, a seventh-grader.
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Jarvis DeBerry
Jarvis DeBerry has worked for The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans since 1997, first as a reporter and now as an editorial writer and columnist. He was part of the team of journalists at the newspaper that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. In 2007, he was awarded first prize for column writing in a contest sponsored by the Louisiana/Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors Association.
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 Mike Fancher
In 2008 Mike Fancher retired from The Seattle Times after 20 years as executive editor. During his tenure, The Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and was a Pulitzer finalist 13 other times. A Seattle official is quoted as saying, “Under Mike, the paper was fearless about tackling subjects it thought were important to the community. There were a lot of people in the community who didn’t like that. But, at the same time, the paper was gutsy, and fearless in admitting when it made a mistake.” Fancher devoted his 2008-2009 Fellowship year at RJI to the question, “What is the Journalist’s Creed for the 21st Century?” His research explored how shifting elements, such as the relationship between journalists and the public, affect the values and principles of journalists today and in the future.
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 Kelly McBride
Kelly McBride is a writer, master teacher and one of the country’s leading voices when it comes to media ethics. She has been on the faculty of the Poynter Institute for seven years. Her expertise is frequently quoted by the world’s largest newsrooms, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, NPR and the BBC.
After getting her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, she began her career as a police reporter in the hills of the Idaho panhandle, covering the meth trade and the white supremacy movement. She got a master’s degree in theology from Gonzaga University and gained a national reputation as a religion reporter, covering the moral side of fertility issues, sexual orientation, evolution and the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal. She recently traveled to South Africa to teach and research storytelling on the mobile phone.
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 Michelle McLellan
With more than 20 years of newsroom experience at the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., and The Oregonian in Portland, Michele McLellan has worn a variety of different hats: ombudsman, politics editor, assistant city editor, staff writer, and special projects editor, among others.
From 2003 to 2007, as founder and director of Tomorrow’s Workforce at the Medill School of Journalism, McLellan explored the learning needs of professional journalists and worked to help newsrooms build robust professional development programs. She is currently a 2009-2010 Reyolds Fellow.
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 Mark Poepsel
Mark Poepsel is a second-year doctoral student focusing on media and society. He researches the role of new media technologies in shaping the evolving public sphere. A 2002 graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism (broadcast focus), he earned an English degree with a Spanish minor at the same time. After working as a television reporter for four years, Poepsel earned his M.A. in Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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 Michael Skoler
Michael Skoler has worked in print, radio, television and the Web - producing a daily show for the CBS Radio Network, reporting at WGJBH-TV in Boston, and serving as a science and foreign correspondent at National Public Radio in Washington DC and Nairobi, Kenya.
After receiving an MBA in 1999, he spent two and a half years at the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company working on strategy, new business creation, and growth plans for corporations and non-profits in media, education and technology. He is currently a 2009-2010 Reynolds Fellow.
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Bob Steele
Bob Steele returned to his Hoosier roots in 2008 to become the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University, a position he will hold for six years. He teaches a course in journalism ethics and a seminar on leadership and responsibility to students from all majors. He also developed a course at the intersection of values, storytelling and writing modeled after the popular public radio project, “This I Believe.”
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 Esther Thorson
Esther Thorson is the associate dean for graduate studies and research and serves as the director of research for the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. Thorson has published more than 100 scholarly pieces on news effects, advertising, media economics, and health communication, and she has edited six books. Thorson has headed grant and research contracts totaling nearly $3 million. She is the only female Fellow of the American Academy of Advertising. Thorson applies research, both hers and that of her colleagues, in newsrooms and advertising agencies across the United States and abroad.
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 Lee Wilkins
Lee Wilkins focuses her research on media ethics, media coverage of the environment and hazards and risks. She is a co-author of one of the country’s best-selling college ethics texts, Media Ethics: Issues and Cases, now in its fifth edition with McGraw-Hill. Wilkins is the associate editor of the country’s leading academic journal on media ethics: The Journal of Mass Media Ethics.
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