FOUNDING ADVISORY BOARD
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Everette Dennis
Felix E. Larkin Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Communications,
Fordham University Graduate School for Business |
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Jack Hamilton
Dean, Manship School of Communication
Louisiana State University
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Bill Ketter
Editor and Vice President of News
Eagle-Tribune Publishing Co.
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Bill Kovach
Founding Director
Committee of Concerned Journalists |
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Les Payne
(retired) Associate Managing Editor, National, Science and International News
Newsday
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Keith Richburg
Foreign Editor
The Washington Post |
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Sreenath Sreenivasan
Dean of Students and Professor
Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism
Co-founder
South Asian Journalists Association |
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Andrew Tyndall
Publisher
Tyndall Report |
Bios, EW Advisory Board Members
Rosental Alves
Professor Rosental Calmon Alves holds the Knight Chair in Journalism and the UNESCO Chair in Communication at the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also the founding director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. Professor Alves began his academic career in the United States in March 1996, after 27 years as a professional journalist, including seven years as a journalism professor in Brazil. He moved to Austin from Rio de Janeiro, where he was the managing editor and member of the board of directors of Jornal do Brasil. He was chosen in 1995 from approximately 200 candidates to be the first holder of the Knight Chair in International Journalism, created by a $1.5 million endowment from the James L. and John S. Knight Foundation. In 2002, Alves received a $2 million grant from the Knight Foundation to create the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, a project to work in training programs with journalists from Latin America and the Caribbean. The Knight Center is based at the School of Journalism in Austin, but reaches thousands of journalists throughout the hemisphere. At the University of Texas at Austin, Alves has three basic areas for teaching and research: international reporting (emphasizing the work of foreign correspondents), journalism in Latin America (especially the struggle for a free press in the hemisphere), and Internet journalism (the creation of a new genre of journalism for the digital medium).
Sandy Close
Sandy Close, executive director of New America Media, received a BA from the University of California-Berkeley in 1964, then moved to Hong Kong where she worked as the China editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review. Upon her return to the U.S., she founded The Flatlands newspaper, a raw voice of the inner city communities of Oakland, Ca. In 1974, she became executive director of Pacific News Service, helping to develop it into one of the most diverse sources of literary voices and analytical ideas in the U.S. news media. In 1991 she founded YO! (Youth Outlook), a collaboration of writers and young people, and in 1996 she co-founded "The Beat Within," a weekly newsletter of writing and art by incarcerated youth. In 1996 Close founded New California Media (NCM), a nationwide association of over 700 ethnic media organizations, producing an awards program, an inter-ethnic media exchange and multicultural, multilingual social marketing campaigns. In 1995, Close received a MacArthur Foundation “genius award” for her work in communications. In 1997 a film she co-produced, "Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien," won the Academy Award for best short documentary.
Everette Dennis
Everette Dennis had a long and distinguished career as an international communications scholar, including appointments at the Kansas State University, University of Minnesota, and Northwestern University. He has been the dean at the University of Oregon where he received his undergraduate degree before earning a masters at Syracuse University and a doctorate at Minnesota. He was founding executive director of the Gannett Center for Media Studies at Columbia University (later the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center). Most recently he served as Director of the Center for Communication at Fordham University and was the Felix E. Larkin Distinguished Professor of Media and Communication Industries. Dennis has written or co-authored more than 30 books on the media and established the Media Studies Journal. He has served as the president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and founding president of the American Academy in Berlin. He is currently the executive director of the International Longevity Center.
David Duitch
David Duitch is currently vice president/Capital Bureau Belo, a position he assumed in January 2005. Duitch oversees the Washington, D.C. - based Capital Bureau's newspaper, television and online operations. For the past 12 years Duitch has served Belo in various news positions, including vice president/news WFAA-TV, Dallas-FT. Worth, executive news director of KXTV, Sacramento, and KOTV, Tulsa and director of news/Television Group for Belo based in Dallas. Prior to joining Belo, Duitch worked in management positions at KDFW-TV, Dallas-Ft. Worth and WKYC-TV, Cleveland. He's also held positions as a reporter and producer at stations in Nebraska, Kansas and New York City, where he served as senior producer and line producer at CNN and line producer at WNBC-TV. He began his broadcasting career in 1979 in Jerusalem, Israel, where he served as a producer and reporter for the Israel Broadcasting Authority. Under Duitch's leadership, his newsrooms have won two duPont-Columbia Awards, two Peabody Awards, national and regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, Emmy Awards, Associated Press awards, national IRE awards, National Headliner Awards and two Cronkite Awards for Political Coverage. Duitch graduated magna cum laude from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Jack Hamilton
Jack Hamilton has reported in the United States and abroad for the Milwaukee Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and ABC Radio, among others, and was a longtime commentator on MarketPlace, broadcast nationally by Public Radio International. He is author of five books and currently is working on a history of American foreign newsgathering. In the course of his career, Hamilton directed a Society of Professional Journalists' project to improve news coverage of the Third World, served at USAID during the Carter Administration, oversaw nuclear non-proliferation issues for the House Foreign Affairs Committee; and managed a World Bank education program. Hamilton serves on the board of the International Center for Journalists, where he is treasurer, and chairs the Knight International Press Fellowships Advisory Committee. He was a Pulitzer Prize jurist in 1999 and 2000, held a fellowship in 2002 at the Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and is member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was named the Freedom Forum Journalism Administrator of the Year for 2003.
Bill Ketter
Bill Ketter is a veteran journalist, news executive and journalism educator. He has served as editor-in-chief and vice president/news for The Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company in North Andover, Mass., since 2002. The Eagle-Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for breaking news. Previously, he was a reporter, editor and vice president with United Press International for 16 years, and served as senior vice president and editor of The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., for 20 years. He is also a former chairman of Boston University’s Journalism School. He has served as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors (1995-96), and as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board at Columbia University. He was the first chairman of the international editors’ forum sponsored by the World Newspaper Association in Vienna, Austria, in 1994 and has traveled to more than 25 countries on behalf of a free press for various U.S. news organizations.
Bill Kovach
Bill Kovach is the founding director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists and its programs. He has been a journalist and writer for forty years. In that time, he was chief of the New York Times Washington Bureau, served as editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and curator of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University. Kovach is co-author with Tom Rosenstiel of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect (Crown 2001), which was awarded Harvard University’s Goldsmith Book Prize (2002), the Sigma Delta Chi award for research in journalism and the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism. Kovach and Rosenstiel also co-authored Warp Speed: America in the Age of Mixed Media (Century Press in 1999), which earned an SDX Award for research in journalism in 2000. Kovach was the 2003 recipient of The Richard M. Clurman Award for Mentoring and has also been honored with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, which was accompanied by an honorary PhD from Colby College. In Fall 2004, Kovach was named to The John Seigenthaler Chair of Excellence in First Amendment Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Among his other board affiliations, Kovach serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Public Integrity, the Native American Journalists Foundation, The Right Question Project and the Encyclopedia of the Appalachians. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, the Washington Post, the New Republic, and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad.
Pat Mitchell
Pat Mitchell is president of the Museum of Television and Radio. From March 2000 until March 2006, she served as president and chief executive officer of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). She is the first producer and the first woman to head the public service broadcaster, coming to PBS from a long and respected career in commercial broadcasting and cable. In her three-decade career in media, Mitchell has worked for NBC, CBS and ABC as, respectively, a network correspondent, a news anchor and producer/host of an Emmy award-winning talk program. After a stint as an independent executive producer, Mitchell joined Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., where she was president of the original programming division of CNN. Her work has been recognized with 37 Emmys and five Peabody Awards, and she received two Academy Award nominations. Mitchell has been named Women in Cable and Broadcasting's Woman of the Year; has received the CINE Golden Eagle for Lifetime Achievement; was named as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Television by The Hollywood Reporter. Most recently, she received the Sandra Day O'Connor Award for Leadership. Mitchell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Afghan Women's Council. She is the Vice Chair of the Sundance Institute Board; a founding member of Mikhail Gorbachev's global environmental organization, Global Green USA; an adviser to the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Harvard University; and a member of the Mayo Clinic's Board of Trustees. She speaks extensively on the role of media in society, including testimony to both the U.S. Congress and the British House of Lords.
Les Payne
Les Payne, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, was associate managing editor for national, science, and international news at Newsday, and a columnist for the Tribune Media Services. His news staffs have won every major award in journalism, including four recent Pulitzer Prizes. A former TV panelist on WCBS's "Sunday Edition," Payne has also appeared on numerous radio and television shows, including Nightline, Good Morning America, MacNeil/Lehrer, Meet the Press, Washington Week in Review, and Like It Is (WABC-TV). As a founder, and former president, of the National Association of Black Journalists, Payne has worked diligently to improve media fairness and employment practices and to expand the coverage of black and Third World communities. Payne lectures on college campuses and is a frequent speaker at high schools, civic gatherings, church groups and community organizations. A graduate of the University of Connecticut, Payne is the Inaugural Professor for the David Laventhol Chair at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and has received three honorary doctorate degrees. He served five years in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of captain. He is writing a soon-to-be published biography of Malcolm X.
Keith Richburg
Keith Richburg is foreign editor of the Washington Post. He has been with the Washington Post since 1982 when he began his career on the metropolitan staff. He went on to become a national correspondent; South East Asia bureau chief; Africa bureau chief; Hong Kong bureau chief; and Paris bureau chief. He was also the journalist-in-residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is the recipient of the George Polk Award for Economic Reporting and is the author of Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa (Harvest 1998). Richburg holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science degree in corporate government from the London School of Economics.
Sreenath Sreenivasan
Sreenath Sreenivasan became Dean of Students at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 2005 after twelve years of teaching. He is co-founder and former president of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association, a group of more than 1,000 South Asian journalists in New York and across the U.S. and Canada. Sreenivasan is a “tech guru” who was a founding member of the Online News Association and founding administrator of the Online Journalism Awards. He writes and broadcasts on technology issues on a regular basis. In April 2004, he was named one of the 20 most influential South Asians in America by Newsweek magazine. Sreenivasan has a Master of Science degree in journalism from Columbia; and a Bachelor of Arts in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
Andrew Tyndall
Andrew Tyndall is publisher of the Tyndall Report, which monitors network television news. Tyndall claims to be the only person in the world to have watched every single weekday nightly newscast of ABC, CBS and NBC since the summer of 1987. He issues a weekly statistical summary of how the networks cover the news, which is archived at his website: www.tyndallreport.com. His firm ADT Research is a non-partisan organization, independent of both corporate and foundation backing. It supplies database reports on a syndicated basis to the networks' research departments. Every four years, it supplements its weekly report with Campaign Countdown, a weekly analysis of presidential election campaign coverage. ADT Research has also been commissioned to provide monitoring and analysis services for such organizations as the Media Studies Center of the Freedom Forum, the National Arts Journalism Program at the Columbia School of Journalism and the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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