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Nancy Hicks Maynard
Director
Nancy Hicks Maynard has spent more than 40 years in the news business. She is the former co-owner and publisher of The Oakland (CA) Tribune. She covered domestic policy for The New York Times in New York and Washington, and education for the New York Post. Maynard also served as senior vice president of The Freedom Forum, the media foundation, and chair of its Media Studies Center. In addition, she has been a panelist on “Face the Nation,” “Meet the Press,” and “Washington Week in Review.”
She is president of Maynard Partners Inc., a consulting company that focuses mostly on media and its impact on the future, and author of MEGA MEDIA: How Market Forces Are Transforming News. Currently she is fonder and director of Editors’ World, a project to redefine and improve international news coverage in mid-sized media markets.
A graduate of Stanford Law School, Maynard has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including Tribune Company; the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS); Vivendi Prospective; The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education; and the Journalism Advisory Committee of the Knight Foundation. She has been a director of Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s oldest and largest managed health care plans; the Newspaper Advertising Bureau; Haas Business School at the University of California, Berkeley; the Newspaper Management Center at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management; and Individual Investors’ Advisory Committee, New York Stock Exchange.
Maynard has been a member of the Global Business Network; Women’s Forum West; and the Commonwealth Club of California. She was a 1999 recipient of a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s study center in Bellagio, Italy. In 1998, she was awarded the National Association of Black Journalists’ Lifetime Achievement Award. Maynard also received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 from Denver’s Five Points Media Center and was awarded the University of Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 1992.
Jerelyn Eddings
Managing Editor
Jerelyn Eddings is a veteran journalist with three decades of experience in the United States and abroad as a writer, editor, trainer and manager. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and Congressional Fellow in Washington, D.C., Eddings worked in Africa for almost a decade – as Johannesburg bureau chief for The Baltimore Sun and later as Africa director for the Freedom Forum, a non-profit media foundation based in the Washington area. As Africa director, she managed the Freedom Forum’s media center in Johannesburg, which worked to develop and support African journalists through education and training programs.
Following her work there, she returned to Washington, where she became a programming director at Howard University Television (WHUT), a PBS station. In that capacity, she oversaw production of Africa-related programming and hosted a weekly program, “On Africa”.
Eddings has extensive experience covering American as well as international affairs. She was a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report from 1993 to 1997 and also served during that period as the magazine’s chief congressional correspondent. In addition to her work as The Baltimore Sun’s Johannesburg bureau chief from 1990 to 1993, she spent eight years on The Sun’s editorial board focusing on national political and economic affairs.
Eddings is a native of South Carolina and a graduate of the University of South Carolina, where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism.
She has served on several advisory boards, including the boards of the Nieman Fellowship Program at Harvard University, the Congressional Fellowship Program of the American Political Science Association, and the CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards.
Maurice R. Fliess
Associate Editor
Maurice R. Fliess has been a journalist for more than three decades. Currently he is managing editor of business publications for Journal Communications Inc., a Franklin, Tenn.-based publisher of custom magazines across the United States and in Canada. He also serves as chief copy editor for Editors’ World.
Previously he held a number of positions with the Freedom Forum in the Washington, D.C., area and in Nashville, Tenn., including vice president of publications, editorial director, Newseum associate director and planning director for the mobile version of the interactive museum of news. While with the Freedom Forum, Fliess reported and edited reports on media conferences in Croatia, England, Germany, Ghana, Mali, Zambia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Panama and Peru.
At the Newspaper Association of America (and the predecessor American Newspaper Publishers Association), Fliess developed the prototypes for Presstime and was the magazine’s first managing editor. Later he served as Presstime editor and NAA vice president.
Earlier, he was a national and regional correspondent in the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau, where he covered the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court; a reporter for The Atlanta Journal and The Roanoke (Va.) Times; and managing editor of The Daily Review in his hometown of Clifton Forge, Va.
Fliess received a bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., with a double major in journalism and American history; and a master of science in journalism degree from West Virginia University in Morgantown, where he was a graduate teaching assistant. Later he served as an Army information specialist at Fort Bragg, N.C., and Heidelberg, Germany.
He is a member of the Washington and Lee University Journalism Advisory Committee, the Newseum Advisory Committee and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Cindy Allen
Associate Editor
Cindy Allen is a writer and editor who has spent most of her career in the news business. She obtained her degree in English from Penn State University and later moved West, where she worked in a variety of editing and marketing positions for The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif., and the Los Angeles Times’ Orange County edition. At The Press-Enterprise, she served alternately as assistant news editor, business editor, features editor, and promotions manager. In Orange County, she served as marketing and promotions manager. In 2004, she became founding editor of Today’s Local News, a free daily newspaper started by Copley Press in San Marcos, Calif. Three years later, her husband’s job brought her to Los Angeles, where she works as associate editor at Editors’ World. She also blogs for an online real estate company and does freelance editing and writing.
Michael Fernandez
Senior Writer
Michael Fernandez is responsible for writing daily newspaper and weekly magazine summaries at Editors’ World. Born in Vermont, he has lived in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and several points in between. In 1995, Fernandez graduated with a degree in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. A victim of severe wanderlust, he has worked a variety of jobs including baker, political campaign consultant, and commercial fisherman, traveling extensively on what has often been a shoe-string budget. In 2002, Fernandez was awarded a writer’s residency at the Vermont Studio Center. He presently resides in Los Angeles and is writing a novel.
Joe Donatelli
Researcher/Writer
Joe Donatelli is responsible for writing daily newspaper summaries for Editors' World. He is a writer based in Los Angeles whose articles and columns have appeared in newspapers and magazines across the country. Before moving to Los Angeles, he worked for Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, DC, as a reporter and editor for the sports and news departments. An Ohio native, Joe's hobbies include listening to music and watching Cleveland sports teams lose. Joe is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.
Nathan McIntire
Researcher/Writer
Nathan McIntire writes daily news summaries and does research and interviews for Editors’ World. Based in Hermosa Beach, California, he is a native of Los Angeles. Nathan has lived and studied in Stockholm, Sweden and Cape Town, South Africa. He graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. in Politics in 2003. He then spent two years working at a youth home in Los Angeles, where he wrote satire for various web publications in his spare time. He returned to school in 2005 and received an M.A. in Print Journalism from the USC Annenberg School for Communication in 2007. Nathan has contributed to LA Weekly, the Pasadena Star-News and McSweeney's Internet Tendency in the U.S. and Business Day and the Cape Times in South Africa. In addition to his work with Editors’ World, he works as a desk assistant at the Los Angeles Times.
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