Multimedia Training Seminar

Agenda | Speakers | Fellows | Resources

Speakers

Neil Chase heads the team responsible for recruiting and working with Federated Media's authors. He joined FM in Spring 2007 after serving as the editor of continuous news at the New York Times and, before that, managing editor at CBS MarketWatch. Chase spent five years as a professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, where he launched the new-media journalism program and was the school’s director of technology. Before joining the Northwestern faculty, he worked as an editor at the San Francisco Examiner and the Arizona Republic, and consulted for a number of publications and companies.

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Phone: (415) 332-6955 x148

Kevin Clerici is a reporter at The Ventura County Star.

Manny Crisostomos is multimedia editor at the Sacramento Bee.

James T. Hamilton is the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science at Duke University. His book All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (Princeton Press, 2004) examines how economic forces affect media content. All the News won the Frank Luther Mott award for the best book in journalism/mass communication research in 2004. Hamilton is also the author of Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming, which won the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Book Prize, and a recipient of the David N. Kershaw award for distinguished public policy research.

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Phone: 919-613-7358

Gretchen Macchiarella is producer of Studio 805 at The Ventura County Star.

Regina McCombs is senior producer for multimedia at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Bruce McLean is the digital content manager at The Ventura County Star.

John Moore is the managing editor at The Ventura County Star.

Lisa Williams is the founder of H20Town.