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Email: Sylvia Chan-Olmsted is a professor and Associate Dean for Research, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida, and focuses on research in comparative studies of world media markets, mergers and acquisitions and alliances of media firms, expansions of global media conglomerates, new media audience, and strategic management in emerging media industries. Her current research projects involve the development and marketing of mobile television/video in various countries around the world. She is the author of the book, Competitive Strategy for Media Firms and co-editor of two books, Media Management and Economics Handbookand Global Media Economics. Her book won the prestigious Most Significant Contribution to Media Management and Economics Award in 2006 from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She has published over 40 refereed articles in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Telecommunications Policy, New Media and Society, Journal of Media Economics, and International Journal on Media Management. The recipient of over 15 national research awards, Chan-Olmsted held the University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship from 2002 to 2004. She currently holds the Al and Effie Flanagan Professorship in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. In addition to serving as the Associate Dean for Research in the College, Chan-Olmsted is Senior Research Associate with the Communications Competitiveness Research Initiative in the Public Utility Research Center at Warrington College of Business Administration at the University of Florida. Chan-Olmsted has received grants from sources such as the Magness Institute of the Cable Center, National Association of Broadcasters, and U.S. Department of Education (Center for International Business Education and Research) on research projects that examined the patterns and drivers of entry in world media market, global media access and development studies, U.S. firm competitiveness in global wireless market, and new media business models. She has served as a consultant and accreditation member for various graduate programs in media management in Asia and Europe. She received her Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University with an emphasis in media economics and marketing. Email: Amy Gahran is a journalist, media consultant, and entrepreneur based in Boulder, CO. Mostly she helps news organizations and media pros wrap their brains around online media — how it really works, and how to use it well. She edits the Poynter Institute's group Web log E-Media Tidbits, is co-founder of the pro/community journalism project Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker, and blogs at Contentious.com. She covers ahead-of-the curve environmental issues and provides technology consulting for the Society of Environmental Journalists, helped develop the citizen media database for the Knight Citizen News Network, and continues to do freelance journalism on energy, environment, business, media, and technology issues. Email: Victor Merina is a senior fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism and is serving as senior fellow for WKC on the Covering Indian Country seminar. He also is an editor for reznetnews.org that showcases stories and photo essays about Native Americans. A former Los Angeles Times reporter, he was a member of the paper's investigative projects team that was a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for its series “And Justice for Some: Homicides in Los Angeles County.” He also shared in the paper’s 1993 Pulitzer for spot news coverage of the L.A. riots following the Rodney King verdict. A former fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies and the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Merina has led writing workshops in South Africa and taught at the American Indian Journalism Institute in South Dakota, as well as the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute in Nashville. Merina has spoken at the Harvard Nieman Narrative Writing Conference and at various National Writers Workshops and journalism conventions including those organized by the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the UNITY consortium of minority journalist organizations. He also was a teaching fellow at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a University of California Regents Lecturer. He has presented at the University of Hawaii, University of Alaska at Anchorage, the University of Missouri, Columbia University and other colleges. Merina writes occasionally for the Los Angeles Times Magazine and Sunday Opinion section. He is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. He has a B.A. in political science from UCLA and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. Email:
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Email: Roberto Suro is a veteran print journalist with extensive experience in foreign, domestic and Washington coverage as a senior staffer for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Prior to joining the School of Journalism faculty in August 2007, he was director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization in Washington D.C. which he founded in 2001 as a project of the Annenberg School for Communication. At the Center, Suro supervised the production of more than 100 publications that offered non-partisan statistical analysis and public opinion surveys chronicling the rapid growth of the Latino population and its implications for the nation as a whole. Suro’s journalistic career began in 1974 at the City New Bureau of Chicago as a police reporter, and after tours at the Chicago Sun Times and The Chicago Tribune he joined TIME Magazine where he worked as a correspondent in the Chicago, Washington, Beirut and Rome bureaus. In 1985 he started at The New York Times with postings as bureau chief in Rome and Houston. After a year as an Alicia Patterson Fellow, Suro was hired at The Washington Post as a staff writer on the national desk, eventually covering a variety of beats including the Justice Department and the Pentagon and serving as Deputy National Editor. Coverage of Latinos and more broadly immigration to the United States has been a continuous theme throughout Suro’s career. He is author of Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America, (Vintage, 1999) as well as numerous reports, articles and other publications on these subjects. He continues to conduct research and write on the Hispanic population through grant-funded projects and as a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution. At Annenberg, Suro directs the Specialized Journalism Master Program. Email: |
Jean Marie Brown is a managing editor at the Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, Texas. Brown oversees the local news operations in the Star-Telegram’s Northeast and Arlington offices. She has been affiliated with the Maynard Institute for more than five years, having led the Star-Telegram through an online content audit and Fault Lines Training. She has also done Fault Lines Workshops for several newspapers including the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer and the Detroit Free Press. She has also taught leadership training at the Poynter Institute and worked with Edward Miller’s Newsroom Leadership Group. She has previously been an assistant managing editor and a city editor at the Star-Telegram. Prior to coming to Fort Worth, Brown held numerous positions in the Charlotte Observer’s newsroom, including city government reporter, night city editor and deputy features editor. Brown is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Lauraine Miller has been working with the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education since 1997 as a diversity trainer for the institute’s Media Academy, as a faculty member of the Editing Program, and author of reports about editing and diversity. Her current work-in-progress is an online diversity training manual for the institute’s Web site. Additionally, Miller has led diversity training sessions for the former Knight-Ridder newspapers; The Austin American-Statesman; The Corpus Christi Caller-Times; Unity ’99, and the Asian American Journalists Association. An award-winning journalist and media consultant, Miller also produces “The Shape of Texas,” a public radio show about architecture, urban planning, adaptive reuse, parks, and landscapes. Miller has been a reporter, Metro editor, copy editor and editorial writer at U.S. News & World Report magazine; The Washington Star; Fort Worth Star-Telegram; Dallas Times Herald; and The Dallas Morning News; and an adjunct instructor of journalism at Texas A&M University, Kingsville. Miller is a consultant and board member for CorpusBeat (
Vikki Porter is director of the Knight Digital Media Center and supervises Professional Development Programs for New Media journalists at USC Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. She was the founding director of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. During her 30-year journalism career, Porter worked in five Western states, started a newspaper, served as top editor for three community newspapers, and shared a 1986 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal as part of a five-person team while city editor of The Denver Post. Most recently, she was executive editor of The Desert Sun newspaper in Palm Springs, CA. Porter was a Knight Professional-in-Residence at the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas in 1987-88 and a Knight Journalism Fellow in Studies of Law at Yale Law School in 1988-89, where she earned her Masters in Studies of Law. She is active in the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Associated Press Managing Editors, and has been invited to participate in conferences hosted by the Pew Foundation for Public Journalism, the Freedom Forum, Harwood and Associates and the American Press Institute. 
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