|
|
 |
|
|
Judge's
Bios |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
 |
Pegie Stark Adam is an associate
professor in the Journalism and Media Studies
Department at the University of South Florida
St. Petersburg and an affiliate faculty at the
Poynter Institute for Media Studies. A newspaper
and corporate communication designer, she recently
completed redesigns for the Ottawa Citizen in
Ontario, Canada, the Verizon corporate communication
newsletter and the sports section of the Patriot-News
in Pennsylvania. She is the author of “Color,
Contrast, and Dimension in News Design,”
reformatted in 2002 as an online teaching book
that won a Communication Arts Annual Interactive
Design award in 2003. She also collaborated with
Mario Garcia in a Poynter Institute study that
resulted in the book “Eyes on the News.”
She directed the graphics and design programs
at The Poynter Institute in the early 1990s. She
has held faculty positions at Syracuse University
and the University of Florida, and she has taught
at the Ringling School of Art and Design (Sarasota,
Fla.), Indiana University and John Herron School
of Art (Indianapolis). She was art editor for
the St. Petersburg Times, graphics editor of the
Detroit News and graphics director at the Detroit
Free Press. Her Ph.D. is from the University of
Indiana. |
 |
Hunter Bretzius has been editor
of the Havelock News, part of the Freedom Eastern
North Carolina Communications, Inc. group, for five
years. The newspaper consistently wins a number
of North Carolina Press awards, including the most
recent competition in which the newspaper received
19 awards, the highest number for its circulation
category. She has worked at newspapers from South
Carolina to Pennsylvania in a variety of positions
from reporter, copy editor, lifestyle editor and
editor. Prior to coming to Havelock, she was the
creative services director at the Gaston Gazette.
She is a graduate of the UNC School of Journalism
and has a M.F.A. in painting from UNC-Greensboro. |
 |
Jon K. Broadbooks is executive
editor of the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American. He worked
in a variety of reporting and editing roles at newspapers
in West Virginia, Tennessee and Texas before being
named an assistant city editor at The Clarion-Ledger
in Jackson, Miss., in 1994. He was named business
editor at the newspaper in 1997, then assistant
managing editor of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
In 2000 he became managing editor at the American,
and was named to his current position in 2002. An
Athens, Ga., native, he has a bachelor’s degree
in history/political science from King College in
Bristol, Tenn., and a master’s degree in communications
from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He
is a past vice president of the Mississippi Center
for Freedom of Information, and continues to serve
on the organization’s board. He is active
with the Mississippi chapter of the Associated Press
Managing Editors. The American was recognized with
the Mississippi Press Association’s top community
service award in 2001, and the newspaper was a finalist
for public service in the newspaper’s circulation
category in the national APME contest in 2003. Broadbooks,
37, is married. He and his wife, Catherine, have
three children, Tucker, 5, Anna Grace, 3 and Virginia
Beth, 1. |
 |
Cheryl Carpenter is deputy managing
editor of content at The Charlotte Observer. Her
responsibilities include working with the 160 writers
and editors in the newspaper’s main newsroom
and its bureaus. She joined The Observer in 1983
and has held several editing positions, including
copy editor, state editor, business editor and night
page 1 editor. She is a regular speaker at the Poynter
Institute and has spoken at two National Writer
Workshops. She is a Pulitzer Prize nominating juror
this year. She edited a series that was chosen as
a Pulitzer Prize finalist in public service in 1995
and also won the James K. Batten Award for Excellence
in Civic Journalism. |
 |
Jahi Chikwendiu had his mind set
on becoming a photojournalist, while earning a mathematics
degree from the University of Kentucky. After finishing
the math degree, he set out to get a Masters in
math education and teach high school math for two
years before somehow jumping ship to the professional
photo world. As it turns out, he only taught for
one year before being offered a staff photo job
at his hometown paper – Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader
– where he freelanced the summer after his
first year of teaching. His decision was kissed
three months later when he won Kentucky Newspaper
Photographer Association (KNPA) Photographer of
the Year. In two years, he took a position at the
Washington Post where he earned several honors that
include 2003 Best Portfolio in the Atlanta Photojournalism
Seminars Photo Contest and 1st place Portfolio in
the White House News Photographer Association (WHNPA)
2003 photo competition. Jahi is currently a member
of NPPA, White House News Photographer Association
(WHNPA) and National Association of Black Journalists
(NABJ). |
 |
David Green has been managing
editor of The Tennessean for nine years. He has
also been city editor and projects editor at the
Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and an editor for
The Associated Press in New York City and Charleston,
W.Va. In 1992, he was named the outstanding newsroom
employee for Knight-Ridder newspapers. A project
he supervised on improper payments to University
of Kentucky basketball players won a Pulitzer Prize
for investigative reporting in 1986. Another project
he supervised, on problems in Kentucky public schools,
was a Pulitzer finalist in investigative reporting
in 1990. |
 |
Tonnya Kennedy is managing editor
at The State in Columbia, S.C. Prior to joining
The State, she was a deputy managing editor at The
Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., an assistant managing
editor at the Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington,
Ky., and managing editor at the Nashville Banner
in Tennessee. Also, at the Banner she was executive
sports editor, region editor, assistant business
editor and a business reporter. She has also covered
business for the Daily Press in Newport News, Va.
Kennedy is a graduate of Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tenn., and received a master’s
degree in mass communication from Murray State University
in Murray, Ky. She is a member of the National Association
of Black Journalists, the Society of Professional
Journalists and the National Association of Minority
Media Executives. Kennedy was a Davenport fellow
in business reporting at the University of Missouri
and a Robert McCormick fellow at Northwestern University. |
 |
Steve Meadows has been editor
and publisher of The Clayton Tribune, an 8,000-circulation
weekly in the northeast Georgia mountains, since
December 2002. A Georgia native with 18 years in
newspapers, he was previously top editor of daily
newspapers in Warner Robins (Knight Ridder), Valdosta,
Thomasville and Marianna, Fla. (Thomson Newspapers).
He has won numerous Georgia Press and Associated
Press awards for editorial writing, news and sports
writing, graphics and design. |
 |
Christine Montgomery joined the
St. Petersburg Times in July 2003 as Director of
Electronic Publishing. She is responsible for the
Times’ various Web sites and implementing
the newspaper’s electronic publishing plans.
A graduate of the University of Florida with a Bachelor
of Science degree in Journalism, Christine went
on to earn her Master of Arts degree in Writing
from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md.
Her journalism career began as a reporter for the
Palm Beach Post in 1992 where she covered prep sports,
cops and courts and city government. She then spent
two years as Fashion editor for The Post and wrote
a weekly column. On moving to Washington, D.C. in
1997, she worked for two years as a reporter at
the Washington Times and then joined USATODAY.com
as editor of their Life section. After increasing
traffic to the sit by 100 percent, she was given
the responsibility of developing two new vertical
sites under the USA TODAY brand: Careers and Travel.
In January 2002, she was named deputy managing editor
of USATODAY.com, where she provided editorial direction
for the Life, Travel and Technology sections of
the site. |
 |
Mi-Ai Parrish is an assistant
managing editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
She arrived in Minneapolis in September 2002 from
the San Francisco Chronicle, where she was the deputy
managing editor/arts & features. She also helped
launch the Chronicle’s Sunday newspaper. Prior
to that, she was the deputy managing editor/features
and the Sunday/planning editor at the Arizona Republic.
She spent six years at the Chicago Sun-Times as
an editor in both news and features. A graduate
of the University of Maryland, Parrish began her
career at the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. She
is on the advisory board for the International Women’s
Media Foundation, vice president of AAJA-MN and
has been an ethics fellow at the Poynter Institute. |
 |
Bruce Potter is Director of News
Synergy for Media General Inc.’s Publishing
Division. In that role, he coordinates the sharing
of stories, photos and graphics among Media General’s
25 daily newspapers (and scores of weeklies) in
the Southeast and also oversees the company’s
Washington news bureau. He also oversees production
of five weekly theme pages and the Media General
News Service; helps coordinate newsroom training
and recruiting, and works with individual papers
on a variety of issues, including restructurings,
redesigns and convergence. He previously was editor
of Media General’s Newsbank, its content-sharing
network, and before that worked 14 years for the
Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Richmond News Leader
(merged into the Times-Dispatch in 1992) as a reporter
and editor. At the newspapers, he covered a variety
of beats, including local government, state politics
and the economy, and was an assistant business editor
and associate sports editor. He is a past president
of the Richmond Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists and a member of the American Society
of Newspaper Editors and Associated Press Sports
Editors. He graduated from Washington and Lee University
in 1985 and has an MBA from University of Richmond
(1993). |
 |
Marta Salij has been the book
critic for the Detroit Free Press since 1999. In
2001, The American Association of Sunday and Features
Editors awarded her first prize in arts & entertainment
criticism. Before becoming the book critic, she
edited the Free Press real estate section, which
was recognized as one of the best in the nation
by the National Association of Real Estate Editors
in 1999. She has also been a writer and editor at
newspapers in Florida and South Carolina. She lives
in Birmingham, Mich., with her husband and two children. |
 |
Jeanie Adams-Smith is currently
an assistant professor at Western Kentucky University
in the photojournalism department. She is part of
an award-winning program that places students at
newspapers and magazines all over the country and
internationally. Jeanie has been on the W.K.U. team
for a year and during that time was curator of two
photo exhibits, started a student photo night, brought
in prestigious guest speakers from the working profession,
and has represented W.K.U. as a national photo contest
judge. She was runner-up Kentucky Photographer of
the Year, 2002 and a picture editing coach of the
nationally acclaimed Mountain Workshop held in Cave
City, Ky., which involved layout and design of a
book of photography covering the community. She
won 3rd Place Feature Picture Story in the Pictures
of the Year International contest, 2002, and was
a photographer for the 24/7 photo documentary project.
Before coming to Bowling Green, she was a photo
editor for the Chicago Tribune, overseeing national
and foreign coverage for the photo desk. She also
published her first book, “Portraits of Minor
League Baseball, The Kane County Cougars.”
The project followed the minor league team and their
fans for three years. She won 2nd place and honorable
mention in POYI 2000 and an honorable mention in
POYI 1999, all in Issue Reporting. From 1999 to
2000 she joined the Visual Communications department
at Ohio University as a Knight Fellow. She received
her master’s degree and taught picture editing
for a year. She has a bachelor’s degree in
photojournalism from Western Kentucky University
as well as a master’s degree in interpersonal
communications from W.K.U. She also received a master’s
degree in visual communications from Ohio University.
She is currently finishing her second book on children
and divorce. |
 |
Mizell Stewart III joined the
Tallahassee Democrat in January 2000 as the newspaper’s
managing editor and assumed his present duties as
editor in May 2003. He directed the newspaper’s
coverage of the deadlocked 2000 presidential election,
named as among the best in Florida by the Florida
Press Club. He has also held reporting and editing
posts at the Akron Beacon Journal, the Dayton Daily
News and the Springfield (Ohio) News-Sun. As a reporter,
he won several state and regional awards for investigative
reporting, breaking news, enterprise reporting and
commentary. The Ohio native began his newspaper
career as a 16-year-old photography intern with
Sun Newspapers in suburban Cleveland and is a journalism
graduate of Bowling Green State University. A Pulitzer
Prize juror in 2001 and 2002, he is a board member
of the First Amendment Foundation, Leadership Tallahassee
and Young Actors Theater. |
 |
Juan Thomassie has been a visual
journalist for over 18 years. He joined USATODAY.com
in 1999 as a senior designer, producing interactive
graphics for the web site. He and his USA TODAY
co-workers have been recognized for their coverage
of the 9/11 attacks, the Space Shuttle Columbia
explosion and the 2000 Census. Prior to joining
USATODAY.com, he was an animator at KRT News In
Motion in Washington D.C., producing animated 3D
graphics for television news broadcasts. He worked
as the Art Director for the Los Angeles Times, Orange
County Edition for two years. He was also a senior
artist for the Los Angeles Times. His department
contributed to the Times’ Pulitzer-prize-winning
coverage of the 1992 L.A. Riots. He also worked
as an artist for USA TODAY (the newspaper), the
Times Picayune in New Orleans and The State-Times
in Baton Rouge, and he has been a visiting faculty
member at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies
during the last twelve years. He is a native of
New Orleans and a graduate of Louisiana State University.
He lives in Arlington, Va. with his wife and two
children and a menagerie of pets. |
 |
Warren Watson is a vice president
at the American Press Institute, overseeing off-site
programming, special training services and consulting,
operations, building issues and finance/ database.
He also oversees the new Reynolds National Center
for Business Journalism at API and the new Knight/
API/ ASNE Learning Newsroom Initiative. He is a
26-year veteran of U.S. newspapers. He joined API
as associate director in June 1998, and became director
of extending learning in January 2001. He was promoted
to vice president last year. As a member of API’s
executive staff, Watson has researched, planned,
moderated and taught scores of residential and other
seminars on newsroom issues, management and leadership,
and advertising/ marketing topics. He also is the
2003 president of the Society for News Design. He
has been active in SND for 16 years, serving on
its board of directors and founding its advertising
design training program in 1993. Watson has held
reporting, editing, art and management positions
at newspapers as small as the 2,000-circulation
Somersworth-Berwicks (Maine) Free Press and as large
as the St. Petersburg Times. He has also worked
for the Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Daily Peabody
(Mass.) Times, Cleveland Press, and Rochester (N.Y.)
Democrat and Chronicle. Watson is a New Hampshire
native and earned a bachelor’s degree in history
(Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude) from the University
of New Hampshire in 1973. He has been a frequent
speaker on editorial, design and management topics
at API, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies,
the Society for News Design, the National Press
Photographers Association, Associated Press Managing
Editors, American Society of Newspaper Editors,
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, America
East, and the American Copy Editors Society. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
