Angela Powers, Ann Brill, Diane Lynch, Ardyth Broadrick Sohn, Jane Briggs-Bunting, Kimberly Sultze, Pam McAllister Johnson
Create ‘incubators’ at seven academic institutions to foster creative thinking about solutions to digital news problems. The schools are: Michigan State, University of Kansas, Kansas State, Western Kentucky University, Ithaca College, University of Nevada-Las Vegas and St. Michael’s College.
“It’s time to leverage the creative and intellectual capital of the next generation of journalists to spur innovation in our newsrooms and our communities.”
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<b>Angela Powers</b> is director and a professor of the Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State. In addition to teaching, she has worked as a reporter for NBC and CBS affiliates, been a Senior Fulbright Specialist, Fulbright Scholar and Poynter fellow; written for journals and books and remained active in organizations such as the World Media Economics organization and AEJMC. Her research interests include influences on news content and media convergence. Powers received her Ph.D. from Michigan State.
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<b>Dianne Lynch </b>is dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. The school is launching an endowed Center for Independent Media to explore new journalistic forms. As the founding executive director of the national Online News Association, she was the editorial director of the first national study of the credibility of online news, and co-producer of a series of digital training modules for online newsrooms on the Poynter Institute’s News University. Lynch is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in new media technologies and learning; a member of the national Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications; and a member of the inaugural class of the ASJMC Leadership Institute. Lynch earned her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in Art History and Communications from McGill University in Montreal.
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<b>Ann M. Brill, Ph.D.,</b> is the dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas. She is a former director of the Missouri Scholastic Press Association. Her areas of expertise include online journalism, online advertising, e-commerce and its relationship to editorial content and effects of implementation of new technology. In the past, Brill has worked at newspapers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and Missouri; served as director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Online Editing Program and serves as a consultant to online media in staff and marketing development. She earned her doctoral degree.
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<b>Jane Briggs-Bunting</b> is director of the Michigan State University School of Journalism. She joined the MSU faculty in August 2003 after 24 years in journalism education at another university. In April 2003, she was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Before joining the faculty, she worked as a Detroit Free Press reporter covering breaking and hard news. She earned her law degree at night. While at the university, she reported for the Free Press, People and LIFE magazines. Since her arrival at MSU she has been transitioning the curriculum to address the revolutionary changes in the media industry.
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<b>Ardyth Broadrick Sohn</b> is director of the Hank
Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of
Nevada. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine and is serving as
outside evaluator for the University of Belgrade Journalism Department
through the University of Georgia Cox Center. With Sohn’s expertise in
media management, she has led work with Poynter and AEJMC. Sohn is the
author or co-author of 15 books, book chapters or monographs and over a
dozen scholarly articles. She was a newspaper reporter and assistant
editor before returning to graduate school where she earned her
master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Journalism.
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<b>Kimberly Sultze</b> is chair of the department of
journalism and mass communication at St. Michael’s College in
Colchester, Vt. After 13 years of teaching, she is an expert in
curriculum development in journalism, mass communication and media
studies. Her research interests include the history and cultural
interpretation of visual communication. From 2003-2004, she was Head of
the Visual Communication division of the AEJMC. She received her B.A.
from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University’s
Department of Culture and Communication, Program in Media Ecology.
Prior to earning her academic credentials, she worked in print
journalism in Sydney, Australia, in television production in the Twin
Cities, Minn., and as an editor with FIS-New York.
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<b>Pam McAllister-Johnson</b>, Ph.D. is director of the
Center for 21st Century Media, and School of Journalism &
Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University. She has worked as both a
print and broadcast reporter. During her 13-year term as president and
publisher of the Ithaca (NY) Journal, a Gannett newspaper,
McAllister-Johnson was the first black female publisher of a general
circulation newspaper in the United States. McAllister-Johnson has a
joint Ph.D. in Mass Communication and Educational Psychology from the
University of Wisconsin where she also did her undergraduate and
master’s work.
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