The Poynter Institute announced today the appointment of three new National Advisory Board members: Candy Altman, vice president/News, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., Dr. Mario Garcia, CEO and founder of Garcia Media, and Orage Quarles III, president and publisher, The News & Observer.
“Advisory board members further the understanding of the Poynter Board of Trustees, the administration and the faculty on what’s going on in the world of journalism, and the world outside journalism,” said Poynter president Karen Brown Dunlap. “These three new members bring a wealth of experience and talent that I’m certain will be very valuable in helping Poynter better fulfill its mission as a school for journalists.”
Candy Altman
Since June 2003, Candy Altman has worked with the news departments of Hearst-Argyle’s 26 television stations helping guide them in the areas of news coverage, ethics, policy and hiring. From 1983 to 2003, she worked in a variety of positions at WCVB-TV in Boston, including executive producer, senior executive producer and news director. Prior to that, she was with WPRI-TV in Providence, R.I. and at WPLG-TV in Miami. Altman has also served as a guest faculty member in leadership and management seminars at Poynter. She’s a graduate of the State University of New York and received a master’s degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Dr. Mario Garcia
Mario Garcia has devoted more than 30 years to redesigning publications all over the world working with such organizations as The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Charlotte Observer, the Lawrence (Kansas) Journal World and Die Zeit. He has collaborated with over 450 news organizations where he incorporated his WED philosophy of combining writing, editing and design as basic principles for effective communication of ideas. He founded the graphics and design program at Poynter and teaches a Spanish language design seminar there. He has taught at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, the University of South Florida and the University of Navarra, Spain, and lectured at universities in 14 countries.
Orage Quarles III
Since January 2000, Orage Quarles has been president and publisher of The News & Observer, a McClatchy paper in Raleigh, N. C. From 1996 to 2000, he was publisher of The Modesto Bee (California), and from 1993 to 1996, he was president and publisher of The Herald in Rock Hill, S.C. He was the first African American to lead a daily newspaper in the South. Quarles spent more than 20 years with the Gannett Co., working in advertising and marketing before becoming a publisher. Editor and Publisher magazine named Quarles outstanding publisher of the year in 2002. He has served on the boards of the Associated Press, the Newspaper Association of America and the Freedom Forum.
The Poynter Institute is a school for journalists and leaders of news media. Poynter conducts more than 50 seminars annually in the areas of leadership and management, news reporting and writing, producing news for broadcast and online, ethics and diversity, and visual journalism. The school owns Times Publishing Company, which publishes the St. Petersburg Times, and operates Congressional Quarterly and other publications.