ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Poynter Institute, a school for professional journalists and media leaders, has named five new members to its National Advisory Board (NAB). Joining 13 existing Board members are Adrian Holovaty, journalist and software developer and a winner of the 2007 Knight News Challenge Award; Lane Michaelsen, Vice President/News, Gannett Broadcasting; Carolyn Mungo, Managing Editor, KRIV-TV, Houston; Todd Schurz, President & CEO, Schurz Communications; and Susan Tifft, Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy, Duke University.

“The role of the NAB is to help us better serve journalists and news media leaders by keeping Poynter abreast of the needs, ideas, and opportunities in journalism and the news business,” said Dr. Karen Brown Dunlap, President of the Institute. “I am very proud of Poynter’s National Advisory Board Class of 2008, and deeply grateful to each of our new members for accepting this invitation to serve.”

Poynter’s National Advisory Board was established in 1984.  Members serve for two years, with an option to serve an additional two years. Current board members are Candy Altman, Vice President/News, Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc.; Dean Baquet, Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times; Arthur Caplan, Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor and Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania; Alan Ehrenhalt, Executive Editor, Governing; Lauren Rich Fine, Chartered Financial Analyst; Mario Garcia, CEO, Garcia Media, Inc.; John W. Huey, Jr., Editor in Chief, Time Inc.; William K. Marimow, Editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Orage Quarles III, President and Publisher, The (Raleigh, NC) News & Observer; Bob Schieffer, CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent and host, “Face the Nation”; Matt Thompson, Deputy Editor for Interactive Media, (Minneapolis) Star Tribune; Julia Wallace, Editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution; and Kinsey Wilson, Executive Editor, USA Today.


Poynter NAB 2008 New Members

• Adrian Holovaty has developed innovative, award-winning web applications for washingtonpost.com, Lawrence.com and LJWorld.com. He was awarded the 2007 Knight News Challenge award of $1,100,000 for Project: EveryBlock to create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block.
  
  
• Lane Michaelsen was named VP/News Executive for Gannett Broadcasting in January of 2005. Prior to rejoining the corporate staff Michaelsen worked as the VP/News Director at Tampa Bay’s 10 and tampabays10.com the Gannett’s CBS affiliate in St. Petersburg. He had been a Gannett Corporate News Executive previously in 2000 and 2001.  In 1998 and 1999, he was the News Director at Today’s THV in Little Rock Arkansas. Michaelsen has also worked as visiting faculty in residence at Poynter.
  
  
• Carolyn Mungo is the managing editor at KRIV-TV in Houston, Texas. She moved into management three years ago after a 16-year career as a television reporter. She worked as a TV journalist in Austin, Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Houston. Her honors include 18 regional Emmy awards, three Edward R. Murrow awards, and two gold world medals from the New York Festivals. Much of her long-form work over the years involved stories about children and families at risk.
  
  
• Todd Schurz is President and Chief Executive Officer of Schurz Communications (SCI). Prior to joining SCI in 1989, he worked for the Times Journal Company in Springfield, Virginia, and for the New York Daily News during graduate school. While with SCI, Schurz has worked in management at the Tribune and WSBT television and radio in South Bend, and at WDBJ television in Roanoke, Virginia.
  
  
• Susan Tifft is the Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy. She is co-author, with Alex Jones, of “The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times” (Little Brown, 1999), which won the A.M. Sperber Award for Exceptional Achievement in Writing and Research. Her first biography, also co-authored with Jones, was “The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty” (Summit Books, 1991). Before becoming a journalist, Tifft was a press secretary for the Federal Election Commission.

E-mail this item | QuickLink this item: A133619


About Poynter Archive

View items published between:		and
	(MM/DD/YYYY)		(MM/DD/YYYY)

MAIN | Back to Top