 |
Program Committee
The Program Committee, consisting of Stanford faculty and professional journalists, meets each spring to choose the next year's U.S. Fellows.
|
James Bettinger is the director of the Knight Fellowships. A graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, Bettinger is the former A.M. city editor of the San Jose Mercury News and former city editor of the Riverside Press-Enterprise. He was a Fellow at Stanford in 1982-83, and was Deputy Director from 1989-2000.
|
|
Eavan Boland is the director of the Creative Writing Program (and the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in English and the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in Humanities) at Stanford. Born in Dublin, Ireland, and educated in London, New York, and Dublin, she has taught at Trinity College, University College, and Bowdoin College. She has received international recognition as a poet and scholar and has published numerous volumes of poetry and a novel. She is on the board of the Irish Arts Council and a member of the Irish Academy of Letters.
|
|
Theodore Glasser is a professor of Journalism in the Department of Communication at Stanford. His teaching and research focuses on media practices and performance, with emphasis on questions of press responsibility and accountability. He has served as president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and as a vice president and chair of the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association.
|
|
Bruno Lopez is the digital advisor to the news division for Univision Interactive Media, the largest Spanish-language interactive company in the United States. Before heading Univision's interactive programming group, Lopez had a 20-year journalism career which included working as the West Coast Bureau chief for CNN's Spanish language channel, serving as the Mexico bureau chief for the Hispanic American Broadcasting Corp, correspondent for Mexico and Central America for The Arizona Republic, Mexico manager for ABC News and regional editor for United Press International. He was a Knight Fellow at Stanford in 1998-99.
|
|
James Mallory is managing editor, initiative & operations, at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Atlanta, Georgia. Before moving to Atlanta, he worked as a reporter and assistant business editor at The Detroit News and as a business reporter at the Grand Rapids Press and the Lansing State Journal in Michigan. He serves on the membership, convention program and "Best in Business" committees of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, Inc. (SABEW) board as well as the board of visitors of the Florida A&M University's School of Journalism and Graphic Communication.
|
|
Abbas Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, the Hamid and Christina Moghadam director of Iranian Studies and a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford. Born in Iran into a Muslim family, Milani was trained by French nuns and Jesuit priests before leaving Iran as a teen for the U.S., where he lived for the next 11 years. After earning his PhD, he returned to Iran in 1976 and taught at Tehran University. He has written numerous books and articles on U.S./Iran relations, Iranian cultural, political, and security issues.
|
|
Margaret Neale is the John G. McCoy-Banc One Corporation professor of Organizations and Dispute Resolution at Stanford. Her major research interests include bargaining and negotiation, distributed work groups, and team composition, learning, and performance. She has written numerous books and articles on these topics and conducted executive seminars and management development programs in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Holland, Switzerland, Thailand, France, Canada, Nicaragua, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Israel, and Jamaica.
|
|
Marcia Parker is West Coast editorial director of Patch.com, AOL's newest venture into hyperlocal journalism. Parker taught at and was assistant dean at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism for several years, and then joined the non-profit Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley. She served as Launch Manager for the website of California Watch, CIR's statewide investigative reporting unit. Previously she did stints at AOL, where she was a Director of Programming, and was Assistant Managing Editor at Intuit's quicken.com, then the leading personal finance website.
|
|
Rita Williams is a reporter at KTVU-TV in Oakland. She has won several Emmies, Tellies, a PASS award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a Society of Professional Journalists' public service award and others. Recently, KTVU received both Peabody and Edward R. Murrow awards for stories on the Oakland BART shooting, for which she was the lead investigative reporter. Williams has also taught broadcast news writing at Stanford University, where she was a Knight Fellow in 1985-86. She has a master's in political science/international affairs from George Washington University and a B.A. in journalism from Texas Tech University.
|
|
|
