Our Great Geniuses
Ali Adeeb al Naemi ’08 is pursuing a Master’s degree in journalism at NYU, specializing in “reporting the nation.” Prior to his Fellowship, al Naemi was the news room manager for the New York Times in Baghdad.
Jamie Butters ’06 has left his post as business and automotive editor at The Detroit Free Press to join Bloomberg’s Detroit bureau as transportation team leader for North America. Butters will oversee Bloomberg’s auto, airline, trucking and logistics coverage.
Eve Byron ’99 was a part of two Helena Independent Record teams that won 2008 Society of Professional Journalists Region 10 awards. Byron was special projects editor and a writer for “Big Sky, Big Border,” which won first place for multiple day comprehensive coverage. She was also the primary author for “Asarco – The End of An Era,” which took third place for single day comprehensive coverage. In addition, Byron won first place in the 2007 Montana Newspaper Association Awards for outdoors reporting for daily newspapers with a distribution of 7,500 and up.
Deborah Caldwell ’94 joined PEOPLE.com as product director. Previously, Caldwell was a founding team member, vice president of content and managing editor at Belief.net, which was sold to Fox Entertainment Group last December.
Chris Carey ’06 and business partner Mark Cuban have launched Bailoutsleuth.com, a companion site to their existing Sharesleuth.com. The new site monitors the government’s purchase and eventual sale of bad mortgages and other distressed assets under the $700 million bailout plan.
Charles Clover ’06 became Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times of London in July. Clover has been with the paper since 1997, most recently as the analysis page editor.
Steve Edwards
Steve Edwards ’08 is now acting program director of WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio. Before his Fellowship, Edwards hosted WBEZ’s morning show, “Eight Forty-Eight.”
Scott Elliott ’05 has been named to the Dayton Daily News’ editorial board and will be an editorial writer and columnist.
Gady Epstein ’07 appeared on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” during its coverage of the Beijing Olympics. Epstein was interviewed as an expert on China’s authoritarianism by correspondent Rob Riggle.
Steve Fennessy ’07 was named deputy editor at Atlanta Magazine. Prior to the appointment, Fennessy was the magazine’s senior editor.
David Green ’91 has launched his own PR/ Web content company, David Green Communications. This fall, he is also the ethicist-in-residence at the University of Tennessee.
Miles Harvey
Miles Harvey ’08 is now an assistant professor of English at the University of New Orleans, where he teaches creative nonfiction. Harvey was a freelance writer prior to his Fellowship.
Alfred Hermida ’05 was ranked as number 13 on NowPublic’s MostPublic Index, which identifies the Web’s 20 most visible individuals in Vancouver. Hermida is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia, an award-winning online news pioneer and an authority on digital journalism.
Jack Kresnak ’90 left the Detroit Free Press in December 2007 after 39 years at the paper. In February, he became president/ CEO of Voices for Michigan’s Children.
Geoff Larcom ’09, of the Ann Arbor News, took first place for column writing in the Michigan Press Association’s 2008 Better Newspaper Contest. Larcom also won second place for spot news for his story about the firing of Eastern Michigan University’s president.
Kate Linebaugh ’08 has joined the Wall Street Journal’s Detroit bureau. She previously reported for the paper from Hong Kong.
Aimie Lockwood ’05S has been accepted to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law.
Joseph Mallia ’00 was one of four lead reporters on a Newsday project recognized as a 2008 Pulitzer Prize finalist in the public service category. The project, which focused on the gap between New York’s trains and its boarding platforms, also won a 2007 Investigative Reporters and Editors Certificate and is a finalist for the 2008 Deadline Club’s Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting.
Mark McDonald ’97 won the New York Times Publisher’s Award for his series of stories on Myanmar. McDonald is currently editor of the International Herald Tribune in Hong Kong.
Jon Morgan ’01 joined the Project for Excellence in Journalism at the Pew Research Center as senior editor. Morgan spent 21 years at the Baltimore Sun, most recently as the assistant managing editor for metro enterprise.
Ron Parsons ’08 left his post as assistant managing editor/director of production at Yahoo! News to join the Los Angeles Times as director of product development.
Elizabeth Pond ’77 wrote an article that appeared in the autumn issue of The Washington Quarterly. “The EU’s Test in Kosovo” explores whether the rule of law and robust institutions can be built in Kosovo.
Diane Rado ’00 has launched School Week, a weekly newspaper focused exclusively on local school coverage in Illinois.
Angela Shah
Angela Shah ’07 left the Dallas Morning News to join The National, an English-language daily based in Abu Dhabi. As assignments editor, Shah will be writing narratives, features and trend stories about business issues in the Persian Gulf.
Eric Sorenson ’97 and the staff of Seattlebased environmental think tank Sightline have published “Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet: Everyday Things to Help Solve Global Warming.” Sorenson is the senior writer for Seattle University.
Seth Sutel ’03 has been named a supervisory editor on the spot news desk of the Associated Press business news department. Sutel, who spent nine years as national media writer for the organization, is helping to oversee the large daily news report of breaking business news on the AP wire.
Steve Titherington ’06 will become executive editor of the BBC Global Division in January. Currently, Titherington is deputy editor of World Service news and current affairs.
Taos Turner ’07 returned to Dow Jones in Buenos Aires in July, where he covers politics and economics, with a focus on energy. He has also launched a new website, The Argentine Post, which is on its way to becoming the number one English language site about Argentina.
Maurice Walsh ’01 published “The News from Ireland: Foreign Correspondents and The Irish Revolution.” The book examines the role of journalism during the development of the Anglo-Irish war.
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