John U. Bacon ’06 recently completed a book with the late Bo Schembechler. “Bo’s Lasting Lessons” will be published by Warner Books in September 2007. In addition, Bacon’s U-M course, The History of College Athletics was recently featured on SI.com.

Marcelo Barreto ’99, now appears on three television shows
on Brazil’s Sportv—“Redação Sportv,”
“Sportv Tá na Área”
and “Momento Olímpico.”

Karl Bates ’98 left his position as U-M’s Director of Life Sciences to join Duke University as manager of research communications in the Office of News and Communications. Bates is the chief editor and reviewer for all science-related news from the university, including its schools of arts and sciences, medicine, nursing, engineering and the environment. Bates came to the fellowship program as a science writer for The Detroit News.

Dick Cooper ’91 has joined Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Quarterly Magazine in St. Michaels, Maryland, as editor. Cooper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent 28 years on staff at The Philadelphia Inquirer and whose love of sailing and crab cakes ultimately trumped his love for cheese steaks.

Bill Duryea ’05 embarked upon a trip to Nigeria where he served as one of a dozen “gatekeeper editors” on an intensive survey. The trip was run by the International Reporting Project, affiliated with Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Dan Ephron ’00 has been named Newsweek’s Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. Ephron was previously a national security correspondent for the magazine.

Steve Fennessy ’07 will be included in the 2007 edition of “The Best American Crime Writing.” Fennessy’s piece, “The Talented Dr. Krist,” originally ran in the November 2006 issue of Atlanta Magazine.

Vindu Goel ’06, recently launched a new blog for The San Jose Mercury News. Entitled “Vindu’s View from the Valley,” the blog provides a “Silicon Valley perspective on public policy, business and technology.” Goel is an editorial writer and former business editor for the paper.

Graham Griffith ’06 left his post as creator and senior producer of “On Point” at WBUR in Boston to join WNYC, Public Radio International and other print and broadcast partners to develop a new morning program for the public radio system.

Andrea Guthmann ’01 received an Emmy Award last year for her series “Arts Across Illinois” for Chicago PBS station WTTW. Guthmann serves as senior producer for the series, which explores the work of individual artists, art organizations and community groups in the Chicago area.

David Hilzenrath ’96 an investigative reporter at The Washington Post, recently published the book “Jezebel’s Tomb,” which was born during his time as a Knight-Wallace Fellow. In a first for Washingtonpost. Newsweek Interactive, Jezebel’s Tomb will be serialized at washingtonpost.com and simultaneously made available for purchase over the Web in trade paperback format.

Baris Kuyuçu ’07 was featured in the Detroit Free Press in November 2006. In the article “Five Things: About a Turkish Fellow,” Kuyucu talked about his work as a sports reporter for CNN Türk and Fellowship life in the US.

Frank Lockwood ’05 has been named the new religion editor at the Arkansas Democrat- Gazette in Little Rock.

Doug Johnson ’01 was named International Presenter of the Year by the Association for International Broadcasting for Voice of America’s “Talk to America.” The AIB lauded Johnson for his “intelligent presentation and questioning, very polished, with a smile in his voice.” The AIB Awards are the only celebration of success that exclusively focuses on international, cross-border broadcasting..

Semiha Öztürk-Pisirici ’06 along with an association aimed at supporting women as political candidates, launched a campaign to encourage voting for women as members of parliament in Turkey’s November election. The campaign features prominent and successful Turkish women wearing mustaches and the slogan, “Do we have to be men to be a member of parliament?”

Vince Patton ’04 has left commercial TV, most recently KUSA in Denver, aft er 27 years to join Oregon Public Broadcasting as a TV producer. Patton will be working on “Oregon Field Guide,” “Oregon Art Beat” and “Oregon Experience” documentaries.

Beth Pond ’77 recently published “Endgame in the Balkans: Regime Change, European Style, with Brookings in late 2006.” Th e Foreign Aff airs review praised it, saying: “Pond skillfully guides the reader through the intricate interplay between the region’s [1990s’ violence] and each country’s painful eff ort to put the pieces back together and chase the hope of joining” the EU.

Michelle Quinn ’03 has left the San Jose Mercury News to take a reporting job at the Los Angeles Times’ San Francisco bureau where she will cover the intersection of technology and entertainment, including Hewlett-Packard and Apple.

Yvonne Simons ’03 has been named news director at KBCI-TV in Boise, Idaho. Previously, Simons was assistant news director at KVVU-TV in Henderson, Nevada.

Jason Tanz ’05 new book, “Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America,” is now available. Publisher’s Weekly called the book, which examines race and identity through hip-hop’s journey through White America, a “thoughtful and oft en insightful work of long-form journalism.” In addition, Tanz is relocating to San Francisco to join Wired Magazine.

Rainey Tisdale ’06S was recently promoted to director at the Bostonian Society/ Old State House Museum. Tisdale previously served as the museum’s director of collections and exhibits.

Fara Warner ’06 has been named the Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan for the Fall 2007 and Winter 2008 terms. Warner will teach two undergraduate journalism and communication courses each semester in U-M’s Department of Communication Studies.

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