APPENDIX V
Informal Advisors
To assist in Knight Commission deliberations, its staff regularly made informal inquiries of a great many journalists and academic and practitioner experts from a wide variety of fields. The Commission is grateful to all of the following individuals who offered input on one or more occasions. Each was commenting or providing research material solely in his or her individual capacity; institutional affiliations are supplied for identification purposes only. The Commission is grateful for the time and insights of all participants. None is responsible for the content of this report, which represents the views only of the Knight Commission.
Martin Baron, Editor, The Boston Globe
Gary Bass, Founder and Executive Director, OMB Watch
Beverly Blake, Program Director for Columbus, Macon and Milledgeville, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Jeanne Bourgault, COO and Senior Vice President for Programs, Internews Network
Nolan Bowie, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Fellow of Shorenstein Center, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
Angela J. Campbell, Professor and Co-Director of Institute for Public Representation, Georgetown University Law Center
Farai Chideya, Author and Multimedia Journalist
Ira Chinoy, Associate Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
Everette E. Dennis, Felix E. Larkin Distinguished Professor of Communication and Media Management, and Director, Center for Communications, Fordham University Graduate School of Business
Stephen K. Doig, Knight Chair, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
John Dotson, Publisher Emeritus, Akron Beacon-Journal
Johanna Dunaway, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University
Paula Ellis, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Garrett Epps, Professor, University of Baltimore School of Law
Michelle Ferrier, Managing Editor, MyTopiaCafe.com
Pamela Fine, Knight Chair in News, Leadership and Community, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas
Baruch Fischhoff, Howard Heinz University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Ed Fouhy, Founder, Stateline.org
Sydney P. Freedberg, Staff Writer, St. Petersburg Times
Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mark Glaser, Executive Editor, MediaShift
Gabriel Gluck, Adjunct Professor, Kean University, and former reporter, The Star-Ledger
Anna Godfrey, Research Manager, Research & Learning (R&L) Group, BBC World Service Trust
Harvey Graff, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor, The Ohio State University
Charlotte Grimes, Knight Chair in Political Reporting, Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University
Liza Gross, Interim Executive Director, International Women’s Media Foundation
Jay Hamilton, Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke University
Debra Gersh Hernandez, ASNE Sunshine Week Coordinator
Ellen Hume, Research Director, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
Paul Hyland, Executive Producer, edweek.org
Larry Jinks, Director, McClatchy Company
Sue Clark-Johnson, Executive Director, Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University
Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, New York University
Gerald Kosicki, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University School of Communication
Joel Kramer, CEO and Editor, Minnpost.com
Peggy Kuhr, Dean, University of Montana School of Journalism
Nicholas Lemann, Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Amy Lesnick, CEO, Full Circle Fund
Mark Lloyd, Vice-President for Strategic Initiatives, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Frank LoMonte, Executive Director, Student Press Law Center
Carolyn Lukensmeyer, Founder and President, AmericaSpeaks
Diane Lynch, President, Stephens College
Michael Maidenberg, Consultant, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Bill Marimow, Editor and Executive Vice President, The Philadelphia Inquirer
John McCarron, Senior Scribe, LISC/New Communities Program
Sascha Meinrath, Research Director, Wireless Future Program, New America Foundation
Rachel Davis Mersey, Assistant Professor of Journalism, Northwestern University
Philip Meyer, Knight Chair Emeritus, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Andrew Nachison, Founder and CEO, iFOCOS and Founder, We Media
Kimberly L. Nalder, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, California State University, Sacramento
Chris O’Brien, Columnist, San Jose Mercury News
Rory O’Connor, Shorenstein Center, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
Geneva Overholser, Director, School of Journalism, USC Annenberg School for Communication
Susan Patterson, Program Director for Charlotte, North Carolina, Myrtle Beach and Columbia, South Carolina, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press Shorenstein Center, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
Aaron Presnall, Director of Studies, Jefferson Institute
Monroe Price, Director, Center for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication
Hong Qu, User Experience Researcher, YouTube
Howard Rheingold, author and teacher
Alexandra Samuel, CEO, Social Signal
Ernest Sanders, New Communities Program Organizer, Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation
Michael Schudson, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Ben Scott, Policy Director, Free Press
Andrew Jay Schwartzman, President and CEO, Media Access Project
Lee Shaker, Senior Research Specialist, Department of Politics, Princeton University
Ben Shneiderman, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
Josh Silver, Executive Director, Free Press
Keith L. Smith, Associate Vice President, Agricultural Administration; Associate Dean FAES; Director, Ohio State University Extension and Gist Chair in Extension Education and Leadership, the Ohio State University
Marc Smolowitz, Executive Producer, Full Circle Fund
James H. Snider, President, iSolon.org
Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, and Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies and Assistant Director, Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation, University of Texas at Austin
Teresa Jo Styles, Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass
Communication, North Carolina A & T State University
Loris Ann Taylor, Executive Director, Native Public Media
Patricia Thomas, Knight Chair in Health & Medical Journalism, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia
Esther Thorson, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research and Director of Research, Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, University of Missouri School of Journalism
Lars Hasselblad Torres, IDEAS Global Challenge, MIT Public Service Center
Gordon Walek, Chicago Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Tova Wang, Senior Fellow, Demos
Michael Weiksner, Co-Founder, e-thepeople.org
Bob Weissbourd, Founder and President, RW Ventures, LLC
Tracy Westen, Chief Executive Officer, Center for Governmental Studies
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