Faculty
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Jon Caverley
Assistant Professor
[email protected]Jon previously served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy and as an Assistant Professor of Naval Science at Northwestern University, where he taught undergraduate classes in Naval Engineering and in Leadership and Management. He has consulted for the RAND Corporation, where he helped develop scenarios for responding to a biological weapons attack in East Asia. He received his PhD and MPP from the University of Chicago, and he received his AB in History and Literature from Harvard College. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. |
Jack Doppelt
Professor
[email protected]Jack is a professor at Medill School of Journalism and a faculty associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research. In addition, he is also the publisher of Immigration Here & There, an online storytelling network for immigrants, their families and communities in and around Chicago and On the Docket, a Web site on the U.S. Supreme Court. Before Medill, Jack attended Grinnell College and the University of Chicago Law School. |
Douglas Foster
Associate Professor
[email protected]Douglas is a former newspaper reporter, magazine editor, television correspondent, and documentary producer who now teaches feature writing to graduates and undergraduates while overseeing the Program Residency in South Africa. He also writes for a range of magazines, including The Atlantic, Columbia Journalism Review, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Magazine, varied newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times, and Web-based magazines such as salon.com. In addition, he is also a regular book reviewer for the Washington Post. He received his BA in American Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
Loren Ghiglione
Richard A. Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics
[email protected]Loren is the former owner and editor of the Southbridge (Mass.) Evening News and ran its parent company, Worcester County Newspapers, for 26 years. He has also served as a four-time Pulitzer Prize juror, guest curator of a 1990 Library of Congress exhibit on the American journalist and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.As ASNE president in 1989-1990, he established journalism history and disabilities committees, pushed for greater diversity throughout the news industry and initiated a groundbreaking study of gays and lesbians in America’s newsrooms. He received his B.A. from Haverford College, his Ph.D. in American civilization from George Washington University and his Master of Urban Studies and J.D. from Yale. |
Jeremy Gilbert
Assistant Professor
[email protected]Jeremy is an assistant professor teaching interactive storytelling, Web and print design tools and techniques. Before coming to Medill, he led The Poynter Institute in rethinking and redesigning its industry leading Web site, Poynter Online. He helped the Institute rethink and segment its web properties, adding new tools and user-friendly navigation. He also served as the Poynter Institute’s design editor for online/marketing. Previously, he also worked as sports design director for the St. Petersburg Times (‘04-’06) and art director of The News-Press in Fort Myers, Florida (‘01-’04) redesigning both newspapers. |
Rich Gordon
Director of Digital Innovation and Professor
[email protected] Rich has spent most of his career exploring the areas where journalism and technology intersect. He was an early adopter of desktop analytical tools (spreadsheets and databases) to analyze data for journalistic purposes. At Medill, he has developed innovative courses through which students have explored digital content and communities and developed new forms of storytelling. In addition to teaching and writing about digital journalism, he is director of new communities for the Northwestern Media Management Center. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. |
William Handy
Lecturer
[email protected]In addition to his lecturing duties, Bill is also a coordinator of Medill’s Global Residency Program. For more than 30 years, he was an editor and publishing executive working in mainstream journalism (newspapers and the Associated Press) as well as niche-market periodicals, books and a stereotypical dot.com start-up/failure based in Dallas. In addition to teaching, he now consults on communications and publishing strategy. Bill graduated from the University of North Carolina in journalism, attended grad school at Duke University for sociology and completed advanced-management training at Harvard Business School. |
Craig LaMay
Associate Professor
[email protected]In addition to his teaching duties, Craig is also a faculty associate at Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research; former editorial director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center and editor of Media Studies Journal; and a former newspaper reporter. His work has appeared in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Newsweek, Federal Communications Law Journal, Health Policy, and Communications and the Law. His research and writing interests concern journalism in democratizing and post-conflict societies; commercial and public broadcast regulation; and competition between non-profit and for-profit firms. He received his BA from Brown and an MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
David Nelson
Associate Professor
[email protected]David teaches graduate courses in media management and ethics, media marketing and news at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He has served as chairman of the Newspaper Department and also as Associate Dean of the school. Prior to that, David was a news executive at Time Inc. and at Knight-Ridder Newspapers. Active in the industry as a consultant today, Prof. Nelson served or serves on advisory boards of Morris Communications, Chesapeake Communications, the Newsletter Publishers Association, the Specialized Information Publishers Association, the Associated Press, the New York Times College Advisory Board and the Inland Press Association.. |
Richard Roth
Senior Associate Dean for Journalism
Northwestern University in Qatar Associate Professor
[email protected] Richard began his career in 1971 at the Buffalo (N.Y.) Courier-Express. It was near there, in the remote village of Attica, N.Y. in his rookie year as a reporter, where Roth became involved in the bloodiest prison riot in American history and there to which he has returned many times for research about that prison and that village. After serving as an editor-in-chief for a newspaper in Terre Haute, he was named an associate professor at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. He left DePauw after seven years and with tenure to work at the then-new Wall Street Journal interactive edition,before accepting the associate dean’s position at Northwestern. He grew up in Indiana and earned degrees from Indiana University and Indiana State University. |
David Scheffer
Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law
Director, Center for International Human Rights
[email protected] David holds an endowed professorship and serves as the Director of the Center for International Human Rights. He teaches International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, and Corporate Human Rights Responsibility. Scheffer was previously the U.S. Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997-2001) and led the U.S. delegation in U.N. talks establishing the International Criminal Court. During his ambassadorship, he negotiated and coordinated U.S. support for the establishment and operation of international and hybrid criminal tribunals and U.S. responses to atrocities anywhere in the world. Scheffer also headed the Atrocities Prevention Inter-Agency Working Group. |
Hendrik Spruyt
Professor
[email protected]Hendryk is Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations and author of The Sovereign State and Its Competitors, which won the J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in History and Politics 1994-96. His most recent book is Ending Empire: Contested Sovereignty and Territorial Partition. He has published in a.o., European Journal of Public Policy, Acta Politica, The Pacific Review, The Review of International Studies (UK), International Studies Review (US), and The Journal of Peace Research. His research intersects comparative politics with international relations and includes particularly the formation of polities and their disintegration; and the rise and demise of sovereignty. He is currently working on a book length manuscript applying incomplete contracting theory to diverse issues as decolonization, overseas basing, and regional integration. He received a Doctorandus from the Law Faculty at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) in 1983, and his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 1991 |
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Professional
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Clark Bell
Journalism Program Director
[email protected]Clark Bell is the McCormick Foundation’s Journalism Program Director. Clark, who joined the foundation in October 2005, oversees journalism grant-making initiatives and shapes the program’s focus on critical issues facing the news media.Clark is a veteran reporter, editor, publisher and communications consultant. Prior to joining the McCormick Foundation, he was managing director for American Healthcare Solutions, where he developed communications strategies for hospitals, medical foundations and technology firms.His extensive journalistic background includes serving as publisher of Modern Physician magazine, editor and associate publisher of Modern Healthcare magazine, executive business editor of the Dallas Times Herald and business columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. Earlier, he served as a consumer affairs reporter for the Chicago Daily News and sports writer for the Des Moines Register.
Clark earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Drake University and a master’s degree in urban studies from Loyola University of Chicago. He was among the first group of journalists awarded a Sloan Fellowship to study economics at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Bell serves on the board of the Chicago Journalists Association.
Tom Bowman
NPR Pentagon Correspondent
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Tom is NPR’s Pentagon correspondent and has made numerous reporting trips to Iraq and Afghanistan. Before joining NPR in 2006, Tom covered the military for The Baltimore Sun. He is a co-winner of a National Headliner’s Award for stories on the lack of military tourniquets. Tom has won an Edward R. Murrow Award for hard news radio reporting for a story from Afghanistan. A native of the Boston area, Tom graduated from St. Michael’s College in Vermont and earned a master’s degree in American Studies from Boston College. |
Elisabeth Bumiller
New York Times National Affairs Correspondent
[email protected]Elisabeth Bumiller is a Pentagon correspondent in the Washington bureau of The New York Times. In 2008 she covered the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain. Previously, from Sept. 10, 2001 to 2006, Ms. Bumiller was a Times White House correspondent who also wrote a weekly column, White House Letter, about the people and behind-the-scenes events of the presidency.Before moving to Washington, from 1999 to 2001, Ms. Bumiller was the Times City Hall Bureau chief responsible for covering Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and his Senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton. From 1979 to 1985, Ms. Bumiller worked for The Washington Post in Washington, New Delhi, Tokyo and New York. Her first job in journalism was in the Naples bureau of The Miami Herald. Ms.Bumiller is also the author of three books: Condoleezza Rice: An American Life; May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India and The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family. |
Andrew B. Davis
American Press Institute President
[email protected] Andrew is President and Executive Director of the American Press Institute. A major general in the Marine Corps Reserve, Davis served between July 2001 and July 2003 as director of Marine Corps Public Affairs at the Pentagon and took a leadership role in conceiving the embedding program for frontline journalists in the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.From 2005 to 2007 he commanded U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa. He retired from the Marines in October 2008.
Prior to joining the Media Management Center, Davis was president of Chicago Sun-Times Features, Inc., a division of The Sun-Times Company, and of Performance Media, a custom publishing division he conceived and developed into a multi-million-dollar venture. He also was vice-president of the Sun-Times Company. |
Mike Francis
The Oregonian Associate Editor
[email protected] Mike is a member of the editorial board at The Oregonian. He has three times been an embedded journalist in Iraq and is the paper’s former business columnist. He is also on the board of directors for Military Reporters and Editors.Previously, Mike worked as a contractor for the Regional Maritime Security Coalition-Columbia River under a grant from the Homeland Security Department. He also was a founding member of a homeland security software company called Swan Island Networks. He was also editor of The Business Journal of Portland. |
Roy Gutman
McClatchy Foreign Editor
[email protected]Roy has been a foreign affairs journalist in Washington and abroad for four decades. Currently foreign editor for McClatchy newspapers, he spent more than twenty years at Newsday, 12 at Reuters, and briefer stints at Newsweek and UPI.While Newsday’s Europe correspondent, his reports on ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina, including the first documented accounts of Serb-run concentration camps, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (1993), the George Polk Award for foreign reporting, the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting, the Hal Boyle award of the Overseas Press Club, the Heywood Broun Award of the Newspaper Guild, a special Human Rights in Media award of the International League for Human Rights, and other honors.In 2002, Roy was a co-winner of the Edgar A. Poe award of the White House Correspondents’ Association, and in 2003, the National Headliners First Prize for Magazines and the Society of Publishers in Asia awards for excellence in magazines and reporting. |
Nathan Hodge
National security correspondent, Wall Street Journal
[email protected]Nathan Hodge covers national security for the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Armed Humanitarians: The Rise of the Nation Builders (Bloomsbury, 2011) and co-author of A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry (Bloomsbury, 2008).Based in Washington, he has written for Wired’s Danger Room blog, the Financial Times, Jane’s Defence Weekly and Slate. He has reported from Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti and many other countries around the world. |
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Kelly Kennedy
Senior Staff Writer, Military Times
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Kelly Kennedy covers medical and science issues for the Military Times newspapers. She joined the papers in October 2005. She has embedded with troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2010, she received an Honorary Mention John B. Oakes award, as well as Disabled American Veterans’ Bugle Award for her reporting on burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. Also in 2010, she received a media award from the National Alliance on Mental Illness for her reporting on post-traumatic stress disorder.
In 2008, she was named a finalist for the Michael Kelly Award for a series about a unit she embedded with in Iraq. She is also a 2008 Ochberg Fellow, sponsored by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma; and a 2008 Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism Foundation Fellow. Her book, They Fought for Each Other, based on the “Blood Brothers” series she wrote for Military Times, came out March 2, 2010. She serves as president of Military Reporters & Editors.
She served in the United States Army from 1987 to 1993, including tours in the Middle East during Desert Storm, and in Mogadishu, Somalia. After earning her journalism degree at Colorado State University in 1997, she began her writing career as an education reporter for the Ogden Standard-Examiner in Utah, a criminal justice reporter at The Salt Lake Tribune, and a family and education reporter with the Oregonian in Portland. While earning a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Colorado, Kennedy taught journalism classes at both her alma mater and the University of Northern Colorado. After completing her master’s degree, she worked an internship at The Chicago Tribune. In her spare time, she dances ballet and completely loses her military bearing.
Steve Komarow
Deputy Bureau Chief, Washington, DC
The Associated Press
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Steve Komarow is a news correspondent with extensive background in Washington, Europe, and the Middle East. He has covered major U.S. military operations of the past two decades, including Panama, Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Komarow, 53, began his career as a local news reporter in Washington on the AP’s Metro Desk in 1979. He covered then-Mayor Marion Barry and local government issues before moving to Capitol Hill in 1985. He covered the presidential campaigns in 1988 and in 1992.
In 1993, Komarow moved to USA Today as a full-time defense correspondent, covering three secretaries of defense and troops in the field. He was the first reporter to cover a cruise missile launch from inside a B-52 bomber. He accompanied the first ground troops into Bosnia, Kosovo, and Haiti.
In 2000, Komarow opened USA Today’s bureau in Berlin, Germany, and wrote news and feature stories from Central and Eastern Europe. After Sept. 11, 2001, he covered the U.S.-led military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He was embedded with the Army during the invasion of Iraq and went on to cover the capture and trial of Saddam Hussein, reconstruction efforts and the insurgency. He also has reported from across Europe and in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Yemen, Djibouti, Lebanon and the Persian Gulf states.
Komarow returned to USA Today’s Washington bureau in 2003, splitting his time between national security coverage in Washington and reporting from Iraq.
In 2006, he returned to the AP as deputy international editor, based at AP headquarters in New York.
In April, 2008, he was named deputy bureau chief in Washington, helping manage a team of more than 100 news gatherers and support staff.
Komarow lives in McLean, Virginia and holds a B.A. in political science from George Washington University.
Ron Martz
Military Reporters and Editors President
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Ron is a veteran journalist with nearly 40 years experience as a writer and editor. For much of the past 25 years he has specialized in military affairs reporting and has covered wars in Central America, Burma, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Iraq
He now teaches writing for the media and is the adviser to the student newspaper at North Georgia College & State University, where he assisted students in creating the school’s first-ever online newspaper.
Ron is in his second term as president of Military Reporters & Editors and is a Masters degree candidate in military history at North Georgia College & State University. He is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and the co-author of five books. |
Jim Miklaszewski
NBC Pentagon Correspondent
[email protected] Jim is the NBC News Chief Pentagon correspondent. He was at his post and first to report the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and has since led the network’s coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war against terrorism. His battlefield experience as a correspondent also includes the wars in Lebanon, El Salvador and the Falkland Islands.Jim also covered political wars as a White House correspondent during the Reagan, Bush “41″, and Clinton administrations. As one of the “CNN originals,” Jim is among a handful of television news pioneers, helping launch the first all-news television network on June 1, 1980 that dramatically changed the business of journalism. |
Alex Neill
Army Times Publishing Senior Managing Editor[email protected] As senior managing editor/news for Army Times Publishing Co., Alex helps oversee nine publications serving the U.S. military and defense industry. He previously served for more than five years as managing editor of Army Times; prior to that he served four years as managing editor of Navy Times.Alex worked at USA Today for three years as a wire editor and copy editor in the Money section. From 1986 to 1994 he worked as a reporter and City Desk editor at the Marin Independent Journal, in Marin County, Calif. He also worked two years as a reporter at the San Francisco Examiner. A Navy veteran, he is a graduate of San Francisco State University, which he attended on the GI Bill and majored in journalism. |
Al Pessin
Voice of America Pentagon Correspondent[email protected]Al is the VOA Pentagon Correspondent and he teaches Covering Conflicts, Terrorism and National Security with Ellen Shearer at Medill/Washington. The course, which Ellen originated five years ago with Roy Gutman, is now part of the National Security Journalism Initiative.In more than 30 years with VOA, Al has been posted to New York, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Beijing, Jerusalem, London and at the White House. His management assignments have included Chief Editor for Europe, Africa and the Middle East (at the start of the Iraq War) and Director of English Programs (during the 2000 elections and the 9-11 attacks).Al was expelled from China under martial law regulations after the Tiananmen massacre in 1989 for ‘illegal news gathering’ and ‘fomenting counter-revolutionary rebellion.’ But he doesn’t plan to use those skills while on the Advisory Board. |
Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
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Christine Spolar
Huffington Post Investigative Fund Senior Editor[email protected]Christine is on the economy team at Bloomberg News in Washington. She previously worked at the nonprofit Huffington Post Investigative Fund, the Chicago Tribune, CBS 60 Minutes II, the Washington Post, and the Miami Herald. She was senior editor at the investigative fund, in charge of all video production, in its startup year in 2009. At the Post, she was on the investigative team and a national correspondent in Los Angeles and a foreign correspondent in Warsaw. At CBS, she covered investigative and international stories and won an IRE award and an Emmy for an investigation into the loss of a Navy pilot in the Gulf War.At the Tribune, she managed bureaus in Jerusalem and Baghdad. She was also a correspondent based in London, Rome and Cairo. She covered conflicts in the Balkans, Israel, Iraq and Lebanon and reported from across the Middle East, Iran and Africa. |
David Tretler
National Defense University Professor
[email protected] David is a Professor of Strategy at the National War College in Washington, where he teaches graduate courses in the fundamentals of strategy, military theory, military strategy, and civil-military relations to senior professional military officers and government officials. He retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 1998 after thirty years active service. He flew 250 combat missions in the F-4D Phantom during the Vietnam War, was an instructor pilot in the T-38 jet trainer, served in the plans directorates at both the USAF Air Training Command and USAF headquarters, and was Deputy Chief of Air Force History before joining the faculty at National War College. |
John Walcott
McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief
[email protected]John is the chief of the McClatchy Washington Bureau and also oversees the company’s seven foreign bureaus. He previously was Washington bureau chief for Knight Ridder; national and foreign editor of U.S. News & World Report; national security correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and chief diplomatic correspondent at Newsweek.John is on the faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and is a faculty associate at Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. In 2008, Walcott was the inaugural recipient of the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.In 2005, he was part of a Knight Ridder team that won a National Headliner Award for “How the Bush Administration Went to War in Iraq.” His work also has won the Edwin Weintal Prize from Georgetown University, the Edward M. Hood Award and the Freedom of the Press Award from the National Press Club. |
David Wood
Politics Daily National Security Correspondent
[email protected]David is the national security correspondent for politicsdaily.com, a news site of America Online. He has been a journalist since 1970, a staff correspondent successively for Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Newhouse News Service and The Baltimore Sun. A birthright Quaker and former conscientious objector, he covers military issues, foreign affairs and combat operations, and has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for national reporting. |
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