| Academic Experience June 2001, June 2002 Guest lecturer, Academy of Alternative Journalism, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Taught seminars on magazine style to young writers. January 2001 -- May 2001 Lecturer, San Francisco State University Journalism Department. Taught magazine writing. Education John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University Cambridge, MA Master in Public Administration 1993 Indiana University Bloomington, IN BA Psychology, summa cum laude Concentration in English literature 1990 Knight New Media Center UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Berkeley, CA Week-long multimedia reporting and convergence workshop May 2007 |
| Journalism Experience November 2007 to present Editor in Chief, Miller-McCune, a 100,000-circulation national public-policy magazine and Web site. October 2006 to November 2007 Editor in Chief, High Country News, a nationally acclaimed biweekly magazine covering the environment, politics and culture of the 11 Western states. December 2005 to March 2006 Executive editor for the launch of Key West Magazine, a monthly. Consultant on all editorial aspects of a glossy city magazine start-up guided by legendary magazine designer/guru Roger Black. February 1997 to October 2005 Editor, SF Weekly, a 117,000-circulation San Francisco newsweekly. Led staff of 15; managed budget of $1 million-plus. August 1993 -- February 1997 Editor, New Times, a 130,000-circulation newsweekly in Phoenix, AZ. Led staff of 25; managed budget of $1 million-plus. January 1984 -- June 1992 Reporter, The Houston Post, a 400,000 circulation daily in Houston, TX. Six years on investigative projects. Covered Persian Gulf War from Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Also: courts, city government, county government, and police beats. |
| Awards and Honors My writing has won many awards, including an Investigative Reporters and Editors certificate and the John Bartlow Martin Awards for Public Interest Magazine Journalism (Northwestern/Medill). Writers working under my direction have been honored repeatedly in major national journalism competitions, including: the George Polk Awards; the IRE Awards; the John Bartlow Martin Awards; the Sidney Hillman Award; the Heywood Broun Award; the University of Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards; the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Awards; the Gerald Loeb Awards (business journalism; Anderson School/UCLA); the Gavel Award (legal affairs; ABA); the Livingston Awards (for young journalists); the Casey Journalism Center Awards (children and family issues); the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award; and the Benjamin Fine Award (education reporting). |
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| Accepting an Utne award in 2009. |
