A Roundtable Discussion of
Emerging Recommendations for
Principles, Policies, and Practices
October 24 – 25, 2011 Madison, WI
Roundtable Participants
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 2
Malcolm Brett
Wisconsin Public
Television and Radio
Malcolm Brett is Director of Broadcast and Media Innovations of
University of Wisconsin Extension. He is responsible for Wisconsin
Public Television, Wisconsin Public Radio and Media Innovations
applied to broadcasting and education. Media Innovations includes
research involving interactive/enhanced television, video delivery
over Internet 2 and media asset management. Brett previously held
the position of director of television for WPT.
During the past two decades at WPT, Brett also has served as a
production manager for the national program New Tech Times,
corporate development manager, director of development and
executive director of Friends of WHA-TV.
His extensive knowledge of television production includes strategic
planning, budgeting, government relations and community
relations. He was named PBS Development Professional of the Year
in 1998 for his involvement and expertise in corporate development
and fundraising. Brett has spearheaded WPT's digital conversion,
and has helped guide, design, fund or implement various WPT
national public television models, including Evolving the Links, Best
Practices in Journalism, Portal Wisconsin, Wisconsin Stories and
SafeNight USA. In 2008, he was elected for a three-year term to the
PBS board of directors.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 3
Clifford Christians
University of Illinois
Clifford Christians is the former director of the Institute of
Communications Research and chair of the doctoral program in
communications, a position he also held from 1987 to 2001. He has
been a visiting scholar in philosophical ethics at Princeton
University and in social ethics at the University of Chicago, and a
PEW fellow in ethics at Oxford University. On the faculty at Illinois
since 1974, Christians has won five teaching awards. His teaching
interests are in the philosophy of technology, dialogic
communication theory and media ethics.
He serves on the editorial boards of a dozen academic journals, is
the former editor of Critical Studies in Media Communication, and
currently edits The Ellul Forum. He has lectured or given academic
papers worldwide in countries that include Belgium, Norway,
Russia, Finland, Taiwan, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands,
Switzerland, Belgium, England, Singapore, Korea, Scotland,
Philippines, Slovenia, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain and
Sweden. He is listed in Who’s Who in America, International Who’s
Who in Education and Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century:
Communication Ethics. The Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society of
Duquesne University gave him its Ethics Scholar Award in 1999, and
the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research offers its
Ethics Research Award annually in his name. In 2003 he won the
AEJMC Presidential Award for distinguished service to journalism
and mass communication education, and in 2004, AEJMC’s Paul J.
Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 4
Rick Edmonds
Poynter Institute
Rick Edmonds is media business analyst for The Poynter Institute,
where he has researched and written for the last 10 years. Since
December 2007, his commentary on the industry has appeared in
The Biz Blog on Poynter.org. He has also been co-author of the
newspaper chapter in all seven editions of the Project for
Excellence in Journalism’s State of the News Media reports, 2004
through 2010.
Edmonds is frequently quoted for news stories on newspaper
economic issues and new business models, including articles in The
New York Times and numerous NPR reports. At Poynter he has
helped coordinate conferences on emerging nonprofit news
alternatives, the future of advertising and developing user-
generated content.
Edmonds has presented his work three times at annual meetings of
the American Society of News Editors and to international groups in
Paris, Norway, Chile, Madrid, and Vienna. Edmonds spent 11 years
with the St. Petersburg Times organization in various editor and
publisher roles, including two years as managing editor of the
paper’s Tampa edition. Earlier in his career he was James Reston’s
assistant at The New York Times and a reporter at The Philadelphia
Inquirer, where he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national
reporting in 1982. He earned a B.A. from Harvard College in 1969.
His wife, Marianne, is a municipal finance advisor; they have
two daughters.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 5
Andrew Hall
Wisconsin Center for
Investigative Journalism
Andy Hall is Executive Director of the Wisconsin Center for
Investigative Journalism, the publisher of WisconsinWatch.org. A
former Investigative Reporters and Editors board member, Hall won
dozens of awards for his reporting in 26 years at the Wisconsin
State Journal and The Arizona Republic. He began his career in 1982
as a copyboy at The New York Times. At The Republic, Hall helped
break the “Keating Five” scandal involving Sen. John McCain. At the
State Journal, Hall’s stories held government and the powerful
accountable and protected the vulnerable through coverage that
addressed the racial achievement gap in public schools and helped
spark the creation of the nationally noted Schools of Hope
volunteer tutoring program, revealed NCAA violations by University
of Wisconsin athletes, and exposed appalling conditions in
neglected neighborhoods such as Allied Drive and Worthington
Park.
Hall won a first-place award in 2008 for beat reporting from the
Education Writers Association. He also has received National
Headliner, Gerald Loeb, James K. Batten and Inland Press
Association awards for investigative, financial, deadline and civic
journalism coverage. Hall has served as a mentor to the staff of La
Comunidad, a Spanish-language newspaper in Madison, and has
taught numerous courses at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Journalism & Mass Communication. He currently serves
on the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council Board of
Directors, Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism Board of
Directors, and Indiana University Journalism Alumni Advisory Board.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 6
Skip Hinton
National Educational
Telecommunications
Association
Skip Hinton is president of the National Educational
Telecommunications Association, a position he has held since 1989.
NETA is a professional association serving public television licensees
and their professional staff. NETA provides professional
development opportunities for public broadcasting professionals;
distributes programming for use by all public television licensees;
and works with members to support local education services.
NETA also serves the public broadcasting community by providing
management support to other entities. Among these entities Skip
serves as the secretariat for a collaborative of elected leaders from
the major public television membership organizations (Affinity
Group Coalition), and the association representing the chief
executives of state public television licensees (Organization of State
Broadcasting Executives).
Prior to joining NETA, Skip worked for almost 25 years in various
public broadcasting roles with the University of Alabama and
Alabama Public Television. He was responsible for creation of the
state network’s public affairs unit. He was the executive director of
APT from 1982 until 1989 and represented APT as a working
member of the Wingspread Conference on Editorial Integrity in
Public Broadcasting.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 7
Morgan Holm
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
Morgan Holm is vice president of News and Public Affairs at Oregon
Public Broadcasting in Portland. He oversees OPB's local news
operation, including the radio newsroom, OPBnews.org and local
television public affairs specials.
Morgan joined OPB in 1990 as the station's first traffic reporter, and
has since served as a reporter, assignment editor, producer and
host. For many years, Morgan hosted the daily Oregon Considered
program on OPB Radio. He was also the executive producer of OPB
TV's public affairs program, Seven Days, for nine of its 10 years on
the air.
A native Oregonian, Morgan graduated summa cum laude from
Southern Oregon University in Ashland with a BA in
Communication. He started his journalism career in high school
with a summer internship at KOTI-TV in his hometown, Klamath
Falls. He joined Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland in 1986 as the
station began producing news, and was the first reporter from that
station to file for National Public Radio. In 1987, he began working
for KOBI-TV as a weekend news producer.
Morgan was a finalist for the Livingston Young Journalists award in
1991 and has won numerous citations from the Associated Press,
Society of Professional Journalists and Radio-Television News
Directors Association. As a RIAS-Berlin Fellow in 2001, he was a
member of a delegation of American journalists that traveled to
Germany days after the 9/11 attacks. In 2007, Morgan traveled to
North and South Korea as a fellow with the International Reporting
Project at Johns Hopkins University.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 8
Quentin Hope
Great Plains Strategies
Quentin Hope is an independent consultant serving clients across a
broad range of industries in the areas of business strategy,
organization design, organization effectiveness and change
management. He also has extensive experience in public media
management and consulting.
Among other assignments, he is currently a Program Advisor for the
Sulzberger Program at the Columbia Journalism School.
From 2001 to 2009, Hope was a senior advisor with Katzenbach
Partners LLC on issues of organizational culture, design, change
management and operating effectiveness, most often related to
changes in strategic direction. In conjunction with this work, he
developed methodologies, frameworks and tools codifying
consulting experience for wider use by the firm.
Earlier, Hope worked for McKinsey & Company's New York office as
a senior engagement manager, organization specialist and senior
fellow with the firm's organization design practice. While at
McKinsey, Hope worked closely with senior management of
Fortune 500 corporations in developing and implementing
strategies for achieving significant and sustainable improvements in
operating results and management effectiveness.
Hope's public media work began in 1980 when he founded High
Plains Public Radio, a regional network providing public radio
service to western Kansas, eastern Colorado and the panhandles of
Texas and Oklahoma. He continues to work with HPPR on a pro
bono basis. He also consults with public media clients including the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Station Resource Group (as
consortia of leading public radio stations) and the Public Radio
Exchange (an on-line marketplace for distribution, review, and
licensing of public radio programming).
Hope holds an undergraduate degree in communications studies
from Oberlin College and a masters degree in public and private
management from the Yale School of Organization and
Management.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 9
David Iverson
KQED, San Francisco
David Iverson has been a producer, writer and anchor for public
broadcasting for nearly 30 years. He co-produced, directed, wrote
and reported the 2009 PBS Frontline documentary "My Father, My
Brother and Me," which profiled his family's struggle with
Parkinson's disease. Most recently, he has covered the aftermath of
the Haitian earthquake for the PBS NewsHour. Other recent
productions include a national special for PBS called Kids and
Divorce: For Better or Worse and the national follow-up to the
American Experience episode "Two Days in October." Iverson was
the writer, narrator, co-producer and executive producer of the
national Emmy award winning PBS documentary "The 30 Second
Candidate". In 2000, he served as the Presidential Debate
Commission's coordinating producer for the Vice Presidential
Debate between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman. Iverson also hosts
radio and television programs for KQED public broadcasting in San
Francisco.
From 2000 through 2004, Iverson was the executive director of Best
Practices in Journalism, a nationwide initiative headquartered at
Wisconsin Public Television designed to improve local television
coverage of politics and supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
As a producer/writer and executive producer, Iverson's awards
include a national Emmy Award, the Alfred I. duPont Columbia
Award, the Gabriel Award, the New York Film Festival Gold and
Silver Awards, the Chicago Film Festival Gold Hugo, the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting Gold Award, and the Ohio State award.
Iverson has consulted for public television and radio stations and
the MacArthur Foundation. He's served on advisory panels for PBS,
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, MacNeil-Lehrer
Productions and the Independent Television Service.
Iverson is a graduate of Stanford University and received his MS in
Telecommunications from Indiana University.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 10
Joel Kaplan
Syracuse University
Joel Kaplan teaches advanced reporting and communications law.
He was recently named ombudsman for the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
He previously covered city hall for The Chicago Tribune and was a
member of the newspaper's investigative team. From 1979 to 1986,
he was a reporter for The Tennessean in Nashville where he
covered the state legislature. In 1986, he was a finalist for the
Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for a series on then U.S. Rep.
Bill Boner.
He is a co-author of Murder of Innocence: The Tragic Life and Final
Rampage of Laurie Dann (Warner Books). The movie version of that
book originally was broadcast on CBS. He was a Nieman Fellow
(1985) at Harvard University and a Journalism Fellow at Yale Law
School (1991), where he received a master's in the study of law. He
also has a master's in journalism from the University of Illinois.
He is a former treasurer and board member of Investigative
Reporters & Editors (IRE). Kaplan and his wife, Susan Miller Kaplan,
who teaches on-line database searching to Newhouse students, live
with their four children, Ellie, Noah, Jack, and Liam in DeWitt.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 11
Byron Knight
University of Wisconsin
– Extension
Byron Knight is Emeritus Director of Broadcasting and Media
Innovations, University of Wisconsin Extension. He was responsible
for Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin Public Radio and Media
Innovations applied to broadcasting and education.
He was previously Director of Wisconsin Public Television, which
acquires, produces and delivers to statewide audiences high quality
television programs, production and community outreach and
education services. These non-commercial services provide all
viewers access to educational, information and entertainment
programming produced nationally and locally and extend the
impact of the television service.
In 1996-1997 Byron was the Project Executive for New Program
Services and Alliances for the Public Broadcasting Service PBS.
During this leave of absence from WPT he was responsible for
establishing and managing production partnerships at PBS.
From 1978-1990 he was the Director of Programming for WHA-TV,
and the Educational Communications Board. During this time he
consolidated the programming, production, operations, promotion
and development of the Educational Communications Board
stations and WHA-TV under the title of Wisconsin Public Television.
These stations include WPNE in Green Bay, WHLA, LaCrosse;
WHRM, Wausau; WHWC, Eau Claire and WLEF, Park Falls.
As a national television producer Byron was responsible for award
winning productions including The Mozart Mystique with Peter
Ustinov, The Immortal Beethoven with Peter Ustinov, and the
Emmy nominated The Well-Tempered Bach with Peter Ustinov
Byron has served on the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Board,
the PBS Program Advisory Committee, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
Program Manager’s Task Force, the PBS Task Force on Pricing and
Policy, and the CPB Future Fund Advisory Panel. In 2001 Byron
received the Twenty-first Century Manager award for Association of
Public Television Stations for technology innovation. He served on
the Association of Public Television Stations board 2001-2005.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 12
Ted Krichels
Penn State Public
Broadcasting
Ted Krichels is General Manager of Penn State Public Broadcasting
(PSPB) and Associate Vice President for Public Engagement at Penn
State. He has long been active in national policy initiatives within
public broadcasting and has served on numerous CPB and PBS task
forces.
At Penn State, in addition to overseeing PSPB’s transition from
analog to digital broadcasting, Krichels has worked to integrate the
mission of public broadcasting with that of the land grant
university. To this end, Penn State has hosted various conferences
and projects including: Partners in Public Service, which explored
new models for collaborations between public broadcasters,
libraries and museums; Engaging Faculty in a Digital Future, aimed
at involving academia more directly in public broadcasting; and the
Public Service Media Initiative, focusing on better integrating public
media and Penn State academic disciplines, and on developing
significant collaborative projects. Krichels helped to found public
broadcasting’s University Licensee Association and served as its first
chair. During the past year he was chair of the Affinity Group
Coalition, representing all public television affinity groups.
As associate vice president for public engagement at Penn State,
Krichels is leading a new effort to promote innovation throughout
Penn State Outreach, which has over 1500 employees and includes
the areas of continuing and distance education and Cooperative
Extension. He is also directing a new health initiative, which will tie
the capacities of Outreach with the Penn State College of Medicine
and College of Health and Human Development to address critical
health needs within Pennsylvania.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 13
Michael Levy
Corporation for Public
Broadcasting
Michael Levy is CPB’s Executive Vice President, Corporate and
Public Affairs. Prior to joining CPB in September 2005, Mr. Levy
served as Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau
of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. There, he
developed and executed pro-active media strategies and
communications efforts to increase public awareness of and
support for U.S. counternarcotics and law enforcement initiatives in
over 100 countries.
Previously, he served as chief of staff to the lieutenant governor of
Oklahoma, and as a senior legislative aide to a member of Congress
from Utah. Mr. Levy attended Emory University, University College
London and Widener University School of Law.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 14
Amy Coates Madsen
Standards for Excellence
Institute, Maryland
Nonprofits
Amy Coates Madsen is the Director of the Standards for Excellence®
Institute, a national initiative to promote the highest standards of
ethics and accountability in nonprofit governance, management,
and operations, and to facilitate adherence to standards by all
organizations.
The Standards for Excellence Institute is a program of Maryland
Nonprofits where Amy has served for more than 14 years. Amy is
responsible for coordinating all aspects of this comprehensive
ethics and accountability program and its efforts to replicate the
program nationally. She serves as a trainer in the areas of board
conduct, program evaluation, program replication, and nonprofit
management.
Amy has held positions at the Princeton Public Affairs Group and
Catholic Relief Services. Amy received her Masters degree from
Johns Hopkins and her Bachelors degree from Virginia Tech. Amy is
a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is on the board of Central
Maryland CAN TOO.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 15
Michael Marcotte
MVM Consulting
Mike Marcotte’s journalism career spans more than 30 years and
includes work in newspaper, radio, television and online. He
recently returned to his consulting practice after completing the
prestigious Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University,
where he focused on changes in public media, leadership and
innovation in newsrooms, the science of data visualization and
social networks.
Mike has managed top rated NPR news departments in San Diego
and Seattle, worked for NPR and taught journalism at four
universities. After 20 years of news management, Mike launched
MVM Consulting so that he could focus on the needs of public
media newsrooms during this time of dramatic change. He believes
there is an urgent need to elevate the role of journalism at public
broadcast stations. In many cases this requires station
reorganization to support the news mission on multiple platforms.
Mike has served as president of PRNDI, the national association for
public radio news directors, and has volunteered on boards, panels
and projects to help serve the industry and audience of public
service broadcasting.
Mike earned a bachelors and masters degree in journalism from the
Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia. He is an
alumnus of LEAD San Diego, a selective leadership program.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 16
Jack Mitchell
University of Wisconsin
Jack W. Mitchell joined the School of Journalism & Mass
Communication faculty in January 1998 after a 30-year career in
public radio.
As Director of Wisconsin Public Radio for 21 years, Mitchell led the
most extensive and successful state or university public radio
system in the country. He initiated the transition from the
Wisconsin Educational Radio Network into Wisconsin Public Radio,
a system of 20 stations serving a statewide audience with two
networks and a prolific producer of national programming.
On a national level, Mitchell was the first employee of National
Public Radio. While at NPR, he was instrumental in developing the
groundbreaking newsmagazine All Things Considered. During his
years as the program's first producer and executive producer, ATC
won both the Peabody Award and the DuPont Award.
Mitchell was elected to an unprecedented four terms (12 years) on
the National Public Radio Board of Directors, including three years
as chair. He made significant contributions in virtually every area of
the organization's work from programming to finance to long-term
strategy. When NPR was on the brink of financial collapse in 1983,
Mitchell was asked to assume interim responsibility for NPR's
programming operations as part of a team that restored the
organization's financial health and saved it from going dark.
As Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication at UW-Madison,
Mitchell teaches courses in public broadcasting, broadcast news,
intermediate reporting, mass media and society, and the survey of
mass communication.
Mitchell’s awards include the Edward Elson National Public Radio
Distinguished Service Award, the UW-Extension Award for
Excellence, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's Edward R.
Murrow Award, public radio's highest honor.
His undergraduate and master’s degrees are from the University of
Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 17
Marita Rivero
WGBH, Boston
Marita Rivero, WGBH Vice President and General Manager for
Radio and Television, oversees the programming, marketing, and
administration of WGBH's multiple TV and radio stations and digital
channels. Rivero also oversees WGBH's national radio production
activity and its local television production unit, Boston Media
Productions.
Rivero was named manager of WGBH Radio in 1988. Award-winning
radio productions developed under her leadership include the daily
global news program The World (a collaboration with BBC World
Service and PRI) and The Takeaway (a collaboration of WNYC and
PRI, in collaboration with BBC World Service, New York Times Radio,
and WGBH). She also served as Executive-in-Charge of WGBH's
Peabody Award-winning multimedia project Africans in America.
Rivero has developed the national Forum Network; new satellite
radio services; and a substantial community partnership program
with media, arts, and education partners.
Rivero began her broadcast career at WGBH in 1970 as a producer
of public affairs television, including Say Brother (now Basic Black,
one of the nation's oldest weekly series by, for, and about African
Americans). She was general manager of WPFW, Washington, DC's
Pacifica radio station, from 1981 to 1988.
Rivero has been honored with numerous awards, including a 2007
Pinnacle Award for Achievement in Arts & Education from the
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; the first Image Award for
Vision and Excellence from Women in Film and Video/New England;
the Living Legends Award from the National Trust for Historic
Preservation's Museum of African American History; and induction
into the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers. She serves on the
NPR Board of Directors and is Chair of the National Black
Programming Consortium Board.
Rivero holds a BS from Tufts University and has participated in post-
graduate training at Harvard University's Graduate School of
Education and the Stanford and Wharton schools of business.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 18
Willard D. "Wick"
Rowland, Jr., Ph.D.
Colorado Public
Television
Wick Rowland is President and CEO of Colorado Public Television
(CPT12) in Denver and Dean and Professor Emeritus of the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado.
He was the Denver Post’s “Television Person of the Year” for 2010
and the Colorado “Broadcast Citizen of the Year” in 2005. He is a
member of Denver Rotary and a graduate of Leadership Denver. He
is a Visiting Professor of Communications at the University of
Toulouse in France.
Rowland is a leader in national public television affairs and public
broadcasting policy representation, for which he received the 2009
APTS National Advocacy Award. He has served as chair of the Beta
Group, the Small Station Association, the Affinity Group Coalition,
and the Colorado Broadcasters Association.
CPT12 is one of the U.S.’s first alternative public television stations
and it remains a leader among the nearly three dozen such stations
across the country. Under the motto, “World View, Community
Voice,” CPT12 provides three multicast services and the largest
amount of local public affairs television in Colorado.
Dr. Rowland is a widely published scholar and teacher in
communication policy, communication theory and history, domestic
and international media institutions. He has a special expertise in
public broadcasting (U.S. and abroad) and in the television violence
debates. Previously he was associate dean and on the faculty of the
College of Communications at the University of Illinois.
After service in the Peace Corps that focused on educational media
in Jamaica, Rowland was named the first director of research and
then director of long-range planning for the Public Broadcasting
Service (PBS).
His degrees are from Stanford (B.A.); the University of Pennsylvania
(M.A.) and the University of Illinois (Ph.D.).
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 19
Wendy Swanberg
University of Wisconsin
Wendy Swanberg is a PhD candidate in Mass Communication at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, with emphases on First
Amendment history and journalism in the Cold War era. She has
spent the past seven years with the School of Journalism as a
teaching assistant in journalism and media law, as a research fellow
working with the Wisconsin Historical Society, and most recently as
project assistant for the Center for Journalism Ethics.
Prior to joining the School of Journalism and Mass Communications,
Wendy spent many years as a public affairs producer for WMAQ-TV
(NBC) in Chicago, responsible for documentary and studio talk
programs. She still does freelance broadcast production in the
Madison area, and archival research for Vanity Fair magazine and
other publications.
A native of Chicago, she holds a BA with high honor from DePaul
University and an MA in Journalism from UW-Madison.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 20
Bruce Theriault
Corporation for Public
Broadcasting
Bruce Theriault joined CPB as Senior Vice President, Radio in
February 2007 from Bolder Strategies, a Boulder, Colorado-based
consulting firm for nonprofit organizations he founded and headed.
Theriault's recent experience in public broadcasting also includes
stints as a co-Managing Director of Public Radio Capital, which he
helped launch as a separate operating organization, and at the
Station Resource Group, where he directed the planning stage of a
major strategic services initiative for public radio.
Theriault spent 13 years as Senior Vice President of Public Radio
International, where he directed activities in business and contract
negotiations, strategic planning, communications, affiliate relations,
broadcast services, satellite radio, and new business development
and played a central role in content and network development for
public broadcasting's online application service provider, Public
Interactive.
Other highlights of Theriault's career include managing KTOO-FM
and KRBD-FM in Alaska, where he co-founded and served five terms
as President of Alaska Public Radio Network, and helped establish
and then served three years as Chairperson of the National
Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB).
Theriault holds an M.A. in Public Administration from the Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard University, as well as certificates
from several other advanced study programs. He earned a B.S.
Degree in Education from Southern Connecticut State University,
with a minor in Psychology.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 21
Tom Thomas
Station Resource Group
Tom Thomas is co-CEO of the Station Resource Group, an alliance of
leading public media organizations focused on strategy, policy, and
innovation. SRG’s 40 members operate over 200 public
broadcasting stations.
Thomas has led strategic advances in programming, funding,
technology, and public service mission for stations and the public
media field as a whole. He has shaped the policy framework for
public broadcasting in Congress, at federal agencies, and at the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
He oversaw development of PRX, the Public Radio Exchange, an
online audio marketplace and innovator in digital distribution, and
Public Radio Capital, which helps public broadcasters plan for
sustainable growth, secure new channels, and expand their
services. With SRG co-CEO Terry Clifford and others he has
authored major studies of public media’s programming, audience
service, and finances. He is a frequent speaker at media events and
an advisor to public and private funders.
He was founding President of the National Federation of
Community Broadcasters from 1975 to 1984, where he established
community-based radio and stations operated by people of color as
integral contributors to public radio's overall service. His work has
been recognized by CPB's Edward R. Murrow Award, America's
highest public radio honor, CPB's first Distinguished Service Award,
NPR's Elson Award for Distinguished Service, and Latinos in Public
Radio's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Thomas began his career as a host, documentary producer, and
station manager at a pioneering, all-listener-supported station in St.
Louis. He has degrees in history and political science from Grinnell
College and public and international affairs from Princeton
University.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 22
John van Hoesen
Vermont Public Radio
John van Hoesen is Vice President for News & Programming at
Vermont Public Radio. John joined VPR in 2001 and has led the
expansion of the station’s in-depth news coverage to include
regional newscasts throughout the day, the daily news magazine
Vermont Edition weekdays at noon, and the development of online
news at VPR.net, including streaming audio from the Vermont
Legislature.
Under John’s leadership, VPR has been honored with more than 60
awards, including five national Edward R. Murrow Awards from the
Radio and Television News Directors Association. John has been the
executive producer on many VPR special coverage projects
including the “Farm Family” series from the Northeast Kingdom,
“Those CCC Boys,” a documentary on the Civilian Conservation
Corps, and the documentary “Howard Dean, the Vermont Years.”
He is the recipient of the Associated Press Distinguished Service
Award.
Prior to joining VPR, he was the managing editor of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning Rutland Herald, where he helped establish the
newspaper’s magazine section. John also was a founder of the
weekly newspaper, The Windsor Chronicle. He is a graduate of the
University of Vermont and grew up on a dairy farm in southern
Vermont.
Editorial Integrity for Public Media: Roundtable Participants – 23
Stephen Ward
University of Wisconsin
– Madison
Dr. Stephen Ward is the James E. Burgess Professor of Journalism
Ethics, an endowed chair in the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also
director of the Center for Journalism Ethics at the school.
Previously, he was director of the Graduate School of Journalism at
the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
He is author of The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to
Objectivity and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s University Press), which
won the 2005–2006 Harold Adams Innis Prize from the Canadian
Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the best
English-language scholarly book in the social sciences. He is co-
editor of Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective,
published by Heinemann Publications of South Africa in June 2008.
Ward has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Waterloo,
Ontario. His research interests include history of journalism ethics,
ethical theory, global media ethics, and science journalism. He is
founder of the science journalism initiative at the UBC School of
Journalism. He is principal investigator of an international study into
the public communication of controversial science.
Ward is an associate editor of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. His
articles and reviews have appeared in such journals as Journalism
Studies, Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, Journalism: Theory,
Practice and Criticism, Harvard International Journal of Press/
Politics and the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. He serves on seven
editorial and advisory boards for ethics organizations and for
journals on media ethics and science. He is a media ethics columnist
for Media Magazine and founding chair of the Ethics Advisory
Committee of the Canadian Association of Journalists.
For 14 years, Prof. Ward worked as a journalist. He was a Canadian
political reporter before becoming foreign reporter, war
correspondent, and newsroom manager. During this period, he
covered conflicts in Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Northern Ireland. Prof.
Ward was the British Columbia bureau chief for The Canadian Press
news agency in Vancouver.
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Lee Wilkins
University of Missouri
Lee Wilkins focuses her research on media ethics, media coverage
of the environment and hazards and risks. She is a co-author of one
of the country's best-selling college ethics texts, Media Ethics:
Issues and Cases, now in its fifth edition with McGraw-Hill. Wilkins
is the associate editor of the country's leading academic journal on
media ethics: The Journal of Mass Media Ethics.
Wilkins was named a Page Legacy Scholar from the Arthur W. Page
Center in 2005 and received a $10,000 grant to support the study,
The Moral Media: How Public Relations Professionals Reason about
Ethics. She has received several other grants to support her
research.
The MU Alumni Association named Wilkins as a recipient of the
39th annual Faculty-Alumni Awards in 2006. She has received the
William T. Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence in 1998, the
highest teaching award on the University of Missouri-Columbia
campus. A year earlier the Missouri School of Journalism gave
Wilkins its highest teaching award, the O.O. McIntyre Distinguished
Professorship. She has taught ethics as a visiting faculty member at
the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Wilkins has a joint appointment in the Harry S. Truman School of
Public Affairs, where she teaches about communicating risk to the
public. Her research in that area has focused on the 1993 Midwest
floods, the 1984 Bhopal, India, chemical spill, the 1997 El Nino and
integrating knowledge of disaster coverage into coverage of
terrorism.
Wilkins holds a doctorate degree in political science and a master's
in journalism from the University of Oregon and bachelor's degrees
in journalism and political science from the University of Missouri.
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Missouri, and Kappa
Tau Alpha at both Missouri and Oregon.
Prior to her academic appointments, Wilkins served as a newspaper
editor and reporter in Colorado, Oregon and Michigan.
