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The following is a list of people who are on a mailing list periodically sent out by the University of Delaware journalism program. It includes alumni, faculty, administrators, and other friends of the program. Please send news to Ben Yagoda at
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1969 Shaun Mullen works at Special Collections, the rare book and manuscript library at UD's Morris Library, and runs Kiko’s House, a cultural and current affairs blog (http://kikoshouse.blogspot.com/). 1975 Lorie Hearn is Metro Editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune. David Hoffman is Assistant Managing Editor/Foreign News at the Washington Post. Charles Lewis is president and CEO of the Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington and also serves on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism. 1976 Ellen Cannon is an editor at bankrate.com, which is based about a mile from her house in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Dawn Langton writes: I graduated from UD in 1977 with a Major in English and a concentration in journalism. I was fortunate to have Nick Nickerson, seasoned newspaperman, as my advisor and professor. I was a sports writer for The Review for two years under tireless editors. When I graduated I went right to work as as a sports writer for the Newark Post, an award-winning weekly. Later that year I became sports editor. Over the years I worked at various newspapers and as publications director at several colleges. In 1990, my husband Dale DiLeo (UD '75) and I started Training Resource Network, a publishing companyspecializing in books for the disability field. Since then I have been writer and editor for our monthly paid subscription newsletter, edited about 30 books, and co-authored two. Last year, I edited our top seller, "Raymond's Tom Turcol has joined Kennedy Communications, a D.C.-based political communications firm, as a senior strategist specializing in message and media planning for political and corporate clientele. 1978 Gail Bulfin is training editor and readers editor of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Cari DeSantis writes: After two terms in Governor Ruth Ann Minner's Cabinet as Secretary of the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth & Families, I accepted a job in Seattle, Washington as Executive Vice President, Public Affairs & Communications for Casey Family Programs, a national operating foundation with a $2.7 billion endownment, focused on improving public child welfare and foster care systems. I supervise the federal and state public policy efforts, communications, strategic alliances, research, and marketing functions. Although I am based in Seattle, I travel all over the U.S. and my staff are in Seattle and in Washington DC, so I am back and forth and really racking up air miles. Bruce Garrabrandt has published a new book of his art and "whimsicle observations" called "Cattle Drive." Information at http://www.artbybruce.com/ Jim Grant is editor and general manager of The Dialog, the weekly newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington. Jack Hoban works in communications for UPS. 1979 Lorraine (Bowers) Keenan heads the journalism department at Mercer County Community College. Andrew Cline is an assistant professor of journalism at Missouri State University. Erin Donovan is a consultant specializing in risk communication. She operates Donovan Communications in Potomac , Md. Don Flood is editor of the Dover Post, editor in chief of the Dover Post Co. and general manager of the Smyrna/Clayton Sun-Times and the Middletown Transcript. Dave Hughes is a copy editor with the Delaware State News. 1980 Suzi Hedrick Beerman has recently taken a job as Executive Communication Manager in the Microsoft IT/Business Systems department. She will be managing public relations and events presentations. Lisa Petrillo is a reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Kevin Tresolini is a sportswriter for the News Journal. 1981 John Anderson is president of an advertising agency and production company, The Farm, and is an entertainment lawyer with Smith, Dornan & Dehn . Donna Brown is a senior editor at kidshealth.org, a website on children's health operated by the Nemours Foundation. Jonathan Feigen covers the Houston Rockets for the Houston Chronicle. Michael Miorelli is assistant managing editor of the Morning Call in Allentown , Pa. David Palombi is the head of corporate and marketing communications for Freddie Mac. Janet Perrella-D'Alesandro is Director of Media Relations and Association Marketing at Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc., in Pitman, NJ. Billie Travalini's book "Bloodsisters" won the 2005 Lewis-Clark Press Discovery Prize. Her latest book, The Wilmington Senior Center: 50 Years of Community, a mix of print and photojournalim and creative writing, will be published in November. She is fiction editor for The Journal of Caribbean Literatures and is the editor of "Cutting to the Bone: Selections from Delaware Writers and Poets in the Twentieeth Century." 1982 Cris Barrish is senior reporter at The News Journal. Dr. Karen Stout is president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania . 1983 Chris Goldberg, Ed.D., is a technology teacher at Norwood School of the Interboro (Pa.) School District, an adjunct professor at West Chester (Pa.) and Arcadia (Pa.) universities, and a freelance sports writer for several newspapers, including The Inquirer. Jim Hughes is an attorney in Wilmington . Tom Lowry is a senior writer for Business Week magazine, covering the media industries. Beth Thomas Moore is an English teacher at Newark High School . 1984 Clare Brown lives in Raleigh , N.C. , where she is a writer-in-residence for the Even Exchange Dance Theatre. She is also pursuing graduate studies in psychology at Goddard College in Vermont . Casey Gilmore is a financial writer for the Vanguard Group of mutual funds in Pennsylvania. George Mallet writes:I have joined the NBC station here owned by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It is a good company. I anchor our early evening newscasts and will soon add another hour to my broadcast afternoon. I'll be on from 3-5 every day. I also do a news report each night at 10pm. In other news, while covering the Triple Crown exploits of Delaware and Philadelphia racehorses Smarty Jones, Afleet Alex, Barbaro and Hard Spun I took up riding myself. I'm now jumping and galloping horses at a farm in Fredonia Wisconsin. I have leased a big quarter horse/ thoroughbred named Jenkins. In our first show, we took ribbons in adult jumping and equitation. I'm still learning... but I am lucky to have an outstanding partner for my new sport. Jenkins is big, fast, smart, enthusiastic and kind. 1985 Linda deVrind-Millevoi is director of media relations at Abington Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania. Tobias Naegele is editor-in-chief of the Army Times. Donna Stachecki Sharp works for the State of Delaware's Division of Public Health in its Office of Health and Risk Communication. Donna coordinates events and writes and edits talking points, reports and other documents. After 12 years as director of communications for MBNA Corporation, Dan Tipton has started Tipton Communications, a Newark Company specializing in employee communications, internet development, and marketing communications. Andy Walter is the sports editor of the Delaware State News. Andy West is managing editor of Delaware State News. 1986 Paul Davies is Deputy Editorial Page Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Suzanne Goldstein Michel is living in Ocean, N.J. Kate Sheehy is a reporter and editor for the New York Post. Lon Wagner is narrative editor at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va., where is he also an adjunct member of the faculty at Old Dominion University. He began honing his storytelling in 1998 when he became an inaugural member of the newspaper's narrative writing team, then became the team's editor in 2005. His stories have been recognized in several national writing contests, including the American Association of Sunday and Features Editors and the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards (Penney-Missouri). Editors at The Virginian-Pilot have twice nominated his serial narratives (2001, 2005) for the Pulitzer Prize. Wagner has had two essays published in the journal, "Points of Entry: Cross-Currents in Storytelling," and organizes and moderates an annual gathering ofnewspaper writers, "Word. A Conversation about Narrative." 1987 Joe Clancy is publisher of the Steeplechase Times and other publications in Elkton , Md. In American Horse Publications editorial contest for 2007, Steeplechase Times received the General Excellence Award in the newspaper/tabloid category with the following from the judges: “Brilliant writing and editing, superb leads on every page, from the cover story to the obits. Witty, pithy and sophisticated – goes way beyond ‘who won what where.’ Design, text, covers, photography, paper stock all support the editorial mission. Offers an intimate, insider’s view of the world it covers that’s unmatched in its division, perhaps in the industry.” Jancee Dunn is a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and the author of "But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Advenures Among the Absurdly Famous" (HarperCollins, 2006). Meg Goodyear Dupont is home and garden editor of the Hartford Courant. Rob Guarino is reporting on the weather for the ABC affiliate in Albuquerque, N.M. He conducts the website myweatherlive.com and is writing a series of graphic science novels for Diamond Book Distributing. 1988 Alice Brumbley Bailey is a lieutenant with the Delaware State Police. Deborah Brenner recently published a book called "Women of the Vine: Inside the World of Women Who Make, Taste, and Enjoy Wine." She also owns Women of the Vine Cellars, which will release its first vintage in the spring. More information is at www.womenofthevine.com). Dino Ciliberti is editor of the Taunton (Mass. Daily Gazette). Mike Freeman is a columnist for CBS Sportsline. John P. Martin is a staff writer with the Newark Star-Ledger. Beth McCoy is an associate professor of English at SUNY Geneseo . Dave Urbanski is living in Princeton , N.J. , and is senior developmental editor for the book publishing arm of Youth Specialties, inc . He is the author of "The Man Comes Around: The Spriritual Journey of Johnny Cash." 1989 Chris Lauer's new book "Breaking Free: How to Quit Your Job and Start Your Own Business" has just been published by Praeger Press. His first book, "The Management Gurus", was published last year by Portfolio. Fletcher Chambers is IT director for Accenture in Minneapolis . Craig Horleman is a copy editor for the Delaware State News. Beth Monaghan Cohen is a graphics coordinator living in Forest Hill , Md. 1990 Bob Bicknell is senior producer of the CBS News broadcast "Up To The Minute," a tech reporter for KYW-AM, Philadelphia , and the creator of nationally syndicated radio reports on home technology and the web, "Tech Tips 101" and "Web Picks." Sharon Breske is editor of ADVANCE for Imaging and Oncology Administrators. Diane Monaghan Johns is an English teacher at Haddonfield Memorial High School in New Jersey. Mark Nardone is editor of Delaware Today Magazine. David Maull is a grant writer for the Indian River School District in Delaware. Drew Ostroski is managing editor of Delaware Today. Ted Spiker was recently promoted to associate professor of journalism at the University of Florida. He is the co-author of the bestselling books "The Abs Diet," "The Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time Guide," "Men, Love & Sex: The Complete Users' Guide for Women," "YOU: The Owner’s Manual," "YOU: On a Diet," and "YOU: Staying Young." With all the knowledge he has acquired, he is going to live forever (and have great abs). Mitch Powitz is a social studies teacher and baseball coach at Toms River High School in New Jersey, and the owner of the Long Beach Inn. Archie Tse is a graphics editor for the New York Times. 1991 Jay Cooke is Business Development Manager – Partnerships and Licensing for Lonely Planet Publications in San Francisco. Alan Greilsamer spent the last five years as director of communications for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund in Washington . He's now vice president of Communications Resources, LLC, a communications, marketing and organizational management firm. Sharon O'Neal is a copy editor with the New York Times. Josh Putterman is a copy editor for the New Jersey Jewish News. Anne Villasenor Thompson has moved back to Delaware from California and is freelancing for Delaware Moms and Family Fun magazines. 1992 Leslie Barbaro is a staff photographer at the Herald News in West Paterson , NJ . She won the 2008 first-place award for Sports Photography from the New Jersey chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists. Esther Crain is a senior editor at Cosmopolitan magazine. Larry Dignan is Editor-in-Chief of ZDNet, as well as Editorial Director overseeing TechRepublic and ZDNet. Charlotte Faltermayer is a freelance journalist and a stringer for Time Magazine. Tara Finnegan Coates is working in AARP's Web Strategy & Operations department in Washington D.C. Jeffrey Gentry is the Deputy City/State Editor of the News Journal. Brad Huebner is an English teacher at Quakertown High School in Pennsylvania and coaches basketball at Parkland High School . He freelances for the Morning Call in Allentown. Paul Kane is a congressional correspondent for the Washington Post. Jennifer Korolishin is a freelance writer and editor in Flourtown, Pa. Mike Martin is a writer, photographer and carpenter in Newark. He's also a member of the band Deadlyne. Kristin Nolt is the senior vice president for public affairs at Disneyland. Bob Weston is a systems editor for the Associated Press in New York and is married to Donna Murphy Weston (1993). 1993 Russ Bengston is freelancing for SLAM; a Japanese basketball magazine called "Dunkshoot"; and Mass Appeal (a Brooklyn-based hip-hop lifestyle mag). Chris Dolmetsch is a reporter for Bloomberg Business News in New Jersey . Doug Donovan is living in Baltimore. Richard Jones of the New York Times has been named a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in economics and business journalism. He will study at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for the 2008-2009 academic year. Donna Murphy Weston is an assistant business editor for the Associated Press in charge of national and international breaking news coverage. Greg Orlando writes that he is "now engaged in, of all things, writing the plot, script, and dialogue for a video game to be published by year's end and released on the Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360, PSP, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation 2. " He adds, "I live in Fortress Orlando in an undisclosed location somewhere in earthquake territory. Plus, my only friend is a sock puppet named Lolo." Michael Regan is an editor for Bloomberg News, specializing in the stock market. Will Shamlin is a features reporter for the Courier-Post in South Jersey. Jeff Sypeck is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C. His most recent book is BECOMING CHARLEMAGNE: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800. Patti Zielenski Verbanas until recently was Executive Editor of Art & Antiques Magazine in Atlanta. 1994 Laura Fasbach is a reporter for the Record of Bergen County, N.J.. covering state government in Trenton . Jason Garber has moved to the firm Reger Rizzo Kavulich & Darnall LLP in Philadelphia, where he's practicing civil litigation on behalf of businesses and individuals, as well as criminal law. Janene Nolan Geiss is a copy editor and business writer for Prospect News in New York. Brian Hickey is freelancing in Philadelphia and blooging for http://hickeyblunt.blogspot.com/, the Newark Star-Ledger, and Philebrity.com. Adrienne (Mand) Lewin is a national news reporter and editor for ABCNEWS.com. Matt O'Donnell is the morning anchor for WPVI-TV Action News in Philadelphia. Find out more information at 6abc.com. Shannon Perrine is anchoring and reporting for WTAE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Pittsburgh. Jeff Pearlman's latest book is "The Rocket That Fell to Earth: Roger Clemens and the Rage for Baseball Immortality". His previous book, "Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty," made multiple appearances on the New York Times bestseller list. He was interviewed by the New York Times at http://tinyurl.com/673g9z 1995 Tye Comer is editorial director, entertainment and media, at the Neilsen Company. Chuck Creekmur is the co-founder and co-CEO of allhiphop.com which recently received a Rising Star Award. from Black Enterprise Magazine. Jennifer Croneberger is the owner of Roots and Wings, a wellness company in Bear, Del. Sherry Dorsey has completed a film "Justice For All: The Documentary," a three-year comprehensive study of juvenile justice in America and overseas. Sherry's company, SWAP Productions LLC, produced the film and we traveled to over 50 cities and abroad creating this film. The World Premiere for the film was April 5 in New Orleans, where itwas the Official Selection of the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. The Wilmington Screening of the film will be Thursday - July 30th at Theatre N located at 1007 North Orange Street. More information at www.justiceforallthemovie.com. Tracy Largay is senior project manager at WebMD Health (www.webmd.com). Cassie King is an editorial assistant with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Margot Mohsberg is a public relations manager for the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C. Rob Wherry has won a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship to study business and journalism at Columbia University. He is the third UD journalism alumnus to do so, following Paul Davies and Rich Jones. 1996 Kristin Collins is a reporter for the News & Observer in North Carolina . Alfred Erskine is a teacher at North East High School in North East, Md. Paul Fain is a staff reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education. He recently received an award from the National Education Writers Association for his coverage of college presidents. Devin Harner is an assistant professor of English (teaching journalism!) at John Jay College of the City University of New York. Derek Harper is a reporter for the Press of Atlantic City. April Helmer Hall is doing freelance writing and public relations. Brian Hickey is freelancing in Philadelphia and blogging for the Newark Star-Ledger and at http://hickeyblunt.blogspot.com/ Karen Salmonsohn Kosminoff is an editor with the Financial Accounting Standards Board in Stamford , Ct. Heather Lynch is managing media relations for the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Ca. She lives in San Francisco. Heather Moore is the community editor at NYTimes.com. She recently answered questions from readers: http://tinyurl.com/5e4roh Jimmy Miller is in graduate school in Ireland. Lauren Murphy Schulz is living in Silver Spring , Md., with her husband and two daughters. She recently spent six months editing for Club Mom (mom.com). Lynnette Shelley operates Red Eye Design, a graphic design studio in Philadelphia, and is lead singer in The Red Masque (www.theredmasque.com). Seandra Sims is Assistant Director of Integrated Marketing at Delaware State University Deborah Wolf is a program coordinator in the global health department of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 1997 Michele Besso is Assistant Director of Communications at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. Peter Bothum and his wife, Kelly Brosnahan Bothum, both are working for the News Journal. Pete is the deputy features editor and Kelly is a reporter for the Health section.Kelly recently won second place in the National Headliners competition for a dwarfism project, and Pete's band Von Hayes has released its debut album, “Evident Eyelid,” on a start-up label called State Capital Records. Sharon Davis is a senior quality assurance analyst for MortgageRamp and is living in Wilmington. Todd Frankel is a general assignment reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He recently won the Jesse Laventhol Prize for Deadline News Reporting by an Individual, given by the ASNE (American Society of Newspaper Editors). The articles were published in the annual "Best American Newspaper Writing." Brad Jennings is assistant sports editor of the York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record . Aaron Kellam and Pamela (Wilson) Schmidt both teach at Polytech High School in Woodside, Del. Michael Lewis is a sports writer for the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Matt Manochio is a municipal reporter with the Daily Record in Morris County, New Jersey. Melissa Meisel Barry is an editor at Happi, a magazine covering the household and personal products industry. Leanne Milway is a copywriter with Publicis Dialog in San Francisco . Erin Ruth is a copy editor with the Times-Picayune in New Orleans . Amy Sims is is freelancing in London. Kim Walker is an editor with the Baltimore Sun online service. Bill Werde is executive editor of Billboard magazine and is regularly interviewed on National Public Radio about the music business. Lara Zeises writes: It's official! The Lifetime TV Movie adaptation of TRUE CONFESSIONS OF A HOLLYWOOD STARLET begins shooting in Toronto early next month. The pop singer-cum-actress JoJo will be playing the title role of Morgan Carter, and Tim Matheson (!) is directing. Oh, and on the off chance you have no idea what I'm talking about: *I* am Lola Douglas, author of TRUE CONFESSIONS and its sequel MORE CONFESSIONS, which will be out in paperback next spring. And there will almost certainly be a third installment in the STARLET series 1998 Cindy Augustine is freelancing in New York, including for Zagat, New York Magazine, and Time Out New York. Shani Brown is an English teacher in Baltimore . Oakland Childers has started my own company, InkBlot Media Consulting, and is currently doing PR and media relations work for the University of Colorado in Boulder. Randi Hecht is getting her masters in the Reading Specialist program at Teachers College, Columbia University, and is freelance copy editing at various magazines. Catherine Hopkinson is copy chief of Allure magazine. Nancy Horisk-Sherr is proprietor of Mill Creek Hundred Marketing. Patricia Lake is Managing Editor for Key Professional Media, a national company that produces such magazines as “Super Lawyers” and “Super Docs.” Holly Norton is assisant editor of the News Journal's Spark Weekly (www.sparkweekly.com). Beth Matusewicz Skinner is living in Milford, Delaware. Leo Shane covers Capitol Hill and politics for Stars and Stripes, and recently spent a month reporting from Iraq. He also reported from Chile and Ecuador and, during the campaign, did interviews with both Barack Obama and John McCain. Elizabeth Brealey Wenk is deputy chief of staff for Congressman Mike Castle, Republican of Delaware. 1999 Jamie Amato is a reporter with the Montgomery Gazette in Montgomery County , Md. Robert Armengol is a freelance writer and a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville . Mike Bullard was recently promoted to editor of the Cecil Whig daily, in Elkton, Md. He has been teaching Copyediting and Layout (English 310) at UD. Allison Sloan Hayes is Communications Operations Manager at Access Group, Inc., a nonprofit student loan company in Wilmington, DE. Nancy Horisk-Sherr is a freelance writer and marketing services consultant based in Hockessin , Del. Erica Iacono has been promoted to Features Editor at PRWeek magazine. Jamie Janvier is an editor and senior technical writer for NASA Spinoff magazine. Mark Jolly is web editor of Pennsylvania Student Voices, a University of Pennsylvania project designed to encourage high school students to increase their media use, political learning, civic engagement and voting. Betsy Lowther reports: After four great years in Asia, I have been living in D.C. since December 2007. After 10 months of keeping very busy freelancing, I finally signed on last month to be a full-time Senior Editor with The Washington Post's new monthly fashion glossy, FW.( I also regularly contribute to the Styles section of the Post Express.) Both roles involve a lot of writing, editing, fashion styling and general features work -- pretty fun stuff! In addition, I've kept my role as the DC/Baltimore correspondent for Lucky magazine and do a weekly web column and monthly regional magazine page for them on fashiony news from around the area. Laura Overturf Stetser is a freelance writer and stringer for several weekly newspapers covering Atlantic County, NJ. She also regularly publishes features for The Messenger, UD's Alumni Magazine. Chrissi Pruitt has been promoted to Journal Production Manager for Lippincott , Williams and Wilkins, a medical publisher in Baltimore . Chris Sharkey is Supplements Editor in A.M. Best's news division, located in Oldwick, N.J. A.M. Best is an insurance ratings company that also produces newsletters, guides, daily wire stories and a monthly magazine, all in the insurance arena. Greg Shulas has been promoted to Interactive Editor at Money-Media. He is in charge of launching blog, poll and Q&A features at the company's publications, which include Fundfire, Board IQ, Agenda, Ignites and ODX. Chris Yasiejko is a free-lance writer based in Philadelphia. 2000 Mike Bederka is managing editor of ADVANCE for Respiratory Care Practitioners. His lives with his wife, Paige Wolf Bederka (2001), in Philadelphia. Kyle Belz is coordinator of volunteers and training for the Illinois capital area chapter of the American Red Cross. Gina Benvenuti is certified as a high school English teacher and is living in Little Falls, N.J. Lindsay Callantine is manager of legal recruitment for the Philadelphia law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius . Brian Callaway is a reporter in the Bucks County Bureau of the Allentown (PA) Morning Call. April Capochino is working at New Orleans CityBusiness, a weekly business paper. John Chabalko is a unix systems administrator in San Francisco . Katy Ciamaricone is a reporter for the Cecil Whig and is living in Newark . Ryan Cormier is a reporter for the News Journal. Rachelle Kuchta Crum is senior assistant editor for Tradeshow Week in Los Angeles . Maria Dal Pan Dias is Public Information Officer for the State of Nevada Division of Insurance. Michelle Handleman is an Associate Producer with CBS Newspath, the network affiliate service, in Washington, D.C. Dawn Mensch is a copy editor for Lexis-Nexis in King of Prussia, PA. Alicia Milinis is a freelance writer based in Huntington Station , N.Y. Ben Penserga is a reporter for the Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times. Antonio Prado is a reporter for the Community News in Hockessin, Del. Brian Smith is director of public relations for the Philadelphia Phantoms. He also freelances for the News Journal's sports desk and does fill-in work at WDEL in Wilmington. Drew Volturo is a reporter for the Delaware State News. John Yocca is an associate with Jaffe Communications. 2001 Paige Wolf Bederka owns Paige Wolf Media and Public Relations in Philadelphia . Shannon Canton German is attending Georgetown University Law School. Carla Correa is a copy editor with the Baltimore Sun. Dan DeLorenzo is a designer for the Wall Street Journal. Mike Gennaria is an editor producer for MLB.com, the website of major league baseball. Bill Hitchcock is a party chief in Salisbury , Md. Greg Jones is teaching English in South Korea. Mike Lewis is a copy editor for the Delaware State News. Domenico Montenaro is working for NBC in Washington as the network's political researcher. He was interviewed by the industry blog Fishbowl at http://tinyurl.com/l5m6f5. You can see his work at http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/ and read his profile at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21115243 Robert Niedzwiecki is a sportswriter with the Winchester Star in Winchester, Va. Lauren Pelletreau is a public relations representative with Octagon in Norwalk , Ct. Jenna Portnoy is staff writer covering Bucks County (Pennsylvania) government for The Intelligencer and the Courier Times. Meghan Rabbitt is a senior editor at Alternative Medicine magazine (soon to be called Natural Solutions), in Boulder, Colorado. Melissa Scott Sinclair is living in Richmond and writing for the Virginian-Pilot. Tristan Spinski is a freelance photographer based in Washington, D.C. He recently taught a course in visual journalism at UD. His website is www.tristanspinski.com. Susan Stock is a reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer. Yvonne Thomas is a law student at John Marshall Law School . Eric Townsend is a reporter with the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. Melissa Uhniat 's televsision show, "Hideaways," can be seen on The Water Channel (www.waterchannel.com) via DISH (Satellite- nationwide), Time Warner (select MSOs) and Cox Communications (select MSOs and at http://www.tvhideaways.com Michael White is editor of the Riverhead News-Review in Riverhead, NY. Matt Steinmetz is special projects editor for North American Publishing Co. in Philadelphia. 2002 Jamie Abzug is working in publicity for J Records. Peter Bailey is a reporter for the Miami Herald and is working with the rap artistTrick Daddy on his (Trick's, not Peter's) autobiography. Katie Boehret is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she has worked since 2002 in the office of columnist Walt Mossberg. She writes the weekly Mossberg Solution column, a review of consumer technology that appears every Wednesday.. In 2004, and again in 2007, she was honored as one of the 30 most promising young business journalists by Newsbios.com. Jeff Gluck is a staff writer/editor with the NASCAR Scene weekly paper, based in Charlotte, N.C. Andrea Boyle is National Media Relations Coordinator for the University of Delaware. Meredith Brodeur is a media specialist for the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce. Stacey Carlough received a master's degree from graduate school of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and is teaching English at a charter high school in Center City Philadelphia. Amy Conver in working in corporate communciations for Vanguard, an investment management company located in Malvern, PA. Noel Dietrich is working as a marketing coordinator for Goodwin College of Professional Studies at Drexel University. Rob Erdman is an associate with the law firm of Webb & Blitz in Towson, Maryland. Jessica Eule is Associate Director of Education Events at mediabistro.com. Caitlin Faulkner is an account executive with Coyne Public Relations in New Jersey. Shaun Gallagher is working at The News Journal. He writes: "In the mornings, I run DelawareOnline.com, and in the afternoons, I copy edit for the day desk. I've also been putting my coding skills to work on The News Journal's environmental news site, AllGreenToMe.com, and various other projects. And in my free time, I run ParishNetwork.com, a social networking site for Catholic parishes." Diccon Hyatt is a reporter for the Middletown Transcript. Susan Kirkwood is special projects producer for WMAR/ABC2 in Baltimore . Jenny Kania Maher is a writer/editor on the communications team with W. L. Gore & Associates. Laura LaPonte is studying to be a high school English teacher. Colleen Lavery is working in public relations for MetLife. Osita (Omotola) Iroegbu is a lobbying reporter for the Legal Times, a weekly newspaper in Washington, D.C. Michael Pell is a University of Missouri computer-assisted reporting fellow at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Michael Pollock is the managing editor of Out & About and CityLife magazines and a regular contributor to The Philadelphia Inquirer. He is also an adjunct professor of English at Del Tech Stanton. Jayson Rodriguez is a reporter for MTV News. Elizabeth Ryan is working for MTV networks in Ad Sales. Matt Steinmetz is Associate Editor, PrintMedia magazine and BookTech magazine . Deanna Tortorello is working for Elsevier in Philadelphia. She is a journal manager, overseeing and coordinating different departments to produce medical journals for medical societies around the world. Danielle Ulman works in a vintage fabric library in New York . 2003 Laura Barron is a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Raleigh. She began her career in Greenville, NC, and then worked in Louisville, KY, before moving to Raleigh. Andrea Benvenuto is a freelance writer based in Seattle. Valerie Biafore is teaching English at St. Mark's School in Wilmington. Jennifer Blenner is a reporter for the North Jersey Media Group. Laura Carney is living in Manhattan. Mary Catania is working at Education Lending Group, a San Diego education finance company, as a Proposal Writer and Marketing Analyst. Anna Christopher is working in the public information department at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. Sarah Corsello is an assistant designer with Free People, a division of Urban Outfitters in Philadelphia . Stephanie Denis is enrolled in the Master of Urban Planning program at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School for Public Service at New York University. Steven Germann is a Marketing Associate / Copy Writer for ING DIRECT, as well as a Public Affairs Specialist and Staff Writer for the Air Force Reserve at Dover AFB, DE. Jamie Marine is a reporter for the Bridgeton/Millville News in New Jersey . Sarah Mausolf is a an arts and entertainment writer for the Vail Daily in Colorado. Kitt Parker is a staff writer for the Leader & State Register and for the Sussex Post. Jenna Miller Patrick is living in Lancaster PA. Ben Schneider is covering health policy for Inside Washington Publishers in Washington, D.C. Elissa Serrao is writing and editing training materials as a Communication Associate at ING DIRECT in Wilmington. Dan Strumpf will enter Villanova Law School in the fall. Susanne Sullivan is a proofreader for Euro RSCG Life in New York . Amie Voith is a communications specialist at Towson University Office of Technology Services. 2004 Camille Clowery is working as a copy editor for the Rockefeller University Press in New York. Nikki (Connors) Boone is a public relations specialist with the Delaware Economic Development Office (DEDO), located in Dover, DE, and Family Readiness Group (FRG) Newsletter Chairperson for the 160th Engineer Company, a National Guard unit located in Middletown, DE. Matthew DaSilva is a communications writer on the staff of US Lacrosse in Baltimore. Kathryn Davis is working in advertising and sales for Merion Publications/Advance News Magazines outside Philadelphia . Jon Deakins is studying for a master's in journalism at the University of Florid. Julia DiLaura is a development associate at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Adam Donnelly is a reporter for the Delaware Coast Press. Kaytie Dowling is a senior editor at Philadelphia STYLE magazine. Courtney Elko is a Web editor at NBC10.com in Philadelphia. Erin Fogg Gazica is associate editor of "Risk & Insurance" magazine, is a business pub based in Horsham PA, circ. 52,000, focusing on risk management and commercial insurance. Kara Giannecchini is an assistant editor for Parent Guide Magazine in New York . Seth Goldstein has started his own Web development and Graphic design business called Goldstein Media LLC (www.goldsteinmedia.com).He is working towards a certificate in Web Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Annie Gottlieb is working for mlb.com Trish Graber is working out of the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, covering state politics for four Newhouse newspapers: The Gloucester County Times, Bridgeton News, Today's Sunbeam and the Express-Times. Sara Graham is freelancing in New York Kristy Heintz is working for the Manhattan branch of a travel PR firm called TBC. Tywanda Howie is a client service representative for Wilmington Trust. Kelly Housen is a staff writer for Spark Weekly.. Jeff Man is working on a documentary about the immigration debate. He writes: "The local NBC, ABC and FOX affiliates in DC have all done stories about us and we even were on A1 of the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110202158.html If you want to check it out, we are posting clips on it now to engage discussion. It will eventually, I believe, become a full length feature, but for now you can check our progress on our YouTube site:www.youtube.com/9500liberty" Ryan Mignone is a news reporter for the Dover Post. Annie Nefosky is an anchorwoman for WILM News Radio in Wilmington. Amanda Poulo is living and working in Washington , D.C. Jerry Rhodes is a writer for the UD public relations department. Chuck Ristano is a sports writer for the Cecil Whig. Rebecca Rogers is an assignment editor at WBOC in Salisbury , Md. Lisa Salvatore is marketing manager for Harbor Magic Hotels in Baltimore. Beth Thompson is senior associate producer for the Dr. Phil Show in Los Angeles. Jessica Thompson Sturgis is the Director of Communications at the Delaware College of Art and Design in Wilmington. Lauren Wilson is at Rutgers University working toward a Masters in English. In addition, she is Senior Marketing Specialist of Executive Programs at CXO Media, Inc. in Framingham MA. Nicole Yario is an editorial assistant at Redbook Magazine, where she directs the internship program. 2005 Sondra Abel is editing and coordinating proposals for BearingPoint, a global consulting firm based in northern Virignia. Matt Amis is an editor with Delaware Today Magazine. Tarra Avis Ketley writes: After getting married in in America last April, I settled (more permanently) back in Southampton, England. I was very forunate to somehow land myself a fantastic job. I'm now the Corporate Communications Officer for the University of Winchester in the city of Winchester -- the ancient capital of England that holds King Arthur's Round Table! Melissa Brachfeld and Sharon Cho are both reporters for The Gazette, a newspaper in Montgomery County, Maryland. Jia Din is a layout and copy editor at The Star Democrat in Easton, Md. Jamie Edmonds is a reporter for a TV station in Lansing, Mich. She graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Mike Fox is a copy editor with SNL Financial, a market and industry research and analysis company in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lauren Friedman is working in the advertising department of the New York Times. Lauren Gerardi is an advertising sales associate at U.S. News and World Report. Katie Grasso is communications manager for the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce. Mollie Gross is in New York City doing layout and design for University Sports Publications, which provides yearbooks and gameday publications for professional and college teams. Jennifer Guyre is working at MTV in New York City and freelancing writing for The Aquarian, a weekly rock and roll newspaper based in New Jersey. Rachel Kaplan a technical writer for the Department of Homeland Security. Amy Kates is assistant managing editor of Super Lawyers in Newark. Andrew Kinch is about to go to Virginia Commonwealth University to pursue a master's in public administration. Megan Sullivan is magazine editor for the Princeton Packet in New Jersey. Erin Burke is director of marketing, promotional marketing group, North American Publishing Co., in Philadelphia. She and Matt Steinmetz ('01) were recently married. Ashlyn Martin is on the editorial staff of American Lawyer Media, publisher of The Legal Intelligencer and The Pennsylvania Law Weekly. Lindsay Hicks is the Web Manager for Universum (universum.usa.com) and is freelancing in the Philadelphia area. Adrian Martin is a sportswriter for the Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) Times. Timothy Nichols is sports editor of the Juneau (Alaska) Empire. Joe Olivieri has been promoted to managing editor of the Verona-Cedar Grove Times, a New Jersey weekly. Tracy Ortiz writes: "I finished my masters in education and am on my third year teaching 4th grade in NYC. I recently transferred to a new school in the South Bronx that has amazing opportunities for the students and the teachers as well. As a teacher at the school I am mandated to run an enrichment club for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders at the school. I took this opportunity to head up the reporting club aka the "P.S. 5 Review!" Brook Patterson is working for AmericCorps and is based in Delaware. Artika Rangan is Associate Director of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. Jessica Roland Price is writing for FineStationery.com's blog, The Finer Things. Sara Rosefeldt is a researcher for NBC News in Washington. Zoe Ruderman is working for Cosmopolitan Magazine. Elizabeth Shaheen-Dumke is Manager, US Corporate Business Communications at AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP. Andrew Sherwood is teaching English at Foreign Language Academy of Global Studies, or F.L.A.G.S., a small, elite high school in the South Bronx in New York City. Shawna Wagner is chief reporter for The Engineer magazine (www.theengineer.co.uk) in London. Lori Zaspel is Calendar & Directory Editor, Marketing Assistant and Event Sales for Carolina Parenting, Inc. publisher of Charlotte Parent, Piedmont Parent and Carolina Parent magazines, headquartered in Charlotte, NC. Jenna Alifante is executive assistant to the publisher of Men's Journal magazine. Andy Amsler is a Public Affairs Associate with Media Matters for America. He was the regional field director for the presidential campaign of Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE) in southeast Iowa. Before that, he served as an assistant public information officer for Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. Stephanie Andersen is Managing Editor of Heldref Publications in Washington, D.C. Don Ayotte is working on a novel. Kathleen Collins is a curriculum developer at a non-profit educational organization called the Success For All Foundation (www.successforall.com), located in Baltimore, MD. Mike Hartnett is a writer for the Advisory Board Company in Washington, D.C. Christina Hernandez is a reporter for Newsday, on Long Island, NY. Jocelyn Jones is resource development director at the Boys and Girls Club in Binghamton, N.Y. Amber McDonald is a staff writer for the Worcester County Times in Ocean City, Maryland. Nick Meidanis is Sports Anchor/Reporter at News 12 The Bronx/News 12 Brooklyn. Amanda Mikelberg is interning and reporting for InTouch magazine. Tim Parsons is a Legislative Correspondent on Health Care Policy for Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH). Christine Paska graduated from Pace Law School in May 2009 and is now working for the New York City Law Department (also known as the Office of the Corporation Counsel) where she is prosecuting juveniles in family court. Nicole Sarrubbo is an editorial assistant with Consumer Reports' health newsletter. Sara Satullo just finished up a two year stint as a New Jersey county government reporter with The Express-Times in Easton, PA. She is now a K-12 education and general assignment reporter covering the city of Bethlehem for The Express-Times. Jennifer Seich is attending Suffolk University Law School. Pat Walters is studying non-fiction writing at the University of Memphis. This summer he is co-directing the reporting / writing side of the Poynter Institute's six-week summer journalism fellowship for recent college graduates. He also has a grant from the National Geogrophic Society to investigate Asian carp in the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers. Carson Walker is associate editor for the Nemours Center for Children's Health Media. Devin Varsalona is working at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. She Ireceived a scholarship from Investigative Reporters and Editor to attend its 2008 Computer-Assisted Reporting Conference in Houston. 2007 Kendra Acker is working at CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits, where she cowrites the newsletters, creates marketing brochures, and writes for and edits the public website. Jennifer Banks is a Communications Associate for the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition. Brian Citino is sports editor of the Dover Post weekly in Dover, Del. Corinne Clemetson is on the admissions staff at Albright College in Reading. Sonia Dasgupta is a reporter for the Cecil Whig. She will be attending Columbia Journalism School in the fall. Kim Dixon is working for Bender/Helper Impact, an entertainment PR firm in New York City that deals with product from companies like 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Yahoo! Music. Katelyn Farago is working as a reporter for The Daily Record in Parsippany, N.J. Caitlin Ginley is working at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, DC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative journalism group, doing research for its Buying of the President 2008 project. Sarah Lewis is a staff assistant for U.S. Senator Thomas Carper. Meghan Lobdell is working in communications, public relations and outreach for the Connecticut chapter of the Make-a-Wish Foundation. Laura Lopez is in graduate school at the New York Institute of Technology. Molly MacMillan is freelancing and waitressing. Gerorge Mast is a reporter for the Courier-Post in South Jersey. Tyler Mayforth is a sportswriter for the San Marcos Record in Texas, covering Texas State University, a D-I school in the Southland Conference, and occasional San Antonio Spurs games. Dan Mesure is an editor for an upcoming start-up web site and publication called unigo.com. His photograph was recently included in a New York Times Magazine article about the company. Maria Micchelli is an assistant media buyer for Horizon Media in New York. Tim Mislock is working as a freelance production assistant at Vanity Fair magazine. Katrina Mitzeliotis is living in Brooklyn and freelancing at the Hearst Corporation, in their Digital Media department for the Website Delish. Julia Parmley is a staff writer for George Washington University's Office of University Relations, which produces the University's publications. Emily Picillo is in Washington, D.C., working as a copyeditor for the Advisory Board Company, a research group for the health care industry. Lee Procida is a staff writer in the Ocean County bureau at The Press of Atlantic City. Kenny Riedel is working for the Lewes Consortium. Sue Rinkunas is an assistant editor at Runner's World Magazine. Steve Russolillo writes: "I'm the blogs editor at Dow Jones Newswires, responsible for writing and editing the blog content that gets published through Market Talk -- the wire's running blog of corporate and market developments. I'm also a contributor to The Wall Street Journal's MarketBeat blog as I profile prominent financial bloggers and write about developing trends in the blogosphere. Unfortunately, Market Talk isn't on the Web as it's only available to subscribers. But I'm working on trying to make it a real blog and when I do, I'll be sure to send a link." Kyle Siskey is an editor for the Legal Media Group Publications. Jason Tomassini is a reporter for the Montomery County (Maryland) Gazette. Amanda Vasilikos is an associate editor at McGraw-Hill. Wes Case writes: "I'm in Baltimore working at The Baltimore Sun, more specifically, a Sun targeted-print daily called "b free daily" (Web site: http://www.bthesite.com). I'm a presentation architect (aka designing pages/writing headlines/etc) and hope to be writing soon. It's a tabloid paper that focuses on music, sports, entertainment, pop culture, local Baltimore flavor, etc. And to show UD alumni connections work, I was given the editor's contact information from Carla Correa (I even used the Review alumni site to contact Carla)." Elena Chin is working at Quadrant Healthcom in New Jersey. Ashley Duran is a Junior Account Manager with RT&E Integrated Communications and Grafikpharm (a division of RT&E). Kelly Durkin is a Financial Institutions Reporter at SNL Financial, a multi-sector information and research firm, located in Charlottesville, VA. Stefanie Gordon is an associate reporter for the Wall Street Letter in Manhattan, covering exchanges and options. Sarah Kenney is a marketing associate with the United Way of Delaware. Sarah Lipman is a special correspondent for the Stamford (Connecticut) Advocate. Michael LoRe is a sports writer for the Easton Express-Times. Brendan Reed is doing a season-long internship in the Media Relations department of the Tennessee Titans. Kristin Vorce is an editorial assistant at John Wiley & Sons in Hoboken, NJ. Faculty/staff/administration Ben Yagoda Dawn Fallik Bill Fleischman McKay Jenkins Dennis Jackson Ralph Begleiter Edward A. Nickerson Linda Russell Peter X. Feng Donna West Matthew Kinservik Kevin Kerrane Mike Bullard Sandy Shea Robert Strauss Sue Warner Sandy Iverson Ann Ardis Editor of The Review: Josh Shannon |
