Friday August 08, 2008

Facilitators

Who are the workshop facilitators?

A team of facilitators, as opposed to a single moderator, leads each Traveling Curriculum workshop. Our facilitation team is customized to the needs and unique structure of the host organization. We have found that discussion not only between a facilitator and a group, but also between the facilitators themselves, promotes an open and free forum. If the group leaders feel free to disagree with one another the larger group should feel more able to offer their own thoughts and ideas, as opposed to simply going along with the mindset of a single presenter.

Our original facilitator group included Bill Kovach [1], Founding Chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists; Tom Rosenstiel, Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism; and Bill Damon, Professor of Education and Director of the Center on Adolescence at Stanford University.

Over the years, a pool of talented, experienced current and former journalists has been added. This group includes the following individuals and many others:

 

Gregory Favre:

  • Distinguished Fellow of journalism values at The Poynter Institute.
  • Formerly: Assistant sports editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Managing editor at the Dayton Daily News. Editor of the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post. News director at WPLG-TV in Miami. Editor of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Managing editor of the Chicago Daily News. Managing editor of the Chicago Sun-Times.
  • Served as executive editor of The Sacramento Bee from 1984 to 1998. Favre was appointed vice president of news of The McClatchy Company in 1989 and retired from there before coming to Poynter.
  • In 1992 the California Press Association named him News Executive of the Year.

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Butch Ward:

  • Distinguished Fellow at The Poynter Institute.
  • Formerly: News editor, metropolitan editor and managing editor for the Baltimore News American. New Jersey editor, assistant managing editor for the Sunday paper, assistant managing editor for Features, metropolitan editor, assistant to the publisher, and managing editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
  • In 2001, he left The Inquirer and became spokesperson for Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia. He joined the Poynter faculty in January 2005, and teaches leadership, editing, and other subjects.

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Deborah Potter

  • Executive director of NewsLab. Featured columnist for the American Journalism Review, writing about broadcast news.
  • Formerly: White House, State Department and Congressional Correspondent for CBS News. Frequent contributor to the prime time CBS News magazine 48 Hours. Hosted the interview program Nightwatch. Anchored major news programs and reported on national politics and environmental issues for CNN.
  • Potter hosted the 39-part series "In the Prime" on PBS, looking at issues facing Americans at mid-life. She has taught journalism at The American University, and was a faculty associate at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies where she led writing, reporting, management and ethics seminars. She is the co-author of the Poynter Election Handbook: New Ways to Cover Campaigns (Third Edition, 1999).

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Glenn Guzzo:

  • Formerly: Reporter at the Dearborn (Mich.) Times-Herald and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Executive sports editor and suburban editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Assistant to the vice-presidents for news at Knight Ridder, Inc. Managing editor of the Akron Beacon Journal and editor of the Denver Post.
  • Guzzo created The Inquirer’s suburban Neighbors sections, which were emulated at other newspapers, and he led Knight Ridder’s widely emulated democracy/voter-participation initiatives in 1990 and 1992.
  • He was ethics-committee chairman for the Associated Press Sports Editors and has served on the ethics, newsroom leadership and other committees for the Associated Press Managing Editors.
  • Guzzo is the author of the book, Strat-O-Matic Fanatics: The Unlikely Success Story of a Game that Became an American Passion. Throughout the 1990s, Guzzo published STRAT FAN, a magazine for those who have shared his life-long interest in Strat-O-Matic sports games.

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Rosalie Stemer:

  • Newsroom and writing coach.
  • Formerly: Reporter and editor at The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Daily News and Kansas City Times. Feature writer for Time magazine's college guide issue and Newsweek Japan.
  • Stemer has taught editing in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the Graduate Department of Communication at Stanford University.

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Maud “Missy” Beelman:

  • Projects editor for the Dallas Morning News.
  • Formerly: founding director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. Her work there won a George Polk, an IRE and an SPJ award for investigative reporting. For 14 years, Maud worked for The Associated Press in the United States and abroad. She spent five years covering the war in the Balkans for the AP before moving to Washington as a fellow of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, where her work focused on U.S. policy in the Balkans and, specifically, Washington's support for clandestine weapons shipments to the Bosnian Muslims during the war.

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Wendell "Sonny" Rawls:

  • Professor at Middle Tennessee State University’s School of Journalism. Rawls also works as a screenwriter and producer of television and feature films.
  • Formerly: Sports writer and investigative reporter at the Nashville Tennessean. Investigative reporter for the City Hall Bureau, New Jersey Bureau Chief, and first national correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Investigative reporter for the Washington Bureau, regional specialist based in Atlanta, and Southern Bureau Chief of The New York Times. Assistant managing editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  • 1977 Pulitzer Prize winner for his investigation of atrocities inside a hospital for the criminally insane.

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Dave Jones:

  • Formerly: Reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York and Pittsburgh, where he won a Loeb Award for business reporting. National correspondent, national labor correspondent, assistant national editor, national editor, assistant managing editor at The New York Times.
  • After 40 years in the newsroom at The Times, Jones spent five years as a consulting editor for recruiting.

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Jim Doyle:

  • Formerly: Washington bureau chief for The Boston Globe. National correspondent for The Washington Star. Chief political correspondent and deputy Washington bureau chief for Newsweek magazine. Vice president and executive editor of Army Times Publishing Company.
  • Doyle was a member of the team which won The Boston Globe its first Pulitzer Prize, for distinguished public service, in 1966.
  • In 1973 Doyle joined a special unit of the U.S. Justice Department as spokesman for Watergate Special Prosecutors Archibald Cox and Leon Jaworski.

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