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 Toren Beasley is
managing editor at the
Newhouse News Service, where he is leading
the newsroom transition to a Web-based system
of content sharing. His duties include training
reporters, Web editors and publishers in the
newsroom, and oversight of newhouse.com.
Beasley previously served as director of
photography and new media. During his tenure Newhouse won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for "Female Circumcision in Kenya"; that project also won World Press Photography and Pictures of the Year awards. In 1995, Newhouse and photographer Carl Bower were Pulitzer Prize finalists in feature photography for the series "Breast Cancer." The news service also won first place at the World Press Photography awards for Michelle Frankfurter's work documenting Haiti's bitter revolution. Beasley served as chairman of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize photography jury and
was a member of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize photography jury.
Maureen
Bunyan is a veteran television news broadcaster and a
primary anchor for ABC 7 in Washington, D.C. She anchors the
6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weeknight newscasts. Winner of seven local
Emmys, Bunyan has received many honors in her more than 30 years
of broadcasting. She has been inducted into the Hall of Fame
of the Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists,
The Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences (NATAS) and the Broadcast Pioneers Club of Washington.
She also received NATAS' Ted Yates Award, given to broadcast
news leaders in Washington, D.C. She was named Journalist of
the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists in 1990, received
the Immigrant Achievement Award from the American Immigration
Law Foundation in 2002, and was named a Washingtonian of the
Year by Washingtonian magazine in 1992.
Bunyan
is a founder and board member of the International Women's
Media Foundation and a founder of the National Association
of Black Journalists. She also serves on the Girl Scout Council
of the Nation's Capital Women's Advisory Board and the Advisory
Committee of Women in Film & Video and is a board member
of Women of Washington. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and
holds a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of
Education. She was born in Aruba and grew up in southeastern
Wisconsin.
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 Patty
Fisher writes editorials primarily about children and
family issues for the San Jose Mercury News. Before joining
the editorial board in 1990, she worked as a local news editor
at several papers, including the Mercury News and The Miami
Herald. Fisher was a fellow at the 1996 national the Journalism Center conference
and two regional conferences. In 1998 she received a Casey
Medal for a series on welfare reform. She joined the Journalism Center's advisory
board in 2003. Born and raised in the Chicago area, Fisher
holds a master's degree in journalism from the University
of Missouri.
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 Jon
Franklin is a pioneer in narrative and explanatory
storytelling, winning first-in-category Pulitzer Prizes in
both journalistic genres. His trademark is his ability
to take the reader into the lives and everyday working dramas
of those who keep our culture running, from surgeons to janitors
to public health nurses. His experience includes eight years
as a Navy journalist, four years on a weekly and 15 years
writing for The Evening Sun in Baltimore. His books include "Writing for Story" (NAL-Plume, 1994) and "Molecules
of the Mind" (Bantam Dell, 1988). He is the Philip Merrill Professor at
the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University
of Maryland, College Park.
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Jeffrey
L. Katz is senior supervising producer at NPR Online. He previously served as an editor at National Public Radio's Morning Edition; he was also an editor on NPR's national desk, where he was responsible for coverage of education, welfare and sports stories. Before joining
NPR in 1999, Katz spent two decades in print journalism. He
worked as a newspaper reporter at The Commercial
Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., and The Milwaukee Journal. He then became a staff writer
at Governing and Congressional Quarterly magazines. Katz,
who grew up in Philadelphia and suburban Chicago, graduated
with honors from the University of Illinois, where he received
a bachelor of science degree in journalism in 1978.
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 David
Lawrence Jr. retired in 1999 as publisher of The Miami Herald to work in the area of early childhood development
and readiness. He is president of the Early Childhood Initiative
Foundation and the university scholar for Early Childhood
Development and Readiness at the University of Florida. In
2002 he led the successful campaign for the Children's Trust,
a source of early intervention and prevention funding
for children in Miami-Dade; he now is the chair.
Named by Gov. Jeb Bush to the Florida Partnership for School
Readiness, he chaired that oversight board for two terms.
In 2002-2003, he chaired the Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel
on Child Protection. In 2002, he was a key figure in passage
of the statewide constitutional amendment to provide
high-quality pre-K for all 4-year-olds. In 2004 he served as the governor's
special assistant for universal pre-K implementation.
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 Alfred
Pérez is a student at the University of Chicago pursing a doctorate in social welfare. Previously he served in Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano’s administration working on child welfare oversight and overseeing the state's community service and voluntarism grants. He was a policy analyst for the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care; a research associate for Westat (a social science research firm); a caseworker for Santa Clara County, Calif., social services agency and outreach coordinator for California Youth Connection. Pérez holds a bachelor's degree in social work with a minor in speech communications from San José State University and a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan.
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Gene
Roberts is a professor at the Philip Merrill College
of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. He came to the
college in 1991, following 18 years as the executive editor
of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which won 17 Pulitzer Prizes
during his editorship. He took a hiatus from his university
work from 1994 to 1997 to serve as managing editor of The
New York Times. In 1998, he returned to the college, where
he teaches courses on writing the complex story, the press
and the civil rights movement and newsroom management. He
received the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award for
Distinguished Contributions to Journalism in 1993.
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Laura Sessions Stepp,
a Pulitzer Prize-winning former journalist for The Washington Post, has written for more than a decade about the lives, legends
and culture of youth.
Her second book, "Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love, and Lose at Both" (Riverhead/Penguin), was released in January 2007. Her first book was a widely acclaimed profile of middle-school children, "Our Last Best
Shot: Guiding Our Children Through Early Adolescence"
(Penguin/Putnam, 2000). She has been a speaker at numerous
events including the White House Conference on Raising Responsible
Teenagers. She has been interviewed on NBC's "Today"
show, CNN and NPR, among other venues. She received her bachelor's degree from Earlham
College and her master's degree from the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism.
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Celeste Williams is
an award-winning journalist who covered general assignment/urban
affairs and special projects, and was a social issues editor
at the Indianapolis Star. Previously she was a general assignment
and special projects reporter, a magazine writer and a senior
editor of Issues at the Milwaukee Journal/Journal Sentinel from 1990-1997. She was a general assignment reporter at the
Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal, and the Birmingham (Ala.)
Post-Herald, and a features writer at the Marion Chronicle-Tribune in Marion, Ind., after graduating from Ball State University
in Muncie, Indiana with a bachelor's degree in Journalism
in 1979.
Her awards include the 1983 Gannett "Well Done"
award; a first-place award for writing from the Alabama Press Association; a first-place award from the National Mental Health
Association for a series chronicling lives of mentally ill
persons in Alabama;and the Scripps Howard Writer of the Year in 1986. She was also
a Journalism Center fellow
in 1993 and has been a member of the Journalism Center's advisory board since 1996.
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Judy Woodruff is a senior correspondent and 2008 political editor for "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. She has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS.
Woodruff also served as executive editor of "Generation Next: Speak Up. Be Heard." The documentary project interviewed young Americans and reported on their views, and included an hour-long documentary produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions that aired on many PBS stations in January 2007; a series of reports on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer; reports on NPR and in USA Today; and partnerships with Yahoo! and Film Your Issue. A second hour-long "Generation Next" documentary aired in 2007.
For 12 years, Woodruff served as anchor and senior correspondent for CNN, anchoring the weekday political program, Inside Politics. Woodruff also played a central role in the network's political coverage and other major news stories. And at PBS from 1983 to 1993, she was the chief Washington correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. From 1984-1990, she also anchored PBS' award-winning weekly documentary series, "Frontline with Judy Woodruff."
At NBC News, Woodruff served as White House correspondent from 1977 to 1982. For one year after that she served as NBC's "Today Show" chief Washington correspondent. She wrote the book, "This is Judy Woodruff at the White House," published in 1982 by Addison-Wesley.
Woodruff is a founding co-chair of the International Women's Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in communication industries worldwide. She serves on the boards of trustee of the Freedom Forum and Global Rights: Partners for Justice and in 2005 became a member of The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and the Board of the National Museum of American History. Woodruff is a graduate of Duke University, where she is a trustee emerita.
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