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City and Regional Magazine Awards Judges
A team was composed of University of Missouri
School of Journalism faculty and practicing magazine professionals
to judge the annual City and Regional Magazine Awards. Three
judges per award category scored entries on a 100-point scale.
Five judges per general excellence category rated those entries.
The School of Journalism then collected, tallied and averaged
the judges' scores to determine the winners for each category.
This year's judges were:
Tim Alexander
Art Director
Better Homes and Gardens Special Interest Publications, Garden
Group
Tim Alexander is the Art Director for Meredith Corporations
Special Interest Publications Garden Group. The Garden Group
produces 25 magazines per year including Country Gardens,
Garden Ideas, Garden, Deck, and Landscape, Garden Shed, and
Perennials. Tim has worked at Meredith for the past 24 years
with varied creative responsibilities in the areas of magazine
publishing, interactive media, and television production.
Danita Allen
(Former) Meredith Chair and Professor,
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Editor-in-chief and owner, Missouri Life magazine
Danita Allen is editor-in-chief and co-owner of Missouri Life
magazine and Missouri Life, Inc., which also custom publishes
other magazines. She and her husband bought and revived the
magazine in 1999. Since then, it has won three awards from
the International and Regional Magazine Association for excellence
in design and for reader service and historical stories. She
served as the Meredith Chair for Service Journalism at the
University of Missouri School of Journalism for 10 years,
from 1995 to 2005. At Missouri she taught advanced editing,
publishing, writing, or reporting classes, and she has lectured
at Folio and other magazine conferences around the country.
Before teaching, she spent 15 years with Meredith Corporation,
the publisher of Better Homes & Gardens, Ladies Home Journal,
Midwest Living, Country Home, Wood, Successful Farming, and
other magazines. While there, she was the founding editor
of Country America, which reached a million paid circulation
and was named by the industry as one of the Five Best Magazines
of 1991 and to the “10 Hottest Magazines” list
for three years.
Jacqui Banaszynski
Pulitzer Prize Winner
Professor and Knight Chair in Editing
Associate Managing Editor, The Seattle Times
Jacqui Banaszynski was promoted in February 2003 to associate
managing editor for special projects and staff development
at The Seattle Times. Also among the notable achievements
of her 30-year career as news reporter and editor at newspapers
in the Upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest is a Pulitzer Prize
in feature writing that she earned while at The St. Paul (Minn.)
Pioneer Press. That same year she won an SPJ Distinguished
Service Award and an Associate Press Sports Editors 1st place
spot news for the Olympics. She was finalist for a Pulitzer
Prize in international reporting in 1986 and has since served
as a Pulitzer juror four times. Banaszynski is also on the
visiting faculty at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg,
Fla.
Jason Bane
Writer
People magazine
Jason Bane is a Denver-based stringer for People magazine,
primarily responsible for covering Colorado, Wyoming, Montana
and Idaho. Working out of the Los Angeles bureau, Bane has
focused on human interest stories throughout the West, but
has also done his share of celebrity reporting on everyone
from Ben Affleck and Kevin Costner to Michael Jackson and
Demi Moore. Most recently, Bane extensively covered the Kobe
Bryant rape case, where he broke the story of two secret outcry
witnesses in the case that would likely have been called to
testify against Bryant. Previously, Bane worked as a reporter
and writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inside Education
magazine, and Westwind Media in Denver.
Alex Bhattacharji
Executive Editor
Budget Living Media
Alex Bhattacharji joined Budget Living as Executive Editor
in 2002 to help oversee the lifestyle magazine's launch. Since
its debut, in October of that year, the fledgling independent
magazine has garnered Advertising Age and Adweek's start-up
of the year awards, increased its circulation by forty percent
to 500,000, published two books and launched a syndicated
newspaper column. In 2004 it won the National Magazine Award
for General Excellence (circulation 250,000 to 500,000). Prior
to joining Budget Living, Bhattacharji was a senior editor
at Wenner Media's Men's Journal. During Bhattacharji's tenure
there, the magazine was a National Magazine Award finalist
four times. He previously worked at Sports Illustrated For
Kids and Macmillan Publishing Company.
Melissa Biggs Bradley
Editor, Town & Country Travel
Features & Travel Editor, Town & Country
Melissa Biggs Bradley joined Town & Country in 1994 after
working for European Travel & Life and Avenue magazines.
Richard Botto
Founder, Editor and CEO
Razor
Richard Botto attended the Connecticut School of Broadcasting
and was an on-air personality for radio stations in the New
York tri-state area. He later began a career in Internet marketing,
development and e-commerce. After achieving success in those
fields, he launched Razor in 2000.
Judy Bolch
Professor and Harte Chair in Innovation
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Judy Bolch came to the school in 1997 from The (Raleigh, N.C.)
News & Observer where she was a managing editor. Her chair
co-sponsors the Tomorrow's Newspaper Design Contest with the
Society for News Design Foundation. She teaches writing using
a multi-disciplinary approach.
Erica Brooks
Designer
Bigfish Publications
Erica Brooks is a staff designer for Bigfish Publications'
three national lifestyle magazines: Spasearch, Poolsearch
and Hiatus Travel Magazine. She has previously worked for
Wedding and Home (Time, Inc., London). Erica was an award
winner in the college designer of the year category of the
Student Society for News Design's 2004 annual competition.
Jan Colbert
Associate Professor
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Jan Colbert is an associate professor at the Missouri School
of Journalism where she teaches classes on design, writing,
media issues and graduate research seminars. She has been
the executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors,
the managing editor and art director of The IRE Journal and
the National Book Critics Circle Journal and was co-editor
with John Ullmann of the second edition of “The Reporter’s
Handbook,” published by St. Martin’s Press. She
has worked as a reporter and editor of the Mexico (Mo.) Ledger.
Beth Collins
Staff Editor
Woman’s Day Special Interest Publications
Beth Collins has written for Real Simple, Food & Wine,
Food Arts, Honolulu Weekly, and several Woman's Day Specials.
She currently works in the editorial department of Woman's
Day Special Interest Publications.
Marianne Cotter
Managing Editor
Robb Report Worth
Marianne Cotter has been a magazine editor for 25 years, working
in every editorial capacity from staff writer to features
editor to managing editor and freelance writer. She is currently
the managing editor of Robb Report Worth magazine, a monthly
consumer publication on wealth management for high net worth
individuals.
Mike Curtis
Senior Editor
The Atlantic Monthly
Senior editor C. Michael Curtis edits virtually all Atlantic
fiction, the Letters to the Editor, and other pieces. He also
screens book-length first serial submissions and most unsolicited
stories. Under his direction, The Atlantic Monthly's fiction
is nominated for a National Magazine Award virtually every
year; in 1988 The Atlantic won this prestigious prize. Year
after year, short stories from the magazine are chosen for
inclusion in the important annual prize collections. Curtis
was the editor of “American Stories: Fiction From The
Atlantic Monthly,” which was published in 1990. A second
volume came out the following year, and 1992 saw the publication
of “Contemporary New England Stories.” A companion
volume, “Contemporary West Coast Stories,” was
published in the fall of 1993. A fifth collection, entitled
“God: Stories,” was published in December, 1998,
by Houghton Mifflin, and a companion anthology, “Faith:
Stories,” was published in 2003, also by Houghton Mifflin.
His own essays, articles, reviews, and poems have been published
in The Atlantic, The New Republic, National Review, and Sport,
among other periodicals. Curtis has taught creative writing,
ethics, grammar, and other subjects for more than thirty years
at Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Tufts, Boston University, Bennington,
and elsewhere.
Darren Dahl
Reporter
Inc. Magazine
Prior to joining the Inc. magazine staff as a reporter, Darren
Dahl learned about entrepreneurial life first-hand while working
for three startup software companies. He holds an MBA from
the State University of New York at Albany.
Richard Eisenberg
Special Projects Editor
Good Housekeeping
Richard Eisenberg has been Special Projects Director for Good
Housekeeping since 1998. He edits a weekly syndicated Good
Housekeeping newspaper column, manages the Good Housekeeping
web site (www.goodhousekeeping.com), produces the Good Housekeeping
Reports syndicated TV news service, coordinates other Good
Housekeeping national TV projects and manages the Good Housekeeping
books program. Prior to joining Good Housekeeping, Eisenberg
was Executive Editor of Money magazine. He worked at Money
for 19 years, as a reporter, writer, Washington Correspondent,
Senior Editor and Assistant Managing Editor, before being
named Executive Editor. He has written two books: “The
Money Book of Personal Finance” and “How To Avoid
a Mid-Life Financial Crisis.”
Scott Fosdick
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Writer: Stagebill, American Theatre, Family Life, Parenting,
The Sunday New York Times
Scott Fosdick worked as a weekly newspaper editor in Wisconsin
before earning his masters in journalism from the University
of Wisconsin in Madison. For ten years he was the drama critic
and/or entertainment editor for a series of daily newspapers
in Chicago, New Jersey and Baltimore. He began writing for
magazines while earning his Ph.D. at Northwestern University,
where he researched the influence of the press on Chicago
theatrical development. His articles have appeared in a variety
of newspapers and magazines, including Stagebill, American
Theatre, Family Life, Parenting and The Sunday New York Times.
Fosdick was Director of the Magazine Program at Columbia College
in Chicago before joining the Missouri School of Journalism
in 1999.
Tom Foster
Deputy Editor
Men’s Journal
Tom Foster is features editor and deputy editor at Men’s
Journal, where he has been since 2000.
Ken Fuson
Reporter
The Des Moines Register
Ken Fuson is a feature reporter at The Des Moines Register,
where he has worked since 1981, with the exception of three
years he spent at The Sun in Baltimore. He has won the American
Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award,
the Ernie Pyle award for feature writing, the National Headliner
Award, the Missouri Lifestyle Award (twice) and was one of
10 journalists awarded an Outstanding Achievement award in
the Best of Gannett Contest's 25th anniversary. An Iowa native,
Fuson has spoken at several National Writing Workshops.
Carolyn Gatto
President
Media Management Strategies
Former Vice President and Editor-in-Chief
Woman’s Day Special Interest Publications
Carolyn M. Gatto has 28 years of consumer magazine publishing
experience. Since 2001 she has been president of Media Management
Strategies, a consulting company that focuses on magazine
start-ups, reputation management, repositioning, marketing
and promotion. Prior to that she spent 25 years at the Woman’s
Day Special Interest Publications division of Hachette Filipacchi
Magazines in New York, where she was vice president and editor
in chief from 1991 to 2001. While there she handled up to
42 issues each year and consistently achieved top-10 profitability
among the company’s 29 magazines, as well as consistent
national ranking among the top 20 magazines in newsstand sales.
Chad Graham
News Features Editor
The Advocate magazine
Chad Graham has been a staff writer for The Hollywood Reporter
and a correspondent for the Associated Press. Most recently,
he was a business columnist for The Des Moines Register and
a business-features reporter covering everything from farming
to pop culture. He is currently the News Features editor of
The Advocate magazine, the country's leading gay and lesbian
news magazine.
Ralph Groom
Freelance Art Director
Disney Adventures
Ralph Groom is currently the art director of Disney Adventures,
the nation's largest circulated children's magazine with a
readership of 1.25 million. He has worked at such publications
as Men's Health, Sports Illustrated for Women, Seventeen,
Fortune Small Business, and Conde Nast’s Women's Sports
and Fitness.
Erynn Hedrick
Art Assistant
Real Simple
Bradford W.S. Hong
Creative Director
Better Homes and Gardens
Bradford Hong is Creative Director of Better Homes and Gardens
magazine and is responsible for all visual content for the
magazine, with subject matter dealing with interior design,
architecture, landscaping, food, entertaining, health and
family matters. He also works on branding special issues and
projects that relate to the Better Homes and Gardens brand.
Brant Houston
Director
Investigative Reporters and Editors
Brant Houston is executive director of Investigative Reporters
and Editors, a professional non-profit organization of 5,000
members in the U.S. and around the world, and a professor
at the Missouri School of Journalism. He also oversees the
National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting, a joint
program of the school and IRE. As executive director of IRE,
he runs the operations of IRE, which today include more than
50 conferences and seminars a year, a resource center and
data library for journalists, numerous publications and a
Web site, and a staff of about 25 full-time and part-time
employees. He teaches investigative reporting and computer-assisted
reporting to both students and working professionals. Before
coming to the school and IRE in 1994, he was an investigative
reporter for 17 years at several newspapers including The
Hartford Courant and the Kansas City Star. He is a co-author
of "The Investigative Reporter's Handbook" and author
of "Computer-Assisted Reporting: A Practical Guide."
He also is chair of the Council of National Journalism Organizations,
a group of 40 non-profit associations.
Managing Editor
Remix Magazine
Erin Hutton is managing editor of Remix, a national magazine
dedicated to the production and performance of electronic
and urban music, published by Primedia Business Magazines
& Media. She joined the magazine as a staff editor in
2002 before being named managing editor. Before that, she
was copy editor with Electronic Musician magazine, also published
by Primedia.
Eliot Kaplan
Editorial Talent Director
Hearst
Eliot Kaplan is the Editorial Talent Director for Hearst Magazines,
a unique position of scouting and recruiting the nation’s
top editors, writers and art directors for the company’s
18 magazines and start-up ventures. These magazines include
Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar and O, The Oprah
Magazine. Kaplan himself has had a distinguished career in
magazine editing. In his seven years as editor-in-chief, Philadelphia
Magazine won two National Magazine Awards and was nominated
a total of five times, including, for the first time in the
magazine’s history, in the General Excellence category.
The magazine also won many other major awards, including Sigma
Delta Chi, Headliners and Clarion. Kaplan has been credited
with reinvigorating the publication and garnering national
headlines for a number of stories. Circulation and advertising
rose appreciably, and he oversaw a complete modernization,
both graphically and technologically, of the magazine’s
format. Media Week named him one of a handful of “Young
Editors to Watch” during the next generation, and alumni
of his tenure went to work for more than a dozen national
magazines, including Vanity Fair, New York, GQ, Men’s
Health, Sports Illustrated, Money, Men’s Journal, ESPN
and Cosmopolitan. Before joining Philadelphia, Kaplan was
managing editor of Gentlemen’s Quarterly. As the No.
2 editor to Art Cooper, in charge of story assignment, editing
and personnel, he helped transform the Conde Nast publication
into one of the most influential and successful magazines
in the country. At GQ, he worked with such writers as David
Remnick, Tom Junod, David Halberstam, Garry Wills, Joe Klein,
Fred Exley, Ben Stein, Mitch Albom, Peter Mehlman, Pat Jordan,
Walter Kirn and Jennet Conant.
Joyce Rutter Kaye
Editor-In-Chief
Print magazine
Joyce Rutter Kaye is editor-in-chief of Print, the bimonthly
magazine about graphic design and visual culture. During her
tenure as editor (2003-present) and managing editor (1998-2003)
the magazine garnered four nominations for the National Magazine
Award for General Excellence, winning the award in 2002. Before
joining Print, Kaye was managing editor of U&lc (Upper
and lower case), a type and design magazine, a reporter for
Advertising Age/Creativity, and a freelance writer covering
design, visual culture and consumer trends.
Amanda Kazdoy
Editor
Funworld
Amanda Kazdoy oversees the editorial direction of this international
trade magazine devoted to the amusement park business. She
assigns, edits, writes, represents the magazine, and supervises
two other editors. Prior to this position, she worked for
a custom-magazine publisher in New York for three years as
an associate editor, where she assigned, wrote and edited
articles about celebrities, women's health, sports and fitness
and pop culture.
Andrew Lawrence
Writer
Sports Illustrated
Andrew Lawrence has covered Big 10 sports and the NBA as a
writer for the Associated Press. He now works as a general
assignment reporter for Sports Illustrated, also helping to
coordinate and produce special issues, such as the publication
commemorating the Red Sox win in the World Series in 2004.
Tim Leong
Assistant Art Director
Men’s Health
As the Assistant Art Director at Men's Health magazine, Tim
oversees the Malegrams department and designs features. Formerly
the art director at Vox magazine, a weekly tabloid at Columbia,
Missouri, Tim led the publication to several national design
awards, and was named the College Designer of the Year by
Student Society for News Design.
Steve Mazzucchi
Assistant Editor
Maxim
After stints at Men's Health and the sadly defunct MH-18,
Steve Mazzucchi moved to LA to become famous. Instead, he
ended up working at a tanning salon owned by former American
Gladiator Lori "Ice" Fetrick and making a Hollywood
documentary called "We Own This Town." He then flexed
his editorial skills at Muscle & Fitness magazine before
moving back east in 2004. He now resides at Maxim, where he
works on the How To, Instant Expert and Sports departments
and tries not to get hit by flying Gummi Bears and other confectionary
projectiles.
Jana Meier
Designer
Outside
Jana Meier is a designer who is part of what PDN (Photo District
News) magazine called the "Creative Team of the Year"
in 2003. She was an intern at Outside completing her master’s
degree and was subsequently hired as a designer. She designs
all parts of the magazine (front of book, back of book and
features) and recently art directed a special travel issue.
She also does freelance graphic design work.
Julie Mihaly
Creative and Visual Consultant
Mihaly has worked as photo editor and researcher for two decades
at magazines ranging from Vanity Fair to Garden Design, Entertainment
Weekly to In Style, Spy to Field and Stream. She's contributed
to projects for Aperture, the Sundance Film Festival, the
Ford Foundation, People, Organic Style, Redbook, Newsweek,
et al. In addition to working on a number of magazine prototypes,
including Domino for Conde Nast, Mihaly served as the original
creative director and photo director of ASME-award-winning
Budget Living magazine. She continues to work as a writer,
editor and creative consultant from her base in Brooklyn,
NY.
Jennifer Moeller
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Jennifer Moeller is Editorial Director of Vox, a weekly tabloid
in the Columbia Missourian. She worked as communications coordinator
and editor for a nonprofit organization in St. Louis and served
as president of an association of editors before joining the
faculty at her alma mater in 1998. Freelance writing projects
have appeared in Missouri Life, Real Simple and Elle magazines.
Kathy Moran
Picture Editor
National Geographic
Terrance Noland
Articles Editor
Esquire
Terrance Noland is articles editor at Esquire, where he edits
features and front-of-the-book pieces. He joined the magazine
in October 2003. Before that, he was articles editor at SmartMoney
and managing editor at Business North Carolina.
George Olsen
Travel Pictures Editor
Sunset magazine
Travel Picture Editor of Sunset magazine, George Olsen began
his career as a newspaper photographer for The Topeka Capital-Journal
and The Kansas City Star. He moved to San Francisco in 1977,
where he was based as a freelancer. He shot for many publications,
including National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated,
Smithsonian and The New York Times, and had many corporate
clients as well. He also served as a freelance picture editor
for the San Francisco Examiner, and many of the series of
“Day in the Life…” books. He was also a
picture editor on the books Christmas in America, Jews in
America, One Earth, and “The Power to Heal,” produced
by the Day in the Life staff. He was director of photography
of the book “Baseball in America,” published by
Collins, and he edited the Las Vegas book “Planet Vegas”
for the same publisher. He has served on the faculty of the
Jackson Hole workshop Photography at the Summit. He has also
taught Photojournalism as an extension course for the University
of California, Berkeley. He has been with Sunset magazine
since 1995.
Lamont Olsen
Managing Editor
Better Homes and Gardens
Lamont Olson is managing editor of Better Homes and Gardens
magazine, one of the nation's largest publications with paid
circulation of 7.6 million. He joined the magazine in 1989
after serving as managing editor for a group of newsstand-only
magazines at parent company Meredith Corp. He has also served
as an editor of nonfiction books. Before joining Des Moines-based
Meredith, Olson worked as reporter and editor for several
newspapers, including The Des Moines Register and Palm Beach
(FL) Post. He serves on the professional advisory board of
the University of Iowa School of Journalism.
Neil Pond
Editor-In-Chief
Country Weekly
Formerly Editor of the country music publications Music City
News, Country Weekly and Country Music magazine, and former
entertainment editor of Country America magazine. Recipient
of the 2000 Media Honors Award from the Country Music Association,
which recognizes achievement in media coverage of country
music.
Dawn Raffel
Executive Articles Editor
O, The Oprah Magazine
Dawn Raffel is the executive articles editor of O, The Oprah
magazine. She is also the author of a novel, “Carrying
the Body,” and a story collection, “In the Year
of Long Division.”
Don Ranly
Professor
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Don Ranly became head of the magazine sequence in 1976, just
two years after he joined the Missouri School of Journalism
faculty. Before making Missouri his home, Ranly worked for
eight years in Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana as a newspaper
reporter, a magazine editor, a weekly columnist, a radio host
and a television producer, director and host. During his 30
years of service at the Journalism School, he has conducted
nearly 1,000 writing and editing seminars for press associations,
corporations, associations and individual newspapers and magazines.
He has also authored or co-authored five books and published
several audio- and videocassettes on reporting, writing and
grammar. In 1995, Ranly received a University of Missouri
Faculty-Alumni Award and was named the O.O. McIntyre Distinguished
Professor of Journalism. Three years later, he won a University
of Missouri Golden Chalk teaching award and published “Publication
Editing” (Kendall/Hunt). In 2002, he was named a Fellow
of the International Association of Business Communicators;
in 2003 he won one of the University of Missouri's most prestigious
teaching awards, the William T. Kemper Fellowship.
Anjula Razdan
Senior Editor
Anjula Razdan is a senior editor at Utne magazine.
Rita Reed
Director, College Photographer of the Year
Recipient, Nikon Sabbatical Grant for Documentary Photography
Associate Professor at the University of Missouri School of
Journalism
Rita Reed joined the photojournalism faculty in 2001 after
20 years as a working photojournalist with Star Tribune in
Minneapolis, Minn. and The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
She has worked not only on local, regional and national stories,
but also internationally in Haiti, Bolivia, Columbia, Taiwan,
China and the countries of the former Eastern Block. She was
the 1993 recipient of the Nikon Sabbatical Grant for Documentary
Photography for the completion of work on a photographic book
about gay and lesbian teenagers. She maintains an interest
in and concern for adolescents and the issues they face.
Mason Resnick
Managing Editor
Popular Photography & Imaging
Mason Resnick has a lifetime of involvement in photography
and over 20 years working in the photographic press, starting
as the associate editor of Modern Photography, a consumer
magazine with a circulation of 500,000, from 1983 to 1989,
then Managing Editor of Photo Business 1989-93, and finally
Editor and Publisher of Black & White World (www.photogs.com/bwworld),
an e-zine devoted to B&W photography, started in 1995.
He has been managing editor of Popular Photography & Imaging
since 2000.
Jim Romanoff
Food Editor
Eating Well
Jim is known for creative and healthful recipes that range
from weeknight quick and easy to elegant light entertaining.
He oversees all the food development and testing for the magazine
and is uncompromising when it comes to recipes that are both
foolproof and delicious. Jim was formerly food editor for
Woman’s Day Special Interest Magazines, editor of Fresh
Ideas About Everything in Your Supermarket, as well as a regular
contributor to Eating Well. He has traveled, food-shopped
and eaten throughout the world.
Julia Savacool
Senior News Editor
Marie Claire
Julia Savacool is the senior news editor at Marie Claire,
where she has been for almost two years. Previously, she was
a senior editor at Good Housekeeping and the psychology editor
at Self. She began her career at Child magazine. She has written
features for Marie Claire, Glamour, Self, Redbook and other
magazines. At Self, Savacool received a journalist award from
the American Psychiatric Association for her feature "The
New Mental Health Crisis" about lack of insurance parity
for mental health care. At Marie Claire, Savacool's domestic
violence package in the October 2004 issue received recognition
on Capitol Hill, where Savacool spoke at a briefing.
Michelle T. Shinseki
Site Director & Health Editor
AmericanBaby.com & HealthyKids.com
Michelle T. Shinseki, site director of AmericanBaby.com and
HealthyKids.com, has worked on many lifestyle websites, including
iVillage.com, Parenting.com and WiseBear.com. Before working
on the Web, she was a book editor at William Morrow and coauthor
of the book, “The Secret Life of Teens: Young People
Speak Out About Their Lives.”
Heather Morgan Shott
Online Editor
National Geographic Traveler
Heather Morgan Shott is the editor of National Geographic
Traveler magazine’s website (www.nationalgeographic.com/traveler).
Under Morgan Shott’s leadership, the website has won
the gold Lowell Thomas award for “Best Internet Publication/Website”
in 2002 and 2003. Morgan Shott joined National Geographic
nearly five years ago to redesign Traveler magazine’s
online presence. Since then, she has launched several online
features, including a weekly travel deals column and a travel-related
consumer news series, which have more than tripled traffic
to the site. As Traveler’s online editor, she has also
been a guest on National Public Radio’s “Public
Interest” talk show. She was the travel editor for Love-Track.com
from 2000 to 2001. Before coming to National Geographic, Morgan
Shott was an investigative reporter for a newspaper group
in Columbus, Ohio, and a contributor to such publications
as BOMB, the Washington City Paper, and the book review section
of Michigan University Press’ The Historian.
Patricia Smith
Managing Editor,
International Press Institute’s Global Journalist magazine
Assistant Professor
University of Missouri School of Journalism
Patricia Smith is managing editor of IPI Global Journalist,
the magazine of the International Press Institute, which is
published at the Missouri School of Journalism. She also teaches
an undergraduate news class and serves on graduate students’
professional projects committees. She has more than 30 years
of journalism experience and has worked on newspapers and
magazines as an editor, reporter, writer, and art director.
Pat has designed numerous magazines and has served as a consultant
for specialized communication projects that include publication
design, writing, rewriting and editing, and planning for profit
and non-profit organizations.
Tina Smithers
Assistant Editor
M Magazine
Tina Smithers is currently the assistant editor for M Magazine,
the fastest-growing teen entertainment magazine on the market.
She currently resides in Hoboken, NJ, and has been published
in Us Weekly, Best Body, Two Drink Minimum and Seventeen.com.
Richard Sowienski
Managing Editor
The Missouri Review
Richard Sowienski serves as managing editor for the literary
magazine The Missouri Review. Previously, he was parenting
and education editor for Better Homes and Gardens magazine
as well as senior editor for Country America, a country music
and lifestyle magazine. His background includes marketing
and advertising, where he garnered numerous communications
awards.
Chris Suellentrop
Freelance Writer
Chris Suellentrop is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.
He spent five years at Slate, most recently as the magazine's
deputy Washington bureau chief and 2004 campaign correspondent.
He has written for, among other publications, the Los Angeles
Times, the New York Observer, and the Washington Post.
James Tehrani
Senior Editor
Consumer’s Digest magazine
James Tehrani is a senior editor at Consumers Digest magazine.
Before coming to Consumers Digest, he worked as an editor
at Arthur Andersen, a senior editor at ChinaOnline and a copy
editor at Crain's Electronic Media (now known as TV Week).
Tom Vanderbilt
Columnist
Art Forum
Tom Vanderbilt is a New York City-based writer on architecture,
design, technology, science and other topics. He is contributing
editor to I.D. (International Design) and Print magazine,
and writes for a wide range of publications, including: The
New York Times, Wired, The Financial Times, Smithsonian, Preservation,
Slate, Metropolis, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Harvard Design
Magazine, Cabinet, Artforum, and others. He is also a contributing
writer to Design Observer, at www.designobserver.com. He is
also author of “Survival City: Adventures Among the
Ruins of Atomic America” (Princeton Architectural Press),
and “The Sneaker Book: Anatomy of an Industry”
and “Icon” (The New Press). He has also contributed
to a number of books, including “Supercade: A Visual
History of the Videogame Age” (The MIT Press), “Commodify
Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler” (W.W. Norton),
“Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New
Economy” (W.W. Norton), and “The World and the
Wild” (University of Arizona Press). He has recently
written on everything from the architectural history of the
quonset hut (for an exhibition mounted by the Alaska Design
Forum) to the neuroscientific underpinnings of urban navigation
(for the forthcoming Else/Where Mapping book to be published
by the Design Institute of the University of Minnesota).
Courtnay Sander Walsh
Copy Chief
Latina
Courtnay Sander Walsh currently works as copy chief for Latina
in New York City. She has previously worked as copy editor
at Ladies' Home Journal and associate editor at Global Cosmetics
Industry magazine, and has done freelance writing and editing
for Living Room Magazine, Latin Girl Magazine, Careers &
Colleges Magazine, LHJ.com and the Liberty Travel Web site.
She is a regular speaker at NYU's Copy Editing course for
their School of Continuing Education.
Steve Weinberg
Professor
University of Missouri Journalism School
Steve Weinberg is one of the most prolific writers in the
School of Journalism. He is author of six books, both trade
books and textbooks, and has several contracts pending for
other books. He’s been especially prolific as a freelancer,
having published in newspapers and magazines around the country.
He has worked as a reporter for Metro-East Journal in East
St. Louis, IL and at The Des Moines Register. Currently, he
is a contributing editor of The IRE Journal, the magazine
of Investigative Reporters & Editors; he served as IRE’s
executive director from 1983-1990. At MU since 1978, he teaches
Magazine Writing.
Allison Young
Executive Editor/Creative Director
Razor
Before joining Razor, Allison Young spent two years as Lifestyles
Editor at Oxygen magazine.
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