City and Regional Magazine Awards Judges

JUDGES FOR 2006-2007 CRMA AWARDS

Elfrieda Abbey
Editor and Publisher, The Writer magazine
Elfrieda Abbey is the editor and publisher of The Writer magazine. She formerly was the arts and entertainment editor for the Milwaukee Sentinel and a feature writer specializing in film, art and books for regional and national publications.

Tim Alexander
Art Director, Meredith's Garden & Specialty Magazine Group
Tim Alexander works with the specialty magazine group, which has 28 magazines. He started his career with Meredith as a designer in the sales promotion department of Better Homes, where he served as associate art director before moving to the position of creative director for interactive media.

Neil Amdur
Senior Editor, New York Times
In a journalistic career that has spanned over 40 years, Neil Amdur has been involved in all forms of publishing as an editor and reporter, including newspapers, television, magazines and books. Most recently, he served as sports editor of the New York Times from 1990 through 2002 and as senior editor of recruiting for the paper from 2003 through 2005.

Colman Andrews
Restaurant Columnist, Gourmet
Colman Andrews is a co-founder of Saveur and was editor-in-chief of the magazine until August 2006. He is also the co-author and co-editor of Saveur Cooks Authentic American and the author of three acclaimed food books of his own: Everything on the Table, Flavors of the Riviera and Catalan Cuisine. His culinary memoir, Still Hungry After All These Years, will be published in 2007.

James Baggett
Editor, Perennials
James Baggett now works with Meredith's garden titles, and he has been a consumer magazine editor for 23 years. He was founding managing editor of Elle Décor, garden editor of American HomeStyle & Gardening, author of a book for Martha Stewart and former executive editor of Country Living Gardener and Rebecca's Garden.

Karlyn Barker
Former Editor, Washington Post
Karlyn Barker recently retired after working for more than 30 years at The Washington Post as a reporter and editor. She covered the Maryland and Virginia legislatures, D.C. government and a variety of general assignment stories ranging from giant panda mating to problems with the city's group homes for the mentally retarded. She also helped with The Post's Watergate coverage and edited The Post's community weekly.

Jackie Bell
Assistant Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Jackie Bell has 15 years of combined experience as a staff photographer at The Tennessean, The Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, The Arizona Daily Star and a chain of magazines in Tel Aviv, Israel. She came to the Missouri School of Journalism after working for two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Montana School of Journalism. She has also worked as adjunct faculty at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and Nashville State Technical Institute.

Tom Bierderbeck
Editor, STEP inside design
Tom Bierderbeck is the editor of STEP inside design magazine.

Judy Bolch
Houston Harte Chair in Journalism, 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.

John Brady
Partner, Brady & Paul Communications
John "Jack" Brady is an experienced editor author and magazine consultant. He was editor-in-chief of Writer's Digest and Boston magazine and founding editor of The Artist's Magazine and M: The Magazine for Montessori Families. With magazine designer Greg Paul, he has overseen the redesign and repositioning of hundreds of publications and assisted with the launch of numerous new magazines. Brady is the author of the five books, including The Craft of Interviewing, Craft of the Screenwriter and the investigative biography Bad Boy: The life and politics of Lee Atwater. Brady is currently visiting professional at the Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. He also writes a monthly column on magazine editing for Folio:.

Lisa Clausen
Knight Professional Editor in Residence, Missouri School of Journalism
Lisa Clausen has worked as a design editor at a number of metros, including The Kansas City Star, the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. She is currently on leave from her role as the Features Design Director at the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis.

Beth Collins
Associate Editor, Woman's Day Specials
Beth Collins is an associate editor at Woman's Day specials magazines.

Jan Colbert
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Jan Colbert teaches classes in design, writing, media issues and graduate research seminars. Her research focuses on visual storytelling. She has been the executive director of Investigative Reporters and Editors, the managing editor and art director of The IRE 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 Ledger and has designed numerous magazines and books. She freelances as a book designer and photo editor and is currently writing a book on in-depth reporting, writing and photography methods.

Stephanie Craft
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Before earning a doctorate in communication from Stanford University, Stephanie Craft worked as a newspaper journalist in California, Arkansas and Washington. She holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri and a bachelor's degree in history from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research focuses on press practices and performance, journalism ethics and the role of journalism in a democracy. Current projects include a chapter on journalism transparency for the Handbook of Mass Media Ethics and a chapter in a 14-nation study on freedom of speech frames in coverage of the Danish cartoon controversy.

Mike Curtis
Senior Editor, The Atlantic Monthly
Under Mike Curtis' direction, The Atlantic Monthly's fiction is nominated for a National Magazine Award virtually every year; in 1988 The Atlantic won this prestigious prize. 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, and Contemporary West Coast Stories. 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 for more than 30 years at Harvard, MIT, Cornell, Tufts, Boston University, Bennington and elsewhere.

Margaret Duffy
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Margaret Duffy teaches courses in strategic communication, research methods and media management. Her research focuses on new and interactive media, especially with regard to advertising and the news. Another research interest is health communication, and she is the primary investigator for the Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center. Duffy has extensive professional experience and was an executive for GTE (Verizon) in marketing, advertising and public relations. Duffy consults frequently with clients as diverse as the Department of the Army and the Estee Lauder Corporation. She has presented research and conducted training with agencies and news groups in the U.S., China, the U.K., Thailand and South Africa.

Richard Eisenberg
Special Projects Director, Good Housekeeping
Richard Eisenberg edits the magazine's personal finance coverage, produces the Good Housekeeping Reports syndicated TV news service and Good Housekeeping TV specials, edits a weekly syndicated newspaper column and manages the goodhousekeeping.com Web site. Eisenberg was the Executive Editor of Money Magazine and is the author of two books: How to Avoid a Midlife Financial Crisis and The Money Book of Personal Finance.

Seth Fletcher
Health Editor, Men's Journal
Seth Fletcher has worked at Men's Journal since finishing University of Missouri's magazine writing master's program in 2003. He has written for Men's Journal, Salon, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, the Missouri Review and other publications.

Ramsey Flynn
Author and editor
Ramsey Flynn is the former chief editor of Baltimore magazine and a former staff writer at The Washingtonian and winner of a National Magazine Award. He has also held staff posts at Philadelphia Magazine and the late Brill's Content and freelanced for Men's Journal and Esquire. His book, Cry From the Deep, is the definitive account of what really happened in Russia's Kursk submarine disaster from the summer of 2000. He has helped produce documentaries about the wreck with both The History Channel and National Geographic Television.

Carla Frank
Design Director, O, The Oprah Magazine
Carla Frank helped launch O in April 2000. She has served as a member of the board of directors of the Society of Publication Designers (SPD) since 2003. Prior to her current post, she was the Art Director of Condé Nast Traveler magazine. In addition, she has worked with publications such as Time, The New York Times Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Garden Design, Saveur, and others. She has been honored with numerous awards from the Society of Publication Designers and other Art Directors clubs.

Ken Fuson
Reporter, The Des Moines Register
Ken Fuson has worked for The Des Moines Register for 22 years, interrupted only by the three years he spent at The Sun in Baltimore. He has won more than 30 state and national writing awards, including the Ernie Pyle award for feature writing (2002), the ASNE Distinguished Writing Award (1998), the Missouri Lifestyle Award (1998 and 2003) and the National Headliner Award (1996). He has won the Outstanding Achievement Award in the annual Best of Gannett contest a record four times.

Kim Garretson
Founder, Engine Partners
Kim Garretson founded Engine Partners, a venture capital firm focused on the media and advertising industries. Previously he was Director of Emerging Media at Best Buy, and earlier he co-founded NOVO, the fourth largest Internet professional services firm at its sale to the BCom3 agency group. He began his career as a senior editor at Better Homes and Gardens magazine.

Stephen George
Deputy Editor, Better Homes and Gardens
Stephen C. George edits the Living section of the magazine and is responsible for all health, family and travel content. His work has appeared in Outside, Men's Journal, Reader's Digest and many others, including regional magazines such as Chicago, Ohio and New Hampshire Profiles.

Michael Grinfeld
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Michael J. Grinfeld teaches courses in writing; journalism and conflict; covering terrorism; health, science and environmental writing; and media, law and the courts. He is also an adjunct associate professor at the MU School of Law and a senior fellow at its Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution. Grinfeld is currently a contributing editor for California Lawyer and Psychiatric Times magazines. Before joining the journalism faculty in 2001, he was a reporter with the Los Angeles Daily Journal and a civil trial lawyer for 16 years.

Margaret Guroff
Features Editor, AARP The Magazine
Margaret Guroff is a former reporter for the Patuxent Publishing Company and editor for Baltimore magazine. She holds an M.A. in nonfiction writing from Johns Hopkins University, where she also periodically teaches graduate writing courses.

Justin Heckert
Writer, Esquire, ESPN -The Magazine and others.
Justin Heckert was a staff writer for two years at Atlanta magazine, where he won the City and Regional Magazine Association's gold award for Writer of the Year in 2005 and the silver award in 2006. He has also written for The Oxford American, Magmascope Magazine and the Los Angeles Times.

Suzette Heiman
Associate Professor, Director of Planning and Communications, Missouri School of Journalism
Suzette Heiman oversees the School's Web site, publications and other marketing and media relations efforts. She is a member of Public Relations Society of America, serves on the National Advertising Review Board and is a co-author of Public Relations: The Profession and the Practice. Heiman joined the School's faculty in 1989.

Peter Hemmel
Art Director, Glamour
For the last eight years, Peter Hemmel has been a member of the Glamour magazine art department. This year in his new title, Hemmel has focused on refreshing and refining the magazine's vision. Prior to that he was creative director of the New York cultural guide HX Magazine and the national men's fashion and shopping magazine Empire.

Matt Hendrickson
Visiting Professor, Missouri School of Journalism.
Magazine writer and editor Matt Hendrickson has more than 15 years of experience in lifestyle and entertainment journalism. After starting his career at Seventeen, Hendrickson moved to Rolling Stone. In 2000, he helped launch Maximum Golf, a News Corp. publication where he edited all of the lifestyle content. After a stint as the music editor at Teen People, Hendrickson formed his own media consulting company, Big Swede Media, in 2003. His client list has included MTV, Time Inc., Hearst and Sports Development Corporation. Most recently, Matt was a contributing editor at Life magazine and currently writes for Details.

Amanda Hinnant
Assistant Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Amanda Hinnant teaches magazine writing and magazine scholarship. A former writer for Glamour and Real Simple magazines, she earned her doctorate in Communication Studies at Northwestern University in 2006. While in Chicago, Hinnant was a contributing editor for Real Simple and a semi-regular guest on Chicagoland television as principle author of Real Simple Solutions (Time Inc, 2005). Hinnant's research interests include the production and consumption of health information in mainstream consumer magazines. Her most recent scholarly publication is (with Eszter Hargittai), Toward a Social Framework for Information Seeking.

Brant Houston
Professor, Executive Director of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Missouri School of Journalism
Brant Houston oversees the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting, a joint program of the school and IRE. He teaches investigative reporting and computer-assisted reporting to both students and working professionals. Before coming to the school, 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.

Todd James
Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic
Since joining the magazine staff in 1996, Todd James has produced and edited numerous award-winning stories spanning the globe from the Galapagos archipelago to the Saudi Arabian desert. James began his career as a newspaper photographer for the Daily Oklahoman. He moved to New York City in 1982 and began working as a freelance magazine photographer before joining Fortune magazine as a photo researcher in 1988. Prior to becoming an editor at National Geographic magazine, he was Senior Photo Editor at Business Week.

Tim Janicke
Editor, Star Magazine, the Sunday magazine of The Kansas City Star
Tim Janicke is also a writer and photographer for the magazine. He is an adjunct professor of photojournalism at the University of Kansas in Lawrence and frequent contributor to journalism workshops. Janicke is the author and photographer of a book about public art in Kansas City called City of Art. Janicke has also served as assistant managing editor for photography at The Star, and in other editing positions in the photography department of the newspaper.

Eliot Kaplan
Editorial Talent Director, Hearst Magazines
Kaplan is responsible for recruiting creative talent for such Hearst Magazines as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, O:The Oprah Magazine and others. Kaplan also served for seven years as editor-in-chief of Philadelphia Magazine, winning two National Magazine Awards and five nominations. Media Week named him one of a handful of "Young Editors to Watch." Kaplan is a former board member and officer of the American Society of Magazine Editors.

Andrew Lawrence
General Assignment Reporter, Sports Illustrated
Andrew Lawrence is also a contributing columnist to SI.com and contributing writer-reporter to SI Presents, helping to coordinate and produce special issues centered around events like the Super Bowl and the Final Four or cater to specific advertisers. He lives in New York.

Tim Leong
Deputy Art Director, Complex Magazine
Tim Leong oversees the lifestyle side of the magazine and designs for all sections. Previously, he was the Associate Art Director at Men's Health, where his art direction of the front-of-book section, Malegrams, garnered a 2006 National Magazine Award nomination.

Ann McFeatters
Author and editor
From April 1999 through March 2006, Ann McFeatters was the Washington Bureau Chief for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Toledo Blade, where she was responsible for daily coverage of national politics with emphasis on the White House. She is also involved in the administration of three professional journalism organizations. She planned and directed coverage of four national political conventions in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York and Boston and has published a biography: Sandra Day O'Connor: Justice in the Balance.

Lynn Medford
Deputy Metro Editor, Washington Post
Lynn Medford has been metro editor for a year, specializing in enterprise, features and writing. Before that, she was the Deputy Style Editor for six years. She came to the Post in 1999 from the Baltimore Sun, where she was Features Editor. Medford also spent 15 years at the Miami Herald - in news, in business, in design, and features.

Bill Mickey
Senior Editor, Folio: magazine
Prior to joining Folio:, Bill Mickey was editor of EContent, where he was instrumental in relaunching the 30-year-old publication covering the digital content industry. Before that, he was editor of Online, a trade publication serving information professionals in the online database and electronic information industry. He has held a variety of editorial roles in magazine publishing for more than 10 years.

Jennifer Moeller
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Jennifer Moeller is also the 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.

Daryl Moen
Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Daryl Moen is a former editor of three daily newspapers. He is also author or co-author of four journalism textbooks. He has redesigned 18 newspapers and given more than 200 seminars on writing and design in the U.S. and abroad.

Terrance Noland
Features Editor, Men's Journal
Terrance Noland, who was articles editor at Esquire for more than three years, recently left to join Men's Journal. Previously, he was an editor at SmartMoney and Business North Carolina.

Alison Overholt
Senior Editor, ESPN The Magazine
Alison Overholt manages investigative features and sports business coverage. She also teaches editing courses for Mediabistro.com and is the Co-Founder of the career strategy firm The Careerists. Prior to joining ESPN in 2005, Overholt was an Associate Editor and Staff Writer at Fast Company magazine. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and in Inc., Working Mother, Cosmopolitan, Fitness and the now-defunct Sports Illustrated for Women, as well as online at LifetimeTV.com. She was twice named to TJFR/NewsBios' list of 30 Under 30 Rising Stars. She holds a government degree from Harvard and is a graduate of the Radcliffe Publishing Course.

Greg Paul
Partner, Brady & Paul Communications
Greg Paul is a veteran publications designer who was founding Art Director for Ohio Magazine, Design Director for New Age magazine, Art Director for The Plain Dealer Magazine and Art Director for Sunshine, the Sunday magazine of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Since 1984, he has worked with more than 300 publications on redesign and repositioning projects. A graduate of Kent State University, Greg has received more than 300 national and international awards for excellence in publication design and editorial art direction.

Maurice Possley
Criminal Justice Reporter, Chicago Tribune
Maurice Possley has been a journalist nearly 35 years and with the Chicago Tribune since 1984. He is an investigative criminal justice reporter and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize on two occasions for that reporting. He is the author of two true-crime books - Everybody Pays: Two Men, One Murder and the Price of Truth and The Brown's Chicken Massacre.

Don Ranly
Professor Emeritus, Missouri School of Journalism
Don Ranly headed the magazine sequence at the Missouri School of Journalism for 28 years. Dr. Ranly has worked as a newspaper reporter, a magazine editor, a weekly columnist, a radio host and television producer, director and host. He has conducted more that 950 communication seminars for corporations, associations, organizations, newspapers and magazines. He has co-authored News Reporting and Writing, Telling the Story: The Convergence of Print, Broadcast and Online Media and Beyond the Inverted Pyramid and is author of Publication Editing. In 1995, Ranly received a University of Missouri-Columbia Faculty-Alumni Award and was named the O.O. McIntyre Distinguished Professor of Journalism for 1995-96. In 2005 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Business Publications Editors.

Elizabeth Ritter
Managing Editor, Worth
Prior to joining Worth, Elizabeth Ritter was the managing editor of Time4 Media/Time Inc.'s SHOT Business magazine and an editor at Outdoor Life. She began her journalism career covering entertainment stories as a stringer for the online division of MTV Networks and later worked as an editorial intern at Us Weekly. Ritter received a bachelor's degree in communications and a business minor from Villanova University and is currently finishing her master's degree in publishing at New York University.

Kerry Robertson
Art Director, Conde Nast Traveler
Kerry Robertson has been with Traveler for 6 years. During her tenure, the magazine has been nominated for eight national magazine awards and won the 2003 award for photography. Before joining Conde Nast Traveler, she was the Art Director of Chicago Magazine, where she won several awards including a CRMA award for design.

Shelly Rodgers
Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Shelly Rodgers teaches in the areas of strategic communication and health communication with expertise on Internet health advertising, marketing and communication. Rodgers is among the top-10 most cited Internet advertising researchers. Her professional experience includes full-time work at the Miller Friendt Ludemann advertising agency in Lincoln, Neb., where she worked on accounts such as Pepsi and (then) Governor Kay Orr. Rodgers also worked as a marketing director and as a reporter and photographer for Inside Tucson Business (Ariz.).

Jessica Royer Ocken
Freelance Writer
Jessica Royer Ocken is a freelance writer and editor based in Chicago. Her work has been featured in publications including Naperville Magazine, Midwest Home Chicago magazine and Chicago Social magazine. She served as staff writer for Chicago in the Year 2000, a documentary project about the city at the turn of the millennium, and she is currently one of three writers at work on a history of the federal District Court for the Northern District of California.

Ina Saltz
Professor, Columnist, STEP Inside Design
Ina Saltz is an art director, designer, writer, photographer and professor (at The City College of New York) whose areas of expertise are typography and magazine design. She's a regular columnist for STEP Inside Design magazine and writes for other design magazines, including Graphis. She was the Design Director at Time magazine (International Editions), Worth magazine and other magazines including Golf magazine, Golf for Women and Worldbusiness. Saltz is on the design faculty of the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. She is a judge for the National Magazine Awards, the Society of Publication Designers, and the Type Directors Club and the Ozzies as well as a member of the Advisory Board of the Society of Publication Designers. She is the author of Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh.

Julia Savacool
Deputy Editor, Marie Claire
Julia Savacool has been at Marie Claire since May 2003. Prior to that, she was a senior editor at Good Housekeeping and the Psychology Editor at Self magazine. She has written for Marie Claire, Self, Glamour, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, and The New York Times. Savacool assigns, edits and occasionally writes the magazine's domestic and international news features. She also oversees the features department. Savacool's stories have won the 2006 Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women's Humanitarian Award and the 2006 Media Award from the United Nations Friends of the World Food Program. In 2005, Marie Claire was nominated for an ASME in the category of General Excellence. Savacool has given guest lectures at New York University and The New School.

Byron Scott
Professor Emeritus, Missouri School of Journalism
Byron Scott went to MU in 1986 to take its first endowed chair, the Meredith Chair in Service Journalism, which he relinquished 10 years later to concentrate on international journalism. A veteran newspaper reporter and magazine writer and editor in five different American cities, he also has worked as a teacher and journalist in more than 40 different countries. He was the school's international programs coordinator from 1994 to 2001. His research and teaching interests include the role of the media in transitional societies, international investigative reporting and cognitive processes in writing. He previously headed the magazine sequence at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.

Casey Shaw
Creative Director, USA WEEKEND
Casey Shaw joined USA WEEKEND Magazine in 1995. He oversees the art and photo departments and the magazine's web site. During that time, USA WEEKEND has earned dozens of design awards (Clarion Awards, National Headliner Awards, Society of Publication Designers, and Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual). Prior to joining USA WEEKEND, his background included teaching college-level computer graphics, creating courtroom presentations, designing computer software interfaces and illustrating a syndicated comic strip. He holds a BFA from the University of North Texas, an MFA from Syracuse University and a law degree from the University of Houston.

Michelle T. Shinseki
Site Director, AmericanBaby.com
Michelle T. Shinseki is the Site Director of AmericanBaby.com and the Health Editor for Ladies' Home Journal online (LHJ.com) and Better Homes and Gardens online (BHG.com). She 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, acquiring popular non-fiction, and the co-author of the book, The Secret Life of Teens: Young People Speak Out About Their Lives.

Pat Smith
Adjunct Faculty, Missouri School of Journalism
Pat Smith is managing editor of Global Journalist magazine, which is published at the Missouri School of Journalism. She has more than 30 years of journalism experience and has worked on newspapers and magazines. Smith has also served as a consultant for specialized communication projects that include publication design, writing, editing and planning for businesses and non-profit organizations.

Ted Spiker
Associate Professor, University of Florida, writer, Men's Health, Fortune
Ted Spiker is an assistant professor of journalism and heads the magazine sequence in the department of journalism at the University of Florida. A contributing editor to Men's Health magazine and a freelance writer, Spiker has had work published in such magazines as O, The Oprah Magazine; Outside; Fortune; AARP, The Magazine; and many others. Spiker is also co-author of several books, including the national bestsellers, YOU: The Owner's Manual and YOU: On a Diet.

Jim Sterling
Missouri Chair in Community Newspaper Management, Missouri School of Journalism
James Sterling had a long career managing and operating a newspaper group in Southwest Missouri before joining the university. Sterling serves on the board of directors of the National Newspaper Association and is past president of the Missouri Press Association. He also served six years on the board of curators for the University of Missouri System. He has been an observer and consultant of city, state and regional magazines in recent years and has been on the advisory board of Ozarks magazine.

Matt Strelecki
Design Director, Meredith Books
Since 1996, Matt Strelecki has been part of a team that has dramatically expanded the product line and the bottom line of Meredith Books whose products include all Better Homes and Gardens, Country Home, Traditional Home & Midwest Living branded books. Prior to joining Meredith, Matt redesigned and served as art director of Atlanta Magazine and as a designer for Copeland Design (now Iconologic) where he worked on projects for the Wall Street Journal, Time-Warner, and the Atlanta Olympic Games.

Ingrid Sturgis
Senior Programming Manager, BlackVoices.com
Ingrid Sturgis is formerly editor-in-chief of ESSENCE.com. Sturgis also has worked as an editor for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Bridgewater Courier News, The Poughkeepsie Journal, the Middletown Times-Herald Record, as well as managing editor for both BET Weekend and Savoy magazines. Sturgis is also an author; she edited Aunties: 35 Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother (Ballantine Books, 2004) and she wrote The Nubian Wedding Book: Words and Rituals to Celebrate and Plan an African-American Wedding, (Random House, 1997).

John Taranto
Senior Associate Editor, Outdoor Life
John Taranto has worked at Outdoor Life for seven years. He lives in Brooklyn.

Lettie Teague
Executive Wine Editor, Food & Wine
Lettie Teague is a 10-year veteran with the magazine, overseeing wine coverage, including two annual wine issues and the magazine's annual wine awards programs - The American Wine Awards and The Best New Restaurant Wine Lists. She also writes a monthly column, "Wine Matters," for which she won the 2003 James Beard MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing award and the 2005 James Beard Magazine Columns award. Teague's new book, Educating Peter, based on her award-winning columns, was published by Scribner's in March 2007. Teague is also co-author and illustrator of the introductory text, Fear of Wine. Teague regularly appears on national press outlets including CNN, CNN Headline News and CNBC.

Tom Vanderbilt
Contributing Editor, Print magazine
Tom Vanderbilt is a writer at I.D. Magazine and contributing editor at Print magazine. Vanderbilt also contributes to a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, Wired, Popular Science, Gourmet, Travel and Leisure, among many others. He is author of Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America (2002). He is currently working on a book, tentatively called Traffic Signals, which will be published in 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf.

Victoria von Biel
Executive Editor, Bon Appétit
Victoria von Biel helps shape the voice of the magazine. She started her career with Bon Appétit magazine in 1997, when she joined the staff as Managing Editor. Before coming to Bon Appétit, von Biel worked at a variety of magazines, including Vanity Fair and Parenting. She has studied cooking in both the United Kingdom and the United States and completed a post-graduate course in wine studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has appeared as a judge on the Food Network's Iron Chef television program and speaks frequently about food and travel writing.

Steve Weinberg
Professor, Missouri School of Journalism
Steve Weinberg is an author of six books 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 the 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 to1990. At MU since 1978, he teaches magazine writing.

Rob Weir
Managing Editor, emPrint
A third-generation Missouri journalist, Rob Weir is a 1999 graduate of the University of Missouri with bachelor's degrees in journalism and political science. Weir subsequently worked on a master's degree in U.S. history at Missouri, studying partisanship at Missouri newspapers from 1867 to 1890. He has also worked as a copy editor and assistant features editor at the Star-News in Wilmington, N.C., where he won statewide awards for editing and design. He became the first Managing Editor of the Columbia Missourian's eMprint editions in 2005.

Jan Winburn
Enterprise Editor, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In three decades of editing, Jan Winburn has collaborated with reporters whose work has won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the ASNE writing awards, the Ernie Pyle award, the APME International Perspective Award and the Scripps-Howard award for environmental reporting. Before joining the AJC, Winburn spent a decade at The Baltimore Sun. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and the author of Shop Talk and War Stories: American Journalists Examine Their Profession.

Rachel Young
Contributing Editor, Click
Rachel Young also writes for Click, a children's science magazine published by the Cricket Magazine Group. She has also worked as an editor for the American Medical Association and a newspaper features writer. She received an MA from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2000.

Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
Articles Editor, Gourmet
Jocelyn C. Zuckerman has been on staff since 1996. She coordinates Gourmet's annual city issues and oversees features dealing with travel, cooking and the political and social aspects of food production and consumption. In 2001, Zuckerman won a James Beard Journalism Award for her profile of Canadian chef Susur Lee. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in western Kenya.