Seymour Hersh is one of America’s premier investigative reporters. He has uncovered some of the most important news stories of our times. He has won numerous awards and is the author of eight books. His most recently published book is Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. Prizes won by Hersh include the Pulitzer Prize, five George Polk Awards, the national Magazine Award and more than a dozen other prizes. Hersh is has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1993. Hersh is also known for speeches on Foreign Policy in Election Year and the events surrounding 9/11. Visited March 17, 2005.
Mara Liasson is the national political correspondent for National Public Radio. She reports regularly on NPR’s award-winning newsmagazines "All Things Considered" and "Morning Edition." Liasson reports on politics and policy from Washington D.C., focusing on the White House and Congress. During election years Liasson provides coverage of each candidate and high interest issues in the election. Before this position Liasson was the White House Correspondent for all eight years of the Clinton administration. She has three times received the White House Correspondents Association’s Merriman Smith Award for daily news coverage. Liasson came aboard NPR as a general assignment reporter and newscaster. Prior to this position she was a freelance radio and television reporter in San Francisco. Liasson is a graduate of Brown University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in American History. Visited April 7, 2005.
Ira Silverman is a retired television producer who worked at NBC News serving as investigative producer for the "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw" and a writer and producer of award-winning documentaries and special reports. He was the recipient of two Emmys, two Dupont-Columbia Awards, two Overseas Press Club awards, the Peabody, and the Polk. Silverman was a part of NBC News reporting teams that broke major national and international stories: Saddam Hussein's bungled attempt to build a nuclear bomb, the grand jury investigation and pending indictment of General Manuel Noriega, the FBI Abscam investigation of corruption in the U.S. Congress, the payola scandals in the rock music business, and the collapse of BCCI, the world's most corrupt bank. Visited November 1-4, 2005.
David Mindich, chair of the journalism department and associate professor at St. Michael’s College, is an accomplished journalist and writer. Before getting his masters and Ph. D., Mindich worked at CNN as a production assistant, and eventually, as an assignment editor. Mindich has written articles for the Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, and other publications. He is the author of Just the Facts: How “Objectivity” Came to Define American Journalism and Turned Out: Why Young People Don’t Follow the News (Oxford University Press, 2004). In 1998-1999 Mindich was head of the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). In 2002, the AEJMC awarded Mindich the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Teaching and Public Service. Mindich also found Jhistory, an internet group for journalism historians. Visited March 17, 2005.
Chris Hedges is the author of the bestselling and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and What Every Person Should Know About War. Hedges was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years. He joined the staff of The New York Times in 1990 and previously worked for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Princeton University. Hedges was a member of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
Gary Kebbel is the founding editor of USA Today.com and Newsweek.com. He directed the largest election site on the Internet, AOL Election Guide and the largest government consumer portal AOL Government Guide. From 1999-2004 Kebbel was the news director of America Online. He also held positions at Washington post-Newsweek Interactive, Newsweek.com, USA Today.com, The Record, The Post Star and The Ithaca Journal. Kebbel is currently an adjunct journalism professor at College Park, Maryland, where he teaches electronic editing and online news classes. Visited April 18, 2005.
Jonathan L. Meyers ’87 is a senior project manager for America Online News. Some of the websites he manages include: America Online News, America Online Weather and America Online Election Guide 2004. Meyers has won eight professional awards for his production of CD ROM’s, documentaries, and an educational series. He has also produced many TV Projects including the “Advanced DIRCTB Receiver with TiVo” and “Project RSVP.” Visited April 18, 2005.
