Ethan Zuckerman is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. His research in the field of information and communication technology for development includes work on telecommunications policy, free and open source software, and citizen media. With Rebecca MacKinnon, he is the cofounder of Global Voices (www.globalvoicesonline.org), an international community of webloggers and citizen journalists. Prior to his work with Berkman and Global Voices, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a volunteer organization that sent technology experts to work with ICT companies in the developing world. He is the former CTO of Tripod.com, a pioneering web site hosting company based in western Massachusetts, where he lives and works. He serves on the board of several nonprofit projects that focus on technology and social change. His personal blog, “My Heart’s in Accra” is located at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog.

Lisa Williams is the founder of Placeblogger, the largest live site of local weblogs and of H2Otown, a nationally recognized citizen journalism site and online community for Watertown, Mass. After attending Emerson College, she worked briefly at a regional daily newspaper. Later, as an analyst at Daratech she wrote about computer-aided design technology. Williams moved from Daratech to Yankee Group, where she became the director of their enterprise software research group. Williams is an active member of the regular bloggers’ meeting at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society in Cambridge, Mass. She was recently named a fellow of Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution at the National Constitution Center.

Todd Wolfson is finishing a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the role of new information and communication technologies on social movement building. Correspondingly he is one of the founders of the Media Mobilizing Project, which attempts to take advantage of new technologies as a way to give voice to those left out of mainstream media.

Amy Gahran is a media consultant and journalist based in Boulder, Colo. Working closely with the Society of Environmental Journalists, she covered energy and environmental issues for more than 15 years. She authors several blogs such as Contentious.com, one of the earliest leading voices on online content and communication, and RightConversation.com, which focuses on conversational and social media. Gahran edits the Poynter Institute’s group blog E-Media Tidbits, and she’s created e-learning modules for News University. Two years ago she and business partner Adam Glenn launched I, Reporter, a guide for citizen journalists and news professionals who work with them. Their projects include an interactive database of nearly 500 citizen journalism projects throughout North America and helping launch the online side of a weekly community paper in NY state. Gahran also advises the NewAssignment.net pro/amateur journalism project.

Adam Glenn is an Internet news veteran now working as an independent online consultant in New York. He specializes in environment, science, technology, health and business. He has held posts with a wide variety of news media, most recently as senior producer at ABCNews.com. He co-founded I, Reporter with Amy Gahran in 2005.
Glenn is an active member of the Online News Association and the Society of Environmental Journalists, where he serves on the editorial advisory board. He was awarded a 2002 Ford Environmental Journalism Fellowship to teach in India and a 2005 Environmental Media Fellowship at Vermont Law School. He trained at the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. Glenn previously earned a mid-career Masters of International Affairs (environmental policy) at Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy in Boston

Paul Grabowicz is Assistant Dean, Adjunct Professor and Director of the New Media Program at the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism where he teaches classes in multimedia reporting, new media publishing, computer assisted reporting and video game storytelling. He is co-author of “California Inc.,” a book about how the entrepreneurial spirit shaped the politics, culture and economy of California. He spent most of his career as the investigative reporter at The Oakland Tribune, where he also served as night city editor and acting city editor and developed an early prototype of a web site for the paper. (It was rejected). He began his journalism career in 1973 working for local papers in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Bay Guardian and has written for publications such as The Washington Post, Esquire magazine, The Village Voice and Newsday.

Chris O’Brien is a business reporter at the San Jose Mercury News where he has covered Silicon Valley since 1999. Previously, he was a staff writer at The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., for seven years. He graduated from Duke University in 1991, and was an editor at the student-run, independent daily newspaper, The Chronicle.

Dianne Lynch is dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. The school is launching an endowed Center for Independent Media to explore new journalistic forms. As the founding executive director of the national Online News Association, she was the editorial director of the first national study of the credibility of online news, and co-producer of a series of digital training modules for online newsrooms on the Poynter Institute’s News University. Lynch is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in new media technologies and learning; a member of the national Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications; and a member of the inaugural class of the ASJMC Leadership Institute. Lynch earned her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. in Art History and Communications from McGill University in Montreal.

Angela Powers is director and a professor of the Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Kansas State. In addition to teaching, she has worked as a reporter for NBC and CBS affiliates, been a Senior Fulbright Specialist, Fulbright Scholar and Poynter fellow; written for journals and books and remained active in organizations such as the World Media Economics organization and AEJMC. Her research interests include influences on news content and media convergence. Powers received her Ph.D. from Michigan State.

Ann M. Brill, Ph.D., is the dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas. She is a former director of the Missouri Scholastic Press Association. Her areas of expertise include online journalism, online advertising, e-commerce and its relationship to editorial content and effects of implementation of new technology. In the past, Brill has worked at newspapers in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Montana and Missouri; served as director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund Online Editing Program and serves as a consultant to online media in staff and marketing development. She earned her doctoral degree

Ardyth Broadrick Sohn is director of the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada. She has been a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine and is serving as outside evaluator for the University of Belgrade Journalism Department through the University of Georgia Cox Center. With Sohn’s expertise in media management, she has led work with Poynter and AEJMC. Sohn is the author or co-author of 15 books, book chapters or monographs and over a dozen scholarly articles. She was a newspaper reporter and assistant editor before returning to graduate school where she earned her master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Journalism.

Jane Briggs-Bunting is director of the Michigan State University School of Journalism. She joined the MSU faculty in August 2003 after 24 years in journalism education at another university. In April 2003, she was inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. Before joining the faculty, she worked as a Detroit Free Press reporter covering breaking and hard news. She earned her law degree at night. While at the university, she reported for the Free Press, People and LIFE magazines. Since her arrival at MSU she has been transitioning the curriculum to address the revolutionary changes in the media industry.

Kimberly Sultze is chair of the department of journalism and mass communication at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Vt. After 13 years of teaching, she is an expert in curriculum development in journalism, mass communication and media studies. Her research interests include the history and cultural interpretation of visual communication. From 2003-2004, she was Head of the Visual Communication division of the AEJMC. She received her B.A. from Carleton College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University’s Department of Culture and Communication, Program in Media Ecology. Prior to earning her academic credentials, she worked in print journalism in Sydney, Australia, in television production in the Twin Cities, Minn., and as an editor with FIS-New York.

Pam McAllister-Johnson, Ph.D. is director of the Center for 21st Century Media, and School of Journalism & Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University. She has worked as both a print and broadcast reporter. During her 13-year term as president and publisher of the Ithaca (NY) Journal, a Gannett newspaper, McAllister-Johnson was the first black female publisher of a general circulation newspaper in the United States. McAllister-Johnson has a joint Ph.D. in Mass Communication and Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin where she also did her undergraduate and master’s work.