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Howard Weaver is the Vice President, News at The McClatchy Company . With its recent acquisition of Knight-Ridder, McClatchy is one of the largest news organizations in the U.S., publishing 31 daily and more than 50 community newspapers, related websites and other businesses. Howard has spent more than 25 years in a variety of posts with McClatchy, including editor of the Anchorage Daily News and as editor of the editorial pages at The Sacramento Bee. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and has six times served as a Pulitzer Prize juror. He also serves on the Board of Visitors of the Knight Fellowships at Stanford. Howard twice led the Anchorage Daily News to Pulitzer Prizes; he wrote the stories for which the paper won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service, and was editor and a lead writer on the project for which the paper again won the prize in 1989. He was one of three reporters whose coverage of the Alaska Teamsters Union during construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline won the award in 1976. In 1989, the paper won for its coverage of alcoholism and suicide among Alaska Natives. Howard blogs at Etaoin Shrdlu.
Howard Owens was named the Director of Digital Publishing for GateHouse Media, Inc. in September of 2006. He has been a journalist for more than two decades. He's been a daily and weekly reporter and editor, as well as a community news publisher. In 1995, he co-founded East County Online, the first web site in the U.S. serving a group of weekly newspapers. Between 1999 and 2005, he worked for the Ventura County Star, becoming director of new media in 2004. The Star won numerous awards for its web sites during those six years, including a General Excellence award from the Online News Association. In 2005, Howard was named VP of Interactive Media for the Bakersfield Californian. Howard is a member of the NAA's Digital Media Federation board of directors and serves as the chair of the Federation's audience development committee, and is a member of the NAA's audience development committee. Howard blogs about newspapers on the web at howardowens.com.
Jack Lail is Managing Editor/MultiMedia for The Knoxville News Sentinel, whose primary sites are knoxnews.com and GoVolsXtra.com. He has spent 14 years developing successful editorial and business models for digital news products, beginning with a newspaper operated dial up bulletin board system. Due to his knack for hiring extremely talented people, the News Sentinel's sites have won numerous national and regional awards and are considered among the more innovative newspaper-run Web sites. He is past board member of the Newspaper Association of America's Digital Media Federation. Before focusing on digital strategies, Lail held various reporting and editing positions with the Knoxville newspaper and small dailies in his native North Carolina. He writes a personal blog at jacklail.com.
Beth Parke is executive director of the Society of Environmental Journalists, an educational membership organization of more than 1400 journalists, educators and students in the US and 32 other countries. Founded in 1990, SEJ works to improve the quality, accuracy and visibility of news reporting on environment-related issues through programs and services designed by journalists, primarily for journalists. Parke also serves on the executive committee of the Council of National Journalism Organizations. Prior to joining SEJ she produced, hosted and syndicated award-winning radio series as well as programming for National Public Radio affiliates in Philadelphia and Boston. Parke earned her B.A. from Boston College and her M.A. from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania where she studied with the legendary George Gerbner and Robert Louis Shayon. Always a futurist, Parke's 1979 thesis studied the feasibility of an audience driven video delivery system. She believes in the future of public service journalism and its essential value to local audiences worldwide.
David Cohn has written for Wired, Seed, Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. While working toward his master's degree at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as the editor at newassignment.net, which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social web. Cohn also worked with Jeff Jarvis from Buzzmachine.com to organize the Networked Journalism Summit. He has been a contributing editor at NewsTrust.net, a nonprofit media literacy tool and news filter. Most recently Cohn is the founder of Spot.Us a nonprofit to pioneer "community funded reporting."