Tony Barbieri
Lecturer, B.A., The George Washington University
Tony Barbieri joined the journalism faculty at the University of Maryland in the summer of 2005 to become director of the school's Capital News Service public affairs reporting program in Annapolis and taught the ethics course as an adjunct professor during the spring semester. He retired as managing editor of The Baltimore Sun in August 2004, after a 34 year career at the newspaper. Before becoming The Sun's managing editor, he was the paper's assistant managing editor for metro, city editor and news editor. A reporter for 18 years - 10 of them as a foreign correspondent based in Moscow (1979 to 1984) and Tokyo (1984 to 1988) - he was a Washington correspondent and has covered national and state politics. He is a member of the board of directors of Associated Press Managing Editors (APME). Barbieri was born and raised in Upstate New York and has a B.A. degree from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Steve M. Barkin
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Ohio State
Steve Barkin has written and lectured extensively on broadcast news, content analysis of media, media and politics, popular culture, and new communication technologies. He is co-author of three books about political communication and television news. He actively participates in the University Honors Program, the University's Francis Scott Key and Benjamin Banneker fellowship programs, and the campus chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. For the last 10 years, Barkin has served as director of the national awards program of the Education Writers Association. Since 1999, Barkin has been the faculty director of the Media, Self & Society program within College Park Scholars, a two-year honors program at the University.

Maurine Hoffman Beasley
Professor, Ph.D., George Washington
Maurine H. Beasley, former education editor of the Kansas City (Mo.) Star and former staff writer for The Washington Post, is a journalism historian who specializes in women's portrayal and participation in journalism. Her particular focus is Washington women journalists, including their coverage of First Ladies. Her most recent book is First Ladies and the Press (Northwestern University, 2005). She was coeditor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia, published in 2001, named one of the outstanding academic reference books of the year by Booklist, publication of the American Library Association. Her coauthored/edited book, Taking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women and Journalism, received a 2003 award for excellence from the Text and Academic Authors Association. Beasley, who holds degrees in journalism from the University of Missouri and Columbia University, has a Ph.D. in American Civilization from George Washington University. At Maryland she teaches classes in women and the media and history of journalism. She was named a Distinguished Senior Scholar by the Educational Foundation of the American Association of University Women and received a Leadership Award in 2001 from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication of which she is a past national president. She also is a former president of the American Journalism Historians Association. She has taught journalism at Jinan University in China under a Fulbright grant.

Alice Bonner
Lecturer, Ph.D., North Carolina
Alice Bonner is the former director of journalism education for The Freedom Forum. She has been a The Washington Post reporter and editor, a USA Today cover stories editor, and a recruiter of journalists for Gannett newspapers. She has worked in efforts to improve scholastic journalism and newsroom diversity for a number of journalism organizations. Her research interests include journalism history, press integration and news coverage of societal disparities.

David Broder
Professor, M.A., Chicago
David Broder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, nationally acclaimed political reporter and a columnist for The Washington Post. He has covered every presidential election since 1960. He joined the Post in 1966 after covering national politics for The New York Times, Washington Star and Congressional Quarterly. He continues to cover government and politics for his twice-weekly syndicated column, which appears worldwide in more than 300 newspapers.

Ira Chinoy
Lecturer, A.B., Harvard College
Ira Chinoy has 24 years of experience as a journalist at four newspapers: The Washington Post, The Providence (R.I.) Journal, The Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune and The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Commercial. As director of computer-assisted reporting at The Washington Post, he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a 1998 series on the use of deadly force by the D.C. police. At The Providence Journal, where he was a reporter from 1981 to 1995, Chinoy was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for coverage of corruption and patronage in the Rhode Island courts. A visiting journalism professor at the College from 2001 to 2004, Chinoy has joined the faculty as a lecturer. He teaches courses in computer-assisted reporting, the use of archives as a resource for journalists, and news reporting and writing. He is also the College's first Scripps Howard Foundation Doctoral Fellow and is pursuing a doctorate in media studies.

Reese Cleghorn
Professor, M.A., Columbia
Reese Cleghorn is the former dean of the College. Before becoming professor and dean in 1981, he worked on newspapers for more than 30 years. Cleghorn served as president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers in 1980. He co-authored "Climbing Jacob's Ladder," a book about the civil rights movement and the South. He contributed to eight anthologies on racial, urban and other social problems, has written more than 250 magazine articles, and has contributed commentary and analysis to numerous major newspapers and professional journals. A journalism graduate of Emory University, he holds a master's degree in public law and government from Columbia University. He stepped down as dean in June 2000.

Steve Crane
Assistant Dean, B.S., Maryland
An alumnus of the College, Steve Crane now serves as the College's assistant dean. Previously he was Washington bureau director for the College's Capital News Service. Crane is a former deputy metro editor and statehouse reporter for The Washington Times. He also worked as a reporter for The Parkersburg (W.Va.) Sentinel and The South Prince George's (Md.) Independent.

Adrianne Flynn
Lecturer, B.A., Arizona State
Adrianne Flynn is the Annapolis bureau director for the College's Capital News Service. Formerly a Washington correspondent for the Arizona Republic, she also worked as a reporter for The Washington Times, covering Mayor Marion Barry's administration, and for The Dayton Daily News, where she covered serial murderer Jeffrey Dahmer and the 11-day Lucasville, Ohio prison riot.

Jon Franklin
Philip Merrill Professor of Journalism, B.S., Maryland
Jon Franklin is a literary journalist whose work frequently focuses on the human side of science and technology. In a career that has spanned more than four decades he has written five books and a variety of magazine articles and newspaper stories and series. Known for his innovations both in style and reportage, his credits include two first-in-category Pulitzer prizes (feature writing in 1979 and expository journalism in 1985). He has taught at the University of Maryland, Oregon State University, and the University of Oregon, where his duties included the directorship of the creative writing program.

Douglas Gomery
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Wisconsin
Douglas Gomery has written for the Village Voice, Modern Maturity, The Wilson Quarterly, The Baltimore Sun and other newspapers. He is a former senior researcher for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Media Studies project, and is the author of 10 books on both the history and economics of the mass media in America. His books -- and more than 600 articles -- have been translated into eight languages. Gomery has been interviewed during the past few years on NPR and for The Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The (Baltimore) Sun, and other media outlets.

Michael Gurevitch
Professor, Ph.D., MIT
Michael Gurevitch served as a faculty member at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Open University in England. He is the author and editor of nine books as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters. His book, "The Crisis of Public Communication" (London, Routledge), based on his work with his long-time colleague Jay Blumler, was also published in 1996. Gurevitch is currently involved in another cross-national comparative study, titled "News of the World," which examines audience reception of television news in different countries. In 1995 he was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant, and during the spring 1996 semester, he continued his research at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication at Stockholm University in Sweden.

Christopher Hanson
Associate Professor, Ph.D., North Carolina
Christopher Hanson worked for 20 years as a reporter for Time, The Washington Star, Reuters and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, focusing on topics such as presidential politics, Congress, the environment, American diplomacy and military affairs. Hanson was a combat correspondent in the Gulf War and covered the civil war in Rwanda. He joined the Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 1999 after earning a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina under a Freedom Forum Fellowship and an M.A. in political theory and moral philosophy in 1984 from Oxford University. His research interests include journalism ethics, the role of master narratives and stereotypes in shaping news content, and media-military relations. A contributing editor of Columbia Journalism Review, Hanson has published over 80 articles in CJR, as well as opinion pieces in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The New Republic and elsewhere. He has discussed the news media on National Public Radio, C-SPAN and other broadcast and cable outlets.

Chris Harvey
Lecturer, B.S., Maryland
Chris Harvey has worked as an online editor, a magazine editor, a newspaper reporter and a journalism teacher. She left her job as managing editor at American Journalism Review in August 2000 to help build the online curriculum at the College. She created and now edits the College's online newsmagazine, Maryland Newsline, which is staffed by students. She also teaches an introductory online journalism course. Before coming to AJR, Harvey worked as an associate Metro editor at washingtonpost.com. There, she led a content redesign of the Metro section and edited news and feature stories. She earlier taught reporting and editing at the College and ran the College's student-staffed Capital News Service bureaus in Washington and Annapolis. She has held reporting and editing jobs at several papers, including The Washington Times, and has free-lanced for The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly's "Politics in America."

Ray E. Hiebert
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Maryland
Ray E. Hiebert is a specialist in international communication, government-media relations, mass media in society and public relations, and he has professional experience in newspapers, radio, television and public relations. From 1991 to 1995, he was director of the American Journalism Center in Budapest, and has been specializing in media developments in Hungary and Eastern Europe. He is the author of a number of books on journalism and mass media, and is the editor of Public Relations Review, a quarterly journal. Hiebert was the founding dean of the College, where he continues to teach part-time. He holds degrees from the University of Maryland, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Stanford University.

Benjamin F. Holman
Professor Emeritus, B.S., Kansas
Ben Holman received the 1996 Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship awarded by the National Editorial Writers Foundation for leadership in education and attracting minority students to journalism careers. He served as a guest columnist for the Dallas Morning News, covered the Olympics in Barcelona for 200 black-owned newspapers across the nation, and served as a board member of the Washington Association of Black Journalists. While on campus, Holman edited Faculty Voice, an independent faculty newspaper, and served on the board of the Black Faculty and Staff Association. He delivered a paper evaluating newspaper coverage of the Million Man March at the 1996 convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Diana Huffman
Baltimore Sun Distinguished Lecturer, J.D., Georgetown; M.S., Columbia
Diana Huffman has served as managing editor of National Journal and as editor of Legal Times and has worked as a radio and TV reporter in New York City and Louisville, Ky. She also served as a senior aide in the U.S. Senate for 10 years. Huffman is a member of the Board of Directors of Justice at Stake in Washington, D.C., and participated in the 2000 Presidential Appointee Initiative, a joint project of the Brookings Institution and the Council for Excellence in Government. Huffman lectures regularly about Congress at the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Policy Education. She has also served as a commentator on C-SPAN during Supreme Court nominations hearings and has lectured on the Senate confirmation process for presidential appointees.

Haynes Johnson
Professor and Knight Chair, M.A. Wisconsin
Haynes Johnson is a best-selling author, national TV commentator, former Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with The Washington Post and The Washington Star. He is considered one of the nation's leading political journalists. In addition to teaching and advising students, he is a contributing editor for American Journalism Review, the national magazine published by the College.

Sue Kopen Katcef
Lecturer, B.S., Maryland
Sue Kopen Katcef is an award-winning broadcast journalist who teaches newswriting and production for broadcast journalism students and helps with operation of the student television newsroom at UMTV, the cable channel operated by the College. Katcef was a reporter and anchor for one of the country's top radio news departments, WBAL in Baltimore, and she worked as a television reporter in television at Baltimore's WJZ and Maryland Public Television. She served as press secretary to a former Maryland State House speaker whom she followed to Washington when he became a congressman. Katcef has belonged to the Society of Professional Journalists since 1974 when she joined as a student at the University of Maryland, where she is now the faculty adviser to the student chapter. Katcef is a founding member of a statewide Bar, Bench and Media committee, which deals with issues involving the press, courts and other areas of law.

Thomas Kunkel
Dean, M.A., Evansville
Thomas Kunkel is dean of the College and president of American Journalism Review, a national magazine published by the College. At Maryland he has served as director of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, and as editor and director of the Project on the State of the American Newspaper. A writer and editor, Kunkel has spent most of his career in newspaper management. Most recently he was deputy managing editor of the San Jose Mercury News. Prior to that he worked for the Miami Herald, The New York Times and the Cincinnati Post, and he was editor and publisher of Arizona Trend magazine. When he was named executive editor of Knight-Ridder's Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer, he was, at age 29, the youngest top editor in company history. He has written or edited five books, including "Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker."

L. John Martin
Professor Emeritus
Since retiring from his professorship in 1989, John Martin has maintained his ties with the College and now serves as the faculty ombuds officer for the University. He serves all faculty members and academic administrators who need confidential help or advice with a work-related problem. Although he is assigned to the Office of the President, he operates outside of the administrative structure. His counsel is based on many years as a faculty member and department, college and division administrator -- 20 of them at College Park -- as well as Campus Senate executive committee member, including Senate chair and Senate Grievance Committee chair. He has also held senior positions as a journalist and with the Federal government.

Susan Moeller
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard
Susan Moeller is the former director of the journalism program at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. and a former senior fellow in the International Security Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She has held positions as lecturer in American Foreign Policy at Princeton's History Department; Fulbright Professor of International Affairs in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Bangkok, Thailand; and as visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Her book, "Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death," investigates how American print and broadcast media cover international crises. An earlier work, "Shooting War: Photography and the American Experience of Combat" analyses how the photographic images of war in the 20th century reflected and affected American attitudes toward war.

John E. Newhagen
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford
John Newhagen worked as a foreign correspondent in Central America and the Caribbean for nearly 10 years. He served as bureau chief in San Salvador, regional correspondent in Mexico City, and foreign editor in Washington, D.C. for United Press International during the 1980s. Newhagen's research on the effects of emotion in television and on the Internet have been published widely in a number of leading academic journals. He is currently writing a book about theories of the Internet as a communication medium. Newhagen holds a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies and a Master's degree in Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in communication at Stanford University.

Eugene L. Roberts
Professor, B.A., North Carolina
Gene Roberts came to the College in 1991, following 18 years as the executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which won 17 Pulitzer Prizes during his editorship. He took a hiatus from his university work from 1994 to 1997 to serve as managing editor of The New York Times. In 1998, he returned to the College, where he teaches courses on writing the complex story, the press and the civil rights movement, and newsroom management. He received the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism in 1993.

Carol L. Rogers
Director of Doctoral and Research Studies, Ph.D. Maryland
Carol Rogers is the former head of the Office of Communications for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She serves as editor for the journal Science Communication. As a specialist in science communication, Rogers is conducting a research project to examine how audiences make sense of the science information they encounter in the mass media. Rogers arranges symposia and speaks at conferences in the U.S. and abroad. She co-produced and served as on-air host for a San Francisco Bay area cable TV program, "Earthquakes, EMFs and Noise." She is a board member of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, and secretary of the section on general interest in science engineering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of which she is a fellow.

Carl Sessions Stepp
Professor, M.A., South Carolina
Carl Sessions Stepp serves as a senior editor of American Journalism Review, where he reviews books each month and writes about changes in the news profession. Among his articles in AJR were: "The X Factor" (on attracting young readers); "The Thrill Is Gone" (a cover story on staff demoralization in many newsrooms); "Reinventing the Newsroom" (on changing newsroom structures); and "How to Save America's Newspapers." Stepp has served as a writing and editing coach for newspapers across the country, including The Bergen (N.J.) Record, The Oregonian, The Tampa Tribune, USA TODAY and The Washington Post, as well as Toronto Globe and Mail.

Lee Thornton
Professor and Eaton Chair, Ph.D., Northwestern
Lee Thornton holds the College's Richard Eaton chair in Broadcast Journalism. She is a former CBS News White House correspondent and CNN program producer. As a National Public Radio show host she won the prestigious gold "Cindy." She has worked in local radio and television and is a longtime, award-winning media production consultant to government and industry. Since 1998, her students have won nearly 40 regional and national citations from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Hearst Foundation. Maryland's Center for Teaching Excellence named her an Outstanding Teacher in 2000. Her over two decades of work as a scholar-contributor for Worldbook Encyclopedia includes the biography of former President Bush. Thornton has lectured widely on minorities in the media, women in the media, and journalism education issues. She is the first woman to officiate at the nation's annual Veterans Day observance, a role she repeated throughout former President Clinton's administration.

Eric J. Zanot
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Illinois
In addition to teaching at three major universities, Eric Zanot's professional experience includes work in public information for public television and stints in two of the nation's largest advertising agencies. Zanot's research interests focus on the regulation of false and deceptive advertising. He has co-edited a book, authored chapters and monographs, written numerous articles and delivered many academic papers on advertising topics. Some of his work can be found in Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly and the Journal of Advertising. Zanot is affiliated with several academic associations and is a board member of the National Advertising Review Board, a self-regulatory body of the advertising industry. The courses he teaches include Advertising in America, Persuasion in Advertising, Advertising and Society, and a graduate seminar in Advertising.