Project Director and Author Geanne Rosenberg, an attorney and journalist, teaches media law and journalism ethics at City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism and Baruch College. Geanne is founding chair of Baruch’s Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions, which offers journalism education to undergraduates. Prior to teaching at CUNY, she taught as an adjunct at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She authored and produced Knight Citizen News Network’s Top Ten Rules for Limiting Legal Risk , co-authored the Poynter Institute’s News University course Online Media Law: The Basics for Bloggers and Other Online Publishers (available at http://www.newsu.org), and her articles on legal, ethical, regulatory, Internet and business issues have appeared in many newspapers and magazines including Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, and The National Law Journal. She has a J.D. from Columbia University’s School of Law, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism; and a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr College.
Jan Schaffer is executive director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, which she launched in 2002 to spotlight pioneering initiatives in civic journalism, interactive and participatory journalism, and citizen media ventures. J-Lab rewards novel ideas through the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism (J-Lab.org). It funds cutting-edge citizen media start-ups through its New Voices (J-NewVoices.org) and McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneur projects. It produces Web tutorials on digital media at J-Learning.org and the Knight Citizen News Network. She previously directed the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, a $14 million initiative that funded more than 120 pilot news projects that better engaged people in public issues. She is a former Business Editor and a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she worked for 22 years as a reporter and editor.
Charles N. Davis serves as executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and is an associate professor in the News-Editorial Department. Professor Davis worked for ten years as a journalist after his graduation from North Georgia College, including for newspapers, magazines and a news service in Georgia, Florida and Ireland before leaving full-time journalism to complete a masters degree from the University of Georgia’s Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communication and to earn a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Florida. Davis conducts scholarly research on access to governmental information, as well as on a wide range of First Amendment issues.
Sebastian Bednarski is a Final Cut editor and a cameraperson who describes himself as a “CUNY guy.” Sebastian, a native of Poland, graduated from City University of New York’s Queens College and is a graduate of the inaugural class of CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism (Class of 2007). He is a staff member of CUNY TV, based at the J-School, and freelances as an editor and cameraperson.
Eileen AJ Connelly works as a business news reporter and copy editor for The Associated Press. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism, she received her master’s degree in business journalism at Baruch College- CUNY. She is a member of the board of governors of The New York Press Club.
Duy Linh Tu is a co-founder and the Creative Director of Resolution Seven, a commercial, documentary and DVD production studio. He is a writer, videographer, photographer, and multimedia consultant. Prior to forming Resolution Seven, Duy founded and was the Chief Operations Officer of Missing Pixel, an award-winning interactive production company. Duy is also an Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he coordinates the Digital Media Program.
Hop Studios is a Web design and development company based in Canada that brings an insightful concern for community building and editorial workflow to bear on each project, backed by solid design and interface interaction skills. Hop builds many types of sites, but specializes in those with copious, rapidly changing content or with a strong journalism, education or editorial component. http://www.hopstudios.com/