Alumni News Archives: Fall 2000

Henry Allen (’76), writer for the Washington Post Style section, received the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in criticism "for his fresh and authoritative writing on photography." He has also published What it Felt Like: Living in the American Century (Pantheon Books).

Former Detroit Free Press technology writer Mike Brennan (’93) has launched an Internet-based newspaper covering Michigan’s technology industry. Each month Michigan Technology News (www.mitechnews.com) features themed editions that focus on key issues in information technology, new media, e-commerce, biotechnology, auto technology and technology developed for auto racing.

Nancy Colasurdo (’97), previously a senior producer with the National Hockey League's Web site, has started as a senior producer at Oxygen Media (www.oxygen.com). She will be writing and editing stories about women’s sports (“my passion for most of my career”).

Jon Entine ('82) has published Taboo: How Blacks Have Come to Dominate Sports and Why We are Afraid to Talk About It, with Public Affairs.

Charles B. Fancher (’82) has formed Fancher Associates, an Annapolis-based consulting firm in public relations, corporate community involvement, and philanthropy planning and management.

Bruce Finley (’94), a writer for The Denver Post, was among the staff at The Post who won the 2000 Pulitizer Prize in breaking news. The staff was cited for “its clear and balanced coverage of the student massacre at Columbine High School.”

Seiiche Kanise (’87) is anchoring the morning show “Super Morning” on Japan's TV Asahi and has also made his debut as a radio personality on a FM radio station.

Dennis Montgomery (’77) writes that he runs a home-based writing and editing business — “that is to say, freelancing” — since leaving Colonial Williamsburg’s communications department. His book, A Link Among the Days: The Life and Times of the Rev. Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin, the Father of Colonial Williamsburg, has been published by the Dietz Press.

Bill Rose (’97) left the Miami Herald, where he was editor of Tropic magazine, in January 1999 to become metro editor at the Palm Beach Post. In December of last year, he became assistant managing editor for news in charge of metro, state, suburban, and business news.

Denise Stinson (’89 )a Detroit-based literary agent, has launched Walk Worthy Press, a publishing imprint for black Christian fiction, in collaboration with Warner Books.

Nicolas Tatro (’91) has become deputy international editor for the Associated Press, where he has had a foreign-reporting career spanning 20 years.

Lance Williams (’87), a reporter on the enterprise team at the San Francisco Examiner, was named Journalist of the Year by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for his series about death and illness allegedly caused by sutures contaminated with bacteria during a manufacturing accident. For the same series, he won the Fairbanks Award for public service journalism, given out by the Associated Press News Executives Council of California and Nevada.

After 14 years as a staff writer, Barry Yeoman (’95) reports that he has left the Independent of Durham, North Carolina to pursue freelancing full-time. His stories have been published in Salon, Columbia Journalism Review, and Mother Jones.