Alumni News Archives: Spring 2010
Peter Burdin ’00 has been appointed BBC’s Africa bureaux editor, overseeing all operations in Africa in Johannesburg.
Bruce DeSilva ’81 retired from his position as Associated Press writing coach in July. He will continue to review crime novels for the AP.
Patrice Gaines ’90 is the recipient of a 2009 Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute. Gaines plans to write a series exploring the impact of mass incarceration on African American communities.
Kathleen Galligan ’09, received numerous awards, including local and national Emmys, for her Detroit Free Press multimedia project about troubled foster children at Detroit’s Christ Child House. Besides the Emmys, she garnered the 2008 Barry Edmonds Michigan Understanding Award from the Michigan Press Photographers and Best of Photojournalism award from the National Press Photographers. Add to those, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ 2009 Adoption Excellence Award, Michigan Press Association first place picture category award, Michigan Associated Press first place writing award and the National Headliners third place for writing.
Kyoko Gasha ’92, New York-based Reuters correspondent, directed the documentary “Mothers’ Way, Daughters’ Choice,” which has been invited to film festivals in Tokyo, Miami and New York. The film explores how several Japanese women struggle to reconcile their traditional upbringing and their desire to create unique lives.
Miles Harvey ’08 joined the full-time Creative Writing faculty at DePaul University in Chicago in fall 2009.
John Hill '09 left his post as investigative reporter at The Sacramento Bee to work for the California Senate, where Hill works for the Senate Office of Oversight and Outcomes, providing scrutiny of state operations.
Tom Hundley ’84, formerly of the Chicago Tribune, now teaches journalism at the American University in Dubai. In addition, he is a regional correspondent for GlobalPost.com and curator of the New York Times’ Times Topics online Dubai page.
Rachel Nixon ’05S has been named director of Digital Media for CBC News, based in Toronto. She is overseeing the Canadian network’s development of CBC News across digital platforms, including the leading Canadian news website, CBCNews.ca.
Colleen Kenney ’08 of the Lincoln Journal Star won four awards in the 2009 American Association of Sunday and Features Editors 2009 Excellence-in- Feature-Writing Contest. She took first place in A&E Reporting, both first and second place for Short Feature and third place for Feature Specialty Reporting.
Min-Ah Kim ’06 has been promoted to People & Opinion Editor at The Kyunghyang Daily News. Kim previously served as deputy editor at the paper’s international news desk.
Jim MacMillan ’07 joined the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia in August. MacMillan is an assistant professor of convergence journalism.
Micki Maynard ’00, a senior correspondent for New York Times’ Business Day, won the 11th annual Nathaniel Nash Award. The award is given to a Times correspondent or reporter “who excels in business or economic news, nationally or abroad.”
Robert McClure ’97 launched InvestigativeWest, a nonprofit journalism venture to preserve and modernize investigative and narrative journalism on western North America. The effort focuses on the environment, public health and social justice issues.
Mark McDonald ’97 received the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia from The Asia Society. McDonald and three fellow correspondents were acknowledged for their coverage of Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath in Burma/ Myanmar.
Maureen O’Hagan ’00 won Ball State University’s 2009 Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award in April 2009. O’Hagan received the honor for her Seattle Times article “Aging Father Agonizes Over Fate of His Son,” part of a series entitled “A Lifetime of Care.”
Ron Parsons ’08 joined Buzz Media in December 2009 as senior director of product development. Parsons oversees many of Buzz Media’s music sites, coordinates its advertising products, and manages other key areas of the Buzz Media network. Previously, Ron senior director of product development for Tribune, where he oversaw the redesign of its newspaper sites.
Vince Patton ’04 received a CINE Golden Eagle Award for producing the Oregon Field Guide “Celilo Revealed.” The award distinguishes excellence in professional, independent and student works, are recognized internationally as symbols of the highest production standards in film and television production.
Maria Poveda ’09 has been named foreign affairs reporter at La Razón in Madrid. Previously, she was the paper’s health and science reporter.
Bill Rose ’97 retired from his position as managing editor of The Palm Beach Post last August and moved to Oxford, Mississippi to teach journalism at his alma mater, the University of Mississippi.
Linda Robertson ’07, of The Miami Herald, was selected as the 2009 Mary Garber Pioneer Award winner by the Association for Women in Sports Media. The award recognizes those who have paved the way and served as role models for women in sports media.
Brad Schrade ’08 has been promoted to senior reporter and investigative editor at The Tennessean in Nashville.
Yvonne Simons ’03 has been named assistant news director at WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. Simons was previously news director for KBCI-TV in Boise.
Patricia Whitehorne ’08 is on assignment to the BBC’s World News America in Washington, D.C., where she is part of the production team. She also focuses on the program’s Website and promoting audience interactivity. Whitehorne is assistant editor, interactivity, for BBC News.
Lance Williams ’87 left the San Francisco Chronicle in August to join the Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley as a reporter.
Danny Zaken ’09S has been named newsroom chief editor of the Voice of Israel.
