Past Fellows: 2002-2003

The class that became Knight-Wallace Fellows at Michigan

2002-2003 Fellows and their study projects are:

Muchlis Ainur Rofik, assignment editor, Metro-TV (Jakarta, Indonesia).
Fact and myth of contemporary Islamic radicalism in Indonesia.

Peter Elstrom, senior writer, Business Week.
Business, politics and American history.

Joanne Episcopo, arts producer, BBC (London, England).
Spanish history and Basque culture.

Andrew Finkel, contract correspondent (Istanbul), Time Magazine and The Times (London).
Corruption and strategies of reform in the developing world.

Einat Fishbain, free-lance journalist (Tel Aviv, Israel).
Film and video studies, Arabic.

Ron French, enterprise reporter, The Detroit News.
Applying screenwriting techniques to narrative journalism.

Sandy Heng, reporter, WXYZ-TV (Detroit).
Psychology of motorsports.

Scott Huler, reporter/producer, Nashville Public Radio.
History and impact of the Beaufort Scale.

Robert Daniel Huntley, columnist, The Charlotte Observer .
Economic history of the American South: 1865-1965.

Lisa Lednicer, state government reporter, The Oregonian (Portland).
Rise of anti-government movements.

Jiri Nadoba, news reporter, Mlada Fronta Dnes (Prague, Czech Republic).
The transformation from centrally planned economy to free market, European Union.

Sue Nelson, science and environment correspondent, BBC, TV News (London, England).
Astronomy and space science.

Jung-woo Park, reporter, The Kookje Daily News (Pusan, South Korea).
International politics and economy, American local newspaper business.

Kemp Powers, Chicago bureau reporter, Forbes Magazine..
Global business.

Michelle Quinn, business reporter, San Jose Mercury News..
The business of medicine.

Yvonne Simons, education reporter, WRAL-TV (North Carolina).
Education reform.

Seth Sutel, media business writer, Associated Press (New York).
Economics of the media revolution.

Miguel Wiñ.azki, editor in chief, "Viva" Magazine, Clarin (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Contemporary journalism in Argentina, 1973 to 1999.

Michelle York, city editor, The Daily Messenger (Canandaigua, NY).
Deaf Culture.