From the Grapevine

Maynard 2011 Multimedia Editing Program alum Cecily Burt has been promoted to Assistant City Editor of Bay Area News Group. 

"We are pleased to announce that Cecily Burt has been named an assistant city editor working in Walnut Creek starting Feb. 1. As you know from her recent award for her work on the 1991 firestorm anniversary retrospective, Cecily is an experienced reporter and skilled writer who will bring a wealth of experience to her new job," said East Bay Metro Editor Kat Rowlands. 

Sundra Hominik, Multimedia Editing Program 2011 alum, recently started In Your Shoes Media, that produces print and digital content for community newspapers. 

George Howard, a participant in this year's Media Academy at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, has been accepted to the Executive MBA program at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

Maynard Multimedia Editing Program Class of 2011 Fellow Michael Thompson is now the editor of the Sauk Prairie Eagle in Wisconsin. Thompson will also continue as assistant editor at the Portage Daily Register. "It's an interesting coverage area," he said Wednesday. "Sauk City and Prairie du Sac sit right next to each other on the Wisconsin River and are wrapped up in each other's affairs. As a whole, they're called 'Sauk Prairie' and share a school district, airport and more. Bald-eagle watching is big down here, so 'Eagle' shows up in many local names."