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Kevin Abourezk |
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Kevin Abourezk is night city editor for the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star . Since joining the Journal Star in 1999, he also has served as a regional and Native American issues reporter for the newspaper. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of South Dakota. Kevin is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota and lives in Lincoln with his wife, 3-year-old son and 5-month-old
daughter.
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Sandra Aven |
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Sandra Aven was named vice president and publisher of the Plainview (Texas) Daily Herald on Jan. 1. She joined the Herald in 1993 as office manager and was quickly promoted to the job of resident controller. Prior to working at the Herald , Sandra held positions with MMS Inc. and FGL Commodities, and at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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LaShinda Clark |
| LaShinda Clark was promoted to photo editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer in November. She organizes photo assignments with editors and reporters, edits photographs with photographers, and coordinates photographic presentations with the news desk. Before joining the Inquirer as a photographer in September 1999, she worked at the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer for almost four years. She expects to complete her master of science degree in organization leadership in May. Volunteerism is a priority for LaShinda, so she is on the special events and media committees at her church, Church of the Overcomer in Trainer, Pa. She also started a two-day photography workshop for students during a summer camp last year sponsored by the church. |
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Monica Drake |
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Monica Drake is a staff editor at the New York Times. In addition to her primary role on the metro copy desk, she has served as deputy features editor and regional arts editor. Monica joined the York Times as a Dow Jones copy editing intern in 1998 and continued to work on the copy desk part time while completing her master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. After graduating in 1999, she joined the copy desk full time, first as a copy editing trainee, and then as a staff editor. Monica has assumed several assignments at the Times, including a stint as a copy editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris, and she has written freelance articles for the paper. Monica grew up in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She is active in the Yale University alumni association and spends much of
her free time writing short stories and traveling.
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Kisha Dunn |
| Kisha Dunn has been an assistant city editor at the Detroit News since May. Previously, she spent eight years at the Ocala (Fla.) Star-Banner , where she was a city editor and a copy editor/page designer. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Kisha is a graduate of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, where she majored in journalism and political science. |
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Laura Goldberg |
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Laura Goldberg has been interim business editor at the Houston Chronicle since June. She supervises a staff of two dozen reporters, copy editors and assistant editors. She spent five months as an assistant business editor before taking over the interim job. She joined the Chronicle in 1998 as a reporter covering airlines and later moved to the paper's energy reporting team. Laura, a native of Chicago, previously worked at the News-Press in Fort Myers, Fla., and the Cincinnati Enquirer, reporting on local government and politics. She has a journalism degree
from Northwestern University.
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Dave Ibata |
| Dave Ibata is a rewrite editor for Chicago Tribune Interactive, the Internet affiliate of the Chicago Tribune. He is responsible for obtaining stories, photographs and other content related to breaking news for immediate posting to the Tribune's Internet site. His present assignment is one of many in his career at the newspaper. In the past 24 years, he has served as a source editor, deputy bureau chief, metro writer specializing in suburban affairs and transportation, and business reporter covering real estate and savings institutions. Before joining the Tribune, Dave worked in public relations and for daily newspapers in suburban Chicago. Dave is a founding member, former chapter president and national board member of the Chicago Chapter, Asian American Journalists Association. He also formerly served on the board of the Chicago Tribune Foundation, the charitable giving arm of the Chicago Tribune. A graduate of Southern Illinois University with a bachelor of science degree in journalism, Dave is married, has three children and lives in Arlington Heights, Ill. |
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Kelly Jerome |
| Kelly Jerome is the weekend/copy editor at the Midland (Mich.) Daily News . She is responsible for page layout and design, newsroom assignments and coordination between the newsroom and the photography department. Most recently, she and the Daily News accent editor have planned the launch of a new bi-weekly entertainment guide, which is set to premiere in May. Kelly began working at the Daily News as a reporter in July 2004 after graduating from Central Michigan University. After working on the township beat for a year, she took over the weekend editor position. She still occasionally volunteers to write stories and enjoys writing columns and editorials. |
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Al Jones |
| Al Jones has been business editor of the Kalamazoo (Mich.) Gazette since mid-1995, after being a business writer for about 10 years. He joined the Gazette in 1979 after working for less than a year at the Springfield (Mo.) Daily News and for more than two years as a stringer for the Milwaukee Post newspapers in Wisconsin. In addition to business news, he has covered several beats, including education, county government, crime and courts. He has also written a general interest column for the past six years. Al is a native of Philadelphia, Pa., and is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee. He is married and the father of four boys. |
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Michael Kurtz |
| Michael Kurtz is city editor of the JournalNews , a 26,000-circulation daily serving Butler County, one of the fastest-growing areas in Ohio, just north of Cincinnati. He was promoted nine months ago. He spent the three previous years at the Middletown Journal , a sister paper in Cox Ohio Publishing. He was the Middletown city reporter for the final year, and previously covered the Franklin and Carlisle areas for the paper. One of his duties was a weekly community page dedicated to features from the area. He got his start in Atlanta as a cops reporter for the Forsyth County News . He won the Georgia Press Association award for investigative reporting for a series about a developer, a county commissioner and some questionable dealings. He and his wife, Gina, have three children, Morgan, Alex and Maggie. |
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Michael A. Lev |
| Michael A. Lev became business editor of the Chicago Tribune last year after returning to the United States from a 10-year assignment as a Tribune foreign correspondent. From 2000-2005 he was the newspaper's Beijing bureau chief. Previously he was based in Tokyo. As one of two correspondents in Asia for the Tribune , Michael wrote from more than 20 countries in the region, from Vietnam to North Korea. In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, he covered the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including the fighting and search for Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora. Before joining the foreign staff, he was a metropolitan and national reporter for the Tribune in Chicago. Previously, Michael contributed to the New York Times as a full-time freelance reporter in the newspaper's Los Angeles bureau. He is a graduate of Northwestern University with a journalism degree, and lives in Highland Park, Ill., with his wife, Carla, three daughters, two dogs and a cat. |
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Victoria Manley |
| Victoria Manley is deputy business editor at the Contra Costa Times , a Knight Ridder paper in California, where she manages a team of six reporters and coordinates the business section's enterprising weekend coverage. She also has led members of the company's executive management team in strategic planning and goal-alignment exercises. She joined the company in September from sister paper, the Monterey County (Calif.) Herald , where she worked her way from reporter to senior reporter and ultimately to business editor. Victoria earned bachelor's degrees in print journalism and Italian, with a minor in cinema-television, from the University of Southern California. She received a master's degree in organization development in December. Hobbies include furniture restoration (she co-founded Sister Chic, a small antique business based in Santa Cruz, Calif., with her sister in 2002), running and film history. She lives in Pleasant Hill, Calif. |
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James H. Parker Jr. |
| James H. Parker Jr. is district manager with the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch . He joined the company in 2001 as a mailroom insert while attending ECPI Technology Institute. Upon graduating with an associate degree in computer networking technology in 2002, James left the company to pursue a career in computers. He returned after a year as a single copy supervisor. He then transferred to the state circulation department as the district manager for the northern neck of Virginia. |
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John Samuel |
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John Samuel is a zone manager for Express newspaper, a publication of the Washington Post . He oversees 45 metro single-copy agents and three Express agents who manage a total of 65 distributors, who in turn pass out nearly 93,000 papers daily Monday through Friday. Before joining the circulation department in July 2003, he managed the collection department and ensured that the monthly collection and annual bad debt goals where met. John joined the Post in November 2000. Before that, he was collection manager for Mid-Atlantic Finance for three years and assistant branch manager for Franklin Investment. He attended the Maryland Drafting Institute of Technology and is working on a degree from the University of the District of Columbia. He has also completed several Dunn & Bradstreet courses. He enjoys
fishing, bowling and old cars.
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Dana Thrower Starling |
| Dana Thrower Starling was promoted to general accounting manager at the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer in September. She earned her bachelor of business administration degree from Columbus State University in May 2002. Dana began her career with the Ledger-Enquirer in June 2000 as a junior accountant. In September 2000 she was promoted to staff accountant. She and her husband, Brad, have a son, Jacob Andruw, and two dogs, Kattie and Cooper. |
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Nadya Tan |
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Nadya Tan is an assistant news editor and online liaison for the features department at the Philadelphia Inquirer . Before joining the Inquirer in 2002, Nadya worked as a Web designer for Knight Ridder Digital, Latino.com and the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News . Her previous positions include project coordinator for the Community Press Consortium and infotech consultant for the NewsWatch Project at San Francisco State University. She is a 1996 graduate of the
University of California-San Diego.
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Rick Thurman |
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Rick Thurman is the major and national accounts manager for the Sarasota, Fla.-based Herald-Tribune Media Group, which includes the Herald-Tribune , SNN Channel 6, heraldtribune.com and Herald-Tribune Direct. He manages a staff of two major accounts executives, one national account executive and one major and national account coordinator. Previously, he was retail advertising manager for the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune from April 2003 to November 2005. From November 2001 to April 2003, he was advertising director of the Herald in New Britain, Conn. He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in
broadcasting in 1974 from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.
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Doris Truong |
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Doris Truong is a copy editor and Sunday slot on the national desk of the Washington Post . She helped edit a series that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2005. Before coming to the D.C. area in 2003, she was a copy editor and slot on the universal desk at the Dallas Morning News , for which she also occasionally reviewed restaurants and movies. A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, she was a Dow Jones intern at the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch . She is on the national board of the Asian American Journalists Association, is a graduate of AAJA's Executive Leadership Program, and
is active in the American Copy Editors Society.
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Marie Vasari |
| Marie Vasari covers tourism and small business in the Monterey, Calif., region and supervises a reporter and freelancers as business editor for the Monterey County Herald. She has lived in California her entire life and has spent the past 18 years at various newspapers, covering city beats and features, and working as a food editor and as a copy editor and page designer. When she's not reading newspapers, Marie is drawn to poetry, short stories and fiction. |
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Jamesetta Walker |
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Jamesetta Walker is features editor at the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. She writes a bi-weekly column dubbed "Style Talk." Jamesetta also worked as a copy editor at the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News . A Chips Quinn Scholars alum, she received her bachelor's degree in news editorial at Southern University-Baton Rouge and her master's degree in communication at Mississippi College. She is president of her neighborhood association and a participant in the Leadership Jackson program. She and her husband, Maurece, have three children: Kassydi
Alana, 5; Perrin Kelsey, 3; and Kylei Alyssa, 3.
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Kevin Williams |
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Kevin Williams is assistant editor of the Chicago Tribune 's Sunday Arts & Entertainment section, with additional hats of assistant entertainment editor and music editor. His tasks are story planning, coordination and editing, though he still writes from time to time. He has been at the Tribune for almost six years. Previously, he worked for City Talk , a short-lived newspaper published by WTTW-Channel 11, and the Chicago Sun-Times . He got a late start in journalism, having been derailed by bicycle racing for 15 years. After his last Olympic trials and the realization that indeed he was too old, he became a staff writer at the Sun-Times , logging candle-at-both-ends byline counts before moving on to the sylvan groves of public television and beyond. He's a resident of Highland Park, a Chicago suburb, and has a wife, an old, cranky dog and a case of rampaging Francophilia.
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