The 2009-2010 Peabody BoardSusan Douglas (Chair) is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan and chair of the department. Her books include "Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media," "Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination," and, with Meredith Michaels, "The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Undermines Women." She has written for The Nation, The Village Voice, Ms., TV Guide and In These Times. She has appeared on "The Today Show," "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "Fresh Air" and "Talk of the Nation," among other national programs. Tim Brooks is one of television's leading historians. He is the author or co-author of several books, including The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present, recipient of the American Book Award in 1980 and now in its ninth edition. He is also the author of Lost Sounds, the first in-depth history of the involvement of African-Americans in the earliest years of the recording industry. The CD adaptation received a 2007 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album. Previously he was Executive VP, Research, for Lifetime Television and Senior VP, Research, for USA Networks. Brooks is a recipient of the Cable Advertising Bureau's Jack Hill Award for Excellence and Integrity in Media Research. Barbara Cochran is president emeritus of the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Foundation. RTNDA is the world's largest professional organization devoted to electronic journalism and RTNDF is its educational arm. Previously, Cochran was a journalist and news executive in Washington. She was managing editor of the Washington Star, vice president of news at National Public Radio, executive producer of NBC's Meet the Press and vice president and Washington bureau chief for CBS News. Raul Garza is a specialist in diversity communications with experience producing for Spanish-language radio and television, consulting on multilingual advertising and directing multicultural marketing campaigns. He has lived and traveled in Asia and Latin America and currently makes his home in Los Angeles. His interests include broadcasting in languages other than English and outside the U.S. Elizabeth Guider is the editor of The Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles and has written about entertainment and media subjects for a variety of publications for the last 15 years, from Rome, Paris and London as well as from New York and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles since 1994, she held management responsibilities at Daily Variety Gotham, Daily Variety Los Angeles and Weekly Variety, before taking her current position at The Hollywood Reporter in 2007. She regularly appears on industry panels and belongs to leading media organizations, including Women in Film and BAFTA. She holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance studies from New York University. Charlayne Hunter-Gault was the first African-American to enter the University of Georgia and is a graduate of its journalism school. An award-winning reporter, now based in Johannesburg, South Africa, she has been CNN's South Africa bureau chief, National Public Radio's African correspondent, chief national correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and a reporter for The New Yorker and The New York Times. She is the recipient of more than two dozen honorary degrees and is the author of In My Place (1992), a memoir of her UGA experiences. Harry Jessell is editor and publisher of TVNewsday: The Business of Broadcasting, a daily online news and information service and resource for the media industries. Prior to creating TVNewsday, Jessell served as a reporter, executive editor, and editor of Broadcasting & Cable, one of three leading magazines devoted to covering the media world. He has appeared regularly on TV and radio, lectured at universities and moderated numerous panels at industry conferences. Thomas Mattia is Chief Communications Officer and Special Advisor to the President at Yale University. Previously he was senior vice-president for worldwide public affairs and communications for the Coca-Cola Company. He also led the company's Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility Council and the Bottler Public Affairs Advisory Board. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the Arthur Page Society and numerous other professional associations. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Rutgers University. Melanie McFarland is the television editor of the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB). She holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. While a student she held internships with the Chicago Tribune, the Tucson Citizen, and with City News Bureau in Chicago. She is formerly the television critic of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She is a member of the Television Critics Association and has served as a juror for the American Film Institute's Television Awards. Frazier Moore has covered television for the Associated Press since 1992. He reviews programs, profiles stars as well as figures behind the scenes, and analyzes the TV medium. Before joining the AP, Moore freelanced for publications including People Weekly, Spy and Interview, as well as for The New York Times. He was a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Fort Myers (FL) News-Press, where he earned a National Headliners Award in column writing. Janet H. Murray is an internationally recognized interactive designer and Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (Free Press, 1997; MIT Press 1998), which has been translated into five languages and is widely used as a roadmap to the coming broadband art, information, and entertainment environments. She directs an eTV Prototyping Group, which has worked on interactive television applications for PBS, ABC, and other networks. She is also a member Georgia Tech's Experimental Game Lab. Horace Newcomb is the Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards and Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Georgia. See full Bio. Allen Sabinson is the Dean of Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts and Design in Philadelphia. In a prior career that spanned three decades, he was president of production at Miramax Films and held senior positions at ABC, A&E;, TNT, NBC and Showtime. The many productions that he commissioned include two Peabody winners, The Crossing and Small Sacrifices. Joe Urschel is the Executive Director and Senior VP of the Newseum, the interactive museum of news opening in Washington in 2008. Urschel joined the Newseum from USA TODAY. He was a member of the team that developed "USA TODAY on TV," a nationally syndicated daily news program, and worked as its supervising producer during its year-and-a-half-long run. He has worked for the Detroit Free Press as a reporter, critic, associate magazine editor and assistant Sunday editor. He is a member of the advisory board of the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. His journalism honors include awards from the National Association of Newspaper Columnists and the National Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. Fred Young retired recently from Hearst-Argyle Television, where he was senior vice president for news. In 2009 he received the prestigious 2009 Paul White Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. Young spent 25 years in various capacities, including news director and general manager, at Pittsburgh's WTAE-TV. He serves as a judge for the Hearst Journalism Awards for college journalism students and is a member of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
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