The 2011-2012 Peabody BoardJoe Urschel (Chair) is the Executive Director Emeritus of the Newseum, the interactive museum of news and news events in Washington, D.C., which also serves as an international forum on press and media issues. Urschel is a former managing editor of USA TODAY where he also served as a senior correspondent and columnist. 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. He has worked for the Detroit Free Press as a reporter, critic and editor. His journalism honors include awards from the National Association of Newspaper Columnists, the National Association of Sunday and Feature Editors and an Emmy for a documentary production. Steve Bryant has been senior curator of television for the British Film Institute since 1988. Author of The Television Heritage (The Broadcasting Debate: 4), the BFI TV100 booklet and numerous papers about television, he is a member of the executive council of the Fédération Internationale des Archives de Télévision/International Federation of Television Archives and is the initiator of the FIAT/IFTA Television Studies Seminar, first held in Paris in May 2010. 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. 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. Eddie Garrett recently joined the Edelman Company, a global public relations firm based in Chicago, as Senior Vice President for Digital Strategies. Prior to this new position, Garrett served as Senior Vice President for New Media at Porter Novelli, a public relations firm in Washington, D.C., and as director of communications and new media for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Garrett, who holds a BS in communications and an MBA from the University of Georgia, was a member of the CNN team that won a 2005 Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. 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. 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. 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. Marquita Pool-Eckert has taught journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Hunter College, CUNY, since retiring in 2006 from her position as senior producer, CBS News Sunday Morning. In a 30-year career at CBS News in which she also worked as a producer for CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, she covered events from the 9/11 attacks to Nelson Mandela’s inauguration in South Africa to the Iran hostage crisis. Pool-Eckert received her MA from Boston University and her MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Honors for her work include 12 national Emmys. Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI's vice president of film/TV relations, oversees all activity from the Los Angeles-based department serving film and television composers. She has established many programs for composers, including the Sundance Institute's Composer's Lab, and oversees BMI's film scoring scholarships at USC, UCLA, NYU, Columbia College and Berklee College of Music. Before joining BMI, Ringer Ross held artist development positions at A&M; Records, ABC Records and MCA Records and worked in television as a producer on a wide array of programs. N. Bird Runningwater is Director of the Native American Program at the Sundance Institute. Previously, he oversaw the Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program; served as executive director of the Fund of the Four Directions, the private philanthropy organization, and as a program associate in the Ford Foundation’s Media, Arts and Culture Program. Currently based in Los Angeles, he is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with degrees in Journalism and Native American Studies. He received his Master of Public Affairs degree from the University of Texas at Austin's Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Maureen Ryan recently joined AOL Television as its lead television critic after 13 years at the Chicago Tribune covering television, primarily, but also popular culture, the Internet, media and music. Her Tribune website, The Watcher, has been nominated for an Editor and Publisher Espy Award for Best Entertainment Blog, and Variety in 2007 named her one of the six most influential critics in America. She also has done commentary about television for NPR, CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets. 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. 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. Barbie Zelizer, author or editor of seven books, among them Journalism After September 11, is the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and former president of the International Communication Association. A media critic who has contributed analysis of cultural memory, journalism and images to Newsday, The Nation and PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, she is a former Guggenheim Fellow and is currently a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
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