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Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT on brain science. In 2009–2010, she was a Rosalyn Carter Fellow in Mental Health Journalism. She currently lives in Miami Beach. Contact: Elizabeth Bernstein, Reporter and Columnist, Wall Street Journal, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036; (212) 416-3875; elizabeth.bernstein@wsj.com Curt Carlson, vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Nebraska-Kearney, has served since 1985 as the chief public relations officer of four universities. Prior to these positions, he had worked as a broadcaster, professor, and entrepreneur. His Nebraska portfolio includes all external relations functions, including media relations, marketing, and government relations. Previously, he directed communications, marketing, crisis and issues management, media relations, and internal communications as vice president for public affairs at Emory University, and he served as director of university relations at Illinois State University and director of public relations at Berry College in Georgia. An active member of several higher education and public relations associations, Carlson was the founding chair of Counselors to Higher Education, a national group formed in 1998 as a section of the Public Relations Society of America. He is the author of the chapter “Universities and the Business Practice of Marketing” in a threevolume series, The Business of Higher Education (Praeger, 2009). Currently, he serves on the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Advisory Board for Communications and Public Affairs and is a member of the Higher Education Roundtable. Carlson holds a bachelor’s degree in theology from Southern Adventist University in Tennessee and a master’s degree in broadcast and film from the University of Memphis. Contact: Curtis K. Carlson, Vice Chancellor for University Relations, University of Nebraska at Kearney, 905 West 25th Street, Founders Hall, Kearney, NE 68849; (308) 865-8529; carlsonck@unk.edu David Chalian was hired in November 2011 as the Washington bureau chief for Yahoo! News. His move is part of Yahoo’s renewed focus on original content and political coverage of the 2012 presidential election. Previously, Chalian had been the political editor at PBS NewsHour since 2010. He directed NewsHour’s political coverage across all broadcast and digital platforms. In addition to campaign politics, Chalian managed the editorial content from the NewsHour’s congressional, White House, and Supreme Court beats. He also served as an on-camera political analyst, appeared in regular political webcasts on the Online NewsHour, co-authored the NewsHour’s daily political newsletter, the Morning Line, and developed additional original digital political content. Under Chalian’s guidance and direction, the PBS NewsHour 2010 midterm political coverage received the Walter Cronkite Award from the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California for excellence in television political journalism. Chalian served as political director at ABC News between 2007 and 2010, winning an Emmy for his role in producing ABC’s coverage of President Obama’s inauguration. In this position, he helped oversee the editorial content of all political news across ABC News’ broadcasts and platforms. He created and coanchored Top Line, a daily political webcast on ABCNews.com and on ABC News Now, the network’s 24-hour digital outlet. In addition, he provided political commentary and analysis for World News with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, Nightline, and ABC News Radio. As part of the team that traveled to Alaska to produce Sarah Palin’s first television interview as the GOP vice presidential nominee (with ABC News’s Charlie Gibson), Chalian received an Emmy Award nomination. In 2006, he received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award as a part of the team at ABC News that produced the coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict XVI. Prior to joining ABC News, Chalian produced Inside City Hall, a nightly political program for NY1 News. He is a graduate of Northwestern University. Contact: David Chalian, Bureau Chief, Yahoo! News, 1717 Desales Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 293-1259; C: (917) 701-6859; dchalian@yahoo-inc.com 2
Shane Dorrill has worked in the University of Alabama’s Office of University Relations for 12 years and currently serves as assistant director of broadcast media relations. Before coming to UA, he worked as a news director, producer, anchor, and reporter for several television and radio stations in the Tuscaloosa, Alabama, area. Dorrill holds a bachelor’s degree in telecommunications and film from the University of Alabama. Contact: Shane Dorrill, Assistant Director of Broadcast Media Relations, University of Alabama, Box 870144, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487; (205) 348-8319; sdorrill@ur.ua.edu Tom Evelyn joined St. Lawrence University as vice president for communications in June 2011. He leads the university’s communications and marketing efforts, overseeing the office responsible for the website, digital and print publications, media and public relations, social media, and video and photography. Before joining St. Lawrence, he served as senior director of news and media relations at Bucknell University and interim assistant vice president and associate director of news and information at the University of Central Florida. He worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Florida and Georgia, covering a variety of topics from government and politics to health and technology. Evelyn has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in communication from the University of Central Florida, where he guest-lectured in journalism and public relations and advised advanced reporting students. Contact: Tom Evelyn, Vice President for Communications, St. Lawrence University, 23 Romoda Drive, Canton, NY 13617; (315) 229-5845; C: 315-854-4437; tevelyn@stlawu.edu; Twitter: @tevelyn Carole Feldman is director of news operations and finance in the Washington bureau of the Associated Press (AP). She also conceived and is the overall coordinator of the joint AP-Associated Press Media Editors project, Aging America, which examines the aging of baby boomers and the impact this so-called “silver tsunami” is having on society. In her current assignment, she works to cover news more efficiently across all formats and facilitates training for the Washington bureau and the Broadcast News Center. A 35-year-veteran of the AP, she has supervised coverage of a wide range of beats, including the White House, Congress, national security, the economy, health, science, and medicine, as well as presidential and congressional elections. Feldman was the news organization’s education writer from 1993 to 1994. Since 2008, she also has been an associate faculty member of the Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars, most recently teaching a media ethics course. A New York native, Feldman received a master’s degree in journalism from Boston University in 1975. She completed her undergraduate work, also in journalism, at Pennsylvania State University, where she graduated in 1974. Contact: Carole Feldman, Reporter, Associated Press, 1100 13th Street, NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005-4051; (202) 641-9000; cfeldman@ap.org Tim Goral is editor-in-chief of University Business (UB). He has been a member of Professional Media Group since 2000, when he joined the staff of District Administration, the publication for K–12 educators, as features editor. Goral became editor of the company’s higher education business publication, Matrix, in 2001, and he retained his editorial post when Matrix and University Business magazine merged in early 2002. UB is a widely read publication for higher education leaders (45,000 circulation) at two- and four-year colleges and universities nationwide. UB provides coverage of higher education technology, news, finance, policy, and profiles across print, digital, and in-person event platforms, including the annual higher education technology conference, UBTech. In his nearly 20 years in national trade publication writing and editing, Goral has served in editorial posts for publications in the food and beverage, hospitality, and outdoor retailing industries. He is the author of A Half-Empty Glassful of Optimism: The Path to Enlightenment Begins with a Road Trip. Contact: Tim Goral, Editor-in-Chief, University Business, 488 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06851; (203) 663-0126; tgoral@universitybusiness.com 3
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