- Leonard Downie Jr.
Leonard Downie, Jr . , was named Executive Editor of The Washington Post on September 1, 1991, after serving as Managing Editor for seven years. Downie joined The Post as a summer intern in 1964. He soon became a well-known local investigative reporter in Washington, specializing in crime, courts, housing and urban affairs.
- Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review , a journal of unorthodox technical news.
- Joseph Lelyveld
Joseph Lelyveld (born April 5, 1937) was executive editor of the "New York Times" from 1994 to 2001 and is a Pulitzer Prize-wining journalist and author. In all, Lelyveld worked at the "Times" for nearly 40 years, starting out in 1960 as a copy editor and becoming a foreign correspondent within three years. He was replaced by Howell Raines, who resigned in 2003 because of the scandal surrounding the activities of Jayson Blair, a reporter on the National desk.
- Jessica Valenti
Jessica Valenti (born 1978) is a prominent blogger and feminist writer from New York. She received her master's degree in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University and has worked for NARAL Pro Choice America, Planned Parenthood, and Ms. Magazine. Her work has been featured in The Guardian (UK), Bitch, Guernica Magazine, and Alternet.
- Alex Steffen
Alex Steffen Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003, as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely-read sustainability-related publication on the Internet, with an archive of over 7,000 articles by leading thinkers around the world.
- Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt (born June 28, 1970) in Greenville, Illinois is an Executive Editor for CNET and the developer and co-host of CNET networks' daily podcast Buzz Out Loud along with Molly Wood and Veronica Belmont. He is known as "The Segue King" for his renowned ability to craft clever transitions between news stories. He is also the author of CNET's "The Real Deal", a regular column & podcast dealing with consumer technology.
- Mike Carlin
Michael "Mike" Carlin is a comic book writer and editor, he worked principally for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and is currently an Executive Editor at DC Comics. Mike Carlin started out in the business at Marvel Comics as a writer and artist on Crazy magazine, he later became an assistant editor under Mark Gruenwald. He is currently an executive editor at DC Comics.
- Jon Udell
Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and groupware evangelist. He has been an independent consultant, was BYTE Magazine's editor-at-large, executive editor, and Web maven, and once upon a time was a developer at Lotus. In June 2002 he joined InfoWorld as lead analyst, author of the weekly Strategic Developer column, and blogger-in-chief. He also writes a monthly column for the O'Reilly Network.
- David Andelman
David A. Andelman is an American executive editor at Forbes.com and was a news reporter for the New York Times and CBS. He has also worked for The New York Daily News, the public relations agency Burston Marsteller, CNBC and Smallcapcenter.com. He is the author of "A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today," a brilliant look at the origins of many of today's deepest global crises including the war in Iraq.
- Helen Zia
Helen Zia (1952 -) is an American journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades. She was born in New Jersey to first generation immigrants from Shanghai. She entered Princeton University in the early 1970s and was a member of its first graduating class of women. As a student, Zia was among the founders of the Asian American Students Association.
- John Carter
John Carter was an English author and Vice-President of the Bibliographical Society. His 1934 exposé, "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets", co-written with author Graham Pollard, exposed the antique book forgery scheme of Harry Forman, the distinguished executive editor of Keats and Shelley publishers, and Thomas J. Wise, one of the world's most prominent book collectors.
- Molly Holzschlag
Molly Holzschlag Former Group Lead and Member Emerita Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. Molly is an invited expert to the Internationalization GEO and HTML working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the former Group Lead and member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Among her thirty-plus books is the recent The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea.
- Fred Barnes
Fred Barnes is executive editor of The Weekly Standard . From 1985 to 1995, he served as senior editor and White House correspondent for theNew Republic. He covered the Supreme Court and the White House for the Washington Star before moving on to the Baltimore Sun in 1979. He served as the national political correspondent for the Sun and wrote the "Presswatch" media column for the American Spectator.
- Angela Burt-Murray
Angela Burt-Murray is the Editor-in-Chief of Essence Magazine. From 2003 to 2005 she was the Executive Editor for Teen People Magazine. From 2001 to 2003 she was Executive Editor for Honey Magazine. She is a graduate of Hampton University and lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children.
- Daniel Tynan
I'm a freelance writer in Wilmington, NC. Snappy copy for all occasions. Reasonable rates for people I like. Inquire within.
- Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan is the author, most recently, of "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto." His previous book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals", was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. It also won the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, the James Beard Award for best food writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
- Jonathan Maberry
Jonathan Maberry , Founding Partner Jonathan Maberry is a professional writer and writing teacher; since 1979 he's sold more than 900 articles, sixteen nonfiction books, three novels, as well as short stories, poetry, song lyrics, video scripts, and two plays.
- Bill Keller
Bill Keller (born January 18 , 1949 ) is executive editor of The New York Times . Bill Keller attended the Roman Catholic Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, California . After graduating from Pomona College in 1970 where he began his journalistic career by founding an independent newspaper called The Collage , he was a reporter in Portland with The Oregonian , the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report , and at The Dallas Times Herald .
- Mort Castle
Mort Castle <br /> Horror author and writing teacher, Mort Castle, has more than 350 short stories and a dozen books to his credit, including "Cursed Be the Child" (Leisure Books, 1994) and "The Strangers". Castle's first novel was published in 1967. Since then he has had pieces published in all sorts of places ranging from traditional lit mags to more off the wall or risqué markets. <br /> A dedicated and talented writing teacher, …
- James M. Brady
James M. Brady, known as Jim Brady, is an American journalist and the Executive Editor of the washingtonpost.com since November 2004. Brady was born in Queens, New York City and grew up in Huntington, New York. He graduated from the American University with a degree in journalism in 1989. Brady began his career as a sportswriter at the "Post" in 1987 and has worked as a sports editor, managing news editor, and in other capacities, …
- Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison (b. 1984), is an American libertarian writer, and executive editor of The Prometheus Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Orange County, California.
- Howard Rheingold
howard rheingold & mark earl @ nesta I'm at the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts ( NESTA ) office in London where Howard Rheingold (who I've known online for many years and have had the pleasure of meeting, and interviewing , on a number of occasions) has just taken the stage to give a presentation about "mass collaboration".
- Marcia Angell
Marcia Angell , M. D., is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine on June 30, 2000. A graduate of Boston University School of Medicine, she trained in both internal medicine and anatomic pathology and is a board-certified pathologist.
- Paul Burka
Paul Burka joined the staff of TEXAS MONTHLY one year after the magazine's founding. A lifelong Texan, he was born in Galveston, graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in history, and received a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Burka is a member of the State Bar of Texas and spent five years as an attorney with the Texas Legislature, where he served as counsel to the Senate Natural Resources Committee.
- Ruth Wedgwood
Ruth Wedgwood has been Professor of International Law at Yale Law School since 1986, and writes on the use of force, peacekeeping, international tribunals, Security Council politics, international crimes, and American foreign affairs power. Ms. Wedgwood is also Senior Fellow for International Organizations and Law at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the incoming Director of Studies at the Hague Academy for International Law in the Netherlands.
- Ralph Merkle
Dr. Merkle received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1979 where he co-invented public key cryptography.He joined Xerox PARC in 1988, where he pursued research in security and computational nanotechnology until 1999. He was a Nanotechnology Theorist at Zyvex until 2003, when he joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Professor of Computing until 2006.
- Christy Harvey
Christy Harvey is the Director of Strategic Communications at the Center for American Progress. She is a regular guest on "The Al Franken Show". She also edits a free news website for the Center called Mic Check. She is a former research director at "The Wall Street Journal". Growing up in Dover, Delaware, Harvey attended Caesar Rodney High School, then Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.
- John Peet
John Peet (b. 1954) is a British journalist, who is at present the Europe editor of "The Economist" newspaper and a highly-respected expert in economic matters. He has been interviewed and been involved in public discussions on various topics, including water management and the European Union(see references and external links below). Peet was previously a Health Correspondent with The Economist from 1986-1998 and Business Affairs Editor (1998-2003).
- Robert A. Brown
Robert A. Brown , a distinguished scholar of chemical engineering and an innovative leader in higher education, became the tenth president of Boston University in September 2005. A Texas native, Dr. Brown, 57, earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, where he worked under the guidance of Professor L.E. Scriven.
- Harvey Phillips
Harvey Phillips is a distinguished professor emeritus of the Department of Music, Indiana University, at Bloomington (appointed professor 1971 - retired May 1994). He has performed as tuba soloist throughout the world. He was a professional freelance musician from 1950 to 1971. His first professional musicianship was with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Band as a teenager. He served as personnel manager for Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, …
- Thomas Pogge
Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge is a philosopher, currently Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He received his PhD from Harvard University with a dissertation supervised by John Rawls. Pogge serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Carnegie Council journal, Ethics & International Affairs, and is an Ethics and Debt Project participant.
- Hilary Bok
Hilary Bok (also known by the pseudonym Hilzoy) is an associate professor of philosophy and the Luce Professor in Bioethics and Moral and Political Theory at the Johns Hopkins University. She earned her B.A. from Princeton University and her Ph.D. from Harvard. Before moving to Johns Hopkins, Bok taught at Pomona College in California. Bok is the author of "Freedom and Responsibility" (1998), a Kantian critique of libertarian theories of free will.
- Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas (born August 4, 1920) is an American news service reporter, a Hearst Newspapers columnist , and member of the White House Press Corps . She served for fifty-seven years as a correspondent and, later, White House bureau chief for United Press International (UPI). Thomas has covered every president since John F. Kennedy .
- Catherine Crier
An Emmy Award-winning journalist and the youngest state judge to ever be elected in Texas, Catherine Crier joined Court TV's distinguished team of anchors in November 1999. She was recently named the Executive Editor, Legal News Specials, in addition to hosting Catherine Crier Live. Crier, a Texas-bred independent with a passion for justice, debates with her guests the provocative topics of the day.
- David Ignatius
PostGlobal co-moderator David Ignatius is a Washington Post columnist with a wide-ranging career in journalism, having served at various times as a reporter, foreign correspondent and editor. He has also written widely for magazines and published six novels. Ignatius's twice-weekly column on global politics, economics and international affairs debuted on The Washington Post op-ed page in January 1999, and has been syndicated worldwide by The Washington Post Writers Group.
- Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus | December 16 WaPo - President Bush is searching not only for a new director of national intelligence to become his chief adviser on intelligence but also for three other senior officials who will work atop the new organization created by the intelligence reform act he is scheduled to sign into law tomorrow.
- Hugh Hewitt
Professor Hewitt is the host of a nationally syndicated radio show heard in more than 70 markets nationwide. He received 3 Emmys during his decade of work as co-host of the week-night television news and public affairs show Life & Times on PBS Los Angeles affiliate KCET-TV. Professor Hewitt was also the host of the PBS Series Searching For God In America, an eight-part show which premiered on PBS in July 1996.
- Bill Kovach
Bill Kovach has been a journalist and writer for 50 years. In that time he was chief of the New York Times Washington Bureau, served as editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and curator of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University and the founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists , a group that now totals more than 9,000 journalists worldwide.
- Stephen Muggleton
Stephen Muggleton is Director of Modelling at the Centre for Integrative Systems Biology at Imperial College and holds a Royal Academy of Engineering/Microsoft Research Chair. He received his BSc in Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1982. His PhD research, on the topic Inductive Acquisition of Expert Knowledge was carried out at Edinburgh University under the supervision of Prof. Donald Michie He was awarded his PhD in 1986.
- Richard MacManus
Richard MacManus , publisher of ReadWriteWeb.com, selects his top Web 2.0 blogs. Badges are a wonderful thing to show your participation in the BlogBridge Topic Experts project. All badges below are personified to Richard MacManus and come on a neutral white background so that you could fit them nicely in almost any side bar.