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 (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.

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 .

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 (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.

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".

Rebecca Lieb is vice president of Econsultancy's US operations.

Paul Goldberger Paul Goldberger is one of the nation´s best-known writers in the field of architecture, design and urbanism. After a 25-year career at The New York Times where he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his architecture criticism, he became both staff writer and architecture critic at The New Yorker, and last year assumed the additional title of Executive Editor for Architecture at Architectural Digest.

Stephen Nill is an attorney admitted to practice in California in 1981. He is a member of the State Bar of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court, Central. His clients include nonprofit organizations and educational institutions in California and many other states, as well as voluntary organizations in Canada and the UK. In his planned giving work, he has been legal counsel to some of the 100 wealthiest families in the United States.

Liz speaks to corporate leaders and entrepreneurs about the new-millennium workplace, women, business and community, and work/life issues; her columns and advice appear in Fortune, The New York Times, and many other publications. Liz is a frequent commentator on CNN and other TV stations. She studied voice at the Manhattan School of Music; has a BA from Loyola University and MS from Northwestern University. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband Michael and five children.

Howell Raines was born and raised in Birmingham. He decided at age ten that he wanted to write when he grew up. Raines attended Birmingham-Southern College, earning a BA in English in 1964. Deciding that journalism would be more exciting than graduate school, Raines worked for the Birmingham Post-Herald from 1964 to 1965. He was a staff writer for a Birmingham television station, WBRC-TV, from 1965 to 1967.

Karla Hult KARE 11 Reporter Karla Hult is an award-winning reporter who loves living and working in her home state. Karla grew up in Forest Lake and graduated magna cum laude from St. Olaf College, where she majored in English and Political Science. She also received a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University. Among her academic honors: Phi Beta Kappa and a writing fellowship at Columbia. Karla?

Carol Sorgen � Executive Editor Carol Sorgen is a freelance journalist, travel writer, managing editor of JustSayGo.com, and self-confessed gypsy at heart. Her articles appear in both print and online publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Coastal Living, European Homes and Gardens, and WebMD, and she has also authored, or contributed to, a number of books in such fields as health care, fitness, and the arts.

Jim McCraw Jim McCraw has been an automotive journalist for more than 35 years. He began his career at Super Stock then served as editor of Hot Rod Magazine from 1974-78. He became Executive Editor of Motor Trend from 1978-83. He managed product public relations for Ford Motor Company for eight years, then returned to the editorial side of the business as a full-time freelance writer in 1990.

June Kinoshita , Executive Editor The idea for the Alzheimer Research Forum website was born over a dinner conversation in late 1995, and became a reality with the site's official launch in 1996 at the 5th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders, in Osaka, Japan. The site has since grown into the preeminent Web community for AD researchers. Kinoshita oversees the editorial and technological development of the site.

Bill Keller was named executive editor of The New York Times in July 2003. Previously Mr. Keller had been an Op-Ed columnist and senior writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as other areas of the newspaper since September 2001. Before that, he served as managing editor from 1997 to September 2001 after having been the newspaper's foreign editor from June 1995 to 1997. He was the chief of The Times bureau in Johannesburg from April 1992 until May 1995.

David A. Andelman is Executive Editor of Forbes.com, the world's largest business and financial website with 15 million monthly viewers. Previously, he served for four years as Business Editor of The New York Daily News, after serving as editor in chief of Smallcapcenter.com, a global business and financial news website. This followed four and a half years he spent as news editor of Bloomberg News and Bloomberg.com.

David A. Andelman is Executive Editor of Forbes.com, the world's largest business and financial website with 15 million monthly viewers. Previously, he served for four years as Business Editor of The New York Daily News, after serving as editor in chief of Smallcapcenter.com, a global business and financial news website. This followed four and a half years he spent as news editor of Bloomberg News and Bloomberg.com.

Louis Silverstein , M.S. 1949 Louis Silverstein worked for 33 years for the New York Times Company, as Promotions Art Director, Corporate Art Director, and finally Assistant Managing Editor for visual design. He played a key role in creating the modern look of the Times , and helped create many of its special sections such as Weekend, Home, Living, and Science Times. In 1976 he was the first person ever to be promoted from the art department to the news department.

Christopher Schelling is a literary agent at Ralph M. Vicinanza Ltd., where he represents a wide range of fiction and nonfiction. In his ten years at the agency, he has represented #1 New York Times bestselling writers Augusten Burroughs ( Running With Scissors ) and Haven Kimmel ( A Girl Named Zippy ), as well as highly respected literary fiction (Louis Bayard’s The Pale Blue Eye ) and upscale nonfiction (Hanne Blank’s Virgin : The Untouched History ).

Mr. McNeal was previously a Guest Lecturer and Instructor in the School of Public Affairs at American University where he co-taught a course on just responses to terrorism. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army, earned a JD from the Case School of Law with honors in International Law, earned a Masters in Public Administration with distinction from American University and a degree in International Relations from Lehigh University.

Shahid Buttar , Associate Director for Communications and Outreach Shahid Buttar joined ACS in May 2005 as Associate Director for Communications and Outreach, and graduated from Stanford Law School in 2003.

Anthony Lappé is GNN's Executive Editor. He's written for The New York Times, Details, New York, Paper, The Fader and Vice, among many others. He has worked as a producer for MTV and Fuse. He is the co-author of GNN's True Lies and the producer of their Iraq doc,...

SHAHID BUTTAR : Good evening. My name is Shahid Buttar . I will be graduating from Stanford Law School next spring. It is my pleasure to introduce to you this evening a lawyer whose career exemplifies a successful union of public service and private practice.

Aaron Task Before joining TheStreet.com, Task spent about 14 months as assistant markets editor of Microsoft Investor and markets reporter for MSNBC's Internet site. Prior to that, he spent a year and a half as an on-air reporter for the Dow Jones Investor Network, covering a variety of industries, including semiconductors and energy. Task also has worked as a reporter for The Bond Buyer and has done freelance work for the CyberTimes section of The New York Times' Web site.

Rona Cherry , editorial Rona Cherry , a Senior Consultant with Sabatier Consulting, has over 25 years experience in magazines, newspapers, start-ups, and online publishing. Widely experienced in editorial development and project management for both print and online, Rona has served as Vice President/New Magazine Development for major publishing companies including General Media International, The New York Times Company, and The Golf Digest Companies.

Roger Meyer is a brand strategist and creative director. In 1996 he founded Level M Inc., a brand solutions agency. In his role as brand consultant, Roger creates and develops strategic marketing and messaging programs. His past and present clients include New York City Marketing, Novartis, SunAmerica, Panasonic, DealerTrack, Leap, City of Poughkeepsie, and the National Park Service.

Steven Petrow - Senior Vice President, Editorial Director, Waterfront Media Having started his career at The Wall Street Journal, Steven Petrow has held senior editorial positions at Time Inc., Wired, General Media's Longevity magazine and The New York Times Co.'s Fitness magazine. Prior to his current position as Senior Vice President/Editorial Director for Waterfront Media, he was Executive Editor at Time Inc. Interactive.

Walter O'Hearn Jr. , who lives in New York City, sent along a personal note, an obituary for his father, and the citation given at the 1969 Convocation of Saint Mary's University on the occasion of his father's posthumous Honorary Degree. Walter Jr. mentioned that his father spoke of many North Atlantic runs to Murmansk during his four+ years away from home.

Peter Petre 's career at FORTUNE has come full circle. He joined the magazine in 1979 as a reporter covering computers and office automation. Now, nearly two decades later, he is executive editor overseeing the magazine's technology coverage. Just as technology has advanced dramatically since the 1970's, so has FORTUNE 's coverage of this growing arena. Currently, Mr. Petre oversees reporters and writers following information science, industrial technology, and biotech.

Kelley suggested that maybe another translator was there and could corroborate his story. Yet, Kelley couldn't find her. But then, Kelley asked a Russian woman to pose as the missing translator Danielja Jacamovich. By the end of October, the editors believed that Kelley had lied to them about the translator and the story. The paper hired a private investigator to do further inquiry.

”Loretta A. Barrett (Agent) is a literary agent and president of Loretta Barrett Books , Inc. in New York. She founded the agency in 1990. Prior to that she was Editor-in-Chief of Anchor Books and Vice President and Executive Editor at Doubleday. She is a member of AAR, and has representation in every major foreign market, East and West. ”Ms. Barrett’s nonfiction interests cover a wide range of topics.

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Robert W. Merry, publishing executive and author, is President and Publisher of Congressional Quarterly Inc., the Washington-based publishing company that specializes in news and information on Congress, politics and public policy. He is the author of Taking On the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Guardians of the American Century , published by Viking in 1996. The New York Times called the biography a

Matthew Sheffield is president of Dialog Media, a marketing firm specializing online communication and messaging for conservative and libertarian candidates and non-profits. Working with the Media Research Center, he created NewsBusters in 2005 as the first-ever collaboration between a major Washington policy group and the blogosphere. As Executive Editor of NewsBusters, Matthew oversees all aspects of the site including its editorial, marketing, and technological management.