Edward R. Murrow ( April 25 , 1908 - April 27 , 1965 ) is viewed by historians as one of the great figures who stood for honesty and integrity in American broadcast journalism during the middle of the 20th Century . His radio news broadcasts during World War II were eagerly followed by millions of radio listeners.

Brad Dennison Brad Dennison is Vice President of Content/News Operations for Gatehouse Media. He was formerly Vice President of News with Birmingham, Ala. -based Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., from 2004 to 2006.

Barry Parr Analyst As an Analyst in the media group at JupiterResearch, Barry Parr focuses on news, information, and entertainment. He is a frequent speaker on technology and media in the US and worldwide, and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Business Week, San Jose Mercury News, and other publications.

Brian Storm WASHINGTON, February 7, 2007 � To say that Brian Storm is bullish on multimedia reporting is a woeful understatement. Storm, the president of MediaStorm is convinced that multi-platform storytelling - marrying photojournalism, audio and video to create a uniquely evocative narrative - will prevail over traditional (single media) journalism. “The game,” he said,” is changing.

KEN JOBE (Vice-President of News - WHBQ-TV, Memphis) Ken Jobe is currently the Vice-President of News at WHBQ-TV Memphis, the FOX O&O. Earlier in his career, Ken was news director and assistant news director at the NBC station in Memphis, WMC-TV (1993-1998). More recently, he was the news director at WWJ and WKBD in Detroit, the CBS/UPN duopoly (2001-2003).

Chris Manson , Vice President, News Chris Manson was appointed to the position of Vice President of News in May of 2006. He began his broadcast career with the American Forces Radio and Television Service. He served tours of duty in Japan and Greece. Mr. Manson also served as an Air Force Intelligence Officer assigned to the Strategic Air Command.

Yvette Miley Vice President of News

Lisa Hsia Board Member Lisa Hsia is Senior Vice President of New Media at Bravo, the cable entertainment network owned by NBC Universal. She oversees Bravo’s programming opportunities in new and emerging media, including wireless, digital, interactive TV, electronic sell-through and VOD. She is responsible for all aspects of the business, including technology alliances, content and marketing partnerships.

Debra Juarez President Debra has more than 25 years of experience producing, writing, and managing news and television programming. Before launching DECA Productions, she served 12 years as Vice President of News for Fox in Chicago. While there, she oversaw a major expansion of news and sports, building the station into a competitive force in one of the toughest markets in the country.

Eduardo Hauser turned to entrepreneurship after a 17-year career in senior management positions in the Internet, telecommunications, media and entertainment fields in various countries in Latin America and the US. In 2005 Hauser founded DailyMe, with the goal of launching the first print media powered by the Internet. By combining the best attributes of the web with paper, DailyMe's mission is to change the way readers, advertisers and publishers use print media. Before founding DailyMe, . . .

David Bartlett Senior Vice President Senior Vice President David Bartlett is one of the country's most sought-after communications strategists and executive coaches. An expert crisis manager with over 30 years experience on both sides of the camera as journalist and industry spokesperson, Dave has helped top executives and key managers at corporations, trade associations, non-profits, and multinationals communicate effectively with a variety of key stakeholder groups.

Peter Neupert Peter is currently the corporate vice president for Health Strategy at Microsoft Corp. Peter Neupert is responsible for Microsoft’s collaboration with the healthcare ecosystem to address global infrastructure issues of significant scale. Before rejoining Microsoft, Peter served as president and chief executive officer of drugstore.com Inc. from July 1998 to April 2001, and then as chairman of the board of directors from July 1999 to September 2004.

Kristin Fox , Vice President of News & Research, Executive Editor. Ms. Fox is responsible for all aspects of the daily news and any publications and other information products affiliated with HedgeWorld. Prior to joining HedgeWorld, Ms. Fox was an editor for Crain's Pensions & Investments, where her duties included editing and producing P&I Daily. Before her tenure at Crain's, Ms. Fox was President of Hedge Fund Research, Inc., Chicago, Ill.

Lisa Hsia Board Member Lisa Hsia is Senior Vice President of New Media at Bravo, the cable entertainment network owned by NBC Universal. She oversees Bravo’s programming opportunities in new and emerging media, including wireless, digital, interactive TV, electronic sell-through and VOD. She is responsible for all aspects of the business, including technology alliances, content and marketing partnerships.

Angie Kucharski has been promoted from News Director to Vice President of News/Station Manager at KCNC-TV, the CBS O&O in Denver . Angie is a frequent visiting faculty member in our "Producing Newscasts" seminars.

Rich has served as a senior executive at some of the world's top media companies, including Reuters, Bloomberg and Westinghouse Broadcasting (now CBS). He's known for his ability to build audiences and media brands, to improve ratings, and to produce successful news, non-fiction and reality programming. Rich has special expertise in media brand-building, audience segmentation and targeting. He's done this not only in the US, but also around the world.

Bill Ketter Bill Ketter is a veteran journalist, news executive and journalism educator. He has served as editor-in-chief and vice president/news for The Eagle-Tribune Publishing Company in North Andover, Mass. , since 2002. The Eagle-Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for breaking news.

Morgan Holm is currently vice president of News & Public Affairs at Oregon Public Broadcasting. He has been a news director, assignment editor, producer and reporter in his 16 years at OPB. Morgan oversees OPB's local news operation, acts as executive producer of local radio and television news/public affairs programming and manages local news content for OPB's Web site.

RAMON ESCOBAR has been promoted to Vice President of News/News Director for NBC 6/WTVJ in Miami. Ramon has been with NBC 6 over the past three years. Most recently, he served as Managing Editor and prior to that as the Executive Producer of Special Projects. Ramon came to NBC 6 from WNJU-TV, the Telemundo o&o in New York where he was Executive Producer. Ramon succeeds Deborah Collura, who left to be News Director at WDIV in Detroit.

Mark Mason Vice President of News Programming CBS Radio

Donna M. Reed Vice President of News, Media General

Joan Walsh | Editor in Chief Joan Walsh is editor in chief of Salon.com, the award-winning Web site. Her work has appeared in many national newspapers and magazines, from the Los Angeles Times and Baltimore Sun to Vogue and the Nation. A columnist for San Francisco Magazine. she won a 2004 Western Magazine Award for her writing about local politics.