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| The 2007-2008 Peabody BoardBel Hernandez (Chair) is founder and publisher of Latin Heat Entertainment magazine and www.latinheat.com, specializing in the Latino market. She produced the Latin Heat Entertainment Conference for six years and recently the short film Warriors of the Sun. She is a speaker at various universities and conferences and consults various companies and organizations, among them the ALMA Awards, mun2, and Lifetime Networks. Tim Brooks is one of television's leading historians. He is the author and 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 eighth 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 Senior VP, Research, for USA Networks and Senior VP/Media Research Director for N.W. Ayer. Brooks is a recipient of the Cable Advertising Bureau's Jack Hill Award for Excellence and Integrity in Media Research. Yuen Ying Chan is director of the The Media Studies Center at Hong Kong University, which she established in 1999. Prof. Chan also serves as a media advisor at the East-West Center for Cultural Exchange in Hawaii. Her honors include a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, a George Polk Award for journalistic excellence and an International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Chan previously taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and was on the board of the Asian American Journalists Association. Barbara Cochran is president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Foundation. RTNDA is the world's largest professional organization devoted to electronic journalism and RTNDA, its educational arm. Previously, Cochran was a journalist and news executive in Washington. She was managing editor of the Washington Star, vice president of news at National Public Radio, executive producer of NBC's Meet the Press and vice president and Washington bureau chief for CBS News. Susan Douglas is the Catherine Neafie Kellogg Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan and chair of the department. Her books include Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination, and, with Meredith Michaels, The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Undermines Women. She has written for The Nation, The Village Voice, Ms., TV Guide and In These Times. She has appeared on The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Fresh Air and Talk of the Nation, among other national programs. Dwight M. Ellis is president/CEO of Dwight Ellis & Associates, a global media business consultancy. Prior to DE & Associates, he was vice president with the National Association of Broadcasters responsible for multicultural industry-wide workforce and business development initiatives. A former NBC-TV/radio host, Ellis published The Ellis Media Report and speaks on media issues in the U.S. and abroad. Jonathan Estrin, a consultant in entertainment, new media and education, was previously the executive vice-president of the American Film Institute. He is also an award winning television writer-producer of series, movies and miniseries with over 100 hours of programs on broadcast and cable networks to his credit. Recent teleplays include Jasper, Texas and The Water Is Wide. He has also served as the Dean of Drexel University's College of Media Arts & Design. Frank-Dieter Freiling is senior vice president for international affairs, ZDF German Television, http://www.zdf.de/ (German). After earning a law degree from Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt, he worked as a freelance journalist, focusing on foreign trade and international development aid. In 2000 he became ZDF's director of international affairs. From 2002 to 2005, he served as president of Prix Italia, the oldest European prize for media productions, and since 2002, as vice president of the Prix Europa. Raúl Garza is a specialist in diversity communications with experience producing for Spanish-language radio and television, consulting on multilingual advertising and directing multicultural marketing campaigns. He has lived and traveled in Asia and Latin America and currently makes his home in Los Angeles. His interests include broadcasting in languages other than English and outside the U.S. Harry Jessell is editor and publisher of TVNewsday: The Business of Broadcasting, a daily online news and information service and resource for the media industries. Prior to creating TVNewsday, Jessell served as a reporter, executive editor, and editor of Broadcasting & Cable, one of the leading magazines devoted to covering the media world. He has appeared regularly on TV and radio, lectured at universities and moderated numerous panels at industry conferences. Melanie McFarland is the television critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. While a student she held internships with the Chicago Tribune, the Tucson Citizen, and with City News Bureau in Chicago. She is a member of the Television Critics Association and has served as a juror for the American Film Institute's Television Awards. Frazier Moore has covered television for the Associated Press since 1992. He reviews programs, profiles stars as well as figures behind the scenes and analyzes the TV medium. Before joining the AP, Moore freelanced for publications including People Weekly, Spy, and Interview, as well as for The New York Times. He was a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Fort Myers (Florida) News-Press, where he earned a National Headliners Award in column writing. Horace Newcomb is the Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards and Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Georgia. See full Bio. Janet H. Murray is an internationally recognized interactive designer and Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Tech University. 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. Joe Urschel is the Executive Director and Senior VP of The Newseum, the interactive museum of news opening in Washington in 2008. Urschel joined the Newseum from USA TODAY. 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 during its year-and-a-half-long run. He has worked for the Detroit Free Press as a reporter, critic, associate magazine editor and assistant Sunday editor. He is a member of the advisory board of the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. His journalism honors include awards from the National Association of Newspaper Columnists and the National Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.
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