The 2008-2009 Peabody BoardRonald Simon (Chair) has been curator of television at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television & Radio) since the early 1980s. Among the numerous exhibitions he has overseen are "The Television of Dennis Potter," "Witness to History," and "Worlds Without End: The Art and History of the Soap Opera," all of which featured screenings and a book. Simon is an associate adjunct professor at Columbia University and Hunter College, where he teaches courses in the history of the media. He is a member of the editorial board of Television Quarterly. Tim Brooks is one of television's leading historians. He is the author or 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 ninth 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 Executive VP, Research, for Lifetime Television and Senior VP, Research, for USA Networks. 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 University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, 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 RTNDF is 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. Jonathan Estrin is president of The Constitutional Rights Foundation. He’s also an award-winning writer-producer of television series, movies and miniseries with more than 100 hours of programs on broadcast and cable networks to his credit. He has served as the dean of Drexel University's College of Media Arts & Design and is a former executive vice president of the American Film Institute. Raul 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. Elizabeth Guider is the editor of The Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles and has written about entertainment and media subjects for a variety of publications for the last 15 years, from Rome, Paris and London as well as from New York and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles since 1994, she held management responsibilities at Daily Variety Gotham, Daily Variety Los Angeles and Weekly Variety, before taking her current position at The Hollywood Reporter in 2007. She regularly appears on industry panels and belongs to leading media organizations, including Women in Film and BAFTA. She holds a Ph.D. in Renaissance studies from New York University. 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 three 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. Thomas Mattia is senior vice-president for worldwide public affairs and communications for the Coca-Cola Company (retired). In that post he is responsible for leading the company's global public affairs and communications, which include the corporate communications, public policy, internal communications, corporate responsibility and archives functions. Mattia also leads the company's Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility Council and the Bottler Public Affairs Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the Arthur Page Society and numerous other professional associations. He holds a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Rutgers University. Melanie McFarland is the television editor of the Internet Movie Data Base (IMDB). 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 formerly the television critic of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. 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 (FL) News-Press, where he earned a National Headliners Award in column writing. Janet H. Murray is an internationally recognized interactive designer and Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. 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. Horace Newcomb is the Director of the George Foster Peabody Awards and Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Georgia. See full Bio. 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. Pamela Wallin's career as a journalist, diplomat and entrepreneur has spanned more than 30 years and several continents. Following stints at CBC Radio and the Ottawa bureau of the Toronto Star, she was recruited by CTV. There, she hosted "Canada AM," became Ottawa bureau chief, and anchored the CTV weekend news. In 1992, she became the first Canadian woman to co-anchor the nightly national television newscast, "Prime Time News." Author of three best-selling books, she is now the senior advisor on Canada-U.S. relations to the president of the Americas Society and the Council of the Americas in New York. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Regina and has had fellowships at Queen's University and Yale University. She is an officer of the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor.
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