The workshop is free to all AAJA members and $10 for non-members.
The Panelists:
DAN FOST is a newly minted freelance writer, working for The New York Times, San Francisco Magazine, USA Today, Fortune.com and anybody else who will hire him. For nine years, Dan served as a staff writer at The San Francisco Chronicle,
covering technology. For four years, he wrote the paper's media column.
He considers himself a generalist and has worked various non-tech
beats. He is a native of New Jersey, a graduate of Boston University, and the father of an eight-year-old son.
SALLY LEHRMAN is an award-winning reporter and writer on medicine
and science policy who has written for some of the top names in
national print and broadcast media, including Scientific American, Nature, Health, Salon.com, and the DNA Files, distributed by NPR.
Her honors have included the 1995-96 John S. Knight Fellowship; a
shared 2002 Peabody award, Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Award for
excellence in health and medical programming, and the Columbia/DuPont
Silver Baton (for the DNA Files). She is the at-large director
for the Society of Professional Journalists, where she had served as
national diversity chair for 10 years. She is also a USC Annenberg
Institute for Justice and Journalism Senior Fellow on race. She works
in her home office with her assistant Daisy, a Saint Bernard.
MARK
ROBINSON is the articles editor for Wired magazine. He covers the
impact of technology on everything from television and religion to
baldness cures and cream-cheese manufacturing. Prior to joining Wired
in 2001, he was an editor for the Industry Standard, overseeing
coverage of the media industry. He also spent six years as a daily
newspaper reporter, hopping from California to Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Originally from Silicon Valley, Robinson attended Stanford University's master's program in journalism.
RUSS RYMER is an award-winning journalist and author whose career
has been split between editing and writing. His freelance work has
appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, Harpers, Atlantic, Smithsonian, The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Times Book Review. His first book, Genie: A Scientific Tragedy, was a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award. His second book, American Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory, was named a New York Times Notable Book. Rymer has served as the editor-in-chief of Mother Jones
magazine, executive editor for Portland (Oregon) Monthly, and senior
editor for other regional and national magazines. He is currently
working on his third book, Out of Pernambuco, to be published in 2008. He is also teaching two science-writing classes at UC-Berkeley.
The Moderator:
ALICE C. CHEN is an award-winning journalist, whose work has appeared in various places, including Newsweek, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine and Chicago Public Radio. Previous to her freelance career, Alice was a staff reporter on the education beat at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Alice also has experience in television and radio news. She earned her B.A. in history from Stanford University and her master's degree in journalism at Northwestern.
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