The 1980s: The eighties
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The Eighties
Dozens of journalists visit and speak on campus. A new Pulitzer Prize-winning John S. Knight Fellowships director takes the lead. Continued research and teaching pushes journalism forward.
Highlights from the Stanford Daily Archive
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1989
Teaching
Faculty who taught in the 1980s:
- Elie Abel, 1979-1986, 1987-2004, International Communication: Structures and Issues; Specialized Workshops–Analyzing the News; Reporting of Public Affairs
- Richard C. Block, 1971-1972, 1974-1983, Seminar in Broadcast Management
- Richard A. Brody, 1982-2008, Seminar: Media and Politics; Survey Design and Analysis; Seminar: The Preident, the Press, the Public, and Politics
- Richard F. Carter, 1958-1965, 1985-1986, Content Analysis; Attitude Measurement
- Steven H. Chaffee, 1981-1985, 1986-2001, Mass Communication and Society; Intro to Communication Research Methods; Doctoral Research Methods
- Jeremy Cohen, 1984-1994, Research Methods for Journalists; Contemporary Media and the Law; Broadcast Journalism
- Irv Drasnin, 1981-1982, Broadcast News
- June Flora, 1987-1995, Mass Communication and Society; Public Information Programs; Communication and Health
- Dennis Foote, 1979-1983, Evaluation Research Methods for Development Communication Projects; Intro to Communication Research Methods
- John Hulteng, 1977-1986, Editorial Techniques; Media Ethics and Responsibilities
- Leonard Koppett, 1979-1983, Sports Culture
- Jan Krawitz, 1988-2008, 2009-2016, Film Production; Introduction to Film and Video; 16mm Film Production
- Marion Lewenstein, 1975-1981, 1982-2016, Literature of the Press; Magazine Writing; Reporting Public Affairs
- Celia Lighthill, 1980-1982,
- Stephen E. Longstreth, 1983-1984, Visual and Aural Communication Techniques; Film Production
- Arthur C. Mayer, 1974-1980, History of Film
- Betty Medsger, 1981-1982, In-Depth Reporting; Reporting of Public Affairs; History of American Journalism
- Jim Mitchell, 1987-1988, Editorial Techniques
- Bella Mody, 1979-1984, Communication Theory and Social Change; Evaluation Research Methods for
- Development Communication Projects; Underdevelopment, Media and Culture
- Clifford Nass, 1986-2014, Communication, Technology, and Society; Interactive Communication Technologies; Theory of Communication
- Lyle M. Nelson, 1963-1985, 1986-1998, Problems of the Mass Media; Issues in Public Broadcasting
- William J. Paisley, 1966-1985, Social Effects of Computer Communication; Advanced Data Analysis; Communication in Science and Technology
- Edwin B. Parker, 1963-1969, 1970-1980, 1981-1990, Introduction to Information Science; Telecommunications Systems and Public Policy; Communication Research Methods
- Harry N. Press, 1968-1989, Editorial Techniques
- Byron B. Reeves, 1985-2007, 2008-2016, Mass Communication Theory; Communication Theory and Social Change; Theory of Communication
- James V. Risser, 1985-2008, Editorial Techniques; Reporting of Public Affairs
- Everett M. Rogers, 1975-1985, Diffusion of Innovations in Developing Countries; Communication Network Analysis; Intercultural Communication
- Kristine Samuelson, 1983-1991, 1992-2016, Writing for Visual Media; Documentary Writing; Intro to Film and Video
- Wilbur Schramm, 1955-1959, 1960-1969, 1970-1988, Communication and Persuasion; Theory of Communication; International Communication
- Douglas S. Solomon, 1979-1983, Message Design
- Rosalie Stemer, 1979-1980,
- Susan Sutton, 1987-1988, Editorial Techniques
- Jay Thorwaldson, 1979-1980,
- Diana Tillinghast, 1975-1983, Communication Law; Precision Journalism; Reporting of Public Affairs
- Paul Voakes, 1987-1990, Editorial Techniques; Editing the News
- Clifford Francis Weigle, 1934-1949, 1950-1970, 1971-1981, News Writing; Practical Editing; Feature Article
In Memoriam:
–Clifford Weigle, (1906–1981)
–Wilbur Schramm, (1907–1987)
Course offerings in the 1980s:
Research
Books by faculty in the 1980s:
PhD Research:
| Class Year | PhD Graduate | Dissertation Topic |
| 1980 | Carlos Ponciano B. Cavalcanti | The influence of group discussion and social networks variables on the diffusion of innovations in northeastern Brazil |
| 1980 | Jefferson Oliver Charles | Satellite use in the English speaking Caribbean: towards a more integrated model |
| 1980 | Peter Gilbert Christensen | The effects of consumer information processing announcements on children’s perceptions of commercials and products |
| 1980 | Noreene Janus | The making of the global consumer: transnational advertising and the mass media in Latin America |
| 1980 | Donna Lloyd-Kolkin | Communication network analysis of an educational dissemination network: the research and development exchange |
| 1980 | Jaime S. Ong | Consumers and consumerism in the Philippines |
| 1981 | Ronny Adhikarya | Transnational communication knowledge transfer and utilization process: the U.S.-ASEAN case |
| 1981 | Joseph M. Mbindyo | Socio-economic and communication factors influencing the diffusion of solar energy equipment among California homeowners |
| 1981 | Teresa Ann Odden | Lessons from ‘Over easy’: formative evaluation of a public television series |
| 1981 | John Patrick Pierce | Formative research on health communication: reducing the prevalence of cigarette smoking |
| 1981 | Karen A. Rosenkrantz Shapiro | The construction of television commercials: four cases of interorganizational problem solving |
| 1981 | Rahul Sood | News media operations in natural disasters |
| 1981 | Marilyn Diane Fife | FCC policy on minority ownership in broadcasting |
| 1982 | Christine Marie Bachen | Reading achievement as a function of home media environment and orientations toward learning |
| 1982 | H. Seth Finn | An information theory approach to reader enjoyment of print journalism |
| 1982 | Jinnet Fowles | Informed consent and medical information seeking |
| 1982 | Russell G. Todd | Wasted words?: news releases and the making of Washington news |
| 1982 | Sharon Lee Strover | Making decisions under stress: the case of adolescents seeking birth control |
| 1983 | Christine Borgman | The user’s mental model of an information retrieval system: effects on performance |
| 1983 | Barbara Anne Cardillo | The relationship between involvement, mass media habits, and health information seeking |
| 1983 | Laurence Kenneth Shore | The crossroads of business and music: a study of the music industry in the United States and internationally |
| 1983 | Kouadjo Fasustin Yao | Communication technology transfer for development: issues from the Ivory Coast educational television program |
| 1984 | Robin Elizabeth Lester | Embedding network analysis constructs in a theoretical framework: toward a theory of communication patterns in organizations |
| 1984 | Kathleen Magill | Implementation of urban mass transportation innovations by public organizations |
| 1984 | Pedro Félix Hernández Ramos | Smoking behavior: an investigation of the theory of reasoned action |
| 1985 | Milton Chen | Gender differences in adolescents’ uses of and attitudes towards computers |
| 1985 | Wei-Wen Chung | Representing attitude change: toward a structural equation model |
| 1985 | John Lewis Hochheimer | A comparative spatial analysis of international news coverage by U.S. newspapers and wire services |
| 1985 | Yong-sok Kim | Opinion leadership in a preventive health campaign |
| 1985 | Sheizaf Rafaeli | Interacting with media: para-social interaction and real interaction |
| 1985 | Abraham Antonio Ruelas | The role of preschool children’s prior knowledge in the comprehension of a religious portrayal on television |
| 1985 | Thomas Edward Shanks | Viewer attachment to prime time television entertainment programs |
| 1985 | Nicholas Alfred Valenzuela | Organizational evolution of a Spanish-language television network: an environmental approach |
| 1985 | Nalini Visvanathan | The impact of social networks, interpersonal and mediated communication on self-efficacy expectancies for performing preventive dietary behaviors |
| 1985 | Victor Charles Walling, Jr. | Incorporating values and lifestyles into the theory of consumer innovativeness |
| 1986 | Leslie Tarleton Good | Reference to reality, social context, and gender as sources of variation in perceived models of social behavior |
| 1986 | Melinda Cross Hornby | The influence of television and family on children’s leisure time reading |
| 1986 | Joung-Im Kim | The strength of weak ties: a conceptual elaboration at the dyad-level |
| 1986 | Dominic L. Lasorsa | Dimensions of news media use: exposure and attention to political information as a function of time, form, and content |
| 1986 | Debra A. Lieberman | Reading, television, and computers: children’s patterns of media use and academic achievement |
| 1986 | Bryce Telfer McIntyre | Newspaper readership and public issues: one’s sense of personal efficacy in the face of major social problems |
| 1986 | Abraham Nosnik | Communications and refutations: a rational reconstruction of mass communication research |
| 1986 | John Durham Peters | Reconstructing mass communication theory |
| 1986 | Connie Roser | Cognition and affect in persuasion: an empirical analysis of involvement |
| 1986 | Leslie Beth Snyder | Learning and acting in a health communication campaign: teaching rural women to prevent infant dehydration through diarrheal disease control in the Gambia, West Africa |
| 1987 | Albert Charles Gunther | Extremity of attitude and trust in media news coverage of issues |
| 1987 | Khosrow Jahandarie | The modality effect |
| 1987 | Vincent Edward Price | Effects of communicating group conflicts of opinion: an experimental investigation |
| 1987 | L. David Ritchie | Whose congruency, whose accuracy, and whose agreement?: the influence of power and expertise on coorientation outcomes |
| 1987 | Xiaoyan Zhao | Social, family, self, and work values of Chinese professional women: effects of foreign media use, government, and traditional influences |
| 1988 | Barbara Mahone Brown | The human/machine distinction in children’s para-social experiences with communication technologies |
| 1988 | Diana Carole Mutz | Yours, mine and ours: information sources, perception of unemployment and their political consequences |
| 1988 | Michael D. Slater | Social information in messages: effects of familiarity with group referent and factuality of portrayals on subsequent beliefs about social group characteristics |
| 1988 | Mark E. Vale | Information structure and the information-seeking behavior of lawyers |
| 1988 | Seung-Mock Yang | The role of mass media in immigrants’ political socialization: a study of Korean immigrants in northern California |
| 1989 | Erica Weintraub Austin | Learning to put politics into context: effects of family communication on adolescents’ assessments of political news |
| 1989 | Ramesh Balakrishnan | Journalism and the public sphere: a study in the development of modern politics |
| 1989 | Carlos Gomez-Palacio Campos | The origins and growth of mass communication research in Latin America |
| 1989 | John H. McManus | Economic and technological influences on the quality of local television news |
| 1989 | Judy Polumbaum | Of the Party, by the Party and for the Party–and the People: China’s journalists in an era of reform |
| 1989 | Sara Capri Spears | Controling for exposure to intragroup communication: effects of heterogeneous social perspectives and dependence in intragroup behavior and attitudes |
Embedded Journalists
Professional Journalism Fellows
1980
- David Awbrey
Editorial writer & legislative correspondent, Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers, Illinois - Linda Bolido
Writer, DepthNews Phillipines, Makati City, Philippines - Larry Calloway
Newsman, Associated Press, New Mexico - David Early
Reporter, Minneapolis Star - Allison Engel
Reporter, San Jose Mercury News - Robert Milliken
Senior political & feature writer, The National Times, Sydney, Australia
- Vicki Monks
Reporter, KWTV, Oklahoma - Sylvester Monroe
Correspondent/assistant chief, Chicago bureau, Newsweek - Harold Piper
Moscow bureau chief, Baltimore Sun - Paul Raeburn
Reporter, The Lowell (MA) Sun - Robert Shaw
Tallahassee bureau chief, Miami Herald - Joel Shurkin
Science writer, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Leo Stutzin
Living section editor & drama & arts critic, Modesto (CA) Bee - Richard Thomas
Managing editor, Boca Raton (FL) News - Susan Trausch
Reporter, Boston Globe - Simon Walker
senior journalist & interviewer, Television One, London, England - Istvan Wisinger
Foreign correspondent, Hungarian Television, Budapest, Hungary - Zaihan Guan
Deputy editor, People’s Daily, Beijing, China
1981
- Samuel Abt
Sports editor, International Herald Tribune, Neuilly Cedex, France - Diane Borden
Managing editor, Bellingham (WA) Herald - Robert Boyd
Washington bureau chief, Knight-Ridder Newspapers - Michael Burns
Bureau chief, Baltimore Sun - Robert Cullen
Diplomatic reporter, Associated Press, Washington, DC - Joel Greenberg
Behavioral sciences editor, Science News Magazine, Washington
- Katsumata Michio
Reporter, City News Section, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan - Lee Moonhee
Deputy managing editor, Hankook Ilbo, Kyunggi-do, Korea - Heath Meriwether
Assistant managing editor, Miami Herald - Lincoln Millstein
Assistant state editor for special projects, Hartford (CT) Courant - Joe Treen
Reporter, Newsday, New York - Larry Van Dyne
Senior writer, Washingtonian Magazine, Washington, DC
- Pamela Warrick
Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times - Joyce White
Reporter, New York News - Rosemary Yardley
Editorial writer, Greensboro (NC) Daily News - Debra Yatim
Executive editor, Eksekutif Magazine, Jakarta, Indonesia - Mariusz Ziomecki
Reporter, Kultura Weekly, Warsaw, Poland
1982
- Randy Bean
Producer, WNET-TV, Bill Moyer’s Journal, New York - Edvins Beitiks
Reporter & editor, Santa Maria (CA) Times - Henrik Bering-Jensen
Freelance critic, commentator, Morgenavisen Jyllandsposten, Copenhagen, Denmark - Fatima Cabanas
Assistant to director of special projects, Televisa, Santa Fe Pena Blanca, Mexico City, Mexico - James L. Files
Editor & co-publisher, The Weekly Newspaper, Colorado - Diane Lindquist
Assistant city editor, San Diego Union
- Dennis McDougal
Assistant city editor, Long Beach (CA) Independent Press-Telegram - James O’Hara
Editorial writer, The Tennessean - Qing Luo
Deputy editor-in-chief, China Daily, Beijing, China - Walter Robinson
State House bureau chief, The Boston Globe - Marek Samotyj
Editor-in-chief, Przeglad Techniczny, Warsaw, Poland - Daud Sinjal
Executive editor, Sinar Harapan, Jakarta, Indonesia
- Bailey Thomson
Editorial page editor, Shreveport (LA) Journal - Elisabet Van Nostrand
Editorial writer, Newsday, Long Island, NY - Lidia Wasowicz Pringle
Reporter, United Press International, San Francisco - Evans Witt
Director of polling and special assignments team representative, Associated Press, Washington, DC - Brenda Worthington
Columnist, Oakland Tribune
1983
- Klas Bergman
Reporter, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden - James Bettinger
City editor, Riverside (CA) Press-Enterprise - Wolfgang Borgmann
Foreign affairs editor, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany (German Marshall Fund Fellow) - Glenn Frankel
Assistant foreign news editor, Washington Post, London, England - Kim Seo-Woong
Assistant economics editor, Hankook Ilbo, Seoul, Korea (Shinyoung Journalism Fellow) - Andrea Knox
Reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer - Andrzej Lubowski
Foreign editor, Zycie Gospodarcze (Economic Life), Warsaw, Poland
- Bradley Martin
Beijing bureau chief, Baltimore Sun - Bruce Miller
Editorial writer, San Jose Mercury News - Thomas Mulvoy
Assistant managing editor, Boston Globe - Lynn Myers
Editor, Lapeer County (MI) Press - Mola Olaniyan
Night editor, The Nigerian Herald, Kwara, Nigeria - Vaughn Palmer
City editor, Vancouver Sun, Victoria, Canada - Joseph Plummer
Editorial writer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- Richard Rafael
City editor, Anniston (AL) Star - Sari Sapir
Producer, writer, director, WGBH-TV (Boston), Jerusalem, Israel - Edward Shanahan
Editor, Daily Hampshire (MA) Gazette - Kalpana Sharma
Editor, Himmat Fortnightly, Mumbai, India - Sheila Stainback
Medical reporter, WBAL-TV, Baltimore - Xiliang Feng
Managing editor, China Daily, Beijing, China
1984
- Jennifer Boeth
Staff writer, Dallas Times-Herald - Peter Carey
Reporter, San Jose Mercury News - Don Colburn
Reporter, The Everett (WA) Herald - Herman de Prins
Journalist, newscaster, Belgian Radio & Television, Brussels, Belgium - Mary Erickson
Community affairs producer, KANU Radio, Kansas - Rasa Gustaitis
Associate editor, Pacific News Service, San Francisco - Arthur Jester
Higher education reporter, Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader
- Franzalbert Joku
Editor, The Times of Papua New Guinea (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Kim Myong-Sik
City desk editor, The Korea Times, Seoul, Korea (Shinyoung Journalism Fellow) - Mary Lee
Specialist writer, Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong - Margery Lipton
Field producer, ABC News, London - Barbara Lopienska
Managing editor, Przeglad Architektoniczny, Warsaw, Poland - Walker Lundy
Executive editor, Tallahassee (FL) Democrat
- Teresa Otondo
Editor, O Estado de São Paolo, São Paulo, Brazil (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Jan Schaffer
Business writer, Philadelphia Inquirer - Erich Vogt
Producer, editor, German Television, ARD, Hamburg, Germany (German Marshall Fund Fellow) - Gerald Volgenau
Science editor, Detroit Free Press - Amei Wallach
Arts critic, Newsday, Long Island, NY - Richard Zahler
Special projects editor, Seattle Times
John S. Knight Fellows
1985
- Christine Arnold
Theater critic, Miami Herald - Christopher Braithwaite
Publisher, The Chronicle, Vermont - Eyum Burnley
Director of programs, Radio Cameroon, Limbe, Cameroon (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Dan Li
Chief, English department, Radio Beijing, Beijing, China - Evelyn Fierro
Producer, newswriter, KNBC-TV, Los Angeles - Evelyn Fischer
Senior editor, Radio Bremen, Berlin, Germany (German Marshall Fund Fellow)
- Jon Funabiki
Assistant news editor, San Diego Union - John Jacobs
Reporter, San Francisco Examiner - Eliot Marshall
Senior writer, Science Magazine, Washington, DC - Kishore Nepal
Executive editor, Saptahik Manch, Kathmandu, Nepal (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Carol Ostrom
Reporter, Seattle Times - Charles Radin
Environment reporter, Boston Globe, Tel Aviv, Israel
- Steven Raymer
Photographer, National Geographic, Washington, DC - Paulynn Sicam
Reporter, Freelance, Salcedo Village, Makati City, Philippines - Susan Smith
Medical reporter, Rochester (NY) Times-Union - Kate Sylvester
Washington bureau chief, National Law Journal - Nancy Szokan
Assistant foreign editor, Philadelphia Inquirer - Yong Shan-Fook
Executive editor, The Star (Petaling Jaya), Boroko, New Guinea
1986
- Eric Black
Special projects reporter, Minneapolis Star and Tribune - Anwomea Blay
Assistant editor, Ghana Broadcasting Corp., Accra, Ghana (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Sandra Boodman
Reporter, Washington Post - Colette Braeckman
Reporter, Le Soir, Brussels, Belgium - Lorraine Branham
Night metropolitan editor, Baltimore Sun - Joe Distelheim
Sports editor, Detroit Free Press - James Harper
Staff writer, music critic, St. Petersburg (FL) Times
- Paul Jansen
Assistant editor, The Straits Times, Singapore (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Andras Kepes
Deputy editor-in-chief, Hungarian Television, Budapest, Hungary - Linda Kriger
Medical writer, Philadelphia Inquirer - Stephen Lindbeck
Editorial page editor, Anchorage Daily News - Jim McGee
Investigative reporter, Miami Herald - James Mitchell
Business editor, San Jose Mercury News
- Celina Rodriguez
Reporter, Notisistema, Guadalajara, Mexico - Shigemura Toshimitsu
Seoul correspondent, Mainichi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan - Jochen Siemens
Political editor, Frankfurter Rundschau, Nidderau/Eichen, Frankfurt, West Germany (German Marshall Fund Fellow) - Mary Voboril
Staff writer, Miami Herald - Richard Whitmire
Pentagon reporter, Gannett News Service, Washington, DC - Rita Williams
Reporter, KTVU-TV, Oakland, CA
1987
- Moshin Askari
Assistant editor, Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Gary Delsohn
Urban affairs writer, Denver Post - Michael Greenberg
Senior critic, San Antonio (TX) Express-News - Mark Jaffe
Environmental writer, Philadelphia Inquirer - Michael Kernan
Reporter, Washington Post - Lubo Li
Reporter, overseas department, Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, China (Reuters Foundation Fellow)
- Peter Mancusi
Legal affairs reporter, Boston Globe - Ricardo Martinez de Rituerto
Foreign staff reporter, El Pais, Brussels, Belgium - Ozier Muhammad
Photographer, Newsday - Otsuki Shinji
Editorial writer, Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan - Leonard Reed
Columnist, The Record, Hackensack, NJ - Evelyn Richards
Reporter, San Jose Mercury News
- Allen Short
Reporter, St. Paul Pioneer Press & Dispatch - Michael Smith
Assistant editor, The Age, East Melbourne, Australia - Karen Steele
Environmental reporter, Spokane (WA) Spokesman-Review - Clifford Teutsch
Reporter, Hartford (CT) Courant - Rhea Wilson
Associate editor, Sacramento (CA) Bee - Klaus Zintz
Staff writer, Bild der Wissenschaft, Stuttgart, Germany
1988
- Piergiorgio Acquaviva
Deputy regional editor, Il Giorno, Milan, Italy (German Marshall Fund Fellow) - Paul Addison
Editorial writer, Honolulu Advertiser - Kathleen Burke
Assistant editor, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, DC - Chen Hansheng
Director, international department, World Economic Herald, Shanghai, China (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Jerzy Dzieciolowski
Editorial writer, Zycie Gospodarcze, Warsaw, Poland - John Epperheimer
Assistant managing editor, San Jose Mercury News - Rosario Garcellano
Editorial writer, Manila Standard, Manila, Philippines
- Joyce Gemperlein
Reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer - Rick Gore
Assistant editor, National Geographic Magazine, Washington, DC - Neil Henry
Reporter, Washington Post - Paul Jacobs
Reporter, Los Angeles Times - Cynthia Loose
Reporter, Detroit News - Norma Marcos
Paris correspondent, Abeer Women’s Monthly Magazine, Jerusalem, Israel (Reuters Foundation Fellow)
- Georgia Tasker
Reporter, Miami Herald - Karyn Taylor
Producer, ABC News 20/20, New York - Cornelia von Wrangel
News editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, Germany - Barbara Vroman
Managing editor, The Mercury, Pottstown, PA - Larry Whiteside
Sportswriter, Boston Globe - Yon Kook-Hee
Senior reporter, Dong-a Ilbo, Seoul, Korea (Shinyoung Journalism Fellow)
1989
- Ergun Babahan
National desk editor, Hurriyet Haber Ajansi, Istanbul, Turkey (German Marshall Fund Fellow) - Jeff Bradley
Toronto bureau chief, Associated Press - Gordon Earle
Senior producer, McNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, New York - Stuart Gannes
Associate editor, Fortune, New York - Tom Gibboney
Editor, Homer News, Alaska - Steve Harris
Day editor, The Age, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- John Henry
State Capitol bureau chief, Austin American-Statesman - Richard Hirschler
Editor, writer, Heti Vilaggazdasag, Budapest, Hungary - Anwar Hossain Manju
Senior editor, Daily Sangram, Dhaka, Bangladesh (Reuters Foundation Fellow) - Barbara Ireland
Editorial writer, Buffalo (NY) News - Michael Keefe
Editorial Cartoonist, Denver Post - Tunji Lardner
Senior associate editor, Thisweek Magazine, Surulere Lagos, Nigeria (Reuters Foundation Fellow)
- Jeff Leen
Reporter, Miami Herald - Nancy Melich
Drama critic, Salt Lake Tribune, Utah - Brenda Payton
Columnist, Oakland Tribune - Ellen Shuman
Senior reporter, WSMV-TV, Nashville, TN - Luciana Villas-Boas
Deputy foreign editor, Jornal do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Knight Foundation Latin American Fellow) - John Woestendiek
Reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer