Professional Advisory Board
The J-MC School thanks these
distinguished Board members for their participation and support.
- John Altenbern (B.A.
1979) senior consultant, Crawford Johnson & Northcott, Inc., Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
- Suzanne Behnke, news editor, Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa
- Neil Brown (B.A.
1981) executive editor and vice president, St. Petersburg Times, St.
Petersburg, Florida.
- Frank
Brownell (B.A. 1961) president, Brownells Inc., Montezuma, Iowa.
- Gil Cranberg,
retired George H. Gallup professor, University of Iowa and retired editorial-page
editor, Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa.
- Phillip R. Currie (B.A.
1962) senior vice president, news, Newspaper Division, Gannett, McLean,
Virginia.
- Eva Dahm (B.A.
1971, M.A. 1973) owner, Coach Catalyst, Naperville, Illinois.
- Phyllis Fleming (B.A.
1956) retired deputy managing editor, Cedar Rapids Gazette,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Joe Hladky III,
Chairman of the Board, The Gazette Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Bruce Japsen, B.A. 1988, health care reporter, Chicago
Tribune
- Pete Jeffries (B.S. 1986) Senior Campaign Consultant, Divided We Fail/AARP, Des Moines, Iowa
- Eliot A. Keller (B.A.
1970) general manager, KZIA–Z102.9, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Les Landes (B.A.
1975)
- Beth Malicki, anchor/reporter, KCRG-TV, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Lynn Manternach (B.A.
1986) president, director of research and co-owner of MindFire Communications, Cedar Rapids and Quad Cities.
- Liz Mathis (B.A.
1980) vice president, Community Relations, Horizons - A Family Service Alliance
- Alan Moyer (B.A.
1950) retired managing editor, Arizona Republic, Glendale,
Arizona.
- Nancy Newhoff,(B.S. 1979) editor, Waterloo Courier, Waterloo, Iowa
- Lamont Olson managing
editor, Better Homes and Gardens, Meredith Corporation, Des Moines, Iowa.
- Mike Owen (B.A.
1980) assistant director, Iowa Policy Project, West Branch, Iowa.
- Linda Cotton Perry (M.A.
1983) Baltimore, Maryland.
- Marsha Peters picture editor Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois
- Shari Roan (B.A.
1980) health writer, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California.
- Brian Ross (B.A.
1971) chief investigative correspondent, ABC News, New York, New York.
- Kirsten Scharnberg (B.A.
1998) reporter, Chicago Tribune, New York, NY.
- George Shirk (B.A.
1973) editor, Mammoth Monthly, Mammoth Lakes, California.
- Ben Silver (M.A.
1955) professor emeritus, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Telecommunication,
Arizona State University, Mesa, Arizona.
- Gary Spurgeon (B.A.
1974) editor and publisher, The Bloomfield Democrat, Bloomfield,
Iowa.
- Peter Sturtevant
Jr. (M.A. 1967) senior
vice president of international business news, NBC, New York, New York.
- Roger Thurow (B.A.
1979) correspondent, Wall Street Journal, Switzerland.
- Glenn Townes (B.A.
1986) writer, Black Enterprise Magazine, New York, NY.
- Alan Waxenberg (B.A.
1956) retired vice president/publisher, Victoria Magazine,
New York, New York.
- Tim Westerbeck (B.A. 1982, M.A. 1988) managing director and principal, Lipman Hearne, Inc.
- Sheba Wheeler (B.A.
1996) features writer, Denver Post, Denver, Colorado.
