2011 KipCamp Editors
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Mary Carter is the senior producer for CNNHealth.com. In directing health and medical coverage for CNN.com, she supervises a two-person editorial team, a network of regular contributors and works closely with the TV medical unit, including correspondents Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Elizabeth Cohen. She’s been in the news business since she was 15 (when she started at the Tecumseh, Oklahoma, Countywide News, circulation 3,000). She’s a journalism graduate of the University of Kansas and had internships at the Boston Globe and St. Petersburg Times. At The Dallas Morning News she worked on the copy desk, spent a decade on the national desk, was deputy politics coordinator in 2000 and co-founded the paper’s consumer health section, Healthy Living. She joined CNN.com in 2006.
Tina Croley landed at Stars and Stripes as enterprise editor in 2010 after 30 years in the newspaper business and one year spent on a lake in North Carolina pondering a new career. When she saw the job posting for Stars and Stripes, she knew she wanted to be what she had always been: a journalist. She previously worked at the Detroit Free Press as Features editor, handling everything from an award-winning series on homicide in Detroit and coverage by an embedded reporter in Iraq to a reader-participation project in which people voted online to select a prom dress for a local teen. (Yes, we paid for it, and yes, we went to prom with her.) She’s on Facebook and believes in social media and its potential in our industry, but gave up her first Twitter account when people started following her. Too much pressure …
Marcia Davis is a deputy national editor on the politics and government desk of The Washington Post, where she focuses on the operations of the federal government. She edits the daily Fed Page, and a year ago established a second daily page that focuses specifically on the government workforce. In addition to managing a team of reporters and columnists, she helps to edit the blog the Federal Eye. Before moving to the national desk, Marcia worked as the government and politics editor for the District of Columbia (and helped revive its blog The DC Wire). Before serving as D.C.'s political editor she was an assignment editor in Style, The Post's award-winning features section. In addition to her assigning duties, she spent a year as Style's web editor. Before joining The Post, she worked at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and in between her two tours at The Post served as the senior editor of Emerge magazine.
Angela Diegel is the Online Director for PopularMechanics.com. With a small staff of 5, she has taken Popular Mechanics from a place where print stories went to die to a vibrant 24/7 site complete with breaking news analysis and background explainers in the automotive, science, technology and home areas, as well as the service/how-to stories that have been the backbone of Popular Mechanics for over 100 years. She facilitated the integration of the print and web staffs to be able to stay on top of happenings in PM’s core subjects and as a result 70 percent of the content posted is original web-only content. She had a leading role as strategic and technical advisor for the launch of the Popular Mechanics iPad app, as well as other branded apps.
Val Ellicott is a regional editor at the Gannett Washington Bureau, where he manages seven reporters covering Washington, D.C. for Gannett papers around the country. He also spent a year at Gannett leading a team that produced multimedia database projects. Before starting with Gannett in 2002, he was a senior editor at Congressional Quarterly and a speechwriter for Sen. Frank Lautenberg. He also worked for 12 years at the Palm Beach Post in Florida, including investigative projects, federal and state courts, and medical news. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, where he was a Pulitzer Fellow.
Gwen Flanders, a breaking news editor at USA TODAY, became a newspaper reporter after a brief career as a radio copywriter and DJ. Her work at the St. Cloud (Minn.) Times won several awards for coverage of education, human rights and an ethanol stock scam. She has been at USA TODAY since it began in 1982, responsible at various times for coverage of personal finance, advertising and marketing, newsmakers, general Washington news and White House/politics. Now, as co-leader of the breaking news team, she shares responsibility for a high-speed, multiplatform focus on the big stories of the day.
Paula Froke is assistant managing editor/afternoons and evenings at The Associated Press. She is based at the AP’s Nerve Center, which coordinates the work of regional and format leaders, experiments with new kinds of storytelling, and uses social networks to engage readers and viewers. She previously was deputy national editor, overseeing the national editing staff and news coverage around the U.S., and AP news editor in Detroit and Minneapolis. She’s discovered a passion for still and video photography and video editing, and devotes time in her off-hours to developing skills and storytelling in those areas. She’s a graduate of Penn State (Hello, Buckeyes!), and joined the AP in 1984.
Sue Goodwin is the executive producer of NPR’s midday news-talk show Talk of the Nation, which is heard by 3.3 million listeners every week. As executive producer, Goodwin oversees the daily production of this live, 2-hour program, which covers politics and public service to education, religion, music, and healthcare. Since she joined NPR in 1990, Goodwin has held positions as a science desk editor, the executive launch producer of Tell Me More, the producer of Sounds Like Science with Ira Flatow, and the producer of The Best of NPR Audio Tapes with Neal Conan. Her other positions at Talk of the Nation include booker, director, senior supervising producer. Goodwin got her start in radio doing morning announcements at Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio.
Joe Hallett has been in the newspaper business for 39 years, starting as sports editor and then editor of his hometown twice-a-week paper, The Fulton County Expositor in Wauseon, Ohio. After a deal to buy that paper fell through, Hallett spent 15 years at The (Toledo) Blade, 12 as chief of the Statehouse bureau. In 1996, he became chief political reporter for The Plain Dealer. In 1999, Hallett joined The Columbus Dispatch as politics editor, and later was named senior editor. In addition to being part of The Dispatch’s upper management team, Hallett coordinates the newspaper’s political coverage and continues to serve as its chief political reporter. Last year, Hallett was named Ohio’s best political writer by the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists. He has a degree in journalism from Ohio University.
Lee Ann Hamilton is business editor at The Enquirer and Cincinnati.com, supervising and editing business news for print and online, with emphasis on local hard news and exclusive enterprise. She oversees the work of five business reporters, a news assistant and numerous freelance writers, columnists and bloggers, where she has been a member of The Enquirer's newsroom management. Prior to Cincinnati, Lee Ann worked 14 years as a national editor at USA Today, including as an original "loaner" producing prototypes and first editions of the new "Nation's Newspaper" in September 1982. Lee Ann also worked for 10 years as an editor and reporter at The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. She's a graduate of Ohio State University, and lives in the Cincinnati suburb of Wyoming with her teenage daughter, their dog and a cat.
Mark Higgins is metro editor at The Seattle Times. Mark directed the newspaper’s coverage of the shooting deaths of four police officers, which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. The paper was credited for its extensive use of the Web, including tools such as Twitter, Dipity and Google Wave during the 40-hour manhunt for the killer. Mark has led many award-winning projects in his 11 years at The Times, and this year is working to strengthen the paper’s expanding partnership with neighborhood news sites. In 2010, he traveled to China as a fellow with the International Reporting Project, a program at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Mark previously worked at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tacoma News Tribune and The Orange County Register.
John C. Kuehner has been an assistant metro editor at The Plain Dealer for the past four years. He works the night shift, so he deals with all aspects of the paper up to when the final edition goes to print, which could be editing a breaking news story, getting photos taken of an event that night or ensuring graphics are done. He also deals with posting stories and photos to the paper's website, Cleveland.com. Prior to moving to the desk, he was the paper's environmental reporter for seven years, a job he gave up after the birth of his daughter, Viviahn, so he could be home during the day. His journalism career started in 1983 when he worked part-time as a reporter at the Record-Courier in Ravenna while attending Kent State University. He also worked at the News Herald in Willoughby as a county government reporter, a beat that included covering the Perry nuclear power plant.
Robert Long is the managing editor of Kiplinger.com in Washington, DC, where he coordinates the daily online editorial activity for the fastest-growing site among investing/personal-finance magazines. He joined Kiplinger in April 2009 and helped lead the site’s most recent redesign. Robert worked at AARP from 2001 to 2009, first launching and managing websites for the world’s largest-circulation magazines (AARP The Magazine, AARP Bulletin, AARP Segunda Juventud) and then leading AARP.org as executive producer. At AARP, Robert and his team won a GLAAD Media Award for best online article and an Editor & Publisher EPpy award for best magazine website. In the Internet’s early days, Robert failed to make a fortune with startups such as VirtualEmporium.com and Foofoo.com. A graduate of Syracuse University, he lives in Falls Church, Va., with his wife Amanda and beagle Bailey.
Geoffrey Mohan has been the environment editor of the Los Angeles Times since 2007. He joined the Times in March, 2001 as a roving reporter, after serving as the Latin America bureau chief for Newsday, in Mexico City. He covered a wide range of topics for the Times, including the environment, wildfires and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, before becoming an editor in 2004.
Jonathan Poet is an editor on The Associated Press' East Regional Desk, a Philadelphia hub that edits stories originating from 10 states. In that role since January 2009, he has edited and filed numerous major breaking news stories, including terror and Wall Street verdicts out of New York City, criminal cases involving athletes and the Cheshire, Conn., home invasion killings trial. From 2001 to 2009, he was the AP's Pennsylvania daytime supervising editor, where he edited and filed spot news, sports and business stories, including the Nickel Mines Amish schoolhouse shootings in 2006. He previously worked as a reporter and night editor (2000-2001) and editorial assistant (1999-2000) at the AP. He grew up in Randolph, Mass., and holds a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Drexel University and a master of journalism from Temple University.
Stacy Rapacon is a channel editor for Kiplinger.com. She joined the Kiplinger Washington Editors organization in October 2007 as a reporter for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. Currently, she manages all of the online content for the investing channel, including weekly columns, web features, magazine stories, special reports, quizzes, slide shows, infographics and videos. At the same time, she writes the Starting Out column for Kiplinger.com, giving personal finance advice based on personal experience, as well as in-depth research and reporting, to an audience of readers in their twenties and thirties. She also covers the consumer travel beat for both the magazine and the Web site. You can follow Stacy on Twitter @srapacon.
Félix Séguin is a reporter for TVA, the largest private French television network in Canada. He is one of the first “mojo” (mobile journalist) of his news outlet. He investigates, shoots and edits. He went two times to Haiti to report on the 2010 earthquake and traveled to Middle East to cover the Egypt revolution. He was also sent to Ground Zero for the 9/11 events. He went on assignments in Washington and Baltimore. In 2011 his news outlet branded a new website: www.tvanouvelles.ca He is working to implement a new way in feeding the website using different tools on mobile phone. He has revealed numerous stories using his twitter followers as sources. In January 2011, a twitter-source allowed him to reveal where was hiding Belhassen Trabelsi, a member of Tunisia's ruling family who had fled to Montreal after the revolution.
Claudia Weinstein has worked at 60 Minutes for 20 years, about half that time as a reporter with correspondent Steve Kroft, and now a decade in senior management as the broadcast’s Story Editor, involved in every story aired. Claudia also works with the new online production, 60 Minutes Overtime, which produces original pieces based on each week’s broadcast. Prior to 60 Minutes, she was a print journalist for more than a decade, largely with Steve Brill at The American Lawyer, where she was a reporter for many years and later an editor. And long before all of that, just out of college, she served her time on small-town papers – from Marin County to coastal Maine to Madison, WI -- covering local news. Other facts: mother of a teenager, Oberlin graduate, lifetime New Yorker.
