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Contact: Marie Malzberg, Senior Editorial Producer, CNN Newsroom, One Time Warner Center, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10019; (212) 275-8261; C: (917) 751-5728; marie.malzberg@turner.com; Twitter: @MarieCNN Jon Marcus is a contributing editor at the Hechinger Report and U.S. higher education correspondent for the Times (U.K.) Higher Education magazine. He also has written about higher education for the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, U.S. News & World Report, and other magazines and newspapers, including CrossTalk, the journal of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. The former editor of Boston magazine, Marcus holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Bates College. He attended Oxford University and teaches journalism at Boston College and Boston University. Contact: Jon Marcus, Contributing Editor, The Hechinger Report, 475 Riverside Drive, Suite 650, New York, NY 10115; (617) 738-5961; C: 617-650-7041; jmarcus@netzero.com Mary Beth Marklein has covered higher education for USA TODAY since 1997. In 2007, through a fellowship awarded by the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, she wrote about community colleges from a local, national, and international perspective. She spent the 2004–2005 academic year teaching journalism at the University of Bucharest and Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, as a Fulbright Scholar. During a sabbatical in the summer of 2001 she studied the impact of technology on higher education at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She also has taught journalism courses at American University in Washington, DC. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s from American University in Washington, DC, and is currently pursuing graduate studies in the higher education program at George Mason University in Northern Virginia. Contact: Mary Beth Marklein, Higher Education Reporter, USA Today Education, 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22108; (703) 854-3684 or 3400; mmarklein@usatoday.com Fritz McDonald is assistant vice president for communications and marketing at Mount Mercy University. He has more than 25 years of experience as a professional writer, editor, and creative strategist. McDonald earned his bachelor’s degree at University of California, Los Angeles, and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Prior to joining Mount Mercy, he was a creative leader at Stamats, Inc., where he developed marketing communications, digital strategy, and branding programs for colleges and universities across the United States. McDonald has presented at conferences such as HighEd Web, EduWeb, EduComm, and the AMA Symposium for the Marketing of Higher Education. He has written on the uses of social media in higher education most recently for University Business. Contact: Fritz McDonald, Assistant Vice President for Communications and Marketing, Mount Mercy University, 1330 Elmhurst Drive, NE, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402-4797; (319) 363-1323 x1205 or 368- 6475 #1; C: (319) 693-9399; fmcdonald@mtmercy.edu Tim McDonough, vice president of communications and marketing at the American Council on Education (ACE), manages a comprehensive outreach program to enhance public understanding of a wide range of higher education issues and the specific activities of ACE—including marketing, membership, public affairs, publishing, and web services. He has worked in the higher education community for more than 25 years and has extensive experience both with campus concerns and the higher education policy debates in Washington. Before joining ACE in 1998, McDonough served for four years as vice president for public affairs at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU). Prior to joining NAICU in 1992, he held a number of positions at the University of Maryland, College Park, including director of development communications and associate editor of public affairs in the Office of Institutional Advancement and alumni director for the College of Business and Management. Previously, he was public relations director of Washington Journalism Review (now American Journalism Review), the monthly media magazine published by the University of Maryland’s College of Journalism. McDonough has served on the board of directors of the Education Writers Association and the Bacchus & 6
Gamma Peer Education Network. He holds a BA in government from Georgetown University and an MA in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park. Contact: Timothy J. McDonough, Vice President of Communications and Marketing, American Council on Education, One Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036; (202) 939-9365; C: (301) 919-2650; tim_mcdonough@ace.nche.edu Will McGuinness is senior editor at Huffington Post College, the Huffington Post’s higher education section. Before working at the Huffington Post, he reported for CBS Local’s viral stories desk and ran digital operations and products for several newspapers in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe and the Advocate magazine, among others. McGuinness is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts. Contact: Will McGuinness, Senior Editor, Huffington Post College, Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003; (917) 606-4593; C: 774-319-8917; william.mcguinness@huffington post.com; Twitter: @willmcguinness Liz McMillen became editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education in August 2011. Previously, she had been editor of the Chronicle Review, a post she continues to hold. In her 27-year career at the Chronicle, she has written or edited stories about faculty life and careers; business, philanthropy, and financial issues; and research, publishing, and intellectual issues. In 1997–1998, she was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, one of 12 U.S. journalists selected for the honor. Before coming to the Chronicle, she worked for the Associated Press in Philadelphia and later attended the University of Durham in the United Kingdom on a Rotary International Fellowship. She graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in American studies. Contact: Liz McMillen, Editor, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1255 23rd Street, NW, Seventh Floor, Washington, DC 20037; (202) 466-1000; liz.mcmillen@chronicle.com Melanie Moran is associate director of news and communications at Vanderbilt University, directs the university web communications unit, oversees web and social media presences, edits Research News @ Vanderbilt, and is a senior editor of all news and communications websites. Moran came to Vanderbilt from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, where she was responsible for managing media relations, events, speech writing, graphic arts, and the website. While in the state government, she also served as assistant to Governor Don Sundquist for communications. Moran holds a master’s degree in public administration from Indiana University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Pennsylvania State University. Contact: Melanie Moran, Associate Director, Vanderbilt University News and Communications; Vanderbilt University, 110 21st Avenue South, Suite 802, Nashville, TN 37203; (615) 322-7970; C: (615) 473-2204; melanie.moran@vanderbilt.edu; Twitter: @melaniemoran; www.facebook.com/melanie.s.moran Joe Palca is a science correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR). Since joining NPR in 1992, he has covered a range of science topics—from biomedical research to astronomy. In addition to his science reporting, Palca regularly fills in as guest host on Talk of the Nation Science Friday. He began his journalism career in television in 1982, working as a health producer for the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. In 1986, he left television for a seven-year stint as a print journalist, first as the Washington news editor for Nature and then as a senior correspondent for Science Magazine. In October 2009, Palca took a six-month leave from NPR to become science writer in residence at the Huntington Library and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. He has won numerous awards, including the National Academies Communications Award, the Science-in-Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers, the American Chemical Society James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Prize, and the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Writing. With Flora Lichtman, 7
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