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Discover a great career. Join us for a crash course in the lucrative field of ad sales and learn how the success of TV shows, print media or websites depends entirely on advertising revenue.
Does the new face of advertising reflect America's changing population? Learn about the future of the industry in a multicultural environment from an all-star cast of advertising prognosticators and trendsetters.
Advertising: Media Planning & Buying
Leading media buyers and planners discuss an area of media always hiring at the entry-level - a great way to break into the business and learn from the ground up.
As audiences become more cynical of the 30-second spot, advertisers scramble for more creative and innovative ways to grab our attention.
Diversity in Advertising Career Day 2009
Once again, back to the Big Apple by popular demand! If you are looking to snag an internship, don't miss this great opportunity to meet with recruiters from leading companies, where you'll hear insider tips and the latest strategies and skill sets necessary to get your foot in the door at today's agencies.
Donny Deutsch on Guerilla Advertising
With the 30-second commercial an endangered species, marketers are forced to go undercover to reach today's consumer. Donny Deutsch, one of the ad industry's most dynamic and creative innovators, and ad maven Randall Rothenberg, explain how “stealth” advertising is the wave of the future.
Event Planning: Behind the Magic
Premieres, openings, fundraisers, awards dinners, book-launches, festivals, you name it - special events are bigger and splashier than ever. If this is where your interests lie, hear the party-planners' inside tips on how they pull it all together.
From the closet to the limelight, gay programming is now front and center as ad agencies and network execs scramble to seduce this previously ignored demographic. A panel of those in the vanguard explores the changing landscape.
Marketing to Latinos: Target Strategies
Hispanics who move to the U.S. from over 20 Latin American countries adapt quickly to a U.S. lifestyle, but they also tend to hold onto their unique cultural traditions and values.
New technologies are making it easier to avoid TV commercials. As conventional advertising continues to fade, digital and social media landscapes are changing the way we interact with media and brands.
n an Extreme Makeover/Victoria's Secret/Sex and the City world, how much influence do the media wield in defining today's woman?
Bios A (22 items)
Amy Astley is the editor-in-chief of TEEN VOGUE, which launched in January 2003.
Israeli born artist, painter and event designer Avi Adler moved to New York in 1983 to pursue his artistic vision and dreams.
Britt Aboutaleb's the editor of Fashionista.com, a fashion news site covering models, designers, trends and the inner workings of the fashion industry.
Chris Albers has been a writer at Late Night With Conan O'Brien since 1995.
David Adler is founder and CEO of BiZBash Media (BizBash.com and BizBash magazine), the source for essential information about event marketing, meeting and planning, and business entertaining in NYC, Los Angeles/Southern California, Toronto, and Florida.
Mr. Armon honed his public relations and communication expertise during his 20-year tenure at PRNewswire, where he served as both president and COO.
writer/producer, SNL Weekend Update; Comedy Central's Roast of Denis Leary
Edward Albee started writing plays at the age of 30 and is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and president of the Edward F. Albee Foundation.
Ellen S. Agress was appointed Senior Vice President _ Deputy General Counsel, Communications, of News America Incorporated in July 1997.
Floyd Abrams is a prominent American attorney and advocate.
Hal Aronow-Theil is an Emmy and BDA award winning creative director with 25 years of broadcast design experience.
Producer Jake Abraham has been active at InDigEnt since 2000, having worked in various capacities on all the InDigEnt titles.
Named to this position in 2005, Angle reports on overall political news from Washington, D.C., as well as broader issues, including social security and tax reform.
Jonathan Alter is an award-winning columnist, television analyst and author. Since 1991, Alter has written a widely-acclaimed Newsweek column that examines politics, media and social and global issues.
Whether designing custom metallic leather pants for P. Diddy and Busta Rhymes or crafting couture-quality outfits for divas like Missy Elliott, Kelly Ripa, Kim Catrall, Macy Gray and Mariah Carey, June Ambrose, founder of Mode Squad, Inc., inspires trends.
Originally from Chicago, Laurie Anderson came to New York at age 20 and attended Barnard College, graduating with a B.A. in art history in 1969.
Leigh Alexander is a video game and social media journalist. She's news director of video game developer trade site Gamasutra, writes a monthly column on the culture of games and gamers at Kotaku, and her work has appeared in a variety of outlets including Slate, Variety, the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe.
Sarah Abdurrahman is a producer at WNYC's On the Media. She is one of the founding members of Enough!Gaddafi, a loose-knit organization formed in 2009 in response to the Libyan dictator's visit to the United Nations. In February 2011, she began working with a group of Libyan activists to ensure that communication channels would be open between Libya and the rest of the world if calls for protests in the country were answered. When the protests and consequent government crackdown in Libya began in mid-February, Sarah began work on the @feb17voices twitter feed, recording first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses in Libya and publishing them for the world to hear.
As NBA Senior Vice President of Communications, Tim Andree oversees all of the communication functions for the NBA, WNBA and NBDL.
Bios B (55 items)
Adam Buckman has covered the television business as a reporter, editor and columnist for more than 25 years, including 18 years at the New York Post. Since parting company with The Post in December 2008, he has freelanced for three television Web sites, launched two blogs ' including the widely read TV Howl by Adam Buckman -- and has been hard at work writing a memoir of his experiences as a journalist on the TV beat.
Ali Barada is United Nations Bureau Chief of An-Nahar newspaper, a Lebanese independent daily, where he has served in various capacities since 1993. He also writes a weekly political column in Arabic for An-Nahar and regularly reports from the UN for Arabic-medium television and radio stations, including France 24 and Radio Monte Carlo.
Alison Brower is the Executive Editor of Redbook. Previously she was the Deputy Editor of Glamour magazine and a Senior Editor at Cosmopolitan. She began her magazine career as a reporter for Adweek, Brandweek, and MediaWeek magazines. Her work has been honored with awards from the Association of Women in Communications, Amnesty International, and the Newswomen's Club of New York. She serves on the boards of the Housing Works Bookstore Caf_ﾩ and 826NYC. Alison has appeared on CBS's The Early Show, Today in New York, Good Day New York, and CNBC. She graduated from Princeton University.
Andrew Baron is the creator and producer of Rocketboom, a 3 minute online daily news show. With a daily audience of over 300,000, Rocketboom has become one of the most popular websites on the internet (alexa: top 10,000). Before launching Rocketboom in 2004, Andrew taught digital media at schools such as Parsons and M.I.T. and held several tech positions at IBM, Motorola and Tivoli Systems. He is also a music composer. Andrew received a B.A. in Philosophy from Bates College and a Master of Fine Arts in Design and Technology from the Parsons School of Design.
Andy Bernstein is television editor at Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal. Known for providing keen analysis along with the latest breaking news, Mr. Bernstein frequently appears on CNBC, Fox News Channel and other national news outlets to discuss issues in sports marketing and television. He is also active in the planning of various SportsBusiness Journal conferences. A graduate of Brown University, he is also the founder of a non-profit organization called HeadCount, a voter registration group affiliated with Dave Matthews Band and other major recording artists.
Ben Berentson is the Digital Managing Director at Glamour, responsible for digital strategy and product development. Glamour.com reaches a monthly audience of more than 2.6 million unique visitors and has grown more than 450% since 2008.
Brad Balfourﾬﾆhas drawn on film, arts, and pop culture creators for over 25 years as the subjects of his interviews. He has developed a content syndicate, BMBmedia, and blogs on the Huffingtonpost.com--one of biggest news sites in the world.ﾬﾆ
Chandlee Bryan, M.Ed., is the President of Best Fit Forward, a boutique career management provider of services ranging from resumes and cover letters to LinkedIn and social media profile management. Prior to founding Best Fit Forward, Chandlee worked at Ivy League career offices for eight years, serving as Director of Career Services at Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering. She has also worked as a recruiter. In Spring 2009, she served as Microsoft's Resume Specialist for the "My Resume Talks" campaign, Microsoft's first-ever outreach campaign on Facebook. An active user--and advocate of--LinkedIn and Twitter, Chandlee was recently named as "Social Media Expert" for the Career Thought Leaders Consortium, a national forum of career professionals.
Charles M. Blow is the newly named Deputy Design Director at the New York Times. In this role he coordinates the visual coverage of the paper for the news sections. Before this job, he was the Graphics Director at The Times for nine year. While in that role The Times was award the Best of Show for graphics from the Society of Newspaper Design and was twice award the Peter Sullivan award (also a best of show award) from the Malofiej International Infographics Competition.
Chazz Bryant is president of (HHE), a promotion company specializing in launching visual marketing campaigns. Its main promotional platform is through video, via radio, retail, and street awareness. As Chazz says, 'We are your eyes and ears on the street.' Through creative marketing strategies, HHe is dedicated to bridging the gap among the various platforms. In addition to building HHE, Chazz was the creator and executive producer of Da' Supamodel Chazz Show. Da' upamodel Chazz Show was an award winning 60 minute local/leased access music video outlet airing in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Serving as executive producer, Chazz was the recipient of the 1997 HITS Magazine Video Programmer of the Year award and was a former director of a national street team.
Christopher Bonanos is a senior editor at New York. Having held several positions there since 1993, he now edits much of the magazine's culture coverage and oversees its real-estate page. In 2005, his book Gods, Heroes, and Philosophers: A Celebration of All Things Greek was published by Kensington Press. He's a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and lives in Manhattan, where his hobbies include complaining about George Steinbrenner.
Christopher Byron is a columnist for the New York Post, covering business and media. He also hosts a syndicated radio show called Wall Street Wakeup with Chris Byron (MediaAmerica/Jones Radio Network). He's author of Martha Inc, The Incredible Story Of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), a national and New York Times non-fiction bestseller, made into and aired as an NBC Movie of the Week, and Testosterone Inc., Tales Of CEOs Gone Wild (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). Byron is a contributing editor to Mens Health magazine and a regular book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, and a regular guest on CNN, Fox Television, MSNBC, and CNBC. He received his B.A. in American Studies from Yale College and a law degree from Columbia University.
Damian founded Situation Marketing in April of 2000 and oversees the strategic direction for the company. He is an active contributor and source for leading Internet and business publications including The New York Times, Variety, Associated Press, Fortune Small Business and many more. In addition, he has served as a speaker and source for University research studies relating to online marketing for Yale University, New York University, Brooklyn College, Fordham University and George Mason University's graduate level programs.
David Bradfield is a senior vice president and partner in the New York office of Fleishman-Hillard where he manages the FH Digital team. This team combines industry-leading strategic counsel in interactive, digital, and social media with full-service design and development capabilities to help clients navigate the evolving world of communication, conversation, and community. Mr. Bradfield is also a practice group leader for FH Digital globally which includes more than 120 digital communication consultants, creative, and technical development professionals from throughout the firm's global network of offices.
Named a 2005 'Wonder Woman' by Multichannel News, Deborah Blackwell is Executive Vice President and General Manager of SOAPnet. In this role, Ms. Blackwell is responsible for managing all day-to-day operations for the rapidly growing 24-hour soap opera channel. She joined Disney ABC Cable Networks Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, in June 2001. She has extensive television experience, notably as head of the television movie and miniseries packaging department at the William Morris Agency from 1993-99, where she led negotiations with every major TV network, studio and supplier and with top celebrity clients including Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Glover, Alec Baldwin and Drew Barrymore.
DJ/Producer Beverly Bond first came to New York when she was 17 years old to pursue a modeling career. She began at Elite New Faces, later joining Wilhelmma, modeling for clients such as Diesel Jeans, Guess, Nike and MTV. Although happy with her career as a model, Beverly's first love was music. Back home in Maryland, she grew up listening to various genres of music such as jazz, blues, world beat, soul and hip-hop. Following in her mother's footsteps, she became a serious record collector. She decided that the best way to express her affinity towards music was to become a DJ, and she quickly became one of NY's top DJs, spinning at major events such as the VHI Fashion Awards, The Glamour Fashion Awards, ESPN's X-Games Awards, D'Angelo's "Voodoo" Album Release Party and The NY Planet Hollywood opening. She also appeared as a celebrity DJ at Eileen Ford's "Super Model of The World" contest in Puerto Rico.
Doug Barasch has over 7 years of experience in Digital Marketing and Strategy. He joined Verve Music Group, a division of Universal Music Group in 2008 after working at Epic Records where he worked closely with artists identifying new ways to promote their music online. Doug joined Epic in 2001 and while there spearheaded the digital campaigns for Franz Ferdinand, Oasis, Natasha Bedingfield, Ben Folds, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Duran Duran, the Garden State Soundtrack and many more. It was at Epic Records, that Doug came up with the concept for a LIVE BY REQUEST CONCERT WEBCAST where fans could instant message an artist performing in concert in real time.
Dr. William F. Baker is University Professor of Fordham University, NY, Executive-in-Residence at the Columbia Business School and president emeritus of Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), licensee of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 New York.
Eric Bates joined Rolling Stone magazine in 2003.ﾬﾆ He has worked for more than 20 years as an investigative reporter and editor.ﾬﾆ Previously Bates was the investigative editor of Mother Jones magazine and editor of Southern Exposure.ﾬﾆ Both publications earned a National Magazine Award during his stay.ﾬﾆ Bates taught journalism at Duke University and served on the board of trustees of Antioch University. He holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University, where he graduated with high honors.
Eve Burton is Vice President and General Counsel of The Hearst Corporation which is one of the nation's largest diversified communications companies. Its major interests include magazine, newspaper and business publishing, cable networks, television and radio broadcasting, Internet businesses, television production and distribution, newspaper features distribution, and real estate. Ms. Burton served as Vice President and Chief Legal Counsel at Cable News Network (CNN) from 2000-2001, during which time she oversaw all legal matters relating to news and other programming on CNN networks and Web sites. Most notably, she led the network's successful effort to obtain audio access to the U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. From 1998-2000, she was Vice President and Deputy Legal Counsel at the New York Daily News, where she was responsible for all news and publishing legal matters, including libel, newsgathering and subpoena litigation, and copyright, trademark and licensing issues.
G.M. Bush, a.k.a. Mike, grew up on Staten Island. After high school, he spent three years as an Army paratrooper, primarily in Germany and on Okinawa. Not long after he was discharged he moved back to Europe and lived in Denmark and Italy for five years. He didn't go to college until he returned to the United States.
In March 2008, Gerry Byrne was named to the newly created position of Senior Vice President, Entertainment Group for Nielsen Business Media. In his new role, he has responsibility for the global entertainment, music and literary publishing enterprises across digital, print and face-to-face platforms. Brands in the portfolio include Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Back Stage, Kirkus Reviews, The Bookseller, Film Journal International, and the film industry expositions ShoWest, ShowEast, Cinema Expo International and CineAsia Exposition. In January 2009 the Media cluster of Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek, Editor & Publisher and the Clio Awards was added to his group. Byrne drives the strategic direction of the group and guides the brand leaders to create integrated opportunities and the use data assets exclusive to Nielsen to engage audiences and clients.
Henry Bronchtein was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He pursued his love for drama at NYU's Undergraduate Institute of Film. Bronchtein came to The Sopranos with an extensive background as an Assistant Director on feature films. He made three films with director Paul Mazursky, and credits include the award winning Enemies, A Love Story. Further credits as a First Assistant Director include: A Perfect Murder, Addicted To Love, The Out Of Towners, It Could Happen To You, Guarding Tess, Striptease, Weekend At Bernie's, Rookie of the Year, Raw Deal, and Eddie and the Cruisers. Other significant credits include: Faithful, as Associate Producer; The Cotton Club, Endless Love, They All Laughed, I The Jury, and The Chosen as Second Assistant Director; Michael Mann's series, Crime Story, and Dick Wolf's Swift Justice as Production Manager.
Jeff Bercovici joined Cond_ﾩ Nast Portfolio from Radar magazine, where he was part of the relaunch team for both the online and print editions. Earlier, he co-edited Women's Wear Daily's media column, Memo Pad, and wrote about arts and music for WWD's sister publication, Scoop. He has also covered the media beat for Folio and Media Life magazines. He is a graduate of Cornell University.
' Jeff Blumenfeld is founder of Blumenfeld and Associates, Inc., a public relations and special-events firm based in Darien, Connecticut, that has served some of the largest outdoor recreation companies in the U.S. Clients have included Coleman, Duofold, Du Pont, Eddie Bauer, Lands' End, LEKI USA, Lewmar, Mares, Orvis, Timberland, Timex, W.L. Gore & Associates, and Wacoal Sports Science Corp.
on is one of the industry's visionaries and thought leaders. Currently, Jon is CEO of Big Fuel, the largest social media agency in the world. Big Fuel's clients include all divisions of GM, Microsoft, Sheraton, Philips, T Mobile, and AB InBev. Big Fuel also handles global social media work for several clients, including GM, Philips, Sheraton, and Gore-Tex.
Starting her career in law school, Karin Bereson quickly changed paths as she decided to follow her other passion: fashion. She learned to define her technique through her inspirations and travels, and for the past 10 years Bereson has immersed herself in different sides of fashion, pulling inspirations from things such as old movies. From catwalks to sidewalks she prides herself on recognizing trends months before they appears in stores or on the pages of glossy fashion magazines. She's currently one of the most sought after contributing editors for publications such as The New York Times, The London Times, The Fader, GQ and others. In addition to her editorial credits, she has been called upon to dress some of today's most visible celebrities. Clients such as L'Oreal, Maybelline, Bill Blass, and Saks Fifth Avenue depend on her to add style and flair to their visual campaigns. With her conceptual visions, technical skills, taste and positive energy, Bereson is known as an 'anti-fashion' fashion stylist', believing that 'less is more.'
Kurt Brokaw has taught advertising courses at The New School for General Studies since 1986.ﾬﾆ His "All About Advertising" survey course is the longest- running course in the business department, and his copy/design course, "The Big Idea," partners New School and Lang students who'd like to write advertising with Parsons' students who'd like to design campaigns.ﾬﾆ He's also taught literature courses on crime and pulp fiction in the NSGS Humanities department.
Lewis Beale is a general features writer covering the entertainment industry for numerous publications, including the New York Times, LA Times, Newsday, USA Weekend and Time Out NY.ﾬﾆ In 1986 Lewis started at the LA Daily News as film reporter, went on to write for the Detroit Free Press, and then to the NY Daily News, where he covered film, TV and video for eight years. He spent a year at Us Weekly covering entertainment before going freelance in 2003. Lewis has done numerous media appearances on shows like Entertainment Tonight and Access Hollywood, and he is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Dept. of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, where he teaches feature writing and entertainment journalism.
Lisa Bloom is an anchorwoman and commentator on the Court TV network, and a regular prime-time legal analyst for CNN. Prior to coming to Court TV as a full-time broadcast journalist in 2001, she was a co-star of Fox's Power of Attorney, a popular program in which real attorneys argued real cases in an unscripted courtroom setting. After graduating with honors from Yale Law School in 1986, Lisa was an aggressive civil rights lawyer, litigating some of the most controversial social issues of our time. Following in the footsteps of her mother, the well-known feminist attorney Gloria Allred, she has fought against the mighty on behalf of the weak and the powerless many times.
Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and blogger whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a correspondent for The Daily Beast, a research fellow for Media Matters for America and a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. His book, 'Republican Gomorrah,' will be published by Basic Books in March, 2009.
Michael Bullas has been with Caroline Distribution in New York since 1992, serving as Vice President of Label Relations since 2001. Caroline distributes both physical and digital formats for a roster of independent music (and now DVD) labels, including Arts & Crafts, Astralwerks, Century Media, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Earache, Eastern Conference, ESL Music, Fatcat, Ipecac, Mute, Nature Sounds, Ninja Tune, Nuclear Blast, Plexifilm, Quannum, Stones Throw, Ultra, and more. Michael's duties include scouting labels (acting in the equivalent of an A&R capacity, one place removed from the artists), overseeing Caroline's label management department, and negotiating distribution deals with Caroline's label partners. Michael grew up in and around Portland, Maine, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1991. He's sat on several panels at CMJ, as well as others at MUTEK, the WCMA's, and in conjunction with NYU, the UK's AIM, and other organizations. He's still not used to them.
Michelle Byrd is a veteran media executive. She is currently Co-President of Games for Change, the leading global advocate for supporting and making games for social impact.
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess are Executive Producers for the groundbreaking HBO series, "The Sopranos" and have been with the show since its first season. Before that, the team won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for their work on "Northern Exposure," wrote and produced for such series as "A Year in the Life," and "Almost Grown" (also created by David Chase), and other TV shows, as well as writing the Showtime movie "Critical Choices." They were awarded the 2001 and 2003 Emmys for Best Writing of a Drama Series for episodes of 'The Sopranos,' plus two Peabody Awards and a Golden Globe for that show. A Rhode Island native, Green earned a BA in American Literature from Brown University, and an MFA at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, where she met Burgess, himself a University of Iowa graduate in history and a native of that state.
Paul Borgese currently manages the Emerging Markets Group of The Associated Press Digital Division, which includes online video, Spanish language, social media, interactive TV and online advertising initiatives. He has worked in and lectured on online marketing and e-commerce operations for more than 11 years. Paul is also an international speaker and author of two business books, M&A From Planning to Integration (McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002; Beijing 2006), which has been featured on CNN, CNBC and other global business programs; and FEAR Selling: How To Sell More and Sell Faster By Tapping Into Your Prospects' Deep-Seated Emotional Needs (Full Court Press, 2005). He currently is working on his next book, Serialpreneurship: The Secrets of Repeatable Business Success.
Peter Biskind is author of the recently published Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film, which chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers and of the twin engines - Sundance and Miramax - that have powered them. His previous book, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls covers the wild ride that was Hollywood in the '70s, an era that produced such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Shampoo, Nashville, Taxi Driver, and Jaws. He is the author of two other books, Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties and The Godfather Companion. Biskind is also the former executive editor of Premiere and former editor in chief of American Film. Biskind's work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. He lives in New York City.
Called one of the brightest and best-connected young talents in sports by a leading sports publication, Reed Bergman has developed a powerful reputation for building impactful partnerships between sports personalities and brands. Over the last 15 years, Reed has built an incredible network of sports celebrities, having negotiated deals with some of the biggest names in sports, including Braylon Edwards, Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey, Jr., Roger Clemens, Lenny Wilkens, Dominique Wilkins, Ray Lewis, Keith Brooking, Archie Manning, Rich Eisen and Jeremy Schaap, to name a few, as well as some of the biggest corporations in America, such as Radio Shack, Sprint, Kellogg's, ConAgra Foods and more.
The Creative Coalition (TCC) appointed Robin Bronk Executive Director on July 7, 1998. TCC is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan social and political advocacy organization of the arts and entertainment industry. As Executive Director, Ms. Bronk is dedicated to educating and mobilizing the arts community on issues of public importance, particularly the First Amendment, arts advocacy and public education.
Sophie is a producer of film and television, who has produced and executive produced numerous award-winning prime-time drama productions for all the UK networks - BBC, ITV, C4, ITV & Sky.
Stanley Bing has been reporting on corporate life since his own first bullshit job back in 1982, which isn't that different than the bullshit job he has now, only back then it was smaller. He is now an ultra-senior executive in a gigantic corporation whose identity is one of the worst-kept secrets in business, which is a joke he's been using for the last 10 years because he has always believed that if a specific piece of bullshit is effective, it's often smart to stay with it.
In September 2001, Stephanie co-founded with Arthur Korant Double Platinum, a full-service marketing communications agency that specializes in the gay and lesbian market and is affiliated with the Publicis Groupe. Clients include Procter & Gamble Canada (Crest Whitestrips and MicroScope), AOL, Nationwide, Heineken USA (Amstel Light), Pernod Ricard USA (Mojito Club), Pridevision Television, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, The Gill Foundation, Passport Magazine, GLSEN, Hetrick Martin Institute, BK Services Group and Miracle House. Stephanie had previously started or partnered in three other GLBT-focused businesses: Spare Parts (1995), Blackwood and Friends Public Relations (1991), and the New York office of The Advocate, where she was associate publisher and VP directing plans to reposition the nation's oldest gay magazine.
Steven Bach, biographer, scholar and former film studio executive is the author of a revelatory new biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the Nazi propagandist, influential film stylist, and pioneering female director. Riefenstahl died in 2003 at the age of 101; to the very end of her life, she attempted to minimize and explain away her complicity with the Nazi regime. Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl (2007) dismantles Riefenstahl's contention that she was an apolitical artist who did not understand the scope of Nazi crimes.
Thabiti is an author, national activist, youth organizer, inspirational speaker, master motivator, minister, educator, lecturer, consultant, fatherhood specialist, entrepreneur, humanitarian, poet, hip hop activist, sports services provider and former basketball star. Rising out of the tough streets of Brooklyn, Thabiti is the founder and president of Thabiti Enterprises, which is the parent business operation for all his community based programs, services and activities, including F.I.S.T. Inc. Youth Empowerment Organization; 'Rising To the Occasion' Sports, Academic, Life Skills and Mentoring Enrichment program; and 'You Have To Dream It�ĶTo Be It' Youth Foundation. He is the author of 'Rising to the Occasion' a motivational success guide for student/athletes.
Thom Beers' passion for honoring every day heroes and his gift for telling their stories has firmly established his non-fiction brand, Original Productions, as television's number one creator of honest-to-goodness unscripted reality programming.
Tim Brooks was named Executive Vice President, Research for Lifetime Entertainment Services in June 2003. He is responsible for all research concerning Lifetime's programming, online and advertising sales efforts, as well as research for Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime Real Women. Prior to joining Lifetime, Brooks was SVP, Research for USA Networks, where he supervised targeted programming and advertising research in domestic and international markets, and developed and launched new businesses. Before USA Networks, Brooks was SVP/Media Research Director for N.W. Ayer and was at NBC from 1977 to 1988, holding various positions, including Director, Program and Advertising Research, and Director, TV Network Research. Brooks wrote several books, including The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present.
Tobe Becker has been with HBO for more than 20 years handling publicity for such series as 'The Sopranos,' 'In Treatment' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and specials including 'Comic Relief' and the more recent 'We Are One' Inaugural concert held in Washington last January and 'The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert.' Prior to joining HBO, Tobe was a press representative for CBS Entertainment and worked on, among other shows, 'Lou Grant' and 'Kate and Allie.'
Bios C (57 items)
Mr. Coulter has worked primarily in episodic television, directing for numerous series, including THE SOPRANOS, SEX & THE CITY, SIX FEET UNDER and ROME.
ANAﾬﾆMARIEﾬﾆCOX had a long, disastrous career in mainstream media before being forced into the shallow waters of the blogosphere. While an editor at MotherﾬﾆJones, TheﾬﾆChronicle of HigherﾬﾆEducation, and TheﾬﾆAmericanﾬﾆProspect, her poor people skills made her unpopular, while her sarcasm drove people away. Internetﾬﾆjournalism, with its higher tolerance for misfits, provided an early home-she is a survivor of Suck.com, Feedmag.com and Inside.com. She was discovered at a drugstore by Nick Denton, who made her Wonkette.
As the manager of the Calvin Klein Archives, Beth Charleston maintained a garment archive that served as a creative catalyst for designers from every division of the company. Working with Mr. Klein and the company's creative directors she created an image database to facilitate designer research, as well as to record Calvin Klein's design legacy. As Research Associate, Collections Manager at the Costume Institute, Ms. Charleston worked with many well known fashion designers, costumers and writers, researching historic fashion and contributed to the exhibitions Dangerous Liaisons and Chanel.
In April 2005, Betty Cohen, one of the cable industry's most respected, innovative and consistently successful brand builders and programmers, was named president and CEO of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a 50/50 joint venture of The Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
William J. Carter joined The New York Times as a national media reporter in 1989. In addition to his work for the newspaper, Mr. Carter has written numerous articles for The New York Times Magazine, including four cover stories.
William Cunningham joined DKC in January 2006, after serving Mayor Michael Bloomberg for five years. As the Mayor's Communications Director, Cunningham helped shape the media outreach of the Mayor's Office as well as over 50 city agencies. He advised the Mayor on a broad range of subjects including policy, politics and communication strategies. He acted as the Administration's main conduit to editorial boards, columnists and other opinion leaders throughout the City and beyond.
Bob Costas has been with NBC sports since 1979 and has hosted HBO sports and entertainment programs since 2001. He has covered every major sport, but is perhaps most identified with the Olympics and baseball. He anchored NBC's primetime coverage of the last four summer Olympics as well as the 2002 winter games in Salt Lake City. In February 2001, HBO launched On the Record with Bob Costas, currently a weekly program of issues, interviews and commentary. Bob is also one of the hosts of the long-running Inside the NFL. Bob was the play-by-play voice of the NBA on NBC from 1997 through 2000. He was also a contributing interviewer and essayist on NBC's NFL pre-game show, the program he previously hosted for nine years. From 1983 through 1989, Bob teamed with Tony Kubek on NBC's baseball Game of the Week telecasts. He hosted the network's NFL Live pre-game show for nine years (1984-1992) and covered six league championship series, five World Series for NBC sports and hosted six Super Bowls.
Elyse Cheney is best known for representing award-winning fiction writers and journalists. After working at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates for nine years, she recently started her own agency, Elyse Cheney Literary Associates. Her clients include writers from The New Yorker, The New York Times and Harper's, as well as many graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop and other prestigious fiction workshops around the country. She looks for books with a fresh voice, strong storytelling ability and, for nonfiction, intellectual significance. Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.
An Emmy, duPont-Columbia, and Gracie Allen Award-winning journalist and the youngest state judge to ever be elected in Texas, Catherine Crier joined Court TV's distinguished team of anchors in November 1999. She serves as Executive Editor, Legal News Specials, in addition to hosting CatherineCrier Live, a fast-paced, live daily series, which takes a head-on legal approach to the day's 'front-page' stories, which marks its 5th year anniversary this year. Crier, a Texas-bred independent with a spirited passion for justice, released her first book, the New York Times Bestseller, The Case Against Lawyers on October 8, 2002. In this eye-opening and plain-spoken treatise on the law, Crier shares her outrage at the state of the justice system and calls on American citizens to demand reform.
A native of Mexico City, Campos is a recognized thought leader and a driving force in spearheading change in the US Hispanic advertising industry. In his capacity as skipper of The Bravo Group's flagship New York office (VP, Managing Director), he is responsible for all aspects of client relationships, business growth and agency operations. Throughout his 17+ year advertising career, he's rallied teams and individuals to experiment and push the boundaries across all disciplines to achieve success for clients such as Verizon, Sears Roebuck & Co., Miller Brewing Co., Campbell's Soup Co., Ford, AT&T, Pfizer, Kraft, and United States Postal Service'among many others.
Chris is at the forefront of social and mobile media and the applications that provide marketing opportunities for advertisers to reach people relevantly whether they are on Facebook, other social networks, the iPhone and new, emerging platforms.
Cindy Charles manages MusicNet's business and legal affairs, which includes overseeing all legal matters, strategic business relationships, including distributors and vendors, government relations and company negotiations. In addition, she drafts and negotiates all agreements that the company enters into, is involved in daily liaisons with music labels and strategic partnerships, handles all corporate matters and acts in the capacity of Corporate Secretary. Previously, Charles served in a variety of positions for MTV Networks over a six-year period. Most recently, Charles served as Vice President of Law and Business Affairs for MTVi, an interactive division of MTV Networks, which included MTV.com, VH1.com, Sonicnet.com and CMT.com.
New York based Director of Photography (DP) Cliff Charles received his B.A. in Film Production and TV/Radio production from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. While in school, Charles got a taste of cinematography by shooting short films and music videos for fellow classmates and film students in schools through out New York. (He hasnﾬ_t been able to put the camera down since).ﾬﾆIn 1994, a few weeks after graduation he served as a lighting intern on Spike Leeﾬ_s Clockers and soon went on to work as a Gaffer/lighting technician on hundreds of projects including music videos, commercials, independent films and documentaries.
DAVID CAPARELLIOTIS is Casting Director at Manhattan Theatre Club. Notable MTC credits include John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT and Shanley's upcoming DEFIANCE, the upcoming David Lindsay Abaire play RABBIT HOLE with Cynthia Nixon and Tyne Daly, as well as the Broadway productions of David Auburn's PROOF, Donald Margulies' BROOKLYN BOY and SIGHT UNSEEN and Elaine May's AFTER THE NIGHT AND THE MUSIC. Freelance projects include THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL, ALTARBOYZ, SHOCKHEADED PETER, the Off-B'way and National Tour companies of Jonathan Larson's TICK TICK BOOM, MODERN ORTHODOX directed by James Lapine, and the current production of THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES playing at the Kennedy Center in D.C.
David Chase was raised on gangster films and imaginary worlds. An only child in a New Jersey Italian-American family, he quickly developed two unique penchants: one for Saturday matinees and the other for making up stories. This later led to his taking a filmmaking course at the School of Visual Arts in New York where he discovered an insatiable desire to be part of the medium. Slouching toward show business as a rock n' roll drummer, Chase hung up his sticks and bought a Super 8 camera. Finding that he wanted a more formal training process, he went to study in the graduate film program at Stanford University. It was at Stanford that Chase discovered his talent for writing and the joy of needing merely paper and pen rather than cameras, film stock and technical equipment. After graduation, he set aside his interest in motion pictures in order to write for several popular television shows.
When David Collins and his partner Michael Williams founded SCOUT Productions in 1994 it was with a commitment to empowering creativity with production expertise. That dedication is embodied in SCOUT's breakout reality programs Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (Bravo/NBC) and Knock First (ABC Family). Both were created and executive produced by David Collins, and each series is infused with his unique 'Make Better' mantra. Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was a worldwide hit, earning Collins the 2004 Producer of the year award from the Producers Guild of America. The success of the series has led to a spin-off, Queer Eye for the Straight Girl, due on Bravo in the fall of 2004, as well as international versions of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy around the world.
David Cote is a magazine editor and theater critic. He founded and edited a 'zine called OFF: A Journal for Alternative Theater from 1996 to 1998. OFF focused on downtown experimental theater. He has been a theater critic and reporter for Time Out New York since 2000. In September 2003 he became TONY's theater editor. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Sun, Opera News and Maxim. He is a member of the New York Drama Critics Circle. He appears as a contributing critic on NY1's On Stage. In 2005, Hyperion published his first book, Wicked: The Grimmerie, a lavishly illustrated tome about the Broadway musical Wicked. Since its release, The Grimmerie has been a bestselling performing arts book on Amazon.com.
Elyse Cheney is best known for representing award-winning fiction writers and journalists. After working at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates for nine years, she recently started her own agency, Elyse Cheney Literary Associates. Her clients include writers from The New Yorker, The New York Times and Harper's, as well as many graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop and other prestigious fiction workshops around the country. She looks for books with a fresh voice, strong storytelling ability and, for nonfiction, intellectual significance. Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.
Enrico joined Arts Engine in 2005 to spearhead business development, income initiatives and brand articulation. Focusing on sustainability in the nonprofit sector, Enrico secures funding from a broad spectrum of philanthropies, corporations and family foundations, including the Surdna Foundation, Adobe, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Seventh Generation, Netflix, the Bay and Paul Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Green Family Foundation, and more. Under Enrico's leadership, Arts Engine continues to develop its reputation as one of the nation's leading independent media organizations focusing on social issues. Before joining Arts Engine, Enrico was the Director of Development & Public Affairs for Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, a .5 million nonprofit providing environmental education programs to over 100,000 New York City children, youth and adults each year.
Essie Chambers is the Executive Director of Development for Noggin and The N (owned by MTV Networks), managing all aspects of development for Noggin, the daytime commercial-free educational network for preschoolers and The N, the nighttime network for tweens and teens.ﾬﾆShe also participates in network strategy and curriculum development and implementation forﾬﾆboth networks. Chambers developed such original series as Radio Free Roscoe for The N and the award-winning preschool program Oobi for Noggin. She also served as Executive in Charge of Production for The N on the original teen series Out There and the hour-long documentary I Sit Where I Want: The Legacy of Brown V. Boardﾬﾆof Education directed by acclaimed filmmaking duo Whitney Dow and Marco Williams (Two Towns of Jasper).ﾬﾆ
Flavie Bagnol is the VP of Communications for Thrillist, Thrillist Rewards and Jackthreads.com. Flavie joined Thrillist in 2008, creating its first communications team and overseeing all aspects of PR outreach for the company.
Gail Collins joined the New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and began a leave in order to finish a sequel to her book, 'America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines.' She will return to the Times as a columnist this summer. Before joining the Times, Ms. Collins was a columnist at New YorkNewsday and the New York Daily News, and a reporter for United Press International. Her first jobs in journalism were in Connecticut, where she founded the Connecticut State News Bureau, which provided coverage of the state capitol and Connecticut politics.
Jared Cocken, a self-confessed design and technology nerd, has been making digital creations since his first computer, a ZX81, in 1982. At The Wonderfactory, his team focusses on helping publishers, content, and product creators like Time Inc., Meredith, Cond Nast, Google and Reuters make award-winning, intelligent, inventive, and intelligible digital experiences.
Jeff Chester is Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit organization that focuses on ensuring that the digital media serve the public interest. A former journalist and filmmaker, his work has appeared in many publications and on PBS. In the 1980's, Jeff created the national media campaign that prompted the creation of the Independent Television Service (ITVS). In 1990, he co-founded the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression and created Ralph Nader's Teledemocracy Project. He co-founded and, until 2000, was the executive director of the Center for Media Education, a leading force on issues such as Internet privacy, media ownership, and children's TV. AT CME he also led the campaign to impose conditions on the merger of AOL and Time Warner. In 1996, Newsweek Magazine named him one of the Internet's fifty most influential people.
essica is one of Text 100s leading agency digital lifestyle experts specializing in the intersection of where entertainment meets technology. In her tenure at Text 100, Jessica has worked with clients such as CNN, MTV, Shazam, IAC, KAYAK, Fujifilm and Communispace
Jonathan Capehart is an editorial writer for The Washington Post, specializing in national politics and environmental issues. Capehart joined the editorial board in 2007. Prior to joining The Post, he was a member of the New York Daily News' editorial board from 1993 to 2000.
Joseph Craig began his career in the marketing department of Paramount Pictures, where he worked for six years until Joseph Farrell, head of National Research Group (a division of Nielsen Entertainment) created a position for him within the market research field.ﾬﾆ At NRG Hollywood, Craig worked for twelve years conducting market research for the major Hollywood studios.
Kevin Clash, whose characters include Elmo, Hoots the Owl and Baby Natasha, is Sesame Street's Senior Puppet Coordinator and Muppet Captain as well as Sesame Workshop's Senior Creative Advisor. He began building puppets at the age of ten and performed on Baltimore's Harbor Front and local television as a teenager. Clash's first television work was for the CBS affiliate in Baltimore. He came to Sesame Street after attracting the attention of Muppet designer Kermit Love. Clash's film credits include Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy film, Labyrinth, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I and II, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets from Space, and Elmo in Grouchland. His television work includes The Great Space Coaster, Captain Kangaroo, Dinosaurs and Muppets Tonight.
As Vice Presidents, Directors of Research, Laurie Camuso and Kristen Santoro oversee the national research initiatives for Infinity Radio Sales. Their responsibilities include developing quantitative and qualitative analyses using Arbitron, Scarborough and Mediamark audience data.ﾬﾆ They also develop generic consumer and radio format profile reports and provide research support for the news business development efforts of Infinity Solutions & Beyond. Camuso has been with Interep for 17 years. She worked as a research analyst for five years before becoming a research director. Santoro started in media research as an analyst at CBS Radio Representatives before joining Interep 12 years ago as a research analyst and then research director.
Lee Child was born in 1954 in Coventry, England, but spent his formative years in the nearby city of Birmingham. By coincidence he won a scholarship to the same high school that JRR Tolkien had attended. He went to law school in Sheffield, England, and after part-time work in the theater he joined Granada Television in Manchester for what turned out to be an eighteen-year career as a presentation director during British TV's "golden age." During his tenure his company made Brideshead Revisited, The Jewel in the Crown, Prime Suspect, and Cracker. But he was fired in 1995 at the age of 40 as a result of corporate restructuring. Always a voracious reader, he decided to see an opportunity where others might have seen a crisis and bought six dollars' worth of paper and pencils and sat down to write a book, Killing Floor, the first in the Jack Reacher series.
Liz Claman joined FOX Business Network (FBN) as an anchor in October 2007. She co-anchors the Fox Business block with David Asman from 2-3pm EST and Fox Business Bulls & Bears from 4-5pm EST. She also hosts Countdown to the Closing Bell which is presented from 3-4pm EST.
Born and raised in New York's Hell's Kitchen, Carcaterra landed his first job in the newspaper business as a copy boy for The New York Daily News in 1976. He worked his way up to entertainment reporter before leaving the paper in 1982. This was followed by an odyssey of writing for several publications including People, Entertainment Tonight Magazine, New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsday Sunday Magazine, and Twilight Zone Magazine.
Maile Carpenter, food editor at Time Out New York, is often told that she has the best job in the city. She agrees every day except Thursdays, when she closes the magazine's Eat Out section'a weekly production that includes news and trend stories on the New York restaurant scene, openings, event listings and 100 reviews. When she isn't eating excessively, she's editing excessively'managing freelancers and editing both the magazine section and TONY's Eating & Drinking Guide, an annual book of more than 2,000 reviews. Carpenter graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism in 1995 and started her career as a newspaper columnist and feature writer in Wilmington, North Carolina, quickly moving to the film-and-TV-writer spot at the Raleigh News & Observer.
Margaret Carlson has forged a career calling it as she sees it, having penned a popular column for Time magazine, 'Public Eye,' for over a decade and commented on the political news of the day for FOX news and MSNBC.
Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at New York University, and a well-known public intellectual. His writings on film, television, propaganda, advertising and the culture industries have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Nation and The New York Times. In 1988, he published his first book, Boxed In: The Culture of TV, followed by Seeing Through Movies, a collection which he edited for Pantheon Books in 1990. He is the author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001) and Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order (2004). Miller is the editor of 'American Icons,' a new book series from Yale University Press, and for that series will be authoring a volume on the Marlboro Man.
MARY CLAY BOLAND has served as the AS THE WORLD TURNS Casting Director for the past three years. During this time she has received two Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Achievement for a Casting Director for a Drama Series and in 2005, Boland won this award. Before ATWT, Boland worked for the New York casting department of Warner Bros. Studio television where she worked on over 45 Pilots including, EVERWOOD, SMALLVILLE, GILMORE GIRLS, and WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU.
Mary Cleaver, President and Founder of The Cleaver Company, began catering 25 years ago, from her Tribeca kitchen, to a few select clients in the arts community. Today, The Cleaver Company is a full-service event-planning and catering operation with a large roster of private, non-profit and corporate clients and a full-time staff of 30. The Cleaver Company, located in Chelsea Market, incorporates a concern and respect for the environment into nearly every aspect of the business and makes every effort possible to avoid waste and to safely recycle. In 2003, The Cleaver Company opened the critically acclaimed The Green Table, A Sustainable Eatery and Wine Bar in Chelsea Market, where guests enjoy dishes that further Mary's commitment to seasonal based cuisine and local sustainable farms.
Matt Costello's best-selling and award-wining work has always strived to mesh game play, technology and story. He is the writer and creator of groundbreaking projects for TV, Online, novels, nonfiction books, PC and console games in both the US and UK.ﾬﾆ His game work includes "The 7th Guest" (over 3 million copies sold), its sequel "The 11th Hour," and "Doom 3."ﾬﾆ For television, he has created and written projects for Disney, PBS, BBC and others. His books include prize-winning mysteries and thrillers.
Matthew Cooper is the editor at large of Talkingpointsmemo.com and a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio where he writes a column on Washington, D.C. The former political editor of Time.com and White House Correspondent for Time magazine, he has also worked for Newsweek, The New Republic and U.S. News & World Report. A graduate of Columbia College at Columbia University, he has written for Slate.com, Men's Journal, Los Angelese magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Washington Monthly where he was an editor in the 1980s.
Nancy Cleeland covers the labor beat for the Los Angeles Times, with a focus on low-wage and immigrant workers. When not following major strikes,such asthe six-month work stoppage by supermarket checkers that ended in February, she is looking for enterprise stories thatshed light onworking class issues. These have included front-page stories on the speed-up of production work,thelocal effect ofoffshoring garment jobs, and the abuse of subcontracting schemes to underpay janitors and other low-wage workers.Before taking the labor job six years ago, Cleeland spent two years covering Latino affairs for the Orange County edition of the Los Angeles Times. During that time, she produced a front-page series showing the links between a neighborhood in Orange County and a village in the Mexican state of Michoacan. Earlier, Cleelandwas the Mexico City correspondent and then national correspondent forthe San Diego Union-Tribune.
As Senior Director, Writer/Publisher Relations, New York, Samantha Cox is responsible for scouting and signing new songwriters and publishers, and maintaining relationships with existing BMI affiliates in the New York City metropolitan area. She also coordinates various songwriter nights, showcases and seminars, as well as develops and implements new programs, like the BMI 'See It Hear First' podcast series, a monthly radio-format show featuring music from up and coming BMI songwriters. Over the last six years, Cox has worked with such artists as Evanescence, 3 Doors Down, Seether, Shinedown, My Chemical Romance, Howie Day, The Bravery, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flyleaf and many others.
Sarah Condon currently has a first look production deal with HBO. Over the past two years, she has had numerous comedy and drama projects in development and most recently was the Executive Producer for two pilots at HBO, 'Bored To Death' and 'The Washingtonienne'. 'Bored to Death', which was written by Jonathan Ames and stars Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Galifinakis, was recently picked up to series and is scheduled to air in the fall of 2009. Prior to her overall deal, Condon was Senior Vice President of Original Programming for HBO. She was responsible for developing and supervising production for the network and was the executive in charge of 'Sex and the City', 'Entourage', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'Extras' and 'Flight of the Conchords'.
Upon arriving in New York from Vancouver, Sophia Chang's first music industry job was working with Paul Simon during his legendary "Graceland" tour, doing tour reconciliation, as well as budgeting and artists relations for his New York Children's Health Project benefit show at Madison Square Garden. She was then hired as director of marketing at Atlantic Records and went on to be one of the first Asian women in hiphop as a director of A&R at Jive Records. In 1992 Sophia left Jive to start an independent marketing company that consulted with Warner Brothers Records. In 1995 she became the General Manager of Razor Sharp Records, the RZA's, joint venture with Epic Records. She subsequently managed ODB then left the business altogether to manage her then partner, Shi Yan Ming, 34th generation Shaolin Monk, and the USA Shaolin Temple. Most recently she has managed the RZA's film career and now runs B-Hive Management, which handles a variety of composers and artists including Raphael Saadiq, Organized Noize, and Pete Rock.
Ted Conover is the author of four books of nonfiction, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, an account of his ten months spent working as a corrections officer at New York's Sing Sing Prison. Newjack won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001 and was finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A summa cum laude graduate of Amherst College (1981) in anthropology, Conover spent two years at Cambridge University as a Marshall Scholar (1982-84). In 2001, he received an honorary doctorate from Amherst and in 2003, a Guggenheim Fellowship. In recent years he has taught at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the University of Oregon.
Tim Cecere is the human resources director of GroupM North America, which supports the media holdings of WPP including MindShare, Mediaedge:cia, Maxus and MediaCom.
Tom Casciato is an award-winning television executive and documentary-film producer, director and writer. His critically acclaimed work has appeared on PBS, ABC, NBC, TBS and Showtime, both as stand-alone specials and on such diverse series as Frontline, National Geographic Explorer, Moyers on America and ABC News' Turning Point. His documentary Global Health: America's Response for the PBS program NOW, was called "devastating" by the New York Daily News, and was nominated for a 2006 Emmy for Best Report in a Newsmagazine. His work has received numerous awards including two Emmys, the duPont-Columbia Gold Baton, the Peabody Award, the Dateline Club's Society of Professional Journalists First Amendment Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award, the Christopher Award, and honorable mention for the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
A health and nutrition editor for more than 15 years, Trisha Calvo joined Shape in 2005 as deputy editor for health and nutrition and became the executive editor in 2006. Prior to Shape, Trisha was the articles editor at Fitness and was executive editor at Rebus, Inc., a book packager/newsletter publishing company that specializes in consumer health and publishes health newsletters with the University of California at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Trisha lives in Norwalk, Connecticut with her husband John.
Zachary Carter is a Partner in the Trial, Regulatory and Technology group, as well as Co-chair of the White Collar Crime and Civil Fraud practice group at Dorsey & Whitney LLP.Mr. Carter practices in the areas of white collar criminal defense, complex civil litigation, representation of government regulated industries, representation of government contractors and securities action litigation. He has substantial prior experience in the areas of First Amendment and products liability litigation. On the recommendation of the New York Comptroller and custodians of other state retirement funds, Mr. Carter was elected to the Board of Directors of Marsh & McLennan Companies. The New York Attorney General appointed Mr. Carter to the Board of Directors of Hale House and he presently serves as the charity's chair. Mr. Carter is a frequent commentator on a wide range of legal issues including Fair Trial Free Press, corporate governance, corporate compliance and internal investigation.
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Aimee is responsible for building and leading the new Activation team of PHD. This team serves as the ideation connective tissue that bridges client strategy, consumer insights and media investment. It is charged with creating activation platforms that live across all channels of media, resulting in a smart, strategic and plan that breaks through the clutter.
Amy Davidson has been at The New Yorker since 1995, and as an editor has concentrated on national security and foreign affairs. She writes the Close Read blog for the magazines website, and has contributed to its pages.
Hailed by Newsweek as 'the most exciting individual in American theater,' playwright and performance artist Anna Deavere Smith uses her singular brand of theater to explore issues of race, community and character in America. She was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation 'genius' Fellowship for creating 'a new form of theater ' a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism and intimate reverie.' Smith is perhaps best known as the author and performer of two one-woman plays about racial tensions in American cities ' Fires in the Mirror (Obie Award-winner and runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize) and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Obie Award-winner and Tony Award nominee). Smith transforms herself onstage into an astonishing number of characters (up to 46 in one show), expressing their own points of view on controversial issues.
Anthony is the Reuters Social Media Editor, integrating the ambient wire that exists on social networks, where news now breaks before anywhere else, into Reuters platforms. As part of his mission, he helps Reuters journalists and editors use social media tools to monitor news, report news, and find leads.
Bill Dyszel, author of 16 books including Microsoft Outlook for Dummies and PalmPilot for Dummies, is also a nationally known expert on e-mail, personal information management, sales automation technology and new media, including blogging, podcasting, and online video/audio solutions. He appears regularly as a guest on national television programs on the CNNfn and the TechTV networks. His dynamic, fun-filled seminars and keynote speeches reveal the secrets to making life simple by using technology well. He also consults with organizations that need to select, develop and implement business solutions on the Palm platform. The goal of Bill's work is to help people get beyond technology and make life better by intelligently using the best high-tech tools. He acts as a resource to people who want to sell more, work less and be more effective with the tools they already have.
Carmen DiRienzo is a seasoned broadcast executive with superior leadership skills, outstanding managerial and consensus building capabilities and an entrepreneurial vision and spirit. As the only female President and CEO of a national Hispanic Network, Carmen has built and launched V-me, guiding the fastest-growing Hispanic TV channel in history into the 4th-largest US Spanish network (reaching 70% of US Hispanic TVHH's), and advocating V-me's unique mission to provide high-quality, intelligent television ' kids, lifestyle, current affairs, entertainment - for Latino families.
Christa Dwyer Ryan is Director of Advertising at The Village Voice, where she runs all the sales teams and marketing efforts for the print and online editions. Christa began at The Village Voice thirteen years ago as assistant in the classified department. She held numerous ad sales-related positions before assuming her current role. Christa graduated with a degree in history from Providence College and spent a year as classified manager for Real Estate Weekly before joining the The Village Voice.
David Denby is one of two film critics at the New Yorker, as well as a staff writer for the magazine. Prior to joining the New Yorker, David worked for twenty years as the film critic of New York magazine. He's written two books, "Great Books," in 1996, which is about going back to Columbia University and re-reading the core curriculum in Western classics, and "American Sucker," which came out earlier this year and is about his misadventures in the stock market.
Donna Dickman is SR,Vice President of Publicity for Focus Features. Ms. Dickman, based in the company's New York City offices, has been with Focus since its inception in May 2002. She oversees day-to-day operation of the New York publicity department. Prior to working at Focus Features, she worked at Miramax Films, Gramercy Pictures, USA Films and MGM/UA.
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Donny Deutsch's 'leaner, meaner, faster, smarter' philosophy helped him build Deutsch Inc. into a .4 billion marketing communications company. Deutsch Inc., the tenth largest U.S. Agency, was the world's largest privately held advertising company before becoming part of Interpublic (IPG) in 2000. Blue-chip clients include Mitsubishi Motors, Revlon, Coors, Snapple, Novartis, DIRECTV and Burger King. Deutsch's fully integrated capabilities (direct marketing, interactive, customer and data strategy, PR and promotions) provide clients with strategic marketing programs that are intrusive, effective and talked about. A catalyzing business figure, Donny is unrelenting in his quest for excellence, and strongly believes that clients should judge their agencies on performance and results.
Emma just moved to New York as a freelance writer after a year in Cambridge, Mass, where her husband had a Nieman fellowship at Harvard. Emma was based in Madrid from 1997 until 2003, covering Spain on contract for the New York Times for two years, and also traveling for the paper to Portugal and Algeria. She started her career at the English-language Tico Times in Costa Rica, covering the Central American peace process, the regional conflicts and the US invasion of Panama, then moved to London to work for the foreign desk of the Independent, the British newspaper. In early 1994 I was dispatched to Sarajevo to cover the violent break-up of Yugoslavia. She had bases in Sarajevo, Zagreb and Belgrade and traveled widely across the region before returning in 1996 to work as a feature writer and "fireman".
Guy Danella is currently the Director of Development at Gold Circle Films, an LA-based production and financing company. Gold Circle specializes in making commercial films at the independent level, with budgets ranging up to 30 million. Gold Circle has distribution deals with Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, New Line Cinema and Lions Gate and is responsible for the horror films WHITE NOISE and James Gunn's SLITHER. Currently, they are in post production on the visceral occult thriller, TOWN CREEK, directed by Joel Schumacher, and the supernatural thriller, THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT, starring Virginia Madsen. Both films are being distributed domestically by Lions Gate.
James Donnelly is senior vice president, crisis management with broad experience in issues/crisis management, crisis training, communications training, corporate public relations, and global corporate communications.
Jean Doumanian has a long and successful career in film, theater and television. Her most recent film is the Sundance Film Festival award-winning All the Real Girls, directed by David Gordon Green and released by Sony Pictures Classics. She has produced films by David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner), Academy Award winner Woody Allen (Bullets Over Broadway, Everyone Says I Love You, Mighty Aphrodite, Deconstructing Harry, Sweet and Lowdown, Celebrity and Small Time Crooks.) Her film Just Looking, directed by Jason Alexander, was distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, and The Ox.
Jeanne DaSilva, an experienced music supervisor and noted expert in Classical Repertoire, has been working professionally in the music industry since 1980 in both the commercial and non-profit sectorsﾬﾆin areas as diverse as performance, education, research, legal, and managerial. Recently completed projects include PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC: ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVEﾬﾆ(PBS), a 20th Anniversary Compilation CDﾬﾆfor NYC's SUMMERSTAGE,ﾬﾆand feature film WHEN WILL I BE LOVED (IFC).ﾬﾆJeanne also works onﾬﾆad campaigns, commercial products, concert productions and projects for arts institutions.ﾬﾆPreviously Jeanneﾬﾆfounded Vault Music Services which promoted independent artists for licensing, and was licensing agent for many record labels and publishers.ﾬﾆPrior, Jeanne served as Director of Licensing for one of Sony's Labels,ﾬﾆresponsible for licensing the catalog on a worldwide basis.
Jill Duffy is editor-in-chief of GameCareerGuide.com, a web site for aspiring video game developers and students. She's also a contributing editor of Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra.com, and helps run the Game Career Seminar conference series. Through GameCareerGuide.com, she advises students about their educational options, career advancement, and networking opportunities in the video game business.
Jody Duncan has authored hundreds of articles on motion picture technology for Cinefex magazine, and has served as that publication's editor since 1992. She is also the author of nine books covering the making of blockbuster films. Her books include The Making of "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace,"The Making of 'Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones,' The Making of "Terminator 2" and The Making of "Jurassic Park," which spent several weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. In 2007, Duncan wrote The Winston Effect: The Art and History of Stan Winston Studio.
John is a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and best-selling novelist who has worked for The New York Times for over 40 years. He began his career as a copy boy in 1966 and first worked as a reporter in New York, including a stint at City Hall during the mid-1970's fiscal crisis. His first foreign assignment was to West Africa, where he was based in Lagos, Nigeria. After 13 months he was thrown in jail and deported for articles unpleasing to the military government. His next assignment was in Nairobi, Kenya, where his coverage included the civil war in Rhodesia, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and the fall of Idi Amin in Uganda. John won the George Polk award for his work there.
John Dickerson is Slate's chief political correspondent. John came to Slate from Time magazine, where he covered Capitol Hill and politics, reporting on the Gingrich Congress, the House impeachment proceedings and Senate trial of President Clinton. During the 2000 presidential election he covered John McCain, co-writing two cover stories on the Arizona Senator, and wrote extensively on Republican candidate George W. Bush throughout the general campaign season. Before covering Capitol Hill for Time, Dickerson wrote about economics, where he provided analysis on entitlements, the budget process and taxes. During the 1996 national election he covered the campaigns of Bob Dole, Lamar Alexander and Steve Forbes.
John Dimling is Chairman of Nielsen Media Research and Chairman, Board of Directors of Net Ratings, Inc. Dimling joined Nielsen Media Research in 1985 to successfully introduce people meter service. He worked his way up from Group Director of Planning & Development to Chairman, and along the way, he led innovations in technology and methodology, won competitive battles with network-financed competitors, and grew revenue 166% and operating income 238% in 8 years. The company went public in 1998 with an initial share price of 13 �_, and was acquired by VNU fourteen months later at 37 . Previously, Dimling served as Executive Director at the Electronic Media Rating Council from 1982-1985, and as Director, Corporate Planning & Analysis at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from 1979-1982, as Vice President- Research, Planning & Development at The Arbitron Co. in 1979, and as Vice President & Director of Research at the National Association of Broadcasters, from 1969-1979.
John Donohue joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1993 as a messenger. He has since advanced to become the editor of the night life listings for the magazine's Goings On About Town section. He is also a cartoonist, and has had four cartoons published in The New Yorker and countless others published in Barron's and elsewhere.
The award-winning Dalzell Productions is the brain child of Karen Dalzell. Consistently one of the most sought after experiential event agencies in the North East, Dalzell brings over 10 years of dedication and trendsetting to the event industry. The sole producer of the Ottawa International Jazz Festival at the age of 23, Karen Dalzell has since turned her natural instinct to produce into an award-winning event production company. After arriving in New York, Karen served as a producer for the esteemed En Garde Arts theater company and President of the Board at the prestigious Brooklyn performance company GAle GAtes et al, which was at the forefront of the successful invigoration of DUMBO as a community.
Ken Davenport is a Sturbridge, Massachusetts native and a graduate of The Bancroft School in Worcester, who recently awarded him with the Young Alumni Achievement Award. After high school, Ken attended Johns Hopkins University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated with honors and was named a 'University Scholar'. Immediately upon graduation, Ken began his career in the commercial theatre industry with management positions on the Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady with Richard Chamberlain and Grease with Rosie O'Donnell. While a member of the staff at The Charlotte Wilcox Company, Ken had the opportunity to work on the Broadway productions of Damn Yankees, On The Waterfront, Buskers, and many others.
Always one to take the long view and keep things in perspective, Laura Desmond's career has been driven by two caveats: take intelligent risks and learn more from failure than from success. This approach has served her well throughout her meteoric media career that began in 1987, during which she has earned seven promotions - including one in 2002 to her current post as chief executive, MediaVest USA.Laurs's impressive track record of success with leading multinationals, including Coca-Cola, Kellogg's and McDonald's, has prepared her well for this role.
Lee Daniels began his career in entertainment as a casting director and manager after a chance meeting with a Hollywood producer, who recognized that Daniels had the business and artistic savvy to succeed. He initially started out as a casting director working on projects such as Under the Cherry Moon and Purple Rain, and continued managing talent that included several Academy Award nominees and winners.
Liron David, luxury special event and wedding planner, may be the best-kept secret in New York society. The owner of Eventique, Liron is a visionary, masterminding cutting-edge and classic happenings for A-list clientele. Meticulous, yet refreshingly charming, Liron's vision transforms events into fantasy worlds of exquisite taste. In short, the man simply loves a great bash.
Michael S. Dunn, Vice President, Hearst Interactive Media directs all of Hearst's enterprise technology initiatives, manages the enterprise Program Management Office, performs venture related technology due diligence and coordinates all strategic technology relationships. He is also the go to person for exposing Hearst's traditional media businesses to emerging media technology trends and capabilities. He is actively involved in Hearst's strategic investment activity, identifying and conducting technical due diligence on new investment opportunities as well as providing ongoing technical support to the companies within the HIM portfolio. He is responsible for technology oversight of all HIM wholly owned properties including UGO, 1Up and Kaboodle. Finally he oversees and coordinates Hearst's sponsorship of the MIT Media LAB and the partnership Hearst has with Northerwestern's Kellogg School of Management, related to technology initiatives.
Rocco DiSpirito was born and raised in Jamaica, Queens. His culinary love affair began at age eleven in his mother, Nicolina's, kitchen. His parents immigrated to NYC from southern Italy in the 1950s and instilled in him a deep appreciation for food. Rocco entered the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY when he was 16 and graduated in 1986. He then studied at Jardin de Cygne in France with Dominique Cecillon and Gray Kunz. In 1990, Rocco earned a B.S. in Business from Boston University, then worked at Adrienne in NY and was Chef de Partie at Aujourd'hiu in Boston. Eventually, he joined Lespinasse's opening team. In 1997, Rocco opened Union Pacific in NYC's Gramercy Park as Chef and Owner.
Tony DiSanto is Executive Vice President, Series Development & Animation, MTV: Music Television, and Head of Programming, MTV2. In this role, DiSanto oversees production and development for long form series and animation for MTV and MTV2. DiSanto has been responsible for some of the most successful programming on MTV including 'Laguna Beach,' 'Run's House,' 'The Andy Milonakis Show,' 'Nick Cannon's Wild N Out,' 'The Hills,' '8th & Ocean,' 'Made,' 'RoomRaiders,' and many more. He is currently working on producing the next round of hit programming including sketch comedy shows 'Human Giant' and 'Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz' as well as a scripted drama, 'Kaya,' and the user-gen series, 'Scarred'. DiSanto also served as Executive Producer and Co-Creator 'Total Request Live' (TRL).
Valarie D'Elia has been packing her bags and jumping on airplanes, ships and trains for as long as she can remember. She comes from a family of travel agents who predate the flight of the Wright Brothers by a year. Her great grandfather started D'Elia Travel, Bridgeport, CT, in 1902 by booking his relatives from Italy to Ellis Island on trans-Atlantic voyages in steerage class.
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Abby Ellin is an award-winning journalist and author of "Teenage Waistland: A Former Fat Kid Weighs in on Living Large, Losing Weight and How Parents Can (and Can't) Help," which was published by Public Affairs in June, 2005. The paperback came out in January. For five years, Abby wrote the "Preludes" column, about young people and money, in the Sunday Money and Business section of the New York Times. She also regularly writes the "Vows" column in the New York Times Sunday Styles section, as well as feature assignments for Thursday Styles. Her work has appeared in a range of publications, including Time, the Village Voice, Marie Claire, More, Self, Glamour, the Boston Phoenix, and Spy (RIP). She's an editor-at-large for Gotham magazine and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. But her greatest claim to fame is naming 'Karamel Sutra' ice cream for Ben and Jerry's.
Katharina Eggman is currently Recently she cast the indie film "The Marconi Brothers" and "The Best Thief in the World", and last season she cast "Law & Order: Trial By Jury'. Previously, Katharina worked with Bonnie Finnegan Casting covering the East Coast for Paramount Television, where she oversaw casting for the CBS series "Queens Supreme". Before that, she worked at Walken/Jaffe Casting for over three years, working on various films including: "The Emperor's Club", "Mothman Prophecies", "Riding in Cars with Boys", "Chelsea Walls", and "Two Family House".
Lisa Fain is a seventh-generation Texan now hanging her hat in New York City. She writes and photographs a food blog called Homesick Texan and is also the assistant managing editor of Advertising Age.
Mark Egan is New York and Northeastern U.S. Bureau Chief for Reuters. He has worked as a business reporter in New York, covered entertainment in Los Angeles and worked as a Washington DC-based correspondent. He has covered the Clinton and Bush White Houses, the 2001 economic meltdown of Argentina and the economic impact of the Sept. 11 attacks as well as the Gore, Kerry and Obama presidential campaigns.
Mark is currently the President of The Eichner Entertainment Company. As a seasoned record & entertainment executive, Mark's mission is to continue the development of a genuine nurturing & creative environment. EEC represents artists, songwriters, producers, actors, and directors. The EEC culture focuses on both new and established talent, to build strong relationships with strategic partners, to create catalog for both label and publishing partners, and unique & captivating content for tv/film partners. EEC is a creative haven that understands the challenges of the entertainment world's constant evolving environment, yet maintains its core belief in artist development, embracing the best of both old school and new school philosophies.
Matt Edelman is an established entertainment and new media executive and producer who has demonstrated a unique blend of creative and business skills, consistently creating shareholder value by identifying and structuring key strategic partnerships, managing operational teams, developing content and implementing product marketing and distribution strategies across all media platforms. His production experience includes overseeing live-action and animated programming in film, television, broadband and mobile, as well as interactive products on the Internet and for wireless devices.
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues. She is based in New York. She is a columnist for Canada's Toronto Star, Israel's The Jerusalem Report and Denmark's Politiken. Her opinion pieces have been published frequently in The Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune and she has appeared as a guest analyst in several media outlets.
Harold Evans is the author of two critically acclaimed best-selling histories of America: The American Century and They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. This book was the basis for a four-part documentary of the same title on PBS, which he wrote. It is also being adapted into a college curriculum. His latest book is My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times, a memoir coveringhis early life, his years in Britain's newspaper business and his move to America. He is editor at large of The Week magazine, and moderates The Week's panel discussions with political and economic leaders.
Stephen Engelberg came to ProPublica from The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon, where he had been a managing editor since 2002. Before joining The Oregonian, Mr. Engelberg worked for The New York Times for 18 years, including stints in Washington, DC and Warsaw, Poland as well as in New York.
Stuart Elliott has been the Advertising Columnist of The New York Times since May, 1991, writing the weekday advertising report as well as other news articles and features. He also writes a weekly e-mail newsletter, In Advertising, for The Times Digital Company. Elliott has covered advertising, marketing and media topics for two decades; in addition to The Times, he has written on those subjects for USA Today, Advertising Age, The Detroit Free Press and The Times-Union in Rochester, New York. Elliott has freelanced for many publications, including Texas Monthly and Working Woman; speaks around the country; moderates panels, and has appeared on television programs like Nightline, Biography, The News with Brian Williams on MSNBC and specials on networks including The History Channel, Showtime and VH1.
Stuart Emmrich has been editor of the Travel section of The New York Times since October, 2004. Prior to that, he was editor of the Escapes section, which was launched in April 2002. Before coming to the Times, Stuart worked for such publications as Time Europe, SmartMoney, Manhattan, Inc. and the American Lawyer, as well as the New York Daily News and the Atlanta Constitution.
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Abderrahim Foukara was born and raised in Morocco where he received a B.A. in English. Later in the U.K., he completed a Ph.D. on apartheid literature. In 1990, he joined the BBC World Service where he worked in different departments including Arabic, African, French and English. In 1998, he joined BBC World Service Training as a Senior Instructor, designing and teaching journalism courses. In 1999, he moved to Boston to work as a producer and reporter for The World, a co-production of the BBC, Public Radio International and WGBH Boston. In 2001, he continued to report for the BBC while also serving as visiting senior editor on AllAfrica, the largest provider of African news, from Washington D.C. In 2002, he joined Al-Jazeera TV as a correspondent. He is currently based at the United Nations in New York.
Alberto Ferrer is Managing Partner, Director of Direct + Digital Marketing at The Vidal Partnership. Initially brought in to develop direct and digital marketing at the agency, he also created the Linguistic Services, Traffic Services, and Information Technology departments. In addition, Alberto overhauled the Studio and the Print Production department. He now oversees each of these departments at TVP. Alberto also is deeply involved in corporate strategy and development, leading projects that impact the agency overall.
Ashley Fox has been with Interscope for 6 years. Her responsibilities at Interscope include overseeing all aspects of urban music marketing. Before joining Interscope, Fox worked at MCA records, where she was Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations for Urban Music, and at Columbia Records (Northeast Radio Regional) where she was promoted to product manager and later to director of product management. Fox graduated from Hampton University and received a degree in Marine Biology.
Bonnie Fuller has been EVP and chief editorial director of American Media, Inc. since 2003, where she is charged with overseeing AMI's 16 weekly, bi-weekly and monthly magazines, in addition to monthly specials. Some of the AMI titles she oversees include: the new Star magazine, Shape, Men's Fitness, Natural Health and Fit Pregnancy. She also is in charge of the new AMI Latino Magazine Group, which includes Men's Fitness En Espa_�ol. Prior to AMI, Fuller was the editor in chief of Us Weekly where she restructured, redesigned, and repackaged the then Us magazine. Under Fuller's charge, she increased newsstand sales over 100%. For her achievements, Ms. Fuller was named Advertising Age's Editor of the Year.
As Vice President, Writer Publisher Relations, Charlie Feldman directs all writer/publisher relations activities in BMI's New York office. Feldman began his career in music publishing in 1974 when he joined EMI Music Publishing Nashville and remained until 1988. He has worked closely with such songwriters as The Neville Brothers, Tony Joe White, R. Kelly, Mika, Rihanna and Brian and Eddie Holland to name a few.
Chet Fenster is managing partner and director of content creation for MEC Entertainment. He has done work both as a director and a producer. Prior to joining MEC, Fenster was head of program development for music network FUSE. He has also worked with ESPN, where he helped launch the network's first original movie, A Season on the Brink. As founder and president of Kinetic Productions, Fenster also worked on key productions for Fox, Disney, CBS and Universal. Fenster earned a degree in English from Duke University and a Masters in Communication from USC's legendary Annenberg School. He directed and produced the films, Crossroads of the Atlantic and the critically acclaimed documentary, Convention '92. He has also done work on the controversial, football film, The Program. He is currently producing the feature Prom Queen.
Christopher John Farley was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in Brockport, New York. He is a 1988 graduate of Harvard University and a former editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He is currently a senior editor at TIME magazine where he is in charge of news; he also does a weekly music report on CNN Headline News entitled "Chris Farley's Jukebox". As the chief music critic for TIME in the 90s, he interviewed many of the greatest pop artists in history, including Bob Dylan, Prince, Paul McCartney, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Whitney Houston, Joni Mitchell, U2, OutKast, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteeen, Lauryn Hill, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Radiohead, and Dr. Dre. He is the author of several books including "My Favorite War," a satirical novel about the Persian Gulf War; "Introducing Halle Berry," a biography of the Oscar-winning actress; and "Aaliyah: More Than a Woman," a biography of the late pop star that was a national bestseller.
Deborah Forte is President of Scholastic Entertainment Inc. (SEI), and Executive Vice President of Scholastic Inc. The Scholastic Entertainment division comprises Scholastic Productions, Scholastic Consumer Products, and Scholastic Brand Management, and represents the Company's worldwide media, feature film, television and consumer products businesses. Forte also oversees interactive media, which includes software, software clubs and Weston Woods Studios. She is leading Scholastic's efforts in the broadband arena, is chairperson of the corporation's branding initiative, and is responsible for managing Scholastic Entertainment and serves as SEI's lead creative and business executive. She became head of Scholastic Entertainment in 1995.
Donna Friedman Meir, formerly President, is currently Chief of Creative and Strategy for National Geographic Kids Entertainment (NGKE), where she helps lead the effort to make original kids' entertainment informed by the underlying mission of National Geographic and its commitment to the exploration and examination of our world. The division's mandate is simple: To excite kids to explore their world.
Jami Floyd is a nationally renowned anchor for cable and network news. After a successful career in law and politics, Ms. Floyds professional path turned to television when she was asked to serve as a legal analyst for KPIX-TV in San Francisco. She subsequently became an anchor and correspondent for ABC News, and co-anchored World News Now and the Early Morning News. Ms. Floyd was named Law & Justice Correspondent for ABC News in 1999 and served in the post until 2001. She was the youngest person ever to serve in the position. In 2005, she left ABC News for Court TV, and until 2010 hosted Jami Floyd: Best Defense a news, political and legal talk show that was broadcast live each day.
Jamie Fellner, Esq. is the director of the U.S. Program of Human Rights Watch (HRW). The program promotes increased respect for international human rights in the U.S. by documenting and advocating against human rights abuses by U.S. federal, state and local officials, particularly abuses in the criminal justice system, prisons and jails, the treatment of immigrants and of racial, national origin, ethnic and sexual orientation minorities, and law enforcement. Since September 11, 2001, the program has also sought to ensure that human rights are not sacrificed in the country's counter-terrorism efforts. HRW has played a prominent role challenging restrictions on the rights of immigrants, including the arbitrary and secret detention of non-U.S. citizens suspected of links to terrorism, the designation of U.S. citizens as "enemy combatants," the United States' failure to apply the Geneva Conventions to combatants held at Guantanamo, and the proposed use of military commissions to try terrorists. Before becoming director in 2001, Fellner was associate counsel at HRW and wrote extensively about U.S.
Jim Farber has been theﾬﾆDaily News chief pop music critic for more than a decade. Along with writing regular trend pieces, profiles, reviews, and breaking news stories for the paper, Jim pens two regular columns each week: One, which appears Tuesdays, covers who's breaking on the charts -- and who's bombing on them -- called "Bullets & Bombs." On Sundays, Jim offers an in depth review of the biggest album of the week. Jim has written about pop music since high school. His first piece forﾬﾆRolling Stone appeared when he was 16. If you saw the movie "Almost Famous," you know the story. Over the years, he has written for hundreds of publications in the U.S. and abroad and has contributed essays and chapters to more than dozen books. His essay in last year's "Rolling Stone: The '70s" won a Deems Taylor Award, the most prestigious prize in music criticism.
Jody Fisher is the Manager of Media Relations at KeySpan Corporation, the largest distributor of natural gas in the northeast United States and the generator of most of Long Island's electricity. Fisher serves as the chief spokesman for the company for its New York service territory, which stretches from Staten Island to Montauk, and creates and directs the company's free media strategy, building and maintaining relationships with reporters, editors and financial analysts from across the region and around the world.
Prior to IconNicholson, John was the Senior Director, Podcasting at Audible, Inc. John's experience as a marketer has focused on developing new media businesses for companies like Advance Internet, NJ.com, NetCreations (now ReturnPath), MarketSource (now Youth360), and MaMaMedia.
Early on in her career, Lydia worked as a videographer and technical consultant for a variety of non-profit organizations, including the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work related to issues of sustainability, science and culture, alternative medicine and women's rights. Her experience with documenting social issues, fundraising and media training, taught her about strategic uses of media, and how various theories of change inform how NGO's approach and evaluate media projects.
Maggie Farley covers the United Nations and Canada. After joining the Los Angeles Times in 1995, she opened the paper's Hong Kong and Shanghai bureaus, reporting on Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China and the Asian economic crisis. She moved to New York in 1999 to cover the United Nations and Canada, and reported on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and their aftermath. She won the UN Correspondents' Association Gold Medal for her part in following the UN inspectors' search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Farley studied East Asian Studies at Brown University and received her graduate degree at Harvard University.
Since joining Hornet, Inc., in 2001, Michael Feder has transformed the Manhattan production house into a diversified mixed media company that delivers top-rate commercials, music videos, websites, TV shows, shorts and, last but not least, toy merchandise.
Nick Fortugno is a game designer and entrepreneur of digital and real-world games based in New York City, and a founder of Playmatics, a NYC game development company.
Pamela Falk is CBS News U.N. Resident Correspondent and Foreign Affairs Analyst, based at U.N. Headquarters in New York City. She reports on air for CBS TV & Radio and writes for CBSnews.com.
Peter Filardi is the screenwriter behind Flatliners, which he also executive produced;The Craft; and Ricky 6, his directorial debut. For television, he wrote TNT's Salem'sLotandan episode of Nightmares and Dreamscapes. He has also adapted Whitley Streiber's Wolfen, Stephen King's It and Clive Baker's ColdHeartCanyon, among others.
Scott Feinstein joined 42 West's Movie Marketing division as an account executive in November 2005. He works with a number of film studios, production companies, and filmmakers to create and execute their publicity and marketing strategies. In addition, he handles films at major film festivals; Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca, Cannes, SXSW, and Venice. His clients at 42West have included Miramax, Fox Searchlight, Disney, Paramount, IFC, Columbia Pictures, Universal, and filmmakers Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, Sofia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Jonathan Demme, and Todd Phillips.
Sean Flax, Associate Producerof NY1s One on 1 with Budd Mishkin has been wrangling guests for the show since June 2011.
Sonali Fry is the Editorial Director of Little Simon, the novelty imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division. She works with many talented authors and illustrators to create innovative books for young readers. Fry worked on the development of Little Green Books, a series that Simon & Schuster launched in Fall 2008. The books in this line are made with recycled materials and dedicated to educating children on the merits of 'green' living. Fry started at Simon & Schuster in 2002 at Simon Spotlight, the children's licensed properties division, and moved into her current position in Little Simon in 2005. Her previous editorial experience includes time at both Penguin and Scholastic.
With deep experience in media strategy and management, Steve has consistently applied himself to the matters at hand to find a meaningful solution that can make a difference for his client's brands. Well before it became the industry buzz-word, Steve's out-of-the-box approach to issues of strategic importance established him as the ultimate problem-solver.
Susan Farewell is the editor-in-chief of Farewell Travels.com, an online boutique travel magazine that uses animated films and cinematic-quality videos to showcase travel destinations, experiences and products. A former travel editor and staff writer at The Cond_� Nast Publications in New York City, Susan is a widely know digital, print and broadcast travel journalist. Her work has appeared in numerous publications (and sibling websites) including Cond_� Nast Traveler, Vogue, Gourmet, Cooking Light, Travel and Leisure, Outside, Metropolitan Home, McCall's, Child and Bride's. She also writes for newspapers such as The New York Times and The New York Post, newsletters (BottomLine Personal) and numerous in-flight and regional magazines as well as various websites.
Tom Fontana has written and produced such ground breaking television series as St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life On The Street, and Oz, for which he has received, among others, three Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, three Writers' Guild Awards, four Television Critics Association Awards, the Cable Ace Award, the Humanitas Prize and the first prize at the Cinema Tout Ecran Festival in France.
Tony Fox is executive vice president, corporate communications, MTV Networks Entertainment Group. He is based at the company's New York City headquarters and reports to Doug Herzog, president of MTV Networks Entertainment Group.
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Andrew Goldman is Vice President, Program Planning and Scheduling, HBO/Cinemax, for Home Box Office, responsible for the strategic planning, acquisition and scheduling of programs for Cinemax's eight multiplex channels. In addition, he oversees the development and management of new ventures, such as SVOD and Hi-Def, and supervises HBO/Cinemax's film library analysis and inventory management. He was named to this position in April 2003. Goldman joined HBO in 1986, first as a kit coordinator and then senior guide coordinator, responsible for planning and supervising the design and production of the HBO cable guide.
Andrew Gordon is Director of the Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA) and Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida. He is co-author, with Hern_ﾰn Vera, of Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). He has written on contemporary American novelists such as Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, on the films of Steven Spielberg and of George Lucas, and on other science-fiction and fantasy films. He helps organize the annual International Conference on Literature and Psychology, and serves on the editorial board of numerous publications, including the e-journal Psyart.
Brian Garrity is a Senior Business Writer at Billboard magazine. Prior to this, he worked as a Staff Writer at Investment Dealers' Digest, a Senior Editor at IDD Newsletters and a reporter at the Springfield Union-News. Garrity is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism (M.S.) and Fordham University (B.A.).
Since 1995, Brooke Gladstone has worked what still is a rare beat in broadcast journalism: she reports on the media. As National Public Radio's first media correspondent, she's examined the coverage of race, science, and politics, and reported on the battle between Hollywood and the many guardians of American culture, media mergers, advertising trends, and journalism's evolving ethics. She has often been a guest host and contributor to On The Media, and now joins as co-host and managing editor of the revamped On The Media. Brooke Gladstone started her journalism career as a reporter for Current, the newspaper of public broadcasting, before moving to Cablevision and Host & Managing Editor.
Charles Gasparino appears as a daily member of CNBC's ensemble. Gasparino, in his role as on-air Editor, provides reports based on his reporting throughout the day and has broken some of the biggest stories affecting the financial markets in recent months. He is also a columnist for Trader Monthly Magazine, and a freelance writer for New York Magazine, Forbes and other publications.
David Gelber is Executive Producer of the Ed Bradley unit, which produces several 60 MINUTES stories a year and one documentary a year for 60 MINUTES II. Each documentary he has produced has received a major national journalism award. His most recent documentary, 'The Church on Trial', an investigation of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, received an Emmy award last September from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. A documentary two years ago about AIDS in Africa, entitled 'Death by Denial', won a Peabody Award, the television equivalent of a Pulitzer Prize. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Gelber began his journalistic career as a writer for the Village Voice. In the 1970's, he served as News Director of WBAI-FM and was Editor-in-Chief of Boston's leading weekly newspaper, The Real Paper.
As the president of David Grubin Productions Inc., Mr. Grubin has produced over 100 films on subjects ranging from history to art, from poetry to science, including a series of biographies on American presidents for PBS' American Experience: LBJ, FDR, Truman, TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt; and Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided.
Elysa Gardner has covered pop music and theater as a critic and reporter for USA Today since 2000. Prior to that, she was a New York stringer for the Los Angeles Times, Night Life columnist for The New Yorker and a regular contributor to Rolling Stone. She has also written for Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Vibe, The New York Times, Harper's Bazaar and other publications. She lives in New York City.
Gary L. Ginsberg is the Executive Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications at News Corporation. Ginsberg is responsible for coordinating and executing the Company's investor relations program, in addition to overseeing the Company's corporate affairs and strategic communications efforts. Ginsberg joined News Corporation in January 1999, as Executive Vice President of Corporate Communications and Affairs. In June 2000, he was appointed to News Corporation's Executive Management Committee. Before joining News Corp., Ginsberg was a managing director at the New-York based strategic consulting firm of Clark & Weinstock.
Gina Gionfriddo is a playwright and television writer, currently a staff writer at NBC's Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Most recently, she is the author of the play, After Ashley, produced Off-Broadway last year by The Vineyard Theatre and regionally in Denver, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Louisville.'� She has received an Obie Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. She is a graduate of Brown University's MFA Playwriting Program and has taught at Brown University and Providence College.
Harry Gregson-Williams is one of Hollywood's most sought after composers, who has worked on a variety of high-profile projects, all infused with his unique musical talent. He received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Score, a Grammy nomination for Best Score Soundtrack Album, and an Ivor Novella nomination for his music to Andrew Adamson's epic fantasy The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, based on the classic C.S. Lewis novel.
Although she was born in South Africa, Jean Grae (real name Tsidi Ibrahim) will always be a New Yorker by heart. The daughter of two jazz musicians, Jean learned an appreciation for all genres of music at an early age. She attended the High School of Performing Arts as a vocal major and was later accepted to NYU as a Music Business major. Disenchanted by the classroom setting, Jean decided early on that she was more of a hands-on learner. During high school she learned to read and arrange music as well as learn classical and choral arrangements, giving her such the solid foundation to become one of the most talented and exciting Hip-Hop writers and producers around.
Jeffrey Goldberg is a staff writer and Middle East correspondent for the New Yorker Magazine. Before joining the New Yorker, Goldberg was for several years a reporter for the New York Times Magazine. He is the 2003 winner of the National Magazine Award for reporting, for his coverage of terrorism. He is also the winner ofﾬﾆthe Overseas Press Club Award for human rights reporting, and of the Outstanding International Investigative Reporting Award from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Goldberg began his career at the Washington Post. He is a former contributing editor at New York Magazine, for which he covered the Mafia.
JOHN GALLAGHER (DIRECTOR-PRODUCER) is a New York City based filmmaker, a fixture on the New York scene for nearly 30 years as a director, writer, producer, author, historian and educator, with a wide range of international filmmaking resources and relationships, and a highly regarded, encyclopedic knowledge of films and filmmaking. His track record is especially strong in discovering and mentoring new talent, both in front of and behind the camera.
Karl Gude is the graphics director at Newsweek magazine where he has been for nine years. He has spent 25 years creating information graphics for various news organizations includingﾬﾆAP, UPI, the National Sports Daily and the New York Daily News. Karl also teaches. He has run training workshops around the world showing students and professionals how to visualize information.
After Howard University, Ken Gilbert started his career in marketing communications at U.S. News & World Report where he supervised sales services in their support of the magazine's advertising department. After discovering his passion for advertising, Ken moved to NY and joined Grey Advertising in 1976, where he worked on the Timex watch account. From Grey to his last assignment as a senior advertising professional at Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer, Ken has worked on various accounts including package goods (Scope Mouthwash, Coca-Cola Foods), media (WCBS News, USA Networks), beverages (A&W Brands, Courvoisier, Drambuie, Colt 45), telecommunications (AT&T), automobiles (Rolls-Royce/Bentley and Ford-Lincoln) and numerous others.
Leslie Gottlieb, Director of Communications and Marketing for the American Red Cross in Greater New York, is a seasoned PR professional in the non profit arena. She has conducted numerous national strategic communications campaigns for such organizations as: The Ford Foundation, the Jewish Museum and Public Agenda. She also has considerable experience in political and public affairs having worked as a Legislative Assistant in the U. S. House and Senate in Washington, D.C.
Formerly SVP & Publisher of William Morrow, Lisa Gallagher is known throughout the publishing industry as an indefatigable author advocate who has helped nurture the careers of countless writers.
Currently responsible for the day-to-day operations of the company, Ms. Gersh was the principal engineer of Oxygen's foundation partnerships including Carsey-Werner-Mandabach and Harpo Productions as well as all of the company's financing and major MSO agreements.
Liz Gateley currently serves as the Head of Series Development for MTV. In what Liz describes as her 'dream job,' she is responsible for leading the development of ground-breaking new weekly and daily series for the channel including both scripted and reality projects.
Lynn Gaudios experience spans over 25 remarkable years in contingency recruiting and Human Resources.
Lynn Goldberg is the founder and CEO of Goldberg McDuffie Communications, Inc., a public relations firm dedicated to promoting books and authors.
From the time she was old enough to ride her bike the few blocks from home into Scarsdale village in suburban New York, Marie Griffin would pedal home with the latest issue of Seventeen securely placed in the bike's basket. Years later, she would receive an academic scholarship to attend LIM College where, just weeks into her first semester, she landed a coveted internship with Seventeen. Shortly thereafter, Seventeen offered her a full-time position. Marie was just 19 years old.
Marisa Guthrie has been writing about television for over a decade. For eight years, she was at the Boston Herald ' reporting on the television industry and reviewing everything from esoteric PBS documentaries to network dramas and comedies. For the past year and a half, Guthrie has been the television reporter at the New York Daily News, where her byline appears every day and she is one of the paper's most prolific journalists. She has interviewed nearly everyone major and minor in television and spends part of each year reporting from Hollywood. Guthrie is also a certified yoga teacher and writes on yoga for Yoga Journal and similar publications.
Mark Ghuneim, who has spent 30 years innovating for some of the worlds best-known media brands, is often cited as a new media visionary because of his expertise in technology, social engagement and behavioral trending.
MaryAnne Golon began her career at Time in 1983 and is now the magazine's picture editor. She rejoined the publication in August 1999 after a three-year stint as director of photography at U.S. News & World Report in Washington, DC. She co-manages the photography department of the international news weekly with Director of Photography Michele Stephenson. Among her professional contributions to Time, Golon led the photographic team that produced the September 11, 2001 special black-bordered edition that won a National Magazine Award for single issue topic in 2002.
Meryl Gordon, the author of "Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt December 2008) is the director of magazine writing at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. A native of Rochester, New York and a graduate of the University of Michigan, she has written political profiles and features for New York Magazine, Elle,More, Marie-Claire and the New York Times. Based in Manhattan, she is married to the political journalist Walter Shapiro.
Michele Ganeless is executive vice president and general manager of COMEDY CENTRAL. She is based in New York and reports directly to the network's president Doug Herzog. Ganeless rejoined the comedy network in the autumn of 2004 from her previous position of executive vice president and general manager of the USA Network where she worked closely with Herzog, then president and CEO.
Neal Gabler is an author, television commentator and teacher who has been called 'one of America's most important public intellectuals.' His first book, An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the Theatre Library Association Award. His second book, Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity, was named the nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His third book, Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality, has been assigned on college campuses across the country.
Nelson George is an author, filmmaker, television producer and cultural critic. Queen Latifah won a Golden Globe for playing the lead in his directorial debut, the HBO movie Life Support, The critically acclaimed drama that explored the effects of HIV/AIDS on a troubled black family in his native Brooklyn.
Owen Gleiberman has been a movie critic for Entertainment Weekly since the magazine's launch in February 1990. As a critic for EW, Gleiberman has appeared on numerous local and national television programs including The Charlie Rose Show, The O'Reilly Factor, and MTV's Week in Rock. He also appears regularly on New York 1.
Pat Golden has worked as casting director, director and producer in film, television and theater. As a casting director, Golden's credits include The Killing Fields, Platoon, Blue Velvet, East Meets West, New Jack City and The Handmaid's Tale. For TV, Golden has cast for shows ranging from Saturday Night Live to American Playhouse. Golden produced and directed House Party II, A Documentary and The Making of HPII. She line produced three episodes of the children's show Field Trip and associate produced House Party II with Whoopi Goldberg, Hallelujah with James Earl Jones, and PBS' American Masters special on the NEC.
Richard Glosser joined Cond_ﾩNet in December 2005 and is responsible for developing the company's video, mobile, podcast, and other new media initiatives. For almost 20 years, Mr. Glosser has been identifying and building new business opportunities and brands in traditional and digital media. He has worked across all facets of production and distribution of film, television, cable, broadband, and emerging platforms. Prior to Cond_�Net, Glosser had senior leadership roles at CSTV, Bolt, and NBC.
Robbie Gordon has been a producer for ABC News' Prime Time and 20/20 since 1989. She has been a journalist for 33 years. Gordon has won more than 80 awards for her work -- among them, the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. Other awards include: Investigative Reporters and Editors awards (including Best of the Best), Sigma Delta Chi and National Headliners (Overall Winners), numerous Emmys, National Press Club and other awards.
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess are Executive Producers for the groundbreaking HBO series, "The Sopranos" and have been with the show since its first season. Before that, the team won an Emmy and two Golden Globes for their work on "Northern Exposure," wrote and produced for such series as "A Year in the Life," and "Almost Grown" (also created by David Chase), and other TV shows, as well as writing the Showtime movie "Critical Choices."
Sherry Goldman is president of Goldman Communications Group, Inc., a public relations/marketing communications agency offering strategic counsel and customized public relations and communications programs to businesses and organizations. A communications veteran with more than 25 years in public relations, publishing and broadcast media, Sherry founded Goldman Communications Group in 1996 after holding senior management positions at some of the industry's leading public relations agencies. She has extensive experience in counseling clients, developing and implementing brand and corporate/business communications programs, supporting existing products and services, handling new product or service launches, media relations campaigns, and addressing client-related issues.
Editing is Sonia's passion. Sonia has been an editor for over ten years. She learned her craft as an assistant editor for such esteemed directors as Spike Lee, Milos Forman, Alan J. Pakula, Ted Demme and Robert Redford. As an editor, Sonia has cut numerous shorts, the independent features DESTINATION UNKNOWN, EL CIRCULO VICIOSO and AFRODITE SUPERSTAR and NUYORICANS, a documentary for PBS that was aired in August 2003. Sonia was also co-editor on the feature documentary, ANTONIA PANTOJA: PRESENTE! about the life and work of Puerto Rican educator Antonia Pantoja. Sonia has also edited numerous DVD special features, among them: LADY SINGS THE BLUES, FOUR BROTHERS, THE GHOST WHISPERER (Season One), THE FACTS OF LIFE (Season One & Two).
Stella Grizont has supported thousands of women in making their dreams come true. She is the Managing Director of Ladies Who Launch in New York City and New Jersey, along with her partner, Karla Lightfoot. Previously Stella worked with the Ladies Who Launch Corporation as the Vice President of Marketing where she helped catapult the brands presence from 35 markets to 54 markets in the US & Canada. Stella co-authored and designed the new Incubator Intensive workshop, taught internationally to women launchers. During her role as VP, Grizont managed and trained a global staff of 75 Incubator Leaders.
Stephanie Gibbons is responsible for the development and oversight of all of SHOWTIME's consumer and trade advertising, and promotional campaigns. Gibbons spearheaded campaigns for numerous Showtime originals including the hit series The L Word, Queer As Folk and Soul Food. While at Showtime, Gibbons has held various positions including Vice President, Advertising and Creative Director for Red Group, Showtime Networks' in-house advertising agency.
Steve Gordon is an entertainment attorney and consultant based in New York City specializing in the production, distribution and financing of music, television, documentaries, feature films, and digital entertainment projects. Steve also operates a music clearance service for producers, filmmakers and labels who use music in films, concert programs, documentaries and compilations.
Thomas Gewecke is Senior Vice President, Business Development, for Sony Music Digital Services, a division of Sony Music Entertainment (SME), and heads up Sony Music Mobile, a group responsible for Sony Music's wireless music efforts. Prior to joining SME in 1999, Gewecke served as Publisher of the International Data Group (IDG)'s PC World Online Network, then the company's largest internet offering. During his tenure at PC World, Gewecke oversaw the launch and successful growth of multiple online properties. He joined the company in 1991. In 1995, Gewecke co-created a course for the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism entitled "Journalism and the New Media," and served as an instructor in that course until 1998.
Tim Gorski is Director and Producer for Rattle the Cage Productions, a Florida 501c3 non-profit focusing on animal advocacy films and public service announcements (PSAs). He wrote, directed and produced several award winning animal advocacy films. Gorski is also an animal rescue specialist and undercover investigator of wildlife crimes. He has worked in the US, Australia, Antarctica, Burma, and Thailand. Gorski also co-coordinated the campaign that shot down the Miami Seaquarium on several occasions, and cost them 44 million dollars in structural, electrical and safety repairs. He gives lectures and workshops on animals in entertainment, and guerilla filmmaking for animal activists.
Tim Gunn is Chief Creative Officer at Liz Claiborne Inc. In this newly created role, he is responsible for attracting, retaining and developing the creative talent within the Liz Claiborne Inc. portfolio of brands.
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A.C. Thompson has been a reporter for 12 years, mostly in the San Francisco Bay area. In 2006-2007, he was an investigative reporter for SF Weekly. For eight years before that he worked in a similar role for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. His work has also appeared in a number of national magazines. His work received the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2005. Thompson is co-author of the book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights.
Andrew Heyward is a nationally recognized expert on journalism and the changing media landscape. He is a senior advisor to Marketspace LLC, a subsidiary of Monitor Group that specializes in helping companies transform their businesses by using digital media to drive growth and revenue.
Fashion and Music Collide Throughout his entire life, Andy Hilfiger has been surrounded by fashion and music. Following in the footsteps of his older brothers, Andy immersed himself in these worlds and made a career of fusing the two. His first job was at 12 years old when he began selling jeans for his brother, Tommy. Not long after, Andy moved from upstate New York to Manhattan to pursue music. He spent a decade playing the New York rock scene with legendary acts, including The Ramones, before rejoining his brother at Tommy Hilfiger, USA.
Ariel Hyatt is a thought leader in the digital PR world: the founder of a successful PR firm; international speaker & educator and the author of two books on social media and marketing for artists. Ariels Cyber PR process marks the intersection of social media with engaged behavior, PR, and online Marketing.
A widely respected programming and entertainment executive with more than two decades in the media industry, Bill leads MAGNA's entertainment division, creating custom branded programming opportunities for clients' specific marketing needs, and developing programming independently for the common interest of multiple clients. He also oversees international sales and develops new opportunities in the emerging media and digital arena.
In her current position, Camille Hackney is responsible for cultivating strategic partnerships for Elektra's diverse roster of artists and seeking opportunities to marry musical talent with prominent brands to create impactful promotions and campaigns. (Elektra's artists include Metallica, Missy Elliott, Staind, Third Eye Blind, Bjork and Tweet). Her new media duties include overseeing the Elektra web site (www.elektra.com) and devising and executing online marketing and promotional campaigns as well as forming strategic relationships with major online marketers. Hackney also oversees the production of disc-based multimedia projects including enhanced CD projects.
Christopher Hedges, a veteran war correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He is the author of What Every Person Should Know About War, a stark look at the effects of war on combatants, and War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning.
Cody Harrington is a digital effects artist with an extensive background in film production, visual effects, broadcast television, theater, music, and interactive multimedia.
Born and raised in the Boston area, Dana Hall attended Emerson College in the late '80s, and after graduating, joined heritage R&B WILD in 1987.
Diana B. Henriques joined The New York Times in October 1989 as a financial reporter. Before that, from July 1986, she was a writer for Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly, a Dow Jones publication. Since joining The Times, she has specialized in reporting on financial fraud, white-collar crime and corporate governance issues.
Erik Hastings is doing what he was born to do: Travel, meet and interact with people in places all over the world, and get behind the biggest microphone he can find (WABC Radio-NY). Erik's company, Scripted Improv Media, produces 'Travel Show Live' for WABC Radio's tri-state listening audience. The Sunday afternoon show is heard by more than a quarter of a million people in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. WABC is the most streamed AM radio station in the world.
Hendrik Hertzberg is a senior editor and staff writer at The New Yorker, where he frequently writes the opening Comment in The Talk of the Town. Hertzberg originally joined The New Yorker in 1969, after serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He left after the 1976 Presidential election to serve as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter from 1979 until 1981.
Emmy award winning anchor/correspondent Jane Hanson has been with WNBC since September 1979. She is the station's primary anchor for its numerous local programming efforts and is responsible for the creation and implementation of an ongoing series of high profile reports for WNBC's various newscasts. She assumed her current anchor role in 2003 after serving as the co-anchor of Today in New York since the show's inception in 1988.
Hill started his career in PR in 1987 at Clein + Feldman and remained at that company as an assistant, publicist and eventually the VP in charge of the NYC office for 14 years. He formed Falco Ink with partners Janice Roland and Shannon Treusch in the late 90's, leaving the firm three years later to start IHOP in 2001. He is a graduate of Kent State University, with a BA in Music.
Jeremy Hillman is currently the BBC's Bureau Chief in New York. He has worked in foreign news at the BBC for the last eight years having previously been based in Hong Kong, Singapore, Brussels and Washington DC. Before that Jeremy was involved in the launch and production of two new networks at the BBC: Radio Five Live, the BBC's highly successful news and sport radio network in the UK and BBC News24, the BBC's domestic 24 hour news network.
John Heilemann writes 'The Power Grid' column for New York magazine, as well as longer features. An award-winning journalist and author, he has covered politics, business, and their intersection for nearly two decades, both in America and abroad. His recent cover stories for New York have included 'The Amazing Race,' a comparison of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's worldviews; 'Money Chooses Sides,' a look at Obama's fund-raising success; and 'His American Dream,' an early examination of the Mike Bloomberg-for-president scenario.
Johnette Howard has been a general sports columnist at Newsday since 1999. Her 2000 work was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary. Previously she worked as a senior writer at Sports Illustrated and The National Sports Daily, and as a weekly columnist and feature writer for the Washington Post. Her work has been collected in six anthologies, including Best American Sports Writing of the 20th Century. Howard's first book 'The Rivals: Chris Evert vs. .Martina Navratilova, Their Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship' was published to critical acclaim in 2005 by Broadway Books.
Judith Helfand is a Peabody award-winning filmmaker, activist and educator best known for her award-winning films A Healthy Baby Girl and Blue Vinyl, which explore home, class, family, the long arm of corporate power and the ever decreasing borders between what is 'personal' and what is a critical part of the public record. Using her personal experience with DES-related cancer, Helfand explores a toxic marketplace that is vulnerable to politicized consumers. She is currently a professor in NYU's Undergraduate Film Department, and is at work with her partner in Toxic Comedy Pictures, Daniel B. Gold, on a documentary about global warming, Melting Planet.
Jyll Holzman was appointed senior vice president of advertising for The New York Times in March 1999 and is responsible for heading advertising sales of the newspaper and nytimes.com. Previously, she served as a vice president in advertising since March 1995 with responsibilities for: overseeing the Sunday Magazine; live and studio entertainment; domestic fashion; international fashion; cosmetics; packaged goods; books; media; fine arts; restaurants; education; and health care.
Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels Envy, The Seal Wife, The Binding Chair, Poison, Exposure, and Thicker Than Water. She has also written memoirs, The Kiss and The Mother Knot, a travel memoir, The Road To Santiago, a biography, Saint Therese Of Lisiuex, and a collection of personal essays, Seeking Rapture. Harrison is a frequent reviewer for The New York Times Book Review; her essays, which have been included in many anthologies, have appeared in THE New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Vogue, O Magazine, Salon, and other publications. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children.
Kay S. Hymowitz is the William E. Simon fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. She writes extensively on education and childhood in America. Hymowitz is the author of Ready or Not: Why Treating our Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future and Ours, in which she offers a startling new interpretation of what makes our children tick and where the moral anomie of today's children comes from.
Kenneth Hein has spent the past four years serving as Senior Editor at Brandweek'a leading marketing newsweekly. He regularly breaks exclusive marketing news about companies such as Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Sony as well as constructs in-depth features about what makes these companies tick. A veteran of the trades, Hein has spent the last 10 years writing and editing at iMarketing News, Incentive and Meeting News as well as freelancing for Business 2.0, eDesign and others.
Kurt Hanson is Publisher of the daily web-based newsletter called 'RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter' (www.kurthanson.com) and is considered one of the world's leading experts in the field of new delivery mechanisms for radio (including Internet radio, satellite radio, HD radio, and podcasting).
Larry Hackett was named managing editor of PEOPLE on January 4, 2006, overseeing all editorial operations for the weekly magazine. He previously served as the magazines deputy managing editor. In 2010, Hackett was named President of ASME.
Lisa Hsia is Executive Vice President of Bravo Digital Media overseeing Bravos digital businesses including Bravotv.com, as well as Bravos initiatives in emerging media wireless, interactive TV, apps, gaming and multi-platform programming.
As one of Rubenstein Associates' most skilled counselors and publicists, Marcia Horowitz is recognized as one of the most accomplished professionals in the public relations industry today. During the course of her tenure at Rubenstein Associates she has developed expertise in a broad range of the agency's most sophisticated practice areas, including professional services, crisis management, litigation support, public affairs and business to business.
Matthew Hanna is the Director of Development of VH1. He is the executive producer of many of the networks top rated shows, including Celebrity Fit Club, The Fabulous Life Of�Ķ, Strip Search, and Red Hot Red Carpet. Prior to his work in development, Matthew served as the channel's News Director, where he was responsible for all news programming, specials, and entertainment event coverage, including The Grammy's, The Oscar's, and The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Before VH1, Matthew worked for seven years at SPIN Magazine where he was the Associate Publisher.
Matthew Harrington has more than 15 years experience in public and financial relations, counseling both U.S. and international companies. He currently is president of the Eastern Region including Miami, Atlanta and the New York office, the firm's largest office with ten business units. Previously, Matthew was president of Edelman's Western Region and oversaw its five West Coast offices, and also served as general manager of the San Francisco office.
Michael Hirschorn is Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Production responsible for all current original programming and development for VH1. Some of the VH1 programming he oversees includes series such as I Love The..., Hogan Knows Best, Web Junk 20, Scott Baio is 45ĶAnd Single, I Love New York, The Pick-Up Artist, Flavor of Love, Celebrity Fit Club, Best Week Ever, The Fabulous Life in addition to VH1 original series The Surreal Life, Breaking Bonaduce, and the "All Access" and the "100 Greatest" franchises and documentaries created under the "Rock Docs" banner.
Michael Hogan is Vanity Fair's executive digital editor. He joined the magazine in 1998, and has been an editor since 2002. Named editor of VF.com in 2008, he expanded and redesigned the site and oversaw the launch of numerous mobile apps, including the Vanity Fair Magazine app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. He writes regularly about music, politics, and movies, and suffers from a slight case of tinnitus. Michael grew up in New Jersey, and lives in Manhattan with his wife, Jen Turner.
Michelle Horowitz is Vice President of Corporate Development at PR Newswire. In this position, Horowitz is responsible for identifying and analyzing potential acquisitions as well as organic business opportunities. She works closely with senior management at PR Newswire and its parent company, United Business Media, in planning, negotiation and integration. Recent acquisitions include Notilog, a monitoring and measurement service in Latin America, Vintage Filings, an EDGAR service and US Newswire, a public policy newswire.
Neil Hickey is a contributing editor to The Columbia Journalism Review and a faculty adviser at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was TV Guide's New York Bureau Chief for 25 years, and a Senior Editor for five years.ﾬﾆHe has reported from Vietnam and the Persian Gulf; from Northern Ireland, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe before the collapse of Communism; from Cuba, Singapore and many other locales.ﾬﾆ
Peter Hart is a co-host and producer of FAIR's radio show CounterSpin. He also handles administrative duties and coordinates FAIR's media activism work. Hart graduated from Rutgers University in 1997, and presented research as an undergraduate to the AEJMC National Conference (Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication).
Peter Hedges' first novel, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, was the basis for the 1993 film, which he also wrote. His second novel, An Ocean in Iowa, was published in 1998 by Hyperion Press. His novels have been published in fifteen languages. Hedges' screenplay adaptations include Jane Hamilton's A Map of the World, Nick Hornby's About a Boy (Academy Award, BAFTA and WGA nominations), and, most recently, Lauren Weissberger's The Devil Wears Prada. With Pieces of April, Hedges makes his film directing debut.
Peter is founder and principal of Flatiron Communications LLC, a PR/media consulting firm in New York. He most recently served as Chief Media Officer for Edelman Worldwide, following 11 years with Burson-Marsteller as head of the agency's U.S. corporate and strategic media team and its worldwide spokesperson.
Scott Heiferman is Co-Founder & CEO of Meetup, where he's helping spark a revolution in local community. Over 50,000 Meetups (self-organized community events) happen each week. Millions of people, in over 100 countries, "use the internet to get off the internet" and form local community using the Meetup platform. Meetup is built on the idea that every town everywhere needs support groups, playgroups, bookclubs, business circles, running groups, community action groups, etc... whatever's important to people, a local community group can help them.
Seymour M. Hersh first wrote for The New Yorker in 1971 and has been a regular contributor to the magazine since 1993. His journalism and publishing prizes include the Pulitzer Prize, four George Polk Awards, the National Magazine Award, and more than a dozen other prizes (Sigma Delta Chi, Worth Bingham, Sidney Hillman, etc.) for investigative reporting on My Lai, the C.I.A.'s bombing of Cambodia, Henry Kissinger's wiretapping, and the C.I.A.'s efforts against Chile's Salvador Allende, among other topics.
A small Southeast Washington home, a single-digit aged kid with a close-and-play record player to his right and a portable cassette player to his left. As the last strains and harmonies of the song faded, this kid said out loud to everyone, though no one was in the room, 'That was the Temps with Cloud Nine. Now here's Johnny Taylor with 'Who's Making Love'.' Cassette player button pressed. Desire begun. Hill began his career (after the previously mentioned auspicious beginning) at WBRU-Providence, his alma mater, Brown University's radio station.
Steven Heller is a senior art director of the New York Times and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He is the editor of AIGA Voice, the online journal of design, and author, editor, and coauthor of more than 100 books on graphic design, illustration, and popular culture, including Paul Rand, a professional biography, and Stylepedia: A Guide to Grahic Design Quirks, Mannerisms and Conceits. Heller is the recipient of the 1999 AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement, Art Directors Club Hall of Fame Special Educators Award, and the Society of Illustrators Richard Gangel Art Directors Award.
Tom Hart was born in Kingston, NY and has been drawing cartoons since tracing that weird picture of Charlie Brown's head sticking out of the tube of toothpaste in the second grade. ﾬﾆTom's won a 1994 Xeric grant for his book, "Hutch Owen's Working Hard", featuring his charming but surly antagonistic street "bum". A book of Hutch Owen stories to date was by Top Shelf Productions in 2001.
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Alfred Ironside is Chief of Media Relations for UNICEF, based at the agency's headquarters in New York. As UNICEF's global spokesman and media advisor to the agency's top leadership, Mr. Ironside is responsible for developing UNICEF's global media strategy. In working with the global media, UNICEF seeks to influence attitudes toward children, advocate for specific policies and programs, and raise resources in support of children's programs.
Introcaso-Davis, who was previously Vice President, Production and Development, East Coast, oversees both east and west coast development. She first joined Bravo in 2002, where she developed and executive produced Bravo's Emmy Award winning series "Queer Eye For the Straight Guy," "Boy Meets Boy," "Cirque du Soleil: Fire Within" and "Celebrity Poker Showdown." Recently, she developed and executive produced the Emmy nominated series 'Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List' and the critically acclaimed series "Tabloid Wars." Introcaso-Davis also developed Bravo's "Real Housewives of Orange County" and the popular "Showbiz Moms & Dads" franchise.
Judy Isikow is a producer for ABC News' World News Tonight. In the 10 years that she has worked at ABC News, she worked her way up from being Peter Jennings' personal assistant to being his producer. Her assignments, including financial and science beats, and the Person of the Week segment, have taken her all over the United States. She has been awarded a Peabody award for ABC's coverage of 9/11, a DuPont award, and an Emmy award, and has interviewed many extraordinary people, from Chess Champ Gary Kasparov to former President Bill Clinton.
As Executive Vice President Marketing, Branded Entertainment and Sponsorship, Kirk Iwanowski oversees consumer, affiliate and trade marketing and advertising for Sundance Channel. This includes national consumer and trade campaigns and promotions, strategic partnerships and the development of acquisition and upgrade campaigns for cable and satellite. Additionally, Iwanowski oversees all integrated sponsorship sales and branded entertainment initiatives across all Sundance Channel-branded platforms: on-air, online, VOD, EST and wireless.
Mirko Ili a Bosnia-born illustrator and designer, was the art director for Time magazine's international edition and the art director of the New York Times Op-Ed pages. In 1995 he established Mirko Ili Corp., a graphic design and 3-D computer graphics and motion picture title studio. He has taught advanced design classes at Cooper Union with Milton Glaser, and teaches in the MFA illustration program at the School of Visual Arts.
In his eighteen years of work in public television, Stephen Ives has established himself as one of the nation's leading independent documentary directors. His landmark series The West was seen by more than 38 million people nationwide during its national PBS premiere in the fall of 1996. Caryn James of the New York Times wrote that The West was "fiercely and brilliantly rooted in fact," and The New York Daily News called the programs a "breathtakingly beautiful series of films. . . that make riveting TV."
Susan Isaacs, novelist, essayist and screenwriter, was born in Brooklyn and educated at Queens College. After leaving school, she worked at Seventeen magazine. In 1968, Isaacs married Elkan Abramowitz, then a federal prosecutor. She became a senior editor at Seventeen but left in 1970 to stay home with her newborn son, Andrew. Three years later, she gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth. During this time she freelanced, writing political speeches as well as magazine articles. Elkan became a criminal defense lawyer.
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Janoff has been Executive Editor at Brandweek magazine since April 2001 and added the title of Sports Editor in January 2004, writing the weekly 'The Game' column and other sports-marketing news stories and features. Prior to joining Brandweek he was Senior Editor at Progressive Grocer, a sister VNU publication, for more than two years.
Lt. Col. Barry Johnson is a public affairs officer in the United States Army. Currently participating in a one-year Army fellowship with Fleishman-Hillard International Communications in NYC, he previously served as the spokesman and public affairs officer for the U.S. detention of illegal enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in support of the Global War on Terrorism and Operation Enduring Freedom.
In a distinguished and heralded career, Clarence B. Jones served as speechwriter and counsel to Martin Luther King, Jr., partnered with Sanford I. Weill and Arthur Levitt, Jr., as an Allied Member of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), in the Wall Street investment banking firm Carter, Berlind & Weill, has been twice recognized as Fortune Magazine's 'Man of the Month,' and founded successful financial, corporate and media-related ventures.
Elissa Johansmeier serves as Vice President, Publicity and Corporate Communications for Fox Broadcasting Company, a position she has held since 2006. She runs the network's New York publicity office, supervising the east coast publicity staff and spearheading New York-based entertainment publicity efforts, as well as coordinating all communications efforts on behalf of the company's national Sales team.
Vickee Jordan Adams is U.S. Director of Media Communications and Senior Vice President of Hill & Knowlton, where she is responsible for leading Hill & Knowlton's media communications strategy for clients. Generating revenue by growing the media and presentation skills training discipline, her charter has been to convert a specialist discipline into a fully integrated, national practice.
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Abbey Klaassen is Ad Age's Digital Editor, responsible for covering the fast-evolving digital media and marketing space. She produces a weekly e-mail newsletter and section in the print edition of Ad Age that delves into the myriad new forms of digital media and their effect on how marketers engage consumers.
Over the past three years, Alex has been a mainstay at THINKFilm as Vice President of Publicity developing and implementing the publicity campaigns for over 50 films, most notably on the Oscar nominated movies “Murderball,” “Half Nelson,” and “Taxi to the Dark Side,” in addition to “The Aristocrats,” “Before the Devil Knows You're Dead,” “Candy,” “In the Shadow of the Moon,” and “Avenue Montaigne.”
Amy J. Kaufman is an established feature film and television producer based in New York City.
Anton Konikoff is the founder and CEO of Acronym Media, a full-service search engine marketing agency headquartered in Manhattan's landmark Empire State Building. Begun as an SEO consulting practice in 1995, Anton incorporated Acronym Media in 2001 and the firm now provides enterprise-scale search marketing solutions for clients such as SAP, Sirius Satellite Radio, Scholastic, Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts, and many more.
Bill Keller became executive editor of The New York Times in July 2003. Before that Mr. Keller had been an Op-Ed columnist and senior writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as other areas of the newspaper since September 2001. Previously, he served as managing editor from 1997 to September 2001 after having been the newspaper's foreign editor from June 1995 to 1997. He was the chief of The Times bureau in Johannesburg from April 1992 until May 1995.
Brian King, director and assistant professor of clinical scoring for motion pictures and television, is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and USC. Mr. King has been working in the industry as a composer, orchestrator, player, engineer and producer. Some of his feature film projects include Rushmore, The Rugrats Movie and Get Bruce working with the likes of Mark Mothersbaugh and Michael Feinstein. He has composed and produced music for episodic television including The Proud Family, King of Queens and The Love Chronicles, as well as composing additional music for VH1 feature film Play'd. He also scored and produced the music for the off-Broadway theatrical production of the comedy The Godfadda Workout.
Charles Kaiser was born in Washington D.C. and grew up there and in Albany, N.Y., Dakar, Senegal, London, England, Windsor, Conn., and New York City. He started writing for The New York Times while still an undergraduate at Columbia College. He spent five years there as a reporter on the Metro staff, covering City Hall, the environment, and State Supreme Court, among other beats.
Charles Kochman is a Senior Editor at Harry N. Abrams, Inc., where he is the editor of two #1 New York Times bestsellers—Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules—as well as R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz & Country and Kirby: King of Comics.
Chip Kidd is a writer, designer and editor. His book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in the art of American book packaging. His work has been featured in Vanity Fair, Print, Entertainment Weekly, The New Republic, Time, The New York Times and ID magazines. The latter chose him as part of its first ID 40 group of the nation's top designers and has awarded him 'Best of Category, Packaging' twice. In 1997 he received the International Center of Photography's award for Use of Photography in Graphic Design. He has been the design consultant for the Paris Review and The Yale Review since 1995, and in 1998 he was made a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationalle. In the fall of 2003 Newsweek included him in its first ever issue devoted to design.
Chuck Klosterman is the author of 2001's Fargo Rock City, 2003's Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, and 2005's Killing Yourself to Live. He has written for Spin, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, and The Washington Post.
Cynthia Korman is Art Director of Glamour, winner of this year's National Magazine Award for General Excellence. She has worked in publishing for over ten years at publications including Town & Country, MORE, and Lifetime. In her off-hours from magazines she has co-authored and designed two cookbooks published by Random House. She received her BA from Princeton University in Art History and Photography, and studied graphic design at Parsons and the School of Visual Arts.
David Kennedy is Chief Executive Officer of Interep, the largest independent national sales and marketing organization specializing in radio, the Internet and new media.
David Kleeman is Executive Director of the American Center for Children and Media, which promotes the exchange of ideas, expertise, and information as a means for building quality. ACCM services and activities often bridge technological, geographic or professional borders. The Center looks worldwide for models of excellence. David is principal consultant to the international children's TV festival (PRIX JEUNESSE); he created and manages its Web Prize competition.
David Kreizman was named Head Writer for Guiding Light in May 2004 at the age of 29. As head writer, Kreizman and his team took home the Writers Guild Award in 2005. His work has also led Guiding Light to 13 Emmy Award nominations in 2005, including one for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team, and 14 Emmy Award nominations in 2006. Kreizman began his career as a production intern for Guiding Light in 1995 before being hired on as production coordinator in 1996, and associate producer in 1997.
Dina Kaplan is a co-founder of blip.tv. Dina oversees operations and business development for the company, including finance, media and distribution partnerships, public relations and marketing.
Fred Kaplan, author of Daydream Believer: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, writes the “War Stories” column for Slate magazine. He has also written about national-security affairs for the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Scientific American, and many other publications.
Herb Karlitz is the founder and president of Karlitz & Company, the Manhattan- Based luxury lifestyle and entertainment firm that opened for business in 1990 with American Express as its lead client.
Ilene Kristen is perhaps best known for playing Delia Reid Ryan Ryan Coleridge Crane Coleridge on the daytime drama Ryan's Hope, a role which she originated in the show's first episode in 1975 and played on and off until the show's end in 1989. She has appeared on the daytime dramas Loving and Another World as well.
James Knopf is a Certified Life Coach and founder of Life Design Coaching and Consulting. He holds a graduate degree with a certification in leadership coaching and team building from the George Washington University. James is a former actor, director and Artistic Director of the New Voices Theater Ensemble in New York City. Life coaching is a partnership that provides the structure, feedback and support to reach your highest potential and goals.
Jennifer Konawal is a motion picture lit and motion picture talent agent at The Gersh Agency. Jennifer joined Gersh seven years ago as assistant to Bill Butler, head of the NYU office, and now as an agent she represents Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me), Andrea Arnold (won Oscar for Wasp), Tate Donovan (O.C., Good Night Good Luck, Friends), Judah Friedlander, Stephen Guirgis (Playwright, Our Lady of 121st Street; actor, Palindromes), Jonathan Togo (CSI Miami), Peter Koechley (Managing Editor of The Onion), and Katja Esson (Oscar nomination for her short documentary Ferry Tales).
Over the course of his career, Jon Kamen has founded and built one of the world's most respected content companies, the aptly-named @radical.media. Along the way, Jon has invented entirely new forms of media that drive both sales and culture.
Jonathan Karp is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of TWELVE, a new imprint within the Hachette Book Group established in August 2005 with the mandate to publish no more than one book per month. Among the first TWELVE books are Boomsday by Christopher Buckley; Hard Call by John McCain and Mark Salter; Microtrends by Mark Penn; The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner; and God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens, a #1 bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award.
Kevin has served as the Licensing Manager at DC Comics for the past six years. As licensing guru, Kevin has supervised product development and brand management for DC character properties, representing the company both domestically and abroad. Working closely with various creative and management teams at both DC Comics and Warner Bros., he continues to manage brand assurance for thousands of products worldwide each year.
Liz's thriving career in consumer brand identity and national product launches have catapulted brands into some of the most recognized consumer names by using effective media strategies for online, print and broadcast. Kronenberger co-founded Spunky Productions, a consumer kids and family entertainment digital media company, where she played an integral role in establishing the Christmas and Halloween brands that rose to #1 online properties for kids and parents.
Lloyd Kaufman is an American independent film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.
Marian Koltai-Levine is currently the Executive Vice President of the film department at PMK*BNC. As the department head, Marian strives to create a home for strategic ideas to intersect with marketing and communications execution. Her approach to marketing and distribution reflects the team's prior experience on both the studio and agency sides of the film industry. Marian is recognized for offering clients a complete “outsourced marketing department,” as well as theatrical distribution services.
Mark Katz's career began in journalism: a news clerk in the Washington bureau of the New York Times. From there, politics: a special assistant to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then to the “rapid response team” of the Michael Dukakis presidential campaign of 1988. In the aftermath of that debacle, a brief career as an advertising copywriter at the Sawyer/Miller Group, Hal Riney & Partners/SF and McCann-Erickson/NY.
Merrill Karpf began his television career as the protg of Quinn Martin at his QM Productions, ultimately becoming President and CEO, and a principal in the purchase of the company from its founder.
Pat Kiernan has been an anchor with Time Warner since 1996. After eight years as a radio and television reporter, anchor and newsroom manager in Canada, Kiernan's first assignment with Time Warner was with The News Exchange. The Manhattan-based service was one of Time Warner's early attempts to find synergy between its cable, magazine and television properties. The costly project was shut down within a few months. Kiernan was reassigned to Time Warner's 24-hour cable news service, NY1 News.
Patti Kim, a Vice President in William Morris Consulting department, focuses on the representation of corporate clients. Kim began her professional career at the accounting firm of Grant Thornton in Washington D.C. She moved to Los Angeles and joined the WMA training program in March 1995, working in the Television and Corporate Advisory/New Media departments.
As Senior Vice President of New Business Development and Visual Media, Katz oversees the development, production and exploitation of BMG's visual music assets with BMG's labels and repertoire centers around the world, including Arista Records, RCA Music Group, Jive, Ariola, BMG UK and RLG-Nashville. He is responsible for creating and marketing visual media via DVD, television, film and other media as well as for overseeing and exploring other non-traditional revenue streams and business investments.
Peter Kuper's illustrations and comics appear regularly in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and MAD, where he illustrates SPY vs. SPY every month. He has written and illustrated many books including Comics Trips, a journal of an eight-month trip through Africa and Southeast Asia.
Robert Krulwich is a New York-based correspondent who appears regularly on Nightline. He also reports for World News Tonight With Peter Jennings, and Good Morning America. With Ted Koppel, he co-hosted an eight-part primetime series, Brave New World, which probed the "eight biggest questions facing humankind"; with Peter Jennings, he produced an animated history of Bosnia for a children's special; and with Barbara Walters, he explored possible cures for cancer. Krulwich has been called "the most inventive network reporter in television" by TV Guide, "the man who makes the dismal science swing" by the Washington Journalism Review, and "the man who simplifies without being simple" by New York magazine. His specialty is explaining complex news — economics, technology, science — in a style that is clear, compelling and entertaining.
Robin joined Universal McCann in 1996 and was appointed EVP, Regional Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa in January 1997. While there, he spearheaded the development of proprietary research studies and strategy methods currently used worldwide within UM.
Roger Keating joined Hearst-Argyle Television as Senior Vice President, Digital Media, in July 2008. He came to Hearst-Argyle with a broad background in various sectors of the media industry. Mr. Keating has run large cable TV operations at Comcast and most recently at Time Warner, where he presided over the integration of the Adelphia acquisition in the Los Angeles Region. He ran the voice services business at AOL, and also ran the AOL Health and AOL Travel verticals. In terms of digital media, he led the formation of Comcast's Internet division in the mid 90's and oversaw the development of their high speed data business. And he was founder/CEO of a dot com in 1998 named “Zatso” that worked with local TV broadcasters to offer streaming video-based “personalized newscasts.”
Stefan Kanfer's books include The Eighth Sin, A Summer World, The Last Empire, Serious Business, Groucho, Ball of Fire, and Stardust Lost. He was a writer and editor at Time for more than twenty years and was their first bylined film critic, a post he held from 1967 to 1972.
Tamra Seldin Knepfer is senior vice president, Consumer Products, for the newly created AG Properties (AGP) group. AGP is a leading children's licensor, with its Care Bears brand generating over .8 billion in retail sales since its re-launch in 2002 and Strawberry Shortcake producing over .3 billion in retail sales since its reintroduction in 2003. AGP has over 30 character-based properties and is launching new properties around the world, such as Twisted Whiskers, as well as re-launching other popular classics, such as Holly Hobbie.
TODD A. KESSLER, Co-Creator and Executive Producer of DAMAGES, wrote and produced the second and third seasons of HBO's The Sopranos; Michael Mann's Robbery Homicide Division, and the first season of NBC's Providence. Kessler began his career as a playwright working with David Rabe, and segued into film and television when Spike Lee hired him as a screenwriter. Kessler graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University with a degree in Dramatic Literature and Playwriting, and has twice been a Visiting Artist at Harvard, teaching screenwriting seminars.
William Kirksey began his career in music in 1989 while still at Medgar Evers Community College in Brooklyn, interning at WNYE, Medgar's college radio station. In 1990, Kirksey interned at KISS-FM while simultaneously interning at WHCS, Hunter's college station. In 1991, Kirksey secured an internship in the R&B promotions department at Columbia Records and worked his way up to executive assistant to the director of artist development.
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Adam Liptak joined The New York Times Company as an attorney in 1992, acted as Senior Counsel from 1994-2002, and since 2002 has been the paper's National Legal Correspondent. His reporting, essays and criticism has appeared in the The New York Times, its Sunday Magazine and Book Review, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Business Week, The New York Observer, The American Lawyer and Brill's Content. Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Liptak was an associate at the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Mr. Liptak received both a B.A. in English Literature and a J.D. from Yale University.
Alan Light was the editor-in-chief of Spin from January, 1999 until March, 2002, and was founding music editor ('93-'94) and editor-in-chief ('94-'97) at Spin's sister publication, Vibe. Before joining Vibe in 1993, Alan was a Senior Writer at Rolling Stone, where he began working in 1989. He has interviewed and profiled rock stars like U2, Neil Young, Eminem, Public Enemy, Al Green and Johnny Cash, and is a two-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music journalism.
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Ariel Levy grew up in Larchmont, New York. She attended Wesleyan University where she studied American literature and critical theory. After college she worked briefly for Planned Parenthood but was fired after only one week because she is an extremely poor typist.
Barbara Lippert is the award-winning advertising critic for Adweek Magazine. In her column each week, she takes a close and incisive look at a particular ad campaign, reviewing it much as a movie or book critic would while placing it in the larger context of pop culture. She.pioneered the form when she started writing a weekly critique for Adweek in 1986. Since then, she has examined ad imagery through many lenses, especially gender.
Carla Rohlfing Levy is an award-winning editor and writer with more than 20 years' experience in women's magazines. As executive editor of SELF, Levy is responsible for directing the editorial content and tone of all items and features published in the magazine, as well as overseeing much of the magazine's online material.
Charles Lewis is founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog organization in Washington that does investigative reporting and research on public policy issues. Created in 1989, the Center has grown to a staff of 40, and issued more than 200 investigative reports, including 12 books.
Chris Lambiase is the VP and Group Publisher for Rodale Running and Cycling, which includes Runner's World, Bicycling, Mountain Bike, Running Times, and Organic Gardening magazines.
David Levithan is an Executive Editor and Reprint Director at Scholastic, as well as the founding editor of its PUSH imprint (www.thisispush.com).
Debra L. Lee's ascent to the highest levels of Black Entertainment Television (BET) is akin to that of a soaring rocketship - fast, majestic, graceful and awesome to watch. Her achievements at BET, her numerous accolades from across the cable industry and her immaculate reputation make Lee one of this country's most revered and respected business executives. Not only is she the highest ranking African-American woman at BET's parent company Viacom, Lee clearly embodies the prototypical corporate leader of the new millenium.
Doug Liman has become acknowledged as one of the most vibrant and original voices in American film with a solid track record of critically acclaimed features, including THE BOURNE IDENTITY (director/producer) MR. & MRS. SMITH, JUMPER, SWINGERS, GO and now FAIR GAME (director-producer) starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts.
Ed Levine, founder of Serious Eats, is a New York-based food writer, cookbook author, and frequent New York Times contributor. His stories on iconic American foods such as hot dogs, hamburgers, ice cream, and cheesecake have appeared in many U.S. periodicals, including GQ, BusinessWeek, and the New York Times.
Elaine Lafferty was named Editor in Chief of Ms. magazine in March 2003. Since then, Ms.' newsstand sales have grown by 29 percent and account for nearly a third of the magazine's 100,000 plus circulation. The Spring 2004 issue was the best selling single issue of Ms. in five years. The magazine's website, Msmagazine.com, is also experiencing dramatic growth, numbering some 11 million hits per month.
Jennifer LaFleur was the computer-assisted reporting (CAR) editor starting in 2003 for The Dallas Morning News, where she worked on the investigative team. She has directed CAR at the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and was IRE's first training director. She has won awards for her coverage of disability, legal and open government issues. Ms. LaFleur is the co-author of IRE's Mapping for Stories: A Computer-Assisted Reporting Guide.
Jim Louderback joined Revision3 as the CEO in July 2007. Jim has spent 16 years in various media and technology management roles, including leading editorial and lab efforts for PC Week, and being on the launch team for ZDTV/TechTV - the first 24 hour cable network devoted to technology.
Joe Lauria is an independent political journalist based in New York. He is co-author with presidential candidate Mike Gravel of a book to be published this spring by Seven Stories Press. Joe is a freelance member of the Sunday Times of London investigative unit and has been a freelance correspondent for the Boston Globe since 1999.
After graduating from Boston University with a BA in Economics, Joe Lazarov spent 6 months in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee in the family real estate business before realizing that making film and television would be more fulfilling. Driving 26 hours straight, he made it to LA in time to work on an Acura car commercial as a production assistant.
Jon Lafayette is senior editor at Television Week, where he covers the television advertising market, cable programming, televised sports and TV movies.
Joseph Lelyveld was in high leadership positions at The New York Times for twelve years, first as managing editor from 1990 to 1994, and then, from 1994 to 2001, as executive editor, the top editorial job. He was called back in 2003 to serve as interim executive editor between the departure of Howell Raines and the appointment of the current executive editor, Bill Keller.
Julie Lang is the Cable/Television Advertising Manager for The Hollywood Reporter, the leading daily trade publication for the entertainment industry. Her clients include cable networks such as HBO, Showtime, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Discovery Networks, USA Network, TNT and others.
Levy began her career in the entertainment industry in the early 1990's as a College Marketing Representative for Sony Music Distribution. Her creativity combined with her dynamic personality quickly led her to a full time position from 1995 to 1997 as a Product Manager for MCA Entertainment where she managed the Marketing Campaigns for such Artists as Nonchalant, Wrex-n-Effect, and Shai.
As Media and Internet Manager for Revlon, Kimberly champions innovative media programs to for key product launches and promotions. She manages the strategic direction and planning of traditional and online media for Revlon and Almay including tv, print, in-theatre, and online. Additionally, Kimberly also leads the innovation of Revlon's websites: revlon.com, almay.com, and highdimensionhair.com. Active in the Internet industry since 1997, Kimberly held online marketing positions at Estee Lauder, Kmart, NBC, and PC World prior to joining Revlon.
As Senior Vice President of Business Development and Business Analysis, Larry Linietsky is responsible for evaluating and negotiating strategic arrangements and partnerships formed by Napster, the leading online music service, including distribution/affiliate relationships, and technology alliances/partnerships. Linietsky is heavily involved in strategic licensing of the Napster brand to companies like Samsung, and was responsible for the creation of the innovative Napster Pre-Paid Card and the groundbreaking site license deal with Penn State University.
President, Executive Director, Center for Networking Excellence Liz Lynch is president of profitability consulting firm Liz Lynch Ltd., and executive director of the Center for Networking Excellence, which creates products and programs to help business professionals build profitable relationships.
Lolita Lopez joined the Emmy Award-winning "CW11 News at Ten" team as a general assignment reporter in May 2001, and was appointed Weekend Sports Anchor in 2005. Born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, Lolita graduated from Harvard University in 1998 and participated in volleyball and track and field all four years. She was co-captain of the volleyball team her junior and senior years, only the second person in Harvard's history to do so.
Broadway producing credits: The Crucible, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, Triumph of Love, Seven Guitars, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, Jelly's Last Jam, I Hate Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Mnemonic, The Cryptogram, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Garden of Earthly Delights, How I Got That Story, George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song at the Apollo Theatre.
Prior to founding Cine Qua Non/Incite Pictures, Marion Lipschutz taught video workshops in New York City schools and worked as a field producer, associate producer and researcher for HBO projects, including the first episode of Autopsy, Iceman I, Everything You Need to Know About Aids, Confrontation I& II, and several episodes of Real Sex.
Co-Chair Hispanic Committee, IAB; and COO, Terra Networks USA As Chief Operating Officer Mark López manages Product Strategy, Programming, Marketing and Business Development for the US Hispanic business. He also collaborates with US advertising clients looking to reach Terra's Latin American audience. Mark serves as co-chairman of the US Hispanic committee of the IAB.
As executive pastry chef of New York's Le Bernardin, Michael Laiskonis produces delicate desserts that are an elegant balance of art and science. Awarded Outstanding Pastry Chef in 2007 by the James Beard Foundation, his work has also helped the restaurant maintain four stars from the New York Times and three stars from the esteemed Michelin Guide.
Michael Lamb is an Associate Principal with McKinsey and Company's New York office. Since joining the firm in 2003, Michael has specialized in marketing and strategy issues for a number of media, entertainment and telecommunications companies.
Mike Lubin started his agency career at William Morris Agency in Los Angeles working in the Motion Picture department before coming to the New York office where he was an assistant in the literary rights department. After becoming an agent he spent several years in the feature literary department working on such films as You Can Count on Me and developed relationships with countless other writers and directors.
Peter Lance is a five-time Emmy-winning investigative reporter now working as a screenwriter and novelist. With a Masters Degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, Lance spent the first 15 years of his career as a print reporter and network correspondent.
Peter Land has overall management responsibility for Edelman's Sports & Entertainment Marketing group, the Diversity Solutions practice and several national consumer marketing clients. The Sports & Entertainment Marketing group represents leading sports and entertainment properties and is the agency's headquarters for celebrity services, athlete services, sponsorship consulting, film/TV tie-ins and product placement.
Amy J. Kaufman is an established feature film and television producer based in New York City.
As President of N.S. Bienstock, Inc., Richard Leibner oversees a staff of 30, 12 of whom are agents, including his wife and partner, Carole Cooper. His firm represents the largest number of TV news talent including Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, Paula Zahn, Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper and Bill O'Reilly.
Robert Jay Lifton is Visiting Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance. Until recently he was Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, The City University of New York, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate School and University Center and the Mount Sinai Medical Center; and Director of The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Noted author and workplace expert, Ronna Lichtenberg, is co-founder and CEO of Virtual Coaching, LLC, a high-tech business communications service provider.
Sam Linsky is senior vice president of current programming for TNT and TBS. In this capacity, he is responsible for overseeing the current production of the networks' original series. Linsky is based in Los Angeles and reports to Michael Wright, executive vice president, head of programming, for TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
Scott is a Media & Entertainment Principal, focusing on Media business strategy improvement. His has over 19 years of commercialization strategy experience, helping clients optimize sales channels and align pricing strategies to drive revenue and margin growth.
Valerie Latona was named Shape's Editor-in-Chief in October 2005. Since then, Shape, with its almost 1.7 million circulation, has experienced a 15 percent growth at the newsstands and nearly a 5 percent growth in subscriptions. Latona has been with the magazine since 2000, most recently as Deputy Editor, in charge of the New York editorial office.
Warren Leight is a co-executive producer and writer on LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT. Last season two of his episodes were nominated for Edgar Awards for Best One Hour Mystery. He has also written for Sydney Lumet's 100 CENTRE STREET.
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Alan Murray is a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal and Executive Editor for the Journal Online.? He also has editorial responsibility for Wall Street Journal television, books, conferences, and the MarketWatch web site.
Albert Maysles and his brother, David Maysles, played important roles in the development of cinema verit? documentary-making by designing highly portable cameras and sound equipment that allowed them to record events with minimal intrusion. Before teaming up with David in 1957, Albert studied psychology at Syracuse and Boston Universities, and made a film about mental institutions in the Soviet Union.
Culver City, CA, April 26, 2007 - Amy Mastriona has been named Vice President, Creative Advertising for Screen Gems, it was announced today by Marc Weinstock, Executive Vice President of Marketing for the division.
During his 25 years in broadcasting, Bill Moyers has pursued a broad spectrum of journalism. In presenting Moyers with one of his two prestigious Gold Batons, the highest honor of the Alfred I. DuPont Columbia University Awards, Columbia University President Michael Sovern called Moyers "a unique voice, still seeking new frontiers in television, daring to assume that viewing audiences are willing to think and learn."
Since 1996, Brenda Major has been Vice President, Conference Planning and Special Events at the ABC Television Network, where she develops and manages special events including Super Bowls, Fall Schedule Announcement, Affiliates' Meeting and ABC News events, and she secures venues and hotels, negotiating contracts and managing overall logistics.
Mike Marriner, Nathan Gebhard and Brian McAllister are from California. Nathan and Mike met in sixth grade, and have been friends ever since. Brian and Mike played water polo together in college, and since then the three have embarked on several eye-opening experiences.
Budd Mishkin is the host and reporter for NY1's weekly profile series, "One On 1 with Budd Mishkin," which profiles influential New Yorkers, such as Wynton Marsalis, Wyclef Jean, Robert Caro, Pete Hamill, Rachel Ray, Bobby Flay, Mike Wallace, Donald Trump, and Ed Koch. Budd started with the NY1 in 1992 and served as a sports anchor/reporter for NY1's nightly program "Sports on 1, The Last Word," covering some of the biggest events in recent New York sports history: the Rangers Stanley Cup victory, the Yankees World Series run, the 2000 Subway Series and the Knicks playoff series against the Chicago Bulls, the Indiana Pacers and the Miami Heat.
Catherine J. Mathis was named senior vice president of corporate communications for The New York Times Company in December 2007.? Previously, Ms. Mathis was vice president of corporate communications since April 2000.? Ms. Mathis' responsibilities include investor relations, media relations, public relations, community relations, crisis communications, corporate speechwriting, employee communications and the Company's Internet and Intranet sites.? She is a member of the Company's senior management team and serves on its Disclosure Committee.
Christopher Mount is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Parsons School of Design in New York. He has helped develop the plan for the new Sheila Johnson Design Center and the Anna Marie Kellen Gallery, opening in '08.
Claire Mysko is an activist and writer.? Much of her work has highlighted how media contribute to poor body image and eating disorders.
Cyndee Maxwell was born and raised in Southern California. Her radio career began at free-form progressive rock station KRKN in 1983 in Anchorage, Alaska.
Daniel's background in reality television started when he received his first high-8 video camera at the age of eleven. As a hyperactive child with a penchant for socializing, Daniel vigorously followed around every family member and friend that would allow him to tag along. From filming an average day at middle school to talking his way into the cockpit of an airplane to interview the pilots, Daniel had no idea how helpful these skills would become later in life.
Dave Marcus is author of What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble, and How Four of Them Got Out. He is also Newsday reporter specializing in education, youth and family coverage and is currently writing another book, "Seven Seniors, Seven Dreams" about high school students applying to college, and he runs "Positive Parents/Positive Kids" workshops throughout the country for parents and students in middle and high schools.
David Morganlander is President of Qtopia Media, a marketing company specializing in reaching gays and lesbians through out of home media, such as radio, outdoor media, event marketing, public relations and internet streaming.
Dina Madhani is the Development and Partnerships Manager for Video Volunteers. She started her role in Ahmedabad, India and is now part of the New York office. Since joining she has focused on building awareness for Video Volunteers' mission through partnerships both domestically and globally. She also collaborates in the continuing development of Video Volunteers' organizational structure and growth plan and is responsible for leading NYU Stern's MBA internship program.
As curator of art + design at Curious, Dominie Mahl seeks out unique creative talent to work on our projects in 2D/3D animation, character development, games, and print. She also produces and art directs development pitches and pilots for the studio.
During his eight years of service, McClary has promoted artists such as Mary J. Blige, Shaggy, K-Ci & JoJo, New Edition, Jodeci, Bobby Brown, Patti LaBelle, Al Green, Common, Avant, and The Roots. McClary began his tenure as the Director of Video Promotion, where he worked closely with BET, MTV and other television programs to promote, market, and advertise thru music video.In 2000, he created the Sports Relations department at MCA, which focuses on cross-marketing recording artists and music with various athletic affiliations.
In this position, Ed Miller focuses on Verizon's national multicultural marketing strategy for local and long distance services to both consumer and small business segments. Miller's organization supports several in-language and in-culture segments, including Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese), Vietnamese, Filipino (Tagalog and Ilocano), Japanese, and Russian.
Ed is a Global Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) subject matter specialist for Technology, and he advises TMT companies in the areas of strategic planning, product innovation, competitive positioning, and digital Convergence.
Style expert Felix Mercado is known for his savvy advice on making the lives of real people and celebrities more fashionable!? From his recurrent features as the go-to style critic for some of the nations top magazines, to his previous role as fashion expert and columnist for FOX News Style Guide, and his latest gig as fashion stylist for FOX's Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, Mercado is quickly becoming everyone's favorite "style" guy.
Gabriel began his career in England, on the set of Mission: Impossible, as assistant to Paula Wagner, the film's producer. Upon coming to the U.S., he worked for Academy Award-winning producer Mark Johnson at DreamWorks SKG for three years.
A ten-year veteran of the online game industry, Garrett Moehring has created hundreds of online games for kids most recently at Nick Online. He was co-executive producer on Nickelodeon's first premium subscription service, myNOGGIN.com, before joining Atari Interactive in January of this year.
Gerald Mulligan, five-time Emmy winner, began writing material for David Letterman when Letterman guest hosted for Johnny Carson. He went on to write for Late Night with David Letterman as writer, head writer, segment producer and performer. Originally a college English teacher, Gerard won 5 Emmy's for his writing before retiring in 2004.
Guy McCarter is the Managing Director of Green Room Entertainment, the Branded Entertainment unit of OMG Entertainment & Sports. Green Room develops, negotiates and activates entertainment properties in television, film, digital and music. Working on behalf of clients like Pepsi, Visa, Lowe's, ABSOLUT, the City of Las Vegas and Travelocity, Green Room creates multiplatform, entertainment-based solutions that build brands and increase sales for its clients.
Jack Myers works with media companies, agencies and marketers to develop and implement investment, business development and growth strategies.
Jane Mazur is an accomplished public relations executive with more than 17 years experience in media relations, consumer marketing, entertainment, events and promotions. Mazur serves as Ogilvy's senior national media strategist. She is responsible for creating and executing media strategy for a myriad of Ogilvy consumer marketing, corporate and healthcare clients, including: Promise, Lipton, Johnson &Johnson, Sunglass Hut, DHL, Detoitte & Touche, Pfizer and TV Guide.
Jeff Marx did not begin writing until he was halfway through law school. After graduating and passing the NY State Bar exam, he went looking for entertainment industry clients, and applied to the BMI Musical Theater Workshop, believing he'd find young, talented clients there. He wrote songs each week in the classroom setting and ended up finding a collaborator, getting writing gigs, winning awards, and eventually co-creating Avenue Q, the Tony Award winning Broadway musical.
Jeremy McCarter writes about American culture for Newsweek. Prior to joining the magazine, he was the drama critic of New York, and, before that, The New York Sun. He has worked as an editor at The New Republic, written for The New York Times and other papers and magazines, and served on the Pulitzer Drama Jury. He is also the editor of Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie, which Yale University Press will publish in June '09. He studied history at Harvard and lives in New York.
Joe Mandese is editor-in-chief of MediaPost and its related publications (MediaDailyNews, Online Media Daily, Marketing Daily, MEDIA and OMMA magazines), which reach more than 125,000 advertising and media industry professionals daily. Prior to that, he was executive editor leading advertising industry news coverage for Primedia Business Magazines & Media. Earlier in his career, Mandese was a writer and top editor at leading industry publications such as Adweek, Advertising Age, Channels, Brill Media, Fortune, Inside.com, Marketing & Media Decisions, and Variety.
John Murphy has a diversified background in public relations having created and implemented both corporate and consumer media campaigns for clients spanning feature film, television, cable, Internet and publishing.? Areas of expertise include business-to-business strategies for diversified media companies exploring multi platform exhibition, corporate strategies for feature film and television production companies, release campaigns for theatrical films, program publicity for television shows and event publicity pertaining to these and other entertainment organizations.?
An Arizona native, Mangin started his musical assault at student run radio station, KAMP in Tucson. After attending UT's College of Pharmacy, he decided against pushing pills and instead returned to radio as AMD/DJ at WMFS (Memphis), earning Album Network's "Metal Director of the Year" in 1999.
A staff writer with The New York Times, Julia Moskin has been a frequent contributor to the Times' Dining section since 2002, reporting one cover story per month. Prior to working with the Times, Moskin was a contributor to Saveur and Metropolitan Home magazines, writing food features, chef profiles, and front-of-book pieces since 1997. She was also lead weekly restaurant reviewer for New York City's Citysearch.com from 1997-1998 and a restaurant reviewer and contributing writer to the New York Press from 1993-1997.
Kimberly Maul is a reporter at PRWeek magazine, where she covers entertainment, multicultural and digital PR. A graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Kimberly previously worked as a freelancer for several blogs and Web sites, including Metromix.com, Brand Channel, and The Bookseller, and was associate editor at TheBookStandard.com.
Mark Mazzetti is a correspondent for The New York Times, where he has covered national security from the newspaper's Washington bureau since April 2006.
Marlane Meyer's plays include, Etta Jenks, Kingfish, The Geography of Luck, Why Things Burn, The Chemistry of Change, and The Mystery of Attraction.? Her television writing includes Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Now and Again, Hyperion Bay, Nothing Sacred and Sirens.
Mike Marriner, Nathan Gebhard and Brian McAllister are from California. Nathan and Mike met in sixth grade, and have been friends ever since. Brian and Mike played water polo together in college, and since then the three have embarked on several eye-opening experiences.
Online shopping expert Michelle Madhok has been a pioneer in women's online content for over a decade. Following positions overseeing online content at CBS and AOL, Madhok founded SheFinds.com in 2004, and MomFinds.com two years later.
Ms. Materre's professional background spans 25 years in television, film and video with a concentration on independent film. She has worked in myriad capacities in the nonprofit and commercial entertainment industry as a producer, writer, arts administrator, strategic advisor, outreach consultant, distribution/marketing specialist and/or educator.
Mike is an expert in search marketing, search technology, publishing, Web personalization, and Web metrics, who regularly makes speaking appearances. Mike's previous apperances include Search Engine Strategies, AD:TECH, Consumer Reports WebWatch, OMMA East, and the Enterprise Search Summit. Mike also writes the Biznology newsletter and blog is the co-author of the best-selling Search Engine Marketing, Inc., and writes the search marketing column for Revenue Magazine.
Director, Alexander Hamilton; Benjamin Franklin; Liberty! The American Revolution Muffie Meyer has over 20 years of film production experience. Her credits as director and/or producer include several productions with TPT: Alexander Hamilton, The New Medicine; Liberty! The American Revolution;
Neil Mulcahy is a graduate of St. John's University. After completing his studies in 1981, he began his career working in the mailroom at CBS. He moved to the CBS advertising sales department where he worked until 1987.? In November of 1987, he was hired by Fox Broadcasting Company as a manager of sales planning.? He worked his way up through the company becoming an Account Executive, a Vice President of Eastern Sales and National Sales/Promotions, Senior Vice President of Network Sales and Marketing to his current position of Executive Vice President, Fox Sports Sales.
Born in West Africa to foreign service parents, Nicco Mele, Partner, was Governor Howard Dean's presidential campaign webmaster and is a leading internet strategist. Nicco has broad experience working with NGOs and non-profits, including as webmaster at Common Cause and at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, in addition to his time as producer of the Shadow Conventions website and live streaming webcasts during the 2000 presidential election cycle.
Ozier Muhammad is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the New York Times. He has previously worked for Newsday and Ebony. He lives in New York City.?
Paul Martinez has been acting as Creative Director at Marie Claire for the past two years. Paul started his career in the fashion world as a designer at SF Focus in 1991, and from there he went on to act as Art Director at both On the One and Keyboard before joining Bon Appetit as Associate Art Director in 1998. A year later, he left to be Senior Art Director at US Weekly and then Art Director at GQ, where he worked for three years before joining Marie Claire in January, 2004.
Hailing from the Bronx New York, Remy Ma aka Remy Martin aka "the hottest chick on the market" was destined to be a star. While walking home from school one day, she ran into a family friend who told her that Terror Squad was looking for a female rapper. She was taken to meet Pun, captivating him with a non-stop two hour freestyle.
For years Sheryl Mccarthy has been writing thoughtful and provocative columns about a wide range of social and political issues--including race and gender issues, social policies towards the poor, the vagaries of the criminal justice system, education, politics, and foreign policy. She joined the staff of New York Newsday in 1987 and began writing a twice-weekly column in 1989. After the New York edition of the paper closed in 1995, she continued writing for the parent newspaper. Her column appeared on its opinion pages and, distributed by the L.A. Times wire service, appeared in newspapers around the country and overseas. Newsday closed the remains of its New York City operation last year, but Ms. McCarthy continues to contribute to the paper, is on the board of contributors to USA Today, and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate school of Journalism.
Sia Michel is the first woman to be named editor-in-chief at a national, major-circulation rock music magazine. A native of Erie, Pennsylvania, Michel previously served as executive editor at Spin (1999-2002). She joined the magazine in December 1996 as an assistant editor.
Sonia Manzano (Maria) is a first-generation American of Latino descent who has affected the lives of millions of parents and children since the 1970s, when she was offered an opportunity play "Maria" on Sesame Street.
Susan Meiselas is a documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She is the author of Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua,? El Salvador: The Work of 30 Photographers,? Chile from Within, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Pandora's Box and Encounters with the Dani.
Ted Magder is currently an associate professor and former Chair of the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. His research focuses on the legal and regulatory regimes that influence the flow of both media and culture across borders.
Ted Moncreiff has been the magazine's Executive Editor since March of 2005, where he assigns feature articles, helps to oversee a staff of 45, and helps to oversee the overall direction of the magazine. Prior to that, he was a features editor. Ted came to Traveler in 1992 from CFO, an Economist-owned business magazine based in Boston.
Tonia Mattu is a consultant with the Mercury Group, a retained consultancy specializing in media/technology companies, providing career coaching to professionals in transition.
Vicki Mabrey has been a correspondent for 60 MINUTES II since its debut in January 1999. She has reported on an elite group of Iraqi exiles charged with helping Americans bring democracy to Iraq and new breakthroughs in the treatment of autism, as well as conducted interviews with NYC firefighters days after many of their comrades were killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; interviews with Afghan women about life under Taliban rule; profiles of Irish rock legend Bono and Native American author Sherman Alexie; a report on a rare brain condition called synesthesia, in which some of the senses involuntarily fuse together, almost literally creating a sixth sense; and a rare look into the testing methods of Consumer Reports.
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Bill Nemtim began his career at the National Film Board of Canada over 40 years ago. As an independent Canadian Producer, in the 1980's he was Executive producer of several award-winning international co-productions. He worked within the US Public Television system for over 22 years specializing in the setting up of foreign co-productions and acquisitions,
Since joining History in August, 2007, Charles Nordlander has developed and/or EP'd groundbreaking major series such as Expedition?Africa, Pawn Stars, Evolve and Battle 360, all of which have pushed the visual, narrative and dramatic boundaries in how stories for History are told.
Jehane Noujaim began as a photographer and filmmaker in Cairo, Egypt, where she grew up. She moved to Boston in 1990, where she attended Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude in Visual Arts and Philosophy in 1996.
Jennifer is the Program Manager of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (HRWIFF). Since 2003, Jennifer has lead the HRWIFF High School Program, an initiative to bring discussion of human rights and human rights advocacy into public schools. Jennifer launched Youth Producing Change, the first program at the HRWIFF of films made by youth from across the globe this past June and will travel the program to Boston, London and San Francisco in 2009.
Jennifer Norwood has been with Universal Music for 3 years. She's responsible for all national mixshow promotion, both urban and crossover mix.
Jill Nelson was born and raised in Harlem and has been a working journalist for over twenty years. She is a graduate of the City College of New York and the Columbia School of Journalism. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times,?Essence, The?Washington Post, The Nation, Ms., The?Chicago Tribune and the Village Voice.
Leslie Nipkow is currently the Scriptwriter at As The World Turns. Prior to this, she wrote scripts for OLTL for five years. She is currently developing her newest play, Beauty, 1953.
Lynn Novick is co-director/producer of THE WAR, an epic seven-part series that tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of nearly 40 men and women from four American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, which she chaired from 1988-2003. She also holds appointments as Professor of Sociology at NYU and Visiting Professor of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell.
Mark Nowlan is the Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications at PR Newswire, the global leader in news and information distribution services for organizations around the world. Nowlan has been with PR Newswire for ten years and has held positions including VP of Marketing, Americas, Vice President, Midwest Region and Head of PR Newswire's Detroit bureau.
Richard Nash is an independent publishing entrepreneur, presently launching Cursor, a start-up portfolio of social publishing imprints the first of which, Red Lemonade, will launch in Spring 2011 with a new story collection from Lynne Tillman and debut novels from Kio Stark and Vanessa Veselka.
Sara Nelson has been the editor in chief of Publishers Weekly since January 2005, and writes a widely read column in each issue. During her tenure at the magazine, PW has been completely overhauled; it is graphically and editorially sharper and stronger and more full of information than ever before. Six months after she relaunched the magazine, it won the prestigious Eddie Award for editorial excellence.
Sonia Nazario has been with the Los Angeles Times since 1993 and is currently a projects and urban affairs reporter. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times, Nazario was a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal for over 10 years, covering social issues and Latin America, working from Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, and Miami. She was a summer intern with The Washington Post in 1981 and a freelance reporter for El Pais (Madrid, Spain) in 1980.
Tana Nugent Jamieson joined A&E Network as Senior Vice President, Drama Programming in March 2006, to?oversee the network's first West Coast development effort in over 5 years.??At A&E, Nugent Jamieson is responsible for overseeing the development and production of all original scripted dramatic series, as well as limited series, movies and miniseries.?
One of the few people in the film industry that was born and raised in Los Angeles, this local boy had Hollywood in his backyard growing up. So, it was no surprise when he made up his mind at an early age to pursue a job in the film industry.
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Catherine Orenstein?has contributed to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Washington Post and Miami Herald and she is the author of Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, and she is a fellow at the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership. ?
Kenny is responsible for identifying and securing new licensing opportunities for SONY BMG's vast catalog of master recordings, and acts as the company's liaison to the advertising community. Kenny's strong experience encompasses all aspects of licensing, including everything from developing concepts, to pitching, negotiating and contract administration.
A native of Hartford, CT, a place better know for having given the world Noah Webster, Katherine Hepburn and Charles Nelson Reilly, Kevin O'Connor has been in the kids' media world since 1992 when he did a one-month college internship at Sesame Workshop (nee Children's Television Workshop.)
Lola Ogunnaike is a culture reporter for the New York Times. In her three years at the paper she has written dozens of trend pieces and profiled an assortment of celebrities including: Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, Merv Griffin, Jamie Foxx, Sting, Jay-Z and Hilary Duff. Before arriving at the New York Times.
Author, The Importance of Being Famous?
Soledad OBrien is an anchor and special correspondent for CNN/U.S. Since joining the network in 2003, OBrien has reported breaking news from around the globe and has produced award-winning, record-breaking and critically acclaimed documentaries on the most important stories facing the world today. She also covers political news as part of CNNs "Best Political Team on Television."
Manhattan native Steve O'Reilly began playing music at the age of nine. He is the voice and songwriter behind the music created by Tammany Hall NYC. THNYC's big break arrived in 2001, when their song ALWAYS ON SUNDAY was showcased in HBO's Sunday Night Promos which snowballed into a series of licensing opportunities for fan-favorite shows like NBC's SCRUBS, the WB's SUMMERLAND, and MTV's MADE, among others. Validated as a viable and self-sufficient indie band, THNYC continues to write, record, and produce their own albums and maintain a vigorous touring schedule while meeting the demanding needs of running their own label.
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Brooke Primont, Vice President of Creative Services & Marketing at Cherry Lane Music Publishing, has over 10 years of music industry experience. Brooke joined Cherry Lane in 2003 after 7 years at BMI, where she worked closely affiliating songwriters and publishers, as well as putting on showcases for emerging artists.
As Executive Producer of Sesame Street, Carol-Lynn Parente is responsible for overseeing production for Sesame Workshop's landmark television program and serves as a creative guide to keep the program fresh and exciting.? She is the first executive producer to grow up watching the show.
Chris Power served as editor for BusinessWeek's story "Is Your Job Next?," winner of the 2003 Polk Award for Business Reporting.? That story played a leading role in putting the issue of exporting white-collar jobs abroad on the national agenda.?
Cynthia Ponce was named Executive Vice President, General Sales Manager for the ABC Television Network in January 2002. She was previously Senior Vice President, News Sales, a position she assumed in 2000. At that time, she also assumed the role of Director of Diversity Initiatives.
Dana Points has worked as an editor specializing in women's health and well-being coverage for more than fifteen years. She was named executive editor of SELF in August 1999 after joining the magazine as deputy editor in May 1999. At SELF Ms. Points has edited two issues of the food magazine SELF DISHES, as well as the magazine's book 15 Minutes to Your Best Self.
Dana Priest is a two-time Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter for The Washington Post. She spent three years as the Post's intelligence reporter and was Pentagon correspondent for seven years before that. She covered the invasion of Panama (1989), reported from Iraq (1990), covered the Kosovo war (1999), and has traveled widely with Army Special Forces in Asia, Africa and South America and with Army infantry units on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Dave Perry has been On-Air Graphics Producer at VH1 for the past two years.? After graduating from Boston's Tufts University with a degree in English and Film, Dave went back to New York to pursue a career in entertainment.
David F. Poltrack is Executive Vice President, Research and Planning at CBS Television.
David Puente is an Emmy-winning broadcast executive and current producer at CNNs Anderson Cooper 360. He is also an on-air contributor for CNN Espaol and spearheads the Latino section of In America, a CNN blog about identities and perspectives of diverse communities in the United States. More than 40 million users visit CNN.com every month.
Erik Parker is Music Editor for Vibe Magazine. In 2002 he served as Senior Editor for The Source Magazine, following stints as Music editor and Associate Music editor for The Source. As a freelance writer his work has appeared in The Village Voice, XXL, Rolling Stone, The Source and Vibe. He has a B.A. in Communications from Kean University.
Jennifer L. Pozner is the founder and executive director of Women In Media & News (WIMN), a media monitoring, education and advocacy organization. A widely published feminist journalist, media critic and public speaker, Pozner created WIMN in January, 2002 to pursue a multi-platform approach to media reform for women.
Jonah Peretti has spent the last six years creating viral hits, tracking online social behavior, and building technology to amplify buzz. He has been called a "viral marketing hotdog" by the New York Times, "the poster boy of guerilla media" by AlterNet, and was selected by Men's Vogue as one of 13 American Visionaries. Peretti is currently developing a new platform called BuzzFeed designed to help good things win the online popularity contest.
Kelly Port has over 14 years of experience at Digital Domain, where he has amassed an impressive body of work in a wide range of capacities. Most recently, Mr. Port served as Visual Effects Supervisor on the upcoming police drama We Own the Night as well as thrillers including The Hitcher and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
Matias Perel founded Latin3 in 2000 and led the company to a premier position in the raking of interactive marketing agencies in the U.S. and Latin America.
Nina Planck is a food writer, entrepreneur, and the leading American expert on farmers' markets and local food. A champion of small farmers, she grew up on an ecological vegetable farm in Virginia selling vegetables at farmers' markets. After leaving the farm, Nina was a congressional staffer, reporter for TIME Magazine, and speechwriter for President Clinton's ambassador to Britain. In New York City, Nina was Director of the famous Greenmarket, the largest network of farmers' markets in the US.
Norman Pearlstine (born October 4, 1942, in Philadelphia) is the former editor in chief of Time Inc.. He served as editor in chief between January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2005. At the end of his tenure, he was responsible for the content of Time Inc's 154 publications. Through 2006, he served as a senior advisor to Time Warner. In September 2006, he joined The Carlyle Group as a senior advisor to the firm's telecommunications and media group.
Pamela Paul is a journalist and the author of The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony (Villard), selected by The Washington Post as one of the books of 2002. She is a contributor to Time magazine. She's also author of the soon to be released Pornified: How the Culture of Pornography is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships and Our Families (Times Books/Henry Holt, Sept. 2005.)
professor, digital media, NYU Patrick Phillips is the founder and editor of I Want Media, a news and resource website for media professionals. He is an adjunct professor in the journalism department at New York University, and a freelance journalist and corporate writer.
Peter Pringle is an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent who has reported for many British publications, among them: The London Sunday Times, The London Observer, and the Independent, as well as many American newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The?Washington Post, The?Atlantic, The?New?Republic, and The Nation.
Rajiv Pant is Vice President of Information Technology at Cond? Nast Digital, where he is responsible for technology for Cond? Nast's signature brand Web sites. Prior to his move over to Cond? Nast Digital, Mr. Pant was Chief Technology Officer at COXnet, a digital division of Cox Newspapers, one of the nation's leading media/communications companies. It was during this tenure, that Mr. Pant received the Newspaper Association of America's 20 Under 40 Award.
Richard Price, novelist and screenwriter, was born and raised in the Bronx. From the early 1970's, Price earned his reputation as one of New York's preeminent writers with The Wanderers (1974); Blood Brothers (1976); Ladies' Man (1978); The Breaks (1983); Clockers (1992), which was nominated for the National Book Critic Circle Award; Freedomland (1998); and Samaritan (2003).
ROSIE PEREZ was nominated for both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for her role in Peter Weir's Fearless. She was last seen starring in Michel Gondry's Human Nature with Tim Robbins and Patricia Arquette, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld's King of the Jungle with John Leguizamo and Penny Marshall's Riding in Cars With Boys with Drew Barrymore.
Sam Pollard's professional accomplishments as a feature film and television video editor, and documentary producer/director span almost thirty years. He recentlyserved as Executive Producer on the documentary Brother Outsider, Official Selection 2003 Sundance Film Festival. His first assignment as a documentary producer came in 1989 for Henry Hampton's Blackside production Eyes On The Prize II: America at the Racial Crosswords.
Veteran cable public relations practitioner Seth Palansky currently handles communications efforts on behalf of NFL Network, the 24-hour cable and satellite channel dedicated to the National Football League and the sport of football.
Sydney Pollack's twenty films have received 46 Academy Award nominations including two for Best Picture.? His film OUT OF AFRICA won seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director for Pollack.
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Alissa Quart is an author and journalist. Her most recent book Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of The Gifted Child was published by Penguin in 2006 and will be published in paperback this summer in the U.S. and England. She is also the author of Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers published by Basic Books in2004 and translated into seven languages.
Sofía Quintero is the author of several novels and short stories that cross genres. Born into a working-class Puerto Rican-Dominican family in the Bronx., the self-proclaimed “Ivy League homegirl” earned a BA in history-sociology from Columbia University in 1990 and her MPA from the university's School of International and Public Affairs in 1992.
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Adam Rapoport joined GQ as a Senior Editor in July 2000 and was promoted to Style Editor in 2003. He covers fashion, food, design, travel, film, and music for the magazine, and edits the monthly Manual section. Prior to joining GQ, Adam edited the restaurant section at Time Out New York for three years and worked as an editor and writer for the James Beard Foundation's publications office. Adam lives in Manhattan.
Adam Rich, 29, is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Thrillist.com, overseeing all editorial content for the leading men's lifestyle newsletter. He uses an incisive instinct to decide what is worth the readers' time, and to ensure that the writing is consistently relatable, clever and unreservedly sarcastic in the manner that uniquely defines the Thrillist tone.
Adam Ritholz is a founding partner of Ritholz Levy Sanders Chidekel & Fields LLP, originally established in 1995. Adam has practiced in the entertainment field since joining Arista Records in 1981. After positions in law and business affairs at Arista, CBS Records (now Sony) and Chrysalis Records and Chrysalis Music Group, Adam became Executive Vice President of Chrysalis with responsibility for the day to day operations of both the record and music publishing companies.
Voted Clear Channel 2000 Manager of the Year, Andy Rosen oversees 26 stations in the New York trading area as well as the General Manager for the five New York properties (WKTU, WHTZ, WLTW, WAXQ and WWPR).
Andrew Rossi is a director, producer and cinematographer of documentaries. His most recent film, "Page One: InsideThe New York Times" takes viewers to the front lines of the debate about the future of newspapers, following writers on the media desk at the New York Times. "Page One" premiered at theSundance Film Festivaland is being co-distributed byMagnolia Pictures
Andrzej Rapaczynski is a Daniel G. Ross Professor of Law at Columbia University. He is also Editor and Director of Project Syndicate, an international association of newspapers devoted to bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere;
During her 14 years at TMG, Anne has served in many different capacities. She currently runs TMG's Broadway Division and New York office, supervising the marketing campaigns for all Broadway accounts. Clients include Curtains, The Drowsy Chaperone, Grey Gardens, Legally Blonde, Mamma Mia!, The Pirate Queen, Radio Golf and Rent.
Brian Rose is a Professor of Media Studies at Fordham University. He's the author of four books looking at cultural programming on television and was head of special projects for the Directors Guild for 15 years.
CHARLES RANDOLPH-WRIGHT has built a dynamic and diversified career in directing, writing, and producing for theatre, television, and film.
D'Arcy F. Rudnay serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for Comcast Corporation. In this role, she is responsible for strategic communications planning and facilitating unified and consistent communications for the entire Comcast family of companies.
David Rakoff is the author of the books FRAUD and DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE. He is a regular contributor to Public Radio International's "This American Life," Outside, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. His writing has also appeared in Salon, Wired, The New York Observer, and Seed magazine, among others. He lives in New York City.
David Rohde has been a reporter in investigative news at The New York Times since August 2005. In addition to working on investigative projects, he also covered breaking stories for the foreign desk during that period in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, the 2007 Musharraf state of emergency and the 2008 Pakistani national elections.
Dean Ringel, a partner at the New York law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, is a graduate of Columbia College and Yale Law School. Before joining Cahill, he served as a law clerk for Judge Anthony J. Celebrezze of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
Bashir and Diallo are writers on NBC's LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON. Prior to their gig on LATE NIGHT, they wrote for Comedy Central's CHOCOLATE NEWS with David Alan Grier. They also created the critically acclaimed web series, THE MESSAGE (HBO Online) from which came such web sensations as “Condi Rice Raps” and “Poor Man's Hogwarts.”
Winner of the first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He sees "media" as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and "literacy" as the ability to participate consciously in it.
Elizabeth Rubin is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. She has traveled through and written about Afghanistan, Russia, Chechnya, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Uganda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and the former Yugoslavia.
Fernanda Rossi is a writer, filmmaker and story consultant who helps filmmakers craft the story structure of their films in all stages of the filmmaking process. She has doctored over 100 documentaries and fiction scripts, among them Boys to Men by Hoop Dreams' co-maker Frederick Marx, the PBS broadcast documentary The Flute Player by Jocelyn Glatzer and theatrically released Unscrewed by Leslie Shearing.
J. Max Robins Appointed VP and Executive Director of The Paley Center's Media Council and International Council
James P. Rubin is currently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Jill Richardson is the author of Recipe for America: Why Our Food System is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It and she is the founder of the blog La Vida Locavore. She became interested in reforming our food system while working in health care and observing the frequency of preventable diet-related diseases.
After attending New York University, Jim Rutenberg joined the New York Daily News in 1993 as a gossip stringer, later becoming a general assignment reporter. He was hired on staff in 1996 and became a transit beat reporter a year later. In 1999, Jim left the Daily News to go to the New York Observer, where he worked as a TV reporter.
Before joining HBO's Sex and the City, Julie was an award-winning playwright whose theater, radio, and sketch comedy work has been seen and heard throughout New York. Two of her plays, "Cross Words" and "Someone Else" were made into short films. Julie also spent years as a comic book editor at DC Comics, before she began writing for television, on Nickelodeon and MTV. She also contributed humor and entertainment features for Time Out New York, Marie Claire, and Nickelodeon Magazine.
KATIE ROSIN / KAMPFIRE FILMS PR (Marketing/PR) Off-Broadway: …Another Man's Poison, Jay Sharp Theater; Swimming With The Polar Bears, 45 Bleecker Street; Glimpses of the Moon, Algonquin Hotel; Elizabeth Rex, Center Stage; Mother Load, Sage Theater; Wasps in Bed, Beckett Theater; Anaïs Nin: One Of Her Lives, Beckett Theater; Triple Threat: 2007 Drama Desk Nominee (mis)UNDERSTANDING MAMMY: The Hattie McDaniel Story, Theatre 5.
Keith Reinhard is Chairman of DDB Worldwide. DDB ranks among the largest global advertising agency networks in the world with 206 offices in 96 countries. DDB has won more Grand Prix awards in the 50-year history of the International Advertising Festival in Cannes than any other agency network.
Mark Joseph Robichaux is the executive editor of Broadcasting & Cable magazine. He is the author of Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the rise of the modern cable industry.
Maura Regan serves as Vice President and General Manager of Global Consumer Products for the nonprofit educational organization Sesame Workshop. She oversees the Workshop's global retail business across all major categories of licensed goods including toys, apparel, home furnishings, stationery and gifts.
Michael Riedel is the theater columnist for The New York Post and the co-host of Theater Talk, a weekly television program about the New York theater world that airs on Channel Thirteen/WNET. Before joining the New YorkPost, Riedel was the theater columnist for The New York Daily News. He was also the managing editor of TheaterWeek magazine. He has a B.A. in history from Columbia University.
Michael T. Rodriguez, Senior Vice President of Sales for Telemundo, is responsible for the sales and marketing efforts for the Telemundo network, its Spanish-language cable channel, mun2, and their digital properties.
Monty Ross, Spike Lee's former producer and co-producer on such groundbreaking “Made in NY” productions as School Daze, She's Gotta Have it, Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X and Crooklyn, started his career with the Atlanta Street Theatre, a small resident theatre company in Atlanta, Georgia.
A twenty-five year veteran of network and major market television, Nanci is a multiple Emmy-award winning journalist and producer whose skills range from original programming and undercover investigation, to segment and line producing, field directing, and as an executive producer of music, sports and special events.
Norma Rivera joined 107.5 WBLS earlier this year and is currently Account Executive. She began her career in radio ad sales in 1995 as National Sales Manager for Infinity Broadcasting's WFAN/AM. A year later Ms. Rivera joined WCBS/FM, where she spent six years as National Sales Manager, and in 2002 she served as National Sales Manager for Viacom's WCBS/FM and WFAN/AM.
Peter Rainer is the film critic of New York Magazine, reviewer for NPR, and chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. He was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism. Previously, Rainer was film critic at Los Angeles Times, New Times, and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. He's writer and co-producer of the A&E Biographies on Sidney Poitier and the Hustons, and he's editor of the film anthology Love and Hisses.
As an author, newspaper reporter and magazine journalist, Randall Rothenberg has covered the relationships among culture, technology and business for 15 years. Mr. Rothenberg writings have been an exploration of communications and culture, with an emphasis on the forces-financial, organizational and personal-that underlie the creation of words and images.
Rayner Ramirez has worked as a photographer, carpenter, independent documentary filmmaker and a human rights observer in Guatemela before getting into the vocation of journalism.
Richard Roth serves as CNN's senior U.N. correspondent. Based in New York, Roth has covered the U.N.'s role and responses to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a variety of reports about American politics including the 2008 US presidential elections and the 2009 financial crisis.
Prior to founding Cine Qua Non/Incite Pictures, Rose Rosenblatt worked as a producer, editor and writer. Her producing credits include: Rights and Wrongs, a PBS series on human rights, and The Living Theater: A Legacy, a chronicle of the group's 20-year history.
Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Vin Ray is the BBC's Deputy Head of Newsgathering. He is in charge of the recruitment and development of on-air talent for BBC News. He joined the BBC in CEEFAX in 1987 and moved to the Nine O'Clock News as a producer in 1989. He then moved to foreign news where he has spent the bulk of his BBC career.
Wilbert Rideau was sentenced to death for murder in 1961 by an all-white, all-male jury in a trial called "kangaroo court proceedings" by the United States Supreme Court, which threw out the conviction. All-white male juries twice again sentenced him to death. Pursuant to the Supreme Courts 1972 Furman v. Georgia decision, that sentence was amended to life imprisonment in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, then widely acknowledged to be the bloodiest prison in the nation.
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Adam Small is a composer, producer and instrumentalist with credits on CBS, CW, USA, MTV, Discovery, VH1, Bravo, Lifetime, The Travel Channel, Biography, MTV2, The History Channel, Oxygen, The Style Network, County Music Television, Comedy Central, Discovery Health, E! Entertainment, Court TV, Speed TV, CRTV and The Game Show Network. He has scored various film and television projects and is well versed in numerous musical styles.
Akiba Solomon is the health editor for Essence magazine. In this role, she is responsible for assigning and editing health and fitness coverage. She joined ESSENCE in September 2004.
An accomplished film and videomaker and cinematographer, Al Santana began his filmmaking career as staff cinematographer in 1977 with New Jersey Public Television. From 1977-1980, he shot a variety of public affairs shows and documentaries.
Alisa Solomon is a theater scholar, critic and journalist and has been teaching for nearly 20 years as a Professor of English/Journalism at Baruch College-CUNY and as a Professor in the Ph.D. programs in Theater and in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Allison Schlueter is the Vice President, Digital Marketing for the Island Def Jam Music Group. Ms. Schlueter oversees all aspects of digital marketing for artists on the Island Def Jam Roster including Kanye West, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Bon Jovi, Jay-Z and Mariah Carey.
Anthony Schneider is a nationally recognized expert on viral and email marketing. He has led online marketing teams for a range of clients, including Dell, Pfizer, Kimberly-Clark, Estée Lauder, Deloitte Touche, Heineken, AOL and HarperCollins. Anthony is CEO and founder of Peersuasion, a leading peer-to-peer marketing firm.
Anthony Shadid is a staff reporter with the Washington Post. Prior to joining the Post in 2002, Shadid was a Washington-based staff writer for the Boston Globe for two years, during which time he suffered a gun shot wound to the shoulder while on assignment in Israel's West Bank.
Bashir and Diallo are writers on NBC's LATE NIGHT WITH JIMMY FALLON. Prior to their gig on LATE NIGHT, they wrote for Comedy Central's CHOCOLATE NEWS with David Alan Grier. They also created the critically acclaimed web series, THE MESSAGE (HBO Online) from which came such web sensations as “Condi Rice Raps” and “Poor Man's Hogwarts.” Bashir and Diallo founded the popular web troupe Cleo's Apartment whose cast members continue to perform in film and television (including Wyatt Cenac of "The Daily Show").
Bill Smee oversees the development and production of all original programming and programming elements for the network, including specials, series, interstitials and packaging of branded blocks. Under Smee's leadership, the network has won multiple industry honors, including an Emmy, an Overseas Press Club Award, three National Headliner Awards, a BANFF Rockie Award, and has had a film selected for competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
Bill Stump is the Vice President, Brand Editor; Editor, menshealth.com. In this role, he oversees Men's Health's branded website and integrates content across all channels, including online, books, specials, and the print magazine.
Bob Stein has been engaged with electronic publishing full-time since 1980ﾠwhen he spent a year researching and writing a paper for EncyclopediaﾠBritannica ﾗ "EB and Intellectual Tools of the Future."
Brian Stelter is a media reporter at The New York Times. He covers television and digital media for the newspaper, and is a lead contributor to the NYTimes.com blog Media Decoder.
Bruce Shapiro's latest book, Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Reporting in America, "may redeem...the entire profession of journalism," says Publishers Weekly.
Novelist and screenwriter, whose works are deeply rooted in the great humanistic and social tradition of American literature. Budd Schulberg won an Oscar for his screenplay of On the Waterfront (1954), directed by Elia Kazan. In the story a former prize fighter, who has fought all his life for money and lost, eventually fights for the other waterfront workers against corruption-ridden union.
Clay Shirky is an American writer, consultant and teacher on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. He has a joint appointment at New York University as a Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute and Assistant Arts Professor in the New Media focused graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His courses address, among other things, the interrelated effects of the topology of social networks and technological networks, how our networks shape culture and vice-versa.
After graduating from The Wharton School with an MBA, Dan Stone worked on Wall Street and subsequently wrote two non-fiction books, "How to Invest in the Market" and "April Fools: The Rise and Collapse of Drexel Burnham." Over the years, he has consulted as a research director, taught at the university level and coached a variety of sports.
David Schwartz joined the Museum of the Moving Image in 1985. He is responsible for curating, organizing, and overseeing the Museum's wide-ranging film and video programs, which include independent and Hollywood films from the silent era to the present, experimental films, documentaries, animation, and other forms of the moving image.
Donna Sweidan is a credentialed career coach, social networking advocate and Linkedin specialist. In her 15 + years as a coach and counselor she has helped thousands of job seekers and career changers identify the tools and knowledge they need to navigate the demands of the job market.
Douglas Scott is the President of OgilvyEntertainment, where he has, since June 2006, been developing and producing brand funded entertainment for clients, including IBM, Cisco, Unilever and BP. Prior to joining Ogilvy, Doug was co-founder of MATTER, where he developed and produced high visibility integrated marketing programs for Sean Combs, Ford Motor Company and Blender magazine.
Eileen Sharaga, is President of Career Resources and a recognized authority on career development and employment trends. As a career consultant, counselor and educator, Ms. Sharaga works with individuals, businesses, college students and organizations in all aspects of career planning and career management.
In 1998 Evan Schechtman founded Outpost Digital, a next generation media technology company, where he pioneered many new workflows for television and the web that have become industry standards today. Growing up on computers before their curve of popularity helped him understand how to use traditional tools in non-traditional ways, and to predict the evolution of new technology.
Geoffrey Sands is a Director of McKinsey & Company and heads its Global Media, Entertainment and Information Practice in North America. He has over 20 years of experience working with many of the leading marketing, media and entertainment companies.
Georg Szalai is the NY bureau chief and business editor at The Hollywood Reporter. In these roles, he oversees all business and financial news coverage at the publication and is its NY industry liaison. He joined THR as a business reporter in Oct. 2001.
A native of Memphis, Hampton Sides is the author of the New York Times bestseller Blood and Thunder and the international best-seller, Ghost Soldiers, which was the basis for the 2005 Miramax film, The Great Raid. Ghost Soldiers won the 2002 PEN USA award for non-fiction and the 2002 Discover Award from Barnes & Noble, and his magazine work has been twice nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing. Hampton is also the author of Americana. A graduate of Yale with a B.A. in history, he lives in New Mexico with his wife, Anne, and their three sons.
Henry S. Schleiff is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Court TV, The Investigation Channel, having been promoted to that position in December, 1999.
Horacio Silva is the Fashion News/Features Director of T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Horacio was born in Uruguay and raised in Australia, where he lived until moving to Manhattan in 1998.
James Sanders, an architect, co-wrote the Emmy Award-winning PBS series New York: A Documentary Film and its companion volume, New York: An Illustrated History, as well as the acclaimed book, Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies.
Jim Sherman, founder of ShermansTravel Media, LLC launched the online business in 2002 to help travelers find the best travel deals and provide people with travel advice. Not a booking site, ShermansTravel editors aggregate, screen and publish the best travel sales and specials from hundreds of providers. The deals include both bargains and values, and the site also provides expert destination advice and trip ideas for research and planning a vacation.
Jason Schreiber has spent his twenty year video game development career in New York. Before founding Powerhead Games, Jason was Senior Producer at GT Interactive Software (now Infogrames/Atari).
Jean Margaret Smith is responsible for managing the networks' strategic relationships with social advocates, elected officials, and public opinion leaders, as well as handling the company's overall public affairs agenda. Smith also oversees the company's relationships with the educational community, including Nickelodeon's participation in Cable in the Classroom.
Jeffrey W. Schneider was named Vice President, ABC News, in September of 2000. Schneider is the spokesman for ABC News and oversees communications for all ABC News broadcasts, including: “World News Tonight,” “Nightline,” “Primetime Live,” “20/20,” “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” “Good Morning America,” “World News Now,” “World News This Morning,” and “World News Tonight Saturday & Sunday.”
Jonathan Schell was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine from 1967 until 1987. He was the principle writer of the magazine's Notes and Comments, and also wrote long pieces, many of which were published as books. His reflective work on the nuclear question The Fate of the Earth (Knopf, 1982), which first appeared in three parts in The New Yorker, became a best-seller and was hailed by The New York Times as "an event of profound historical moment."
Lauren Sandler is the author of “Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement”. She is the former Life Editor at Salon.com, and spent three years at National Public Radio working for Morning Edition's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. Her work as appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times and The Guardian, and she is currently editing a major crowd-sourced journalism project for Wired.
Lisa Schwarzbaum joined Entertainment Weekly as a senior writer in 1991, and became one of the magazine's two movie critics in 1994. In addition, she contributes book and theater reviews, essays, and cultural criticism.
Lisa Silverman Meyers is Vice President of Planning and Marketing Services at Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products, the third largest licensed consumer products group in the world. She manages overall planning for properties in the Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer Products portfolio, including those from Nickelodeon (Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues, SpongeBob SqaurePants), Neopets, Paramount Motion Pictures (The Godfather, Dreamgirls, Beowulf), Comedy Central (South Park, Chappelle) and Spike, among others.
Maia Szalavitz is a journalist who covers health, science and public policy. Her most recent book, co-written with leading child trauma expert Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, is The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing (Basic, 2007).
Mark Samels was named executive producer of AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, PBS's flagship history series, in 2003. Produced by WGBH/Boston, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE is television's most-watched and longest running history series.
Mark Schone is the news editor of Salon.com. He was previously a contributing writer at SPIN magazine. His work has been published in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the Village Voice, Wired, the Washington Post and Outside. He won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for the book "Son of a Grifter."
Matt Shatz is Head of Content Relations for Nokia, where he is leading the companyﾒs efforts in securing and promoting publishing content for Nokiaﾒs digital reading platforms.
Michael Slade has been writing daytime for ten years and currently writes for Days of Our Lives. He is a 1997 Writers Guild Award nominee for Another World, and 2001 Emmy nominee for One Life to Live.
MICHELE SLUNG has worked in the mystery field as an editor, critic, scholar and anthologist for over thirty years. She has contributed to numerous reference books, including Twentieth-Century Crime & Mystery Writers and The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing.
CBS News Correspondent Morley Safer has been a co-editor of 60 Minutes since December 1970. The 2002-03 season marks his 33rd on the broadcast. Safer's body of work covering over 40 years of journalistic accomplishments was just recognized with the George Polk career achievement award.
Nadine Strossen, professor of law at New York Law School, has written, lectured, and practiced extensively in the areas of constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights. Since 1991, she has served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union, the first woman to head the nation's largest and oldest civil liberties organization.
Natasha Stevens is the Managing Director of Research at RFBinder Partners. Natasha's expertise spans numerous industries: consumer goods, financial services, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications.
Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, and the editor of its national security blog, Danger Room. He has reported from Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, the Pentagon, Los Alamos, and from military bases around the country. He has written about technology and national security for The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Foreign Policy, and The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, among others.
Paul Schnee is a casting agent with Hopkins Smith and Barden Casting. A graduate of Kenyon College, he worked at ICM and was assistant to Mike Nichols. After a twelve-year career in publishing, most recently as Senior Editor at Simon and Schuster, he returned to the film world when he began with Hopkins Smith and Barden in January 2004.
Rachel Sklar is the former Senior Contributing Editor for the Huffington Post and was the founding editor of the site's Eat The Press page. She has contributed to The New York Times, the Village Voice, the Financial Times, Glamour, New York Magazine, and numerous publications in her homeland of Canada.
Rachel Sterne is CEO of GroundReport.com, a global news platform that empowers anyone to publish and earn a revenue share from original, intelligent reporting. Currently GroundReport's network has over 3,700 reporters around the world who regularly break world news stories.
As Vice President, Research and Planning for Nickelodeon Digital Television, Radha Subramanyam oversees ratings, primary and online research for NOGGIN, The N, Nicktoons & Nickelodeon Games and Sports (GAS), as well as Ad Sales research for The N. Most recently Subramanyam served as Senior Director of Research for Nickelodeon Digital Television and started the research department in March 2004.
Regan Solmo is the Managing Editor of Lucky, the magazine about shopping.
Before assuming her current role as anchor of CBS's The Early Show, Syler anchored the noon and 6:00 PM newscasts at KTVT, the CBS owned station in Dallas, since February 2000.
Ryan Schlief , Program Coordinator for Asia at WITNESS, is a life-long activist and campaign strategist who first picked up a video camera and began editing in his teens. Ryan has been a local community organizer in the USA on racism and discrimination and worked as a staff person on international issues and immigration for the US progressive political leader, US Senator Paul Wellstone.
Sam Sifton is the editor of the Dining section of The New York Times. Formerly a senior writer at Talk magazine, he was also the managing editor of the weekly New York Press. He is the author of the most spectacularly ill-timed release in the history of satire: Field Guide to the Yettie: Stalking the Dot-Com Geek, published in the summer of 2000. He lives in Brooklyn where he is from, with his wife, Tina Fallon, and two daughters.
Sandra Sokoloff is SVP & director of national media relations at Porter Novelli, overseeing the agency's New York national media relations team. Sokoloff has 18 years of communications experience in developing, managing and implementing media strategies and projects that resonate with journalists and deliver on clients' corporate objectives.
Stacy Sullivan is a senior editor at the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, a non-profit organization that trains journalists in countries in transition, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Caucuses, and many other. She previously covered the Balkans for two years for Newsweek magazine and is the author of "Be Not Afraid, for You Have Sons in America: How a Brooklyn Roofer Helped Lure the U.S. into the Kosovo War." She has written for the New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Men's Journal and other magazines.
Stephen B. Shepard is the founding dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at The City University of New York.
Steven Scharf's 40 years in the recording industry has covered areas of record producing, A&R (Private Stock Records), music publishing and the management of record producers, film and tv composers. In 1991, he founded Steven Scharf Entertainment, a producer management company, and ventured with legendary music publisher Freddy Bienstock of Carlin America overseeing Carlin's Creative/Film & TV Divisions.
A onetime actor/comedian and the youngest writer to work for comedy legend Bob Hope, Tom Shadyacﾒs writing/directing career was launched in 1994 with the Jim Carrey smash hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.
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Born in Passaic, New Jersey, in 1945, Allan Tannenbaum has been photographing since the 1960s. He received a BA in Art from Rutgers University in 1967, where he photographed for The Targum - the campus newspaper - and made films for his art courses. He made films as a graduate student at San Francisco State College and as an independent filmmaker in New York.
Amy Tucker views sustainability as an inspiration for innovation and advancement. Tucker invented XEKO and established Matter Group after 12 years in high-tech and custom publishing, where she architected integrated-media programs for companies including Microsoft, Nintendo, and T-Mobile. As vice president of strategic development at Fluent Communications, Tucker crafted programs that included Microsoft's first consumer e-commerce engine, Nintendo's Pokémon website, and T-Mobile's mobile content program.
In fall 2004, Tony served as a producer on Bravo's five-hour documentary series THE 100 SCARIEST MOVIE MOMENTS.
Chris Theodoros has been an innovative leader in the interactive advertising world for the past ten years. A director with Google, Inc.
Rosemarie Truglio is in her 11th year at Sesame Workshop and is responsible for the development of the interdisciplinary curriculum on which Sesame Street is based, and for the formative research conducted to inform production on how to enhance both the entertaining and educational components of the program. Dr. Truglio also develops and reviews the content across all Sesame Street products and programs (e.g. publishing, interactive, home videos, and outreach).
Elizabeth Toledo is from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America which is the largest voluntary family planning organization in the world. Elizabeth is Vice President of Communications where she oversees all media relations, marketing, creative services, and research. She appears frequently on such top-rated programs as CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Fox's Hannity & Colmes, the NBC Nightly News and National Public Radio.
Erik Torkells graduated from Duke University in 1992, after which he worked at HarperCollins for five months, then started at Town & Country as assistant to the editor. He left three and a half years later for Travel + Leisure, where he was an associate editor, and then a senior editor.
Farnoosh Torabi is a personal finance author, journalist and television guest.
Helga Tawil-Souri's scholarship is on globalization, media technologies, cultural expressions and their relationship to economic and political change in the Middle East.
Other films include: Two Girls and a Guy; Black and White; Harvard Man; When Will I Be Loved; Screenwriter, Bugsy
Jeffrey Toobin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since January 1993 and is also the senior legal analyst for CNN, which he joined in 2002 after six years with ABC News. In 2000, he received an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case.
Joe Trippi, heralded on the cover of The New Republic as the man who “reinvented campaigning,” was born in California and began his political career working on Edward M. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1980. His work in presidential politics continued with the campaigns of Walter Mondale, Gary Hart, Richard Gephardt and Howard Dean.
Matt Taibbi is a roving national reporter for Rolling Stone and a columnist for rollingstone.com. He's the author of Spanking the Donkey, a collection of his writings about the 2004 election. He lives in New York City.
Raina Telgemeier is the creator of Take-Out Comics, which have been nominated for two Ignatz Awards, and won the Kim Yale Award for Best New Talent in 2003.
Ryan Tudhope is a visual effects supervisor for The Orphanage, a leading VFX and film production company based in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Touré is the author of Soul City, a novel, and the Pop Culture Correspondent at CNN¹s American Morning. He's also a Contributing Editor at Rolling Stone, the host of MTV2¹s Spoke N¹ Heard, and the author of the Portable Promised Land, a collection of short stories.
Wade has been designing and developing games since 1996. He holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. Wade is the founding editor of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association) Casual Games Quarterly, and the Coordinator of the NYC Chapter of the IGDA.
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Andrea von Foerster was born in the West Midlands in England and grew up in various parts of the U.K., Indiana and Southern California. She got her start in the music business while attending the University of Southern California. Andrea started working at Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group in the music department for live action features during her junior year on such films as Armageddon, Gone In Sixty Seconds and her favorite…High Fidelity.
Christopher Vollmer is a Partner in Booz & Company's Global Consumer and Media Practice, based in New York, and he leads the firm's U.S. Media and Entertainment team.
During a 45-year career with The Associated Press, Edith M. Lederer has worked on every continent except Antarctica covering wars, famines, nuclear issues and political upheavals.
Edward Vetri is the CEO/President of Wind-up Entertainment, a post he has held since January 2003. Under his leadership, Mr. Vetri has guided the growth of Wind-up Records, its sister Publishing Companies, the merchandising concern Pronto Merch (founded in February, 2002)
Elisabeth Vincentelli is arts & entertainment editor at Time Out New York, where she started as music editor. At TONY, she oversees most of what doesn't involve eating, drinking or shopping.
Manny is founder of Vidal Partnership, the second largest marketing communications agency in NYC and winner of over 100 creative awards, with offices in NY, Miami, LA and Atlanta.
Profile: Peter Voci holds the rank of full professor and is the chairperson of the Fine Arts Department in the School of Arts Sciences and Communication at the New York Institute of Technology. He has also coordinated the graduate Computer Graphics Specialization program that he developed in 1982.
Richard Vetere wrote the critically acclaimed novel The Third Miracle and co-authored the screenplay adaptation produced by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche.
He's a self-made machine. He's got his hands in everything. He's a whirlwind of opinion and pop culture. He's a Jersey boy-cum jewelry designer-cum television host-cum lifestyle expert-cum rising superstar. Design denizens adore his keen eye for color, homemakers hail his quick fixes for fixer-uppers, and fashion experts cling to the edge of their front row seat during fashion shows anticipating his kiss of couture death or delight. Robert Verdi's name is synonymous with style.
Tunku Varadarajan was editorial features editor of The Wall Street Journal for almost five years before recently assuming his new position as Assistant Managing Editor.
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Ben Williams is the Editorial Director of New York magazines Website, nymag.com, which he played a central role in relaunching in fall 2006. He has developed many new online features, including the Daily Intelligencer news blog, the Grub Street food blog, and up-to-the minute fashion and politics coverage.
As Billboard's Editorial Director, Bill Werde leads the editorial strategy and vision for the brand, which includes the weekly publication, websites (Billboard.com and Billboard.biz) and other digital content offerings, as well as industry-leading conferences and events.
Bryan Walsh writes TIME's “Going Green” column, which focuses on environmental issues, and he frequently writes news stories about the environment in addition to covering general interest and national stories. A former Tokyo bureau chief for TIME, Walsh was named writer in August 2007 and is now based in New York.
Cassandra West is an editor in Tempo, the Chicago Tribune's daily features section. Until recently she was editor of the WomanNews, a decade-old section that published its last freestanding edition Dec. 31, 2005.
Christopher R. Weingarten is the music editor of CMJ New Music Monthly and CMJ New Music Report, a consumer magazine and a trade publication dedicated to college radio's emerging artists.
David Willey, a Senior Vice President of Rodale, is the Editor-in-Chief of Runner's World and the Editorial Director of Running Times. He joined Runner's World in 2003 and oversaw the magazine's award-winning redesign in 2004.
Two time Emmy-winner Dick Wolf, one of television's most respected drama series creator/producers, is the architect of one of the most successful brands in the history of television - Law & Order.
Dina Wise began her career 12 years ago working for 7th on Sixth where she was part of the team that oversaw the production of over 70 fashion shows at New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park.
Ed Wetschler is the executive editor of Tripatini.com, a new and growing social networking site for travelers, travel media, and travel industry professionals.
As political director of NBC News since March 2003, Elizabeth Wilner helps to plan and oversee the content of the day-to-day political coverage on the network's news programs as well as the content of its election coverage.
A visual effects producer since 1996, Erika Wangberg Burton has worked at several major effects and animation facilities over the course of a twenty-year career in the industry. Today, as Executive Producer of Rhythm & Hues' Film division, Erika oversees production of the studio's numerous movie projects, which currently include the 2007 releases of "His Dark Materials: Golden Compass," "Evan Almighty" and "The Kingdom."
Born in Liverpool, now resident in New York, "Alms Trade" and "Rum" author Ian has written for newspapers and magazines around the world, ranging from the Australian to The Independent, from the New York Observer and the Village Voice to the Financial Times.
Jay Weinstein is a professional chef and writer, author of The Everything Vegetarian Cookbook (Adams Media, 2002) and The Cup of Comfort Cookbook (Adams, 2002).
Jenna Wolfe joined the Eyewitness News Sports department in July of 2004 after two years at the Madison Square Garden Network. Before that, she blazed a trail in Philadelphia as the first female sportscaster on a local broadcast television news program at WPHL.
John Willoughby, the Executive Editor of Gourmet, is also the co-author, with Chris Schlesinger, of seven cookbooks, including the award-winning Thrill of the Grill (Morrow, 1990) and, most recently, Let the Flames Begin (Norton, spring, 2002).
A full time member of the Sports Illustrated staff since September 1997, Wertheim is one of the magazine's most versatile writers, as he covers a broad range of topics including tennis, the NBA, sports business and social issues.
Kent Worcester is the coeditor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium (University Press of Mississippi, 2004), and a regular contributor to the Comics Journal. He is the program chair for the 2005 MoCCA Art Festival, which will be held at the Puck Building on June 11-12, 2005.
Laurel Wentz is the international and multicultural editor of Advertising Age magazine. She moved to New York three years ago from London, where she was the editor of Ad Age International, a monthly international magazine.
Linda Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday, which she joined in 1987. She has taught critical writing at Columbia University's graduate School of the Arts since 1992 and been the host of the “Women in Theatre” series on CUNY-TV since 2002.
Wallach is responsible for overseeing all of the New York office's development of original pilots and series production and works closely in all aspects of series development with the network's West Coast office.
Mary Alice Williams is an award-winning writer, anchor, correspondent and television host who has made extensive contributions as a journalist for over 30 years. Currently she reports on cutting-edge medical news for Discovery Health Channel and is a special reporter at WCBS Newsradio880.
Matthew Winkler is editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, the global news service he founded with Michael Bloomberg in 1990 when he joined the then eight-year-old financial information company Bloomberg L.P. He became a member of the Bloomberg L.P. board in 2006.
Business journalist Michael Wilke has charted the emergence of gay marketing and advertising since 1992. His work is widely cited by college textbooks and news agencies, and he is credited with coining the popular term "gay vague" by major newspapers.
Michael Winship is president of the Writers Guild of America, East.
As Senior Director of Marketing at the United States Tennis Association (USTA), Michelle Wilson oversees all advertising, promotion, and branding for USTA corporate and professional tennis, including the US Open, US Open Series, USTA Pro Circuits, U.S. Davis Cup, U.S. Fed Cup and the Olympics.
Started in independent distribution in 1990, left for Atlantic Records (working Pavement, Jewel, Everything But The Girl, Stone Temple Pilots, Melvins, Yo La Tengo, Juliana Hatfield); VP of Marketing & Sales at The Enclave (signing Sloan and Belle & Sebastian);
Naomi Wolf's landmark international bestseller, The Beauty Myth, challenged the cosmetics industry and the marketing of unrealistic standards of beauty, launching a new wave of feminism in the early 1990s. The New York Times called it one of the most important books of the 20th century.
Omar Wasow is Executive Director of BlackPlanet.com at Community Connect Inc., a state-of-the-art website which facilitates an online community among African-Americans. He is also an internet analyst for "NewsChannel 4." His reports appear on the station's various newscasts, and he is a frequent contributor to the station's website, newschannel4.com.
On June 25, 2002, Prime Minister Chrétien appointed Pamela Wallin Canada's Consul General to New York City. The respected broadcaster and journalist has been president of her own independent production company, Pamela Wallin Productions Inc., which she established in 1995.
Eager to expand the palate of traditional “meat and potatoes” media fare, Paul Woolmington founded The Media Kitchen in order to offer clients a more extensive and unique blend of dishes.
Rebecca Weinberg is an Emmy Award winning stylist for television, film and print media. She got her start in musical theater, which naturally segued into costume design and styling.
As director of the NY Consumer Practice, Renee Wilson has over 15 years experience in brand building, launching new products, influencer marketing and marketing to women. In her current role, Wilson oversees the strategic programming of clients such as Procter & Gamble, Philips, Vonage and Cartier, among others.
Richard Wesley, Associate Professor in Playwriting and Screenwriting, is currently the Acting Chair of the Department of Dramatic Writing.
Author of five award-winning novels, Rita Williams-Garcia continues to break new ground in young people's literature. Known for their humanistic portrayals of teens of color, Williams-Garcia's works have been recognized by the Coretta Scott King Award Committee, PEN Norma Klein, American Library Association, and Parents' Choice, among many others.
Ryan Werner is Vice President of Marketing at IFC Entertainment where he oversees all marketing and publicity for the company's theatrical and home video releases.
Stan Williams has been fashion director at Maxim for the past 7½ years, where he is in charge of men's fashion and grooming coverage at the largest men's general interest magazine in the country.
Steven Weinstock is the nine-time Emmy award winning producer, co-founder and President of True Entertainment. Under his guidance, True has grown rapidly into a leading television and film production company dedicated to the craft of storytelling.
Embracing her passion for fashion and fascination with pop culture, Tina Wells began writing reviews on products and companies that target youth for The New Girl Times, a newspaper for young girls at the age of 16.
Wendy Wasserstein was born in Brooklyn and raised in Manhattan. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama.
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Since his arrival on the scene just five years ago, Little x has directed over 80 music videos and commercials, including motion picture narratives for Ginuwine, photographic minimalist work for P. Diddy, the off-the-wall comedy of Chris Rock, and music videos for the likes of Mystikal, Sisqo, Usher and Nelly.
Bios Y (3 items)
Fred Young is Senior Vice President of News at Hearst-Argyle Television. Young, who oversees news operations in 21 states, served as vice president of news since Hearst-Argyle's formation in August 1997.
Armed with an extensive background in marketing and communications and proficient in several Asian languages, Jeannie founded her own advertising agency, A Partnership, Inc.
Suze Yalof Schwartz is the Executive Fashion Editor at Large of GLAMOUR magazine. She is an expert voice in the media for fashion makeovers and GLAMOUR's trademark Dos & Don'ts.
Bios Z (6 items)
Elisa Zuritsky got her start writing fiction and essays, before creating two columns at the New York Post: "Cheap Date," and its celebrity-profile spinoff, "Celebrity Date."
Lauren Zalaznick, appointed President of the Bravo cable television network in May 2004, oversees all programming, marketing, digital and new business strategies for the network.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman is Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report. He publishes U.S. News & World Report and the New York Daily News and is the founder of Boston Properties, Inc.
Richard Zoglin has been theater critic for TIME magazine since 1996.
Stefanie Ziev joined Oxygen Media as Director of Development, in April of 2002. In May of 2003 she was promoted to VP of Development, East Coast.
Book and Authors (16 items)
Daydream Believers: How We Went to War
Slate columnist Fred Kaplan and James Rubin, former Chief Spokesman, State Dept., discuss Kaplan's book on the Bush administration's war initiatives. As foreign policy dominates the campaign trail, Daydream Believers is sure to be one of the year's most hotly debated books.
Do you dream of free trips to exotic places and spacious suites in four-star palaces? To some that's just another day on the job. Too good to be true? Maybe not. If you can write up a storm, have original ideas, and can make a great pitch, travel to SoHo and learn how to turn this flight of fancy into a reality.
Graphic Novels: Drawing Attention
Call `em sequential art, expensive comic books, or as master-of-the-genre Art Spiegelman prefers, “comic books that needs a bookmark.” Whatever they are, graphic novels are grabbing hold like never before. With a critical mass of talented artists and stepped up distribution, comics are getting respect. Meet the superheroes who dominate the industry.
Sir Harold Evans on his passion for the crusading style of reporting he has championed throughout his long, illustrious career. For many years, editor for The Sunday Times of London, The Times of London, a several other publications, Evans has plenty to say about the state of the profession; his epic clashes with Rupert Murdoch; and his belief that journalism should better lives of those less fortunate.
Books on youth culture are the new bestsellers as adults attempt to understand the conflicts and influences confronting today's kids. But social critics claim that 'youth profiling' and juvenile navel-gazing exploits youngsters and is sending the wrong messages. Authors debate the pros and cons.
Laughing Matters: Comedy at the Edge
Actor and novelist Richard Belzer sits down critic Richard Zoglin, who has covered the showbiz beat for over 20 years. His new book, Comedy at the Edge, is a chronicle of stand-up from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, and highlights innovators like Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Mel Brooks, Steve Martin. Join us for this informative and entertaining evening.
Media and the Politics of Food
If you don't know a trans-fat from a transsexual beware: when it comes to food, what you don't know can hurt you. The food industry will say anything, and the media constantly proclaims “new findings” to refute their “old new findings.” Our panel of writers and chefs offer clarity and feed your hunger for wholesome information.
According to a recent wave of news stories, the conservative Christian right wields an increasingly powerful media force and is becoming more creative at getting their message out - on television and radio, and in movies, books and magazines. While some don't see a cause for alarm, other believe this kind of proselytizing dangerously blurs the lines between politics and religion.
Publishing your memoir doesn't have to be a fantasy. Even the most ordinary lives have fascinating stories, but it's up to the writer to turn them into a compelling tale. Our panel of writers has mastered the art and will offer tips on how to turn your life into tomorrow's best-seller.
Richard Price: Novel to Screen
Richard Price, author and screenwriter, is an accomplished and highly-acclaimed novelist who often adapts his books to the big screen.
Join the author of the epic work on the Hemings family, slaves whose blood tiesto Thomas Jefferson, until very recently, had been erased from annals of American history. Annette Gordon-Reed has traced them from 1700 Virginia, to the family's dispersal in 1826. The backdrop to this spell-binding saga includes Revolutionary America, pre-revolution Paris, and plantation life at Monticello.
It is the holy grail of the book industry, but what exactly is a bestseller? And what can one do to improve a book's chances of New York Times glory? Hear from the editors, publishers and publicists behind some of this year's top-selling page-turners, and discover the secrets to breaking into the publishing world.
If you love to write as much as you love to travel, and are confident you have something to offer, this is for you. Travel pros share valuable tips, reveal useful resources and define opportunities that will get you started you on the road to success.
Walt Disney transformed animation from novelty to art form, first with Mickey Mouse and then with his feature films—most notably Snow White, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. Hear author Neal Gabler on how this creative visionary reshaped the entertainment industry by building an empire combining film, television, theme parks, music, book publishing, and merchandise in a way that was unprecedented, and later widely imitated.
Writing Biographies: Whose Life Is It, Anyway?
Writing a biography of a famous person is always a challenge. The writer must bring together the bits and pieces of a complicated life to create a cohesive story that helps the reader understand the meaning and significance of that life. Learn from these bestselling authors what it takes to succeed.
Young Adult Fiction Comes of Age
If you're hoping to write the next Y.A. sensation or to adapt one for film, TV or the Web, come hear what top writers, editors and producers from the fastest growing segment of popular literature have to say on finding success.
Book and Authors: Recent Seminars
Digital Media (10 items)
With ‘opt-out' functions making it possible to bypass commercials on television, traditional ads started flooding the Internet.
The current digital environment offers new opportunities for tech savvy entrepreneurs. Today, digital launches cost a lot less than brick-and-mortar start-ups.
Digital Entrepreneurs, NY Style
Ten years later, New York City is once again an established launching pad for Internet start-ups, particularly in the field of social media and smart-phone apps. Hear from the creators of some of the most popular current trends, all born in the Big Apple.
Digital Era: Online Marketing:�What's Next?
Join us for an insider's view on what the future holds. Digital visionaries explore how social communities, user-generated content, commercial-avoidance technologies and performance-based media are changing all the rules. Find out everything you need to know NOW to keep your competitive edge!
Digital Era: Video Technology: Eye on the Future
With ever-evolving advanced technologies changing the rules at mind-boggling speed, how do chief tech officers keep up with the ever-evolving landscape?
Food Bytes: What's Cooking on the Web?
Our panel of food experts, chefs and passionate eaters explore the growing phenomenon of food on the Internet as several millions of people every day log on in hopes of discovering Nirvana.
Can revisiting the works of renowned communications visionary Marshall McLuhan help us cope with the technological tidal wave headed our way?
Social Networking Your Way to a Job
While social networking can be a great way to make connections and promote your personal brand, job-seekers must be sure they are using these resources to their best advantage by conveying a professional image and underscoring their qualifications. Career experts talk about the perils and pitfalls.
It's no surprise that technology has changed the ways in which audiences relate to media. Pre-digital delivery systems and the old media model of the “common campfire” are long gone raising concerns about audience fragmentation, the collapse of print and new media's ability to generate unbiased news and information.
Video Games: Cracking the Code
With 30 gaming companies here in New York, the city is fast becoming a major hub for designers, developers and writers of this multi-billion dollar industry. Hear how you can parlay your skills, talents and passion for games into a career.
Digital Media: Recent Seminars
Featured Speakers (9 items)
Andy Cohen is Bravo's Senior Vice President of Original Programming and Development, responsible for overseeing the network's current development and production slate of over two dozen shows, including hits that include the Emmy and James Beard award-winning "Top Chef," "The Real Housewives of Orange County, New York City, Atlanta and New Jersey," "Shear Genius," "The Millionaire Matchmaker," "Million Dollar Listing," and "Flipping Out." In addition, Cohen is the host of 'Watch What Happens: Live," Bravo's late night, interactive, weekly talk show that features guests from some of Bravo's most popular series, as well as from the world of entertainment, politics and pop culture. The series includes lively debates on everything from fashion, the latest Housewives drama, to what celebrity is making headlines that week.
Arianne Ayers is the Publicity and Marketing Director at Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Releasing._
Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare, a service that mixes social, locative and gaming elements to encourage people to explore the cities in which they live. Previously, Dennis founded dodgeball.com, one of the first mobile social services in the US, which was acquired by Google in 2005.
Enrique R. Mart?nez was named Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Discovery Networks Latin America/ US Hispanic in 2001.? He is responsible for the? company-wide commercial and operational units including sales, affiliate relations, cable distribution, production operations, research, marketing, communications and information technology for Discovery's 13 real-world entertainment networks: Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids, Liv, Animal Planet, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Travel & Living, Discovery Civilization, Discovery Science, Discovery Turbo, Discovery HD Theater, TLC, Discovery en Espanol, Discovery Familia . In addition, Mart?nez is responsible for overseeing the US Hispanic Networks Group, which is comprised of Discovery en Espa?ol and Discovery Familia.
No More Mental Barriers,ﾬﾆNo More 9 to 5 and The 7 Keys to Transformationﾬﾆ
With an extensive media background covering the U.S. consumer spectrum, Marla Skiko found her niche in multicultural marketing. Skiko was instrumental in creating and articulating the philosophies that now define SMG Multicultural, a division of Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) and the country's leading multicultural contact entity that includes dedicated offices in Chicago, New York and Miami.
Sebastian Junger is the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author ofWAR,The Perfect Storm,A Death in Belmont,andFire. As a contributing editor toVanity Fairand as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.'�He has been awarded the National Magazine Award and an SAIS Novartis Prize for Journalism.
Susan Watts has been an award-winning photojournalist in New York City for more than 15 years. A staff photographer at the New York Daily News since 1995, she covers top local, national and international news stories.
Vincent D'Onofrio is known as an "actor's actor". The wide variety of roles he has played and the quality of his work have earned him a reputation as a versatile talent. He studied at the Actors Studio and the American Stanislavski Theatre. His debut on stage was in 1984 in the Broadway play "Open Admissions", followed by work in numerous other stage plays. As a film actor, D'Onofrio's career break came when he played a mentally unbalanced recruit in Full Metal Jacket (1987), directed by the renowned Stanley Kubrick. For this role D'Onofrio gained nearly 70 pounds. He had a major role in Dying Young (1991), and appeared prominently in the box-office smash Men in Black (1997) as the bad guy (Edgar "The Bug").
Film (31 items)
Peter Biskind, author of Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film, the book that sent the film world reeling, reveals how Sundance grew from a regional celebration of low-budget, non-studio movies, to a grand spectacle equal to the Cannes Festival.
Anna Deavere Smith: Life in the Arts
For writers, actors and visual artists, straight-up advice on how to have a fulfilling life in the Arts. Multi-talented and prolific, Smith created a series of of one-woman plays, performed both on and off Broadway, winning two Obies and two Tony nominations.
No longer settling for the 30-second spot, brands strive to be more visible and more subtle at the same time, as the endangered spot gives way to reality show and video game tie-ins, and brand-generated content appears everywhere from YouTube and Xbox to airplanes and movie theaters.
Choosing the right performers to embody the characters and breathe life into a script takes a rare blend of skills, intuition, and technical expertise, as well as an ability to work in harmony with a wide variety of production teams.
Directing Digital: Pieces of April
Award-winning screenwriter and new director Peter Hedges screens the Sundance Festival favorite indie hit, Pieces of April, which was nominated for a 2004 Academy Award.
Documentaries: Hitting the Circuit
Film festivals are now the best place to showcase your work, find a distributor, raise money, and get the publicity and word-of-mouth that can put your movie on the map -- and on the screen.
Join us for a screening of Roads to Memphis, a riveting crosscut narrative set against the backdrop of the seething and turbulent forces that existed in the sixties.
Filmmaker Lee Daniels in Conversation with Monty Ross
In 2002, Lee Daniels produced the critically acclaimed box office success Monster's Ball, starring Halle Berry, who made history by becoming the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Hollywood and the Racial Divide
In the 21st century, is Hollywood still guilty of misrepresenting minorities and relegating non-whites to secondary roles?
Fantasizing about a career you can handle that still pays big bucks? Come hear Stanley Bing's wickedly funny approach to the job search from his new book 100 Bullshit Jobs and How to Get Them.
Leni Riefenstahl: Art or Propaganda?
Best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," Leni Riefenstahl was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the 20th century. Her best-known works, Triumph of the Will and Olympia were hailed as masterpieces when they came out in the late thirties.
Made in New York: Documentaries
Accomplished, prolific, multi award-winning filmmakers discuss their amazing body of work and offer sound advice for aspiring producers, directors, editors and screenwriters.
Making a Great Horror Film: Slashing the Competition
Learn from leading creative execs what it takes to develop, produce and promote a horror hit today. Our panel of experts will explore what goes into turning out original, marketable and creatively successful screamers, and will also reveal the latest publicity and marketing techniques to create the buzz you need.
How do you take an issue you are passionate about, raise the money, and get it out there? Join us for a screening of The Education of Shelby Knox, a compelling documentary about sex, religion and politics in the heartland that has garnered accolades and awards at Sundance, SXSW and the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
Philippe Petit accomplished the unbelievable feat of navigating a single wire stretched between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
Meet the Director: Vincent D'Onofrio
Join us for a screening of Vincent D'Onofrio's directorial debut with Don't Go in the Woods a new movie that is now making the rounds of film festivals. This black comedy/horror-musical has been described as "The Blair Witch Project Meets Glee."
Movie Magic: Inside Visual Effects
How did they do that? This is the question in the minds of movie audiences worldwide while watching a well-made action movie.
Mystery Novels as Movies: The Case of the Missing Plot
Mystery novels take their place as some of the most entertaining and engaging translations to the screen. But what does it take to get it right?
On the Waterfront with Budd Schulberg
Calling all film students! Join us for a screening of On the Waterfront with Budd Schulberg who wrote this tough and uncompromising screenplay about dock workers struggling under the iron fist of mob-run unions.
Perfect Pitch: Cable at the Table
n the ever-expanding world of cable television, channels are looking for content and cable nets are more open to hearing about the 'next big thing.'
Reel Images: Stereotypes in Film
With films like Crash and television shows like Arrested Development, racial and ethnic stereotypes are alive and well in mainstream media.
Saving the World, One Video at a Time
Communication is the key when it comes to educating and mobilizing the public to focus on under-reported news around the globe.
Screening: At the Edge of the World
Director Dan Stone follows volunteer activists as they take on a fleet of well-equipped Japanese whaling ships that, despite an international ban, routinely kill whales in the Antarctic.
MILLENNIUM FILMS AND LANGLEY FILMS PRESENT
Sydney Pollack looks back at his amazing career as the quintessential filmmaker having produced and/or directed more than 50 movies we all love.
The Art and Science of Animation
TV and film animation is bigger than ever and new technology continues to revolutionize the creative process. Join our animation pros and find out about the latest developments in the field.
Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3 Corp. talks with Max Robins (from the Paley Center for Media) about the growing phenomenon: Video on the Web.
Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary Food, Inc. By combining interviews with workers in the multi-billion dollar agribusiness with footage of how the food industry operates, Robert Kenner's Food, Inc.
Is there a Hollywood ending in sight in 2009 for the entertainment industry as it struggles to weather the worst slump in decades?
For many years the poor cousins of the film family, documentaries have recently been in the limelight, enjoying more theatrical releases, longer runs and glowing reviews. What accounts for docs' new-found success? And what does the future hold for the genre? Hear what these master filmmakers have to say.
Meet director James Toback and enjoy a sneak preview of his latest film - a revealing, up close and personal look at the tumultuous life of the former heavyweight champ.
Graphic Design (2 items)
Behind the Image: Graphic Design
Graphic design surrounds us, conveying messages and promoting products. But there's more to this than meets the eye.
Graphic Arts: Designing Your Career
Put your creative artistic flair and advanced computers skills to work in the exciting and extensive field of graphic art and design.
Graphic Design: Recent Seminars
Watch Leading Pros give advice on breaking into all fields of media.
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Job Tips for Music (9 items)
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Journalism (23 items)
Buyouts, Bailouts and Burnouts
Should financial media be held accountable for their failure to have warned the public of the current economic downturn? What steps are being taken to avoid this happening in the future? A panel of leading financial reporters assess the global crisis and discuss the ‘perfect storm' of events that led to it. Aspiring journalists will hear how to avoid the perils and pitfalls of the profession. And media observers can decide for themselves if the media is to blame.
Covering Conflict: Women at the Front
Top women journalists from cable, network and print share their personal stories about reporting from Baghdad, Kosovo and Central America and other areas in turmoil; and explore the issue of whether women bring a unique voice to the horrors of war.
Covering Politics: Bloomberg to Bush
In the incestuous world of politics and journalism, is it possible for reporters to remain objective while preserving access to the corridors of power? Join us for an in-depth look at how these leading reporters manage to walk the fine line between staying on good terms with their government contacts, while maintaining a healthy skepticism.
In this, the most exciting election year ever, who was ignored, who got hammered, who will go all the way? And, no matter what happens, why it is always the media's fault.
Covering the UN in the Era of Ban Ki-Moon
Kofi Annan's successor Ban Ki-Moon has inherited overwhelming upheaval in today's dangerous world as he struggles the most pressing issues: How to contain Iraq when the troops finally leave? What can be done to resolve the situation in Darfur? Can climate change be controlled? UN journalists are challenged with helping the public understand (and care) about these serious global issues. Learn what it takes to report on this vital international force.
Documentary Screening: RESTREPO
Join us for a screening of RESTREPO, this year's winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentaries.
Eight Years Later: Lessons of Sept. 11
As President Obama starts to rethink the decision to send increased troops to Afghanistan, many foreign policy experts insist the battle for hearts and minds should not be taking place in the treacherous mountains of that country, but in cities like New York, Berlin, Paris and London.
Fashion Media: Design Your Career
Jump-start your career in fashion media by expressing yourself with user-generated platforms, including social networks, blogs, and online video. Top fashion media pros explore how the industry is making the most of the new wave of self-promoting stylistas.
First Amendment: Sources and Censorship
Recently, a Rhode Island journalist was sentenced to house arrest for refusing to reveal a source. Today, a New York Times and Time reporter face prison on similar charges. What does this mounting assault on journalistic freedom mean for the future of journalism - and for our democracy?
Gail Collins has long been a provocative voice in New York City - as a political columnist in both the Daily News and New York Newsday, as a social historian, and as the first woman ever to edit the New York Times' editorial page. Her latest book, America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines challenges conventional wisdom and uncovers the real story of how women helped shape the nation. Other books include Scorpion Tongues, Gossip, Celebrity, and American Politics.
Journalism: Writing for the Trades
If you have an interest in business and a proven flair for writing, learn how you can polish your skills and land a job at one of a total of 30,000 trade publications.
Matt Taibbi: Election Coverage 2008
For a fresh take on the campaign, spend an evening with writers Hendrik Hertzberg and Matt Taibbi. As chief political reporter and blogger for Rolling Stone, and author of this year's The Great Derangement, Taibbi is considered one of the most off-beat and hilarious reporters to cover the political scene since Hunter Thompson.
Photojournalism: The Power of the Image
Nothing quite captures the immediacy and drama of the moment like a photograph. Perhaps more than the printed word or TV and film images, the power of a photograph can trigger emotions and leave profound impressions that last a lifetime. Award-winning photojournalists talk about their work, and how photojournalism has changed over the last 10 years.
Polk Awards: Power of the Image
Meet the 2002 winners of the prestigious George Polk Awards for excellence in investigative journalism, and learn how these print and broadcast reporters got their news breaking stories.
Polk Awards: Reporters at Risk
David Rohde, NY Times correspondent won the Polk Award for a five-part series on his kidnapping by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Held prisoner in Pakistan for over seven months until his daring escape. The series reveals shocking details of a Taliban 'mini-state' in Pakistan and conveys the hatred young jihadis harbor for the West.
It takes more than attitude to be a critic. The good news is there are a lot more media outlets today looking for informed and discerning voices.
Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America
Join us for an exciting evening with the author of several bestsellers on American film! Peter Biskind serves up Hollywood dish and explores the life and creative talent of a Hollywood legend.
A revealing conversation about the war on terrorism with two of the nation's revered and respected journalists. From the horrors of Mai Lai to the disgrace of Abu Ghraib, these writers have reported on some of the most compelling stories last four decades.
The Battle Over Confidential Sources
Major players in this year's most controversial media issue come together for a provocative look at what is happening to journalism's long held belief that reporters are protected from revealing their sources under the First Amendment.
The Future of Investigative Journalism
With the increasing demise of print media, is investigative journalism is at risk? Today's reporters lack resources, and time and budget constraints are diminishing this kind of reporting. New models are necessary to carry forward some of the great work of journalism in the public interest which is an integral part of our democracy. Our panel features those in the vanguard of this new movement.
When Bill Clinton was desperate to divert an unfriendly Washington Press Corps, humor was a tactic and speechwriter/humorist Mark Katz was his secret weapon.
While newspapers and magazines continue to downsize themselves into oblivion, the blogosphere grows more and more powerful.
The War in Afghanistan: Searching for Answers
When the troops finally withdraw from Afghanistan, a very different landscape will be revealed. Wikileaks gave us a glimpse by printing war logs by soldiers in the heat of engagement, exposing a brutally messy, confused snapshot.
Magazine Publishing (6 items)
Bonnie Fuller: The Joys of Much Too Much
Publishing powerhouse Bonnie Fuller skillfully led Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Us Weekly and Star to record-breaking circulation while staying married and raising a family of four.
Entertainment Beat: Keeping It Real
First-rate arts and entertainment coverage gets lost in the sea of celebrity gossip and pseudo news on newsstands and on the Web. But look again and you'll find there is enough to satisfy the most avid culture maven. Speakers from prestigious publications discuss what it takes to stand out in a tabloid world.
Fashion Magazines: Behind the Seams
Check out the newsstands and what do you see? Dozens, maybe hundreds of titles dedicated to what has become something of an international obsession. Meet the trendsetters who understand what style mavens want, and know how to satisfy their passion for fashion.
Fashion Media: Careers with Style
From the catwalks of haute couture to the latest street trends, fashion has never been more in the forefront, creating new careers for talented people with a great sense of style and a flair for media. Leading fashion mavens reveal how they got to the top of the heap.
Magazines: Survival of the Fittest
With the digital revolution taking its toll, many magazines are struggling to stay afloat. How do health and wellness glossies continue to thrive in this difficult climate? Learn from leading editors and publishers how the latest trend in cross-platform promotion and content-sharing with various other media has become the wave of the future.
Op-Ed pages are a powerful forum for public discourse, and a well-written piece can affect social change. But with limited page space, editors tend to favor the powers-that-be. Enter the Blogo-sphere and on-line citizen journalism, opening the field to a broader range of voices. Media opinion-makers explore the impact of this new phenomenon.
Magazine Publishing: Recent Seminars
Marketing (1 item)
The Cyberspace revolution is changing mass marketing at an astonishing rate as the Web becomes the best route to reaching any given target group.
Music (10 items)
Is reporting on the current music industry as much fun as being in the band? According to our panel, it's a close second. No wonder the competition is stiff.
How to Score: Making Music for Television
Music plays a huge role in the success of a television series. It sets the tone, connects the scenes and helps to define the ethos the show. Find out from these industry leaders the ins and outs of getting your music on the tube, from composing to licensing to publishing.
Essence is telling women to “take back the music” as its reporters and editors explore how denigrating lyrics and sex-saturated visuals dominate pop culture and create stereotypes influencing not only how young girls see themselves, but how black women are being perceived in other countries. Join the conversation.
Marketing Music in an iPod World
With an abundance of illegal downloads online, the music industry has had to adapt to changing times. Music marketing professionals have had to master the digital landscape in order to preserve dwindling profits.
Movie Music: Composing for Film
A vital component of any good movie is the musical score - setting the tone, driving the action and eliciting emotion. What makes for a winning combination between a director and composer?
As the traditional music industry continues its decline, the action has moved online. Artists must become entrepreneurs and learn how to start their own labels and studios. And now more than ever, promotion is crucial. Major players share secrets for the best use of social media.
What does the future hold for the volatile music business? As leading execs hip-hop from one company to another, the industry scrambles to reinvent itself, in order to survive the digital revolution.
The Music Biz: Be Your Own Label
With record labels more focused on marketability than talent, musicians are starting to take control of their own careers. Industry pros explore how advances in home recording technology, the internet, and increased licensing opportunities can help you create success on your own terms.
Three Part Conference: Hip Hop Meets Madison Ave.
As urban music becomes the latest vehicle for corporate sales pitches, the music industry struggles to find the balance between cashing in and selling out. Top music and advertising execs debate the issue.
Three Part Conference: Music Videos: Making the Cut
Ever wonder what goes into creating a hit video? Meet directors, editors and promoters and find out how to break into the sexiest side of the music biz.
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If you're interested in a career in PR and publicity, take a trip to 42West, a major entertainment industry firm with a star-studded client list that includes Tom Hanks, Queen Latifa, Conan O'Brien, Clive Owen, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and Wes Anderson.
Go inside this fast-paced PR firm whose client roster boasts giants like Whole Foods, Coca Cola, Evian, Microsoft, and Barnes & Noble Online.
Visit the set of the fictional community of Llanview, see what makes this Emmy Award-Winning soap opera one that has been airing for over 40 years. One Life to Live has been praised for its innovated storylines, groundbreaking exploration of social issues, and diverse cast. The soap is also responsible for many “firsts” in daytime television, by featuring storylines such as interracial marriage, gang violence, and medical disdiagnosis
ABC News: On the Top of the World
Take a tour of the studio for ABC's flagship broadcast and watch Charles Gibson deliver the news live. One of television's most distinguished journalists with a 40-year track record in the business, thirty of which he spent at ABC News.
BET Networks inspires its audiences through its pro-social initiatives, which help raise awareness about issues like AIDS and obesity, and by shedding light on the life-changing contributions African Americans have made in the world. You'll watch a taping of 106 & Park, the networks' highest-rated music series and leading music countdown show on television.
Brian Lehrer Show and On the Media
Watch a live broadcast at WNYC with Brian Lehrer, one of the savviest people in New York, whose weekday radio show goes in-depth with topical issues ranging from happenings in your neighborhood to events around the world. Then you will tour the studio where Peabody Award-winning media mavens Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield creatively explore all aspects of the industry every week with On The Media.
Careers in Fashion with Siman Doonan
Simon Doonan is creative director for Barneys New York as well as the bestselling author of Wacky Chicks; Confessions of a Window Dresser and the recently-published Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You. In addition, Doonan pens the "Simon Says" column for The New York Observer and is a regular contributor of observations and opinions to myriad other publications and TV shows, such as VH1, Bravo and Full Frontal Fashion. Students are invited to join us for an On Location seminar at Barney's where we will meet with Mr. Doonan to hear frank and realistic advice on breaking into the fashion world
If you aspire to a career in the field of public relations, don't miss this wonderful opportunity to connect with PR pros whose clients include Kodak, FedEx, Roche, World Economic Forum and Geek Squad.
Go behind the scenes at PBS and see how some of the networks acclaimed news programs, such as The News Hour with Jim Leher, NOW with David Brancaccio, and Charlie Rose, keep us better informed, and highly praised history and documentary series like Frontline and American Experience.
Visit one of NYC's hippest digital ateliers where you will meet with designers, editors and masters of 3D, special effects and animation who create movie trailers and TV commercials for some of the biggest brands around.
Curious Pictures: New Trends in Animation
If you're interested in a career in animation, don't miss this visit to Curious Pictures, one of the trendiest animated production companies out there. Curious creates commercials for major brands including Sundance Channel, Trident, VW and Steve Madden. They also churn out animated shows for VH1, the Cartoon Network, and Disney. Come satisfy your curiosity about the field of animation and learn about the skills and talents you need to put yourself in the picture.
If you dream of working in network news, here's your chance to meet a local news team, up close and personal. On this studio visit, you will watch a newscast from the control room and meet the anchors and producers to see how it all comes together. Learn what it takes to make it in this competitive field, behind and in front of the camera.
With a diverse client list that includes Delta Air Lines, General Motors, Sprint, Microsoft, Miller Brewing Company, Hyatt, New Balance Athletic Shoe Company, Kraft Brands, National Football League, HBO, and Showtime, Dan Klores Communications is one of the largest independent public relations companies in the country. Join us and learn about DKC's national reputation for strategic thinking, creativity and media relations
Digitas: New Face of Advertising
In the digital era, the rules of marketing are changing dramatically and new strategies are including interactive content along with the usual print ads, DRTV, and direct mail. Digitas creates campaigns for giants like FedEx and AT&T. You'll learn what it takes to build a career in this multi-faceted brave new world.
Famous for her amazing business savvy, equally matched by her creative flair, homemaking maven and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart made the list of Forbes magazines 100 Most Influential Women in America in 2010.
Monday Night Football is the most-watched series in cable TV history and in 2008, set the all-time record cable for viewership for the third straight year when it attracted an average of 12,953,000 viewers. Known as the worldwide leader in sports, ESPN is the leading multimedia, multinational sports entertainment company with business entities that include television, radio, online, broadband, publishing, wireless, consumer products, event management and ESPN Zones.
Looking for a career in entertainment and media PR? Then, Freud Communications is where you want to be. They work with a wide-range of exciting clients, including: ELLE, Sony Pictures, DETAILS, Walden Media, The Weinstein Company, Harper Collins Publishers, Cipriani, and A&E Television Networks
Join us for a visit to FUSE, the premiere music channel and home to hit shows like Rad Girls, No. 1 Countdown, and Pants-Off Dance-Off. Sit in on a taping of the live entertainment and music talk show, The Sauce, which attracts the hottest stars and band performances to date! You never know which of your favorite celebrities will appear on this interactive daily magazine variety show.
Here's your chance to go behind the scenes at the East Coast's leading movie trailer production house (also producers of TV commercials and video games trailers) to see how movie previews are put together for blockbusters, such as: The Bourne Ultimatum, The Royal Tenenbaums, Gangs of New York, Pulp Fiction, The Departed, Dreamgirls, Sweeney Todd, Spider-Man, Underdog, The Mask of Zorro, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
Would you like to pursue a career at a leading fashion magazine but fear that The Devil Wears Prada might have gotten it right? What's it really like to work at a leading women's magazine? Visit the glossy that seeks to inspire its readers, and not just with the latest fashion and beauty trends but with thought-provoking editorials on controversial women's issues.
Here's your chance to go inside Hearst's magestic Norman Foster-designed ‘green' corporate headquarters for a tour of the Good Housekeeping's famed Research Institute. You will visit the famous test kitchen where the recipes are created for the magazine, and see where, each year, 1000s of products are evaluated to qualify for the coveted Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, first awarded 100 years ago!
Ever wonder what it's like to work at a morning news show? Here's your chance see Robin Roberts, Juju Chang, Sam Champion, and newest member of the team, superstar George Stephanopoulos, in action, and learn what goes into producing ABC's long-running staple, Good Morning America.
A rare chance to visit the New York office and learn how Google organizes the world's information to make it universally accessible
Grey Group, a world leader in global healthcare marketing, possesses a singular depth of expertise across both OTC and DTC. We are known for creating rich, global communications platforms and launching new categories of business for our clients in highly competitive and developed marketplaces. Our roster includes the world's largest healthcare companies - GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Allergan, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly - and such marquee brands as Advil, Robitussin, Chapstick, Aquafresh, Abreva, Flonase, Imitrex, Botox, Juvederm, Flomax, Cialis and Evista. Grey believes healthcare advertising should be as dramatic as the issues involved. We strive to deliver ideas with emotional power that connect in a deeper, more relevant way to accelerate brand potential. Our offering spans the full spectrum of integrated capabilities, from traditional to digital, both consumer and professional.
HBO: Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Catch Real Sports on HBO then join us for a trip to the studio to see how it all comes together. Host Bryant Gumbel and his team of correspondents invite high-profile guests from the world of sports to explore the latest happenings and controversial issues affecting the sports industry. This acclaimed investigative program has garnered 19 Sports Emmys and the 2006 duPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast journalism.
Join us for a trip to Hornet Inc., a production company that launched in 2006 to represent and produce the work of a talented and diverse team of in-house directors who work with a wide assortment of media, ranging from live action, animation, mixed media, stopmotion, 2D, 3D and film.
Join us for a visit to the agency that produced the first-ever TV commercial in 1939! JWT was Adweek's 2009 Global Agency of the Year. With more than 200 offices in over 90 countries, JWT's clients include Bayer, Cadbury, Ford, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg's, Kraft, Nestle, Rolex, Nokia, Royal Caribbean, and Unilever.
Visit Krupp, an award-winning public relations, brand development and marketing communications agency specializing in publishing, entertainment, lifestyle and consumer brands.
SNL star-turned-late-night-host Jimmy Fallon might be the new kid on the block in the talk show community but he fast-tracked his way to the top of the ratings by taking advantage of online media to pull in a young demographic. Several months in, Fallon continues to make use of outlets like Twitter and Facebook to keep college aged viewers coming back for more. Join us for a taping of the show featuring super-hip house band The Roots.
Morning TV on location! Visit the set and go behind the scenes to learn firsthand reporting from The Early Show anchors Harry Smith, Hannah Storm and Julie Chen. Plus the writers, editors, bookers and camera operators discuss what it takes to come up with a fresh new show every day. See how the show experiments with format changes and is able to remain different from its other morning rivals.
Come learn from the strategic and creative brains behind MasterCard's “Priceless” and many of the Microsoft and Intel campaigns. McCann Erickson is considered the world's largest and most globally experienced advertising agency.
With hits like The Queen and Venus garnering all kinds of awards, and the comedy Eagle vs. Shark making a big splash at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Miramax manages to stay front and center in the Indie world. Go inside the studio that put independent cinema on the map for a tour with producers, script-developers, publicists and marketing execs, and find out how they continue to bring quality projects to the big screen without stratospheric budgets.
Don't miss this behind-the-scenes look at MTV's empire on Broadway where you will meet the virtuoso team of designers, writers and producers who run the network's Creative Services team. Learn how they come up with fresh ideas and innovative concepts to promote and market MTV's popular brands, including Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, VH1, LOGO and Spike TV.
Go behind the scenes mtvU, and find out about MTV's Peabody Award-winning college network, based in NYC. Reaching over 7.5 million college students worldwide, mtvU is available 24/7 in campus dining halls, fitness centers, residence halls and student lounges.
A fascinating and innovative blend of historical artifacts, art works, video clips, and interactive exhibits demonstrate how moving images are made, marketed and exhibited. Come see over 1,200 objects from the Museum's permanent collection. Create your own animation, complete with sound effects.
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
A tour of NBC News studios includes an intimate conversation with five-time Emmy Award winner Brian Williams who, two years ago, succeeded Tom Brokaw as anchor of the highest-rated newscast in America. For his tireless coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, Williams received television's most prestigious honors: the Edward R. Murrow Award and the George Peabody Award. A NASCAR enthusiast, Williams stays in touch with his audience and attracts younger viewers to the broadcast with his daily blog.
Meet with the team who put together this must-read for New Yorkers who care about the culture, style, personalities and politics that drive their city. Founded by Milton Glaser and Clay Felker in 1968, New York was the first of the “lifestyle” weeklies, and its format and style became the template for magazines in numerous other cities. As the only weekly among them, New York stands out with its in-depth news coverage and up-to-the-minute listings.
If you are hoping for a career in kids' media, be sure to join us to see how the Number One cable channel among the 2-11 set manages to stay on top in this competitive field.
Since 1992, NY1 News has been a fixture in many a New Yorker's life. What would we do without “Weather on the Ones?” Take this insiders' tour of the Big Apple's 24-hour news channel's state-of-the-art, all-digital production studio, located in the historic Chelsea Market, and watch the action at one of the most advanced newsgathering operations in the world. See what goes into covering all five boroughs.
From the writers and producers of the smash hit The O.C. comes the new CW series, Gossip Girl. Filmed on-location at some of the hottest spots around NYC, come behind the scenes and check out what it takes to make a network hit!
Investigative news show 60 Minutes has been around for nearly 40 years and is considered America's most successful broadcast in U.S. television history. Their stories generate controversy and procure some of the most exclusive interviews. Check out this tour of the CBS News magazine's premises and learn from some of the key figures behind the shows longevity and success.
On-Location: A Big High Five for High 10 Media
On-Location: Arkadium: Get in the Game
On-Location: Digitas: Agency of the Future
On-Location: PBSs NEED TO KNOW
On-Location: The Wonderfactory
The internationally renowned Penguin Group is one of the largest English-language trade book publishers in the world. A global leader in children's publishing, Penguin Group (USA) Inc. has published The Little Engine That Could and the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series. With recent bestsellers A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Friday Night Knitting Club, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, and The Secret Life of Bees, this will be an on-location booklovers won't want to miss.
PR Powerhouse: Weber Shandwick
Aspiring PR pros wont want to miss a trip to this leading global PR agency. With offices in 74 countries, Weber Shandwicks clients include Fortune 500 companies like MasterCard, Mars, Nike, Kraft, Microsoft, Samsung and Verizon.
Rodale: Breaking into Publishing
Rodale has been the leading publisher of books and magazines on healthy lifestyles for over 60 years. With a mission to improve the lives of their readers, they publish magazines, Men's Health and Prevention, and books, The South Beach Diet, An Inconvenient Truth, and The Abs Diet for Women. If you're interested in a career in publishing and helping people achieve their fitness goals, you will not want to miss this On-Location.
See what goes on behind the scenes at SiriusXM, the preeminent satellite radio service that offers something for everyone with over 130 channels of commercial-free music, news, sports, comedy, talk and much more.
Diehard fans won't want to miss a chance to hear from comedian/actor and SNL head writer Seth Meyers when he and other SNL writers and performers sit down with New Yorker top editor David Remnick. For the past 35 years this NBC staple has launched many a movie career for performers like Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Dan Aykroyd, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and more.
Take a Trip to Time Out New York
Are you on the cutting-edge of everything cool happening in New York? Have you always wanted to work at a magazine? Then dont miss this rare opportunity to meet with the editors and researchers of Time Out New York, the citys leading guide to movies, dance, theater, food, lifestyle and more!
Take a Walk Down Sesame Street
For students who want careers in childrens media, heres your chance to visit the set of Sesame Street and meet with the creators of one of TVs most successful shows.
If your dream is to work at a fashion magazine, this is the on-site tour for you. You'll see firsthand what goes into turning out the popular glossy devoted to the younger fashionista.
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart never fails to make his audience laugh on the mock news show that promises zero credibility. Stewart has interviewed both political leaders, such as Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama, and celebrity icons, like Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Bruce Willis
Visit the leading media company devoted to weddings, pregnancy, and everything in between, and providing women with valuable resources to help them through life's most transforming events. The Knot's Wedding Network reaches out to millions of engaged couples through its website, books, magazines and broadcast offerings. Other sites include TheNest.com for couples setting up a home, and TheBump.com, devoted to first time-pregnancy.
With a readership of more than 3 million people, weekly satirical tabloid The Onion is in a class by itself. A million listeners tune in to Onion Radio News, and last spring, the news outlet launched The Onion Network, a Web video send-up of 24 hour TV news. Meet the creative team behind the funniest parody news outlets around to find out who comes up with those hilarious, attention-grabbing headlines and goofy articles.
An early pioneer in digital media, last year Reuters Group joined forces with The Thomson Corp. The result is a news and information powerhouse that leads the way in financial, legal, scientific, healthcare and media coverage and maintains a strong worldwide reach with offices in 93 countries
With platforms that include three major networks - Univision, Telefutura and Galavisión - plus TV stations, radio, music, and interactive media, Univision Communications is the premier Spanish-language media company in the U.S. Univision.com ranks as the leading Spanish Internet destination, and Univision Móvil offers the industry's most comprehensive Spanish-language suite of mobile offerings.
Who serves the best dal baht in Queens? Where can I find a vegetarian Rolfer for my cat? Which cinema is screening a retrospective of Volker Schlondorf films? To stay on top of what's going down in all five boroughs TONY is the guide to live by. Sign up for a visit to the hard-working team who pulls together 2001 great ideas for every issue.
Whoopi Goldberg is one of those rare performers who has taken home an Emmy, Tony and Grammy award - and now she's shaking up The View. In September she brought her own brand of humor and political insight to the show when she took over the moderator's chair, famously vacated by Rosie O'Donnell in May. Join us for an up-close-and-personal look at the popular ABC daytime talk show, with regulars Barbara Walters, Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
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Advertising and PR: Diversity Career Day
April 24th has been proclaimed as “Diversity in Advertising/PR Career Day", by Mayor Bloomberg.
Careers: Entertainment PR and Publicity
In an effort to create buzz, tech savvy publicists are constantly trying new marketing strategies and changing the way entertainment is promoted.
Film Publicity: How to Break In
Some films are destined to be hits, others greatly exceed box office expectations (as we have witnessed in the extreme this year), and thousands more barely make a blip on the radar screen.
Publicity can make or break the success of an indie flick. But without the support of a major studio, getting media attention and securing a distribution deal can be big stumbling blocks.
PR 2.0: Strategies for the Global Era
If you're looking to break into PR, learn what prospective employers expect you to already know. Those in the avant garde of redefining old methods and strategies will point you to the new tools and tactics crucial to operating in today's brave new world.
PR Careers: Going with the Big Guys
If you have great PR skills, thrive in a fast-paced atmosphere, and are creative and resourceful, corporate communications could be the field for you.
When it comes to PR nightmares, social media provides unique opportunities for brands to engage actively and directly with an unlimited audience on the Web.
If you have a passion for PR and want to save the world, a communications job in a non-profit might be for you. But it takes strong commitment and a special set of skills to succeed in this challenging field.
Public Relations: Careers in the Fast Lane- Part 1(How to Break In)
Could you thrive in the fast-paced world of PR? Whether you go with a PR firm or work in-house, this industry has no limits. Learn how these major players made it to the top.
Public Relations: Careers in the Fast Lane- Part 2 (Secrets to Success)
PR gurus from leading agencies reveal how they help their clients reach their goals by using today's most up-to-date and effective tools and strategies.
Covering celebrities takes a lot more than a Ph. D. in pop-culture and a yen for a life of premieres and parties. Seasoned newshounds talk about the talent and tactics needed to deal with egos, agents and publicists from Hell.
Special Events: Behind the Velvet Rope
Forget the doom and gloom. The show must go on! New York's hottest party-planners reveal what it takes to design some of the splashiest bashes in the city, including theatre and film openings, charity galas and exclusive private parties - created by the hardest-working event professionals in the world.
Sports Marketing: Get Into the Game
Behind every champion there's a winning team of marketers and publicists. You too can break into this multi-billion dollar industry and turn marketing savvy and a passion for sports and into a career.
TV Publicity: Think Outside The Tube
Instead of in front of the box, we are more likely catch favorite shows on cell phones, iPods, and all manner of hand-held devices, making the competition for eyeballs all the more intense.
Public Relations: Recent Seminars
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Media Research: Driving the Industry
Leading researchers and executives from broadcast, cable, radio and Nielsen Media Research talk about where the jobs are in the area of the media that drives the industry and dictates all major decisions.
Reinventing Radio: The Future is Now
The impact of new technology on traditional radio is still in the early stages, but be assured, a transformation is underway. Recent innovations such as HD, satellite radio, Internet streaming, mobile audio, and podcasting are revolutionizing the industry.
Three Part Conference: The Power of Radio
Only radio carries the clout to launch an artist and take a single to the top of the charts. Get the inside scoop on the crucial and controversial role radio plays in the music industry.
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An Evening with Adrian Grenier
Arab Spring One Year Later: Syria
Careers in Music: Hit the Right Note
The music industry has been kicked to the curb, but signs of recovery are evident. For those who long for a music career, first, determine your area of interest, be it promotion, publishing, or A&R, and learn all you can. Hard work and creativity are required to make it in the music business and these same traits apply when trying to get a foot in the door. Insiders offer tips on how to stand out.
Careers in Travel Media Part One: Write Your Own Ticket
Careers in Travel Media Part Two: Create Great Videos
Celebrity Wranglers: Getting the Guest
Behind every hardworking host is a harder working producer forced to compete in a 24-hour talk cycle and challenged with hunting down the days newsmakers.
Changing the World, One Game at a Time
A new genre of video and online games is changing the way developers, companies and venture capitalists approach this wildly successful industry.
Covering Bad Behavior: Pervs, Pols and Pundits
Few would argue that recent media coverage of the recent political scandals was often less than stellar. But sex sells. Add power and money, and the result was an international media frenzy fueled by the publics clamor for juicy details and a press more than willing to provide them. In this kind of atmosphere can justice become compromised?
Covering the U.N. in Turbulent Times
As the world gets smaller, hot spots get hotter; change is more frequent and news travels instantly.
Documentary Screening: BONES OF TURKANA
Douglas Rushkoff: "Program or Be Programmed"
eBooks: New Trends for a New Decade
More and more of us are consuming books digitally, on portable devices and a growing variety of digital platforms. These new technologies bring a wave of opportunities as old-school publishing business models and antiquated notions of "print cycles" are becoming obsolete.
FAIR GAME: Doug Liman on Hollywood & the CIA
GeniusRocket: How Anybody Can Get into the Ad Game
George Polk Awards: Missions Impossible
How to Be Your Own Best Publicist
Accomplished PR mavens and authors of Be Your Own Best Publicist: How to Use PR Techniques to Get Noticed, Get Hired & Get Rewarded at Work reveal secrets to developing a plan for success by integrating the skills and techniques that helped them get where they are today. Learn why its important to develop a distinct brand to help you land a job, succeed as a freelancer, and supercharge your skills to highlight your uniqueness.
I AM Screening with Tom Shadyac
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: So Where Are They?
The unemployment rate is at a dismal high, and for recent grads, its downright depressing. HR managers from a range of media companies provide insight on where the jobs are and how to get noticed to help you land a job and launch your career.
Lights, Camera, Action! NY Keeping it Reel
With a record 23 TV series shooting in the Big Apple in 2011-12, it just goes to show what a few well-placed tax incentives can do. Why even diehard LA transplant Larry David has returned to his roots! Major industry players talk about why they love New York.
Live at Fordham! Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Co.
Dont miss a hilarious evening of improv comedy with a performance from the Upright Citizens Brigade Touring Company. Making small audiences laugh since 1996, UCB boasts Amy Poehler as a founding member.
Magazines for a New Generation
Since the iPad made its debut, magazine publishers have been scrambling to go digital.
Just because you own a Flip and Final Cut Pro doesnt mean you can make a movie anybody wants to see. To learn how its done, dont miss the opportunity to hear from cult movie king Lloyd Kaufman, who runs Troma, the longest-running independent film studio in the U.S. He has produced and directed over 25 movies, including big hits: Tromeo and Juliet and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. Directors Quentin Tarantino and Peter Jackson cite Kaufman and his film Toxic Avenger as major influences on their work.
Media Movie Series: Newspapers: Pages from the Past
Media Movie Series: Dj Vu All Over Again
Media Movie Series: Reporting News in the 21st Century
Media Research: Where the Jobs Are
Network News Websites: Reaching Niche Audiences
Polk Awards: Piercing the Veil of Secrecy
Sneak Preview Screening: LIMITLESS
Join us for a pre-release screening of this darkly comic and provocative film, starring Brad Cooper and Robert De Niro, Limitless, is a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by top-secret smart drug that allows him to use 100% of his brain and tap into his full potential.
Sneak Preview: Nelson George and Diane Paragas Brooklyn Boheme
Social Media and Design for Collaborative Consumption
Social Media: Market Like a Pro
Social media continues to fuel an ongoing surge of revolutions in several countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa by giving voice to the long-oppressed as they take to the streets and risk their lives. Organized and connected by Facebook, Twitter and other social media, protestors are demonstrating against repressive and corrupt regimes and expressing their desire for a free and just society.
Social Television and the Multi-Screen Experience
Soledad O'Brien: The Next Big Story
In her memoir, The Next Big Story, CNN news veteran Soledad O'Brien talks about her childhood on Long Island, growing up with a black mother and white father and feeling at times like she didnt fit in.
Start Your Own Production Company
A pioneer of video journalism, in the early 1990s, Michael Rosenblum helped to create news channel NY1, and in 2004, Al Gore's Current TV. During the past two decades, he has designed news operations around the world. He teaches Television and the Information Revolution at NYU and trains hundreds of European journalists to work as VJs at The Bauhaus School in Germany and his Brussels-based Rosenblum Institute. Lisa Lambden has a depth of knowledge and experience in the VJ field. She is director of the NY-based Rosenblum TV and creator and managing director of the New York Video School, and a founding partner of the Travel Channel Academy.
TV Development: Striking Ratings Gold
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Anna Deavere Smith: Life in the Arts
For writers, actors and visual artists, straight-up advice on how to have a fulfilling life in the Arts. Multi-talented and prolific, Smith created a series of of one-woman plays, performed both on and off Broadway, winning two Obies and two Tony nominations.
Some fear that if the successor to FCC Commissioner Powell opts to relax existing restrictions on media ownership, monopolies will dominate even more, shutting out competing voices and distorting the news. Others claim with access to alternative sources (Internet, cable, satellite TV, etc.) these concerns are no longer valid. Join the debate.
Breaking into Kids' Media: How to Get to Sesame Street
Want to get your foot in the door in this exciting field? Join us at the Apollo to hear from those who are part of television's longest running children's show - and one of the most respected brands in the field, covering film, television, video and computer games, websites and books.
Women are coming on strong in cable television and making their mark. Join some of the most powerful players in the business to find out how they are leading the way in branded entertainment, and where they plan to take their networks in the years ahead.
Children's Media: Hunters of Cool
With an avalanche of TV, web sites, music, games and books all vying for young eyeballs, media companies try to stay on the cutting edge of cool. Enter the ‘cool hunters' who search out trends at the grassroots to help the industry create new programs and products. Learn how they observe, track and predict young kids', tweens' and teens' latest fixations and turn them into global marketing sensations.
Comedy Central: Funny Business
With hits like South Park, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, Comedy Central is riding high as it serves up the hippest, smartest and funniest material on the tube. Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have become two of our most effective media critics, attracting celebs and distinguished guests from both sides of the aisle and providing a place for spirited public debate. They say more by raising an eyebrow than most pundits do in six paragraphs. Learn how it all comes together.
Court TV first grabbed our attention with real-life courtroom drama during the trials of O.J. and the Menendez brothers. Although cameras are a rarity in the courtroom today, cases like those of Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart and Scott Peterson keep us coming back for more. Court TV's anchors and execs tell how the cable channel keeps us addicted.
Cracking the Job Code: What Does it Take?
Rev up that job search! Joe Nunziata, an internationally known speaker, career coach and bestselling author, uses a unique blend of spirituality, psychology and business sense to create an evolved program to help you find your career path.
For writer/director /producer David Chase, The Sopranos was a prime opportunity to take his own personal vision from initial concept to full-blown production: writing, directing and creatively guiding the entire first season, and beyond.
Designing an Era: BOARDWALK EMPIRE
Here's your chance to see an episode on the big screen of HBO's epic series, Boardwalk Empire. The first episode was directed by Martin Scorsese. Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams and Kelly MacDonald star in the series that was inspired by Nelson Johnson's historical account, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City.
Desperate Networks and the Future of TV
Power relationships in network television have become confused of late. Enter Bill Carter to explain the current industry climate in a revealing look at the networks' struggles to compete for eyeballs and revenue with the encroachment of cable, computers, TiVo, Ipods and phones.
Dramatic Series: New Golden Age
Whether it's cable or broadcast, television audiences are still in love with scripted drama. But what are the ingredients that allow one show to triumph over another with similar content? Find out from leading programmers and producers what goes on during the creative process, from pitch to pilot, that can make a series addictive to viewers.
Dream Jobs: Becoming an Anchor
What are the odds? With more news programming springing up all over the dial, maybe you've got a shot. Local and national news hounds, who have landed at the anchor desk, join TV execs and the leading agent in television news to show how you can hone your skills, learn the ropes, and maximize your chances.
Meet the decision-makers of network news and find out what goes on behind the scenes, such as how a newscast is put together, why certain stories are chosen, the importance of checking out accuracy, and the consequences of making a mistake.
With a burgeoning crop of Websites, magazines and TV shows, fashion media has never been more in style, and exciting new careers beckon for the lucky few with the talent and skills to break in. Leading trend-setters and commentators reveal how they have put their stamp on the fashion industry.
Food Mania: Recipes for Success
Food media is hotter than ever, and food writing has become the glam job of the new millennium. If you love food, know how to write, have strong opinions and a hearty appetite for seeing them in print, get with the program and learn from some of the hippest foodies at the table.
Funny Business: Writing for Late Night
Q: Who's funnier than Conan, Leno and Letterman? A: the writers! They have to think up a hundred jokes a day for just one to land in the monologue. And being funny is only the beginning. You've got to be well-informed, politically savvy, and hip to pop culture. Learn what it takes to survive and thrive.
Guantanamo: Who Controls the Story?
The military still holds over 650 suspected terrorists (from 44 different countries) who were captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere following September 11 and have not yet received a trial. With press access restricted, are we getting the full story? Don't miss a provocative debate on the public's right to know versus the state department's need for control.
The Latino demographic has changed dramatically since Hispanic television first started programming for the U.S. Over the past 20 years, more and more children have been born to immigrant parents, making this segment of the TV viewing audience the biggest and fastest growing in the country.
Inside VH1: Focus on the Music
Programming exec Michael Hirschorn is upping the ante for original programming at VH1 and making good use of the internet to connect viewers even more with their favorite shows. The music and pop culture network has just posted its 21st consecutive quarter of growth among total viewers.
Journalism: The Polk Award Winners
Meet the winners of the 2004 prestigious George Polk Awards for Excellence in Investigative Journalism, and learn firsthand how these outstanding print and broadcast reporters broke some of the most gripping stories of the year. Past speakers include Christiane Amanpour, John Burns, Charles Lewis and Morley Safer.
Kids' Media: It's Easy Being Green
Join us to explore the vast amount of programming available, both online and off, to help children understand the importance of ecology and how, by acquiring good habits, we can all help protect our endangered environment.
Law and Order: SVU Goes to NYU
To what extent are TV prime-time series concerned with exploring contemporary social issues? Always on the cutting edge, the Law and Order franchise, for many years, has done an amazing job of weaving the day's headlines into its story lines, while bringing to light the often harsh realities of urban life.
Join these innovative programmers, producers and directors to explore why historical programs are more popular than ever - and learn what goes in to recreating the past.
Missing Voices: Women in the News
Why are national network anchors and print media opinion-makers typically male? Just look at the major news outlets. The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd is the only female Op Ed columnist at the New York Times, and, in Time Magazine's 78-year history, Margaret Carlson is the only woman to have penned her own column.
Get the inside scoop on some of the best investigative journalism of 2003. Hear from a panel of the prestigious George Polk Award winners on how they got the goods on such stories as: the wholesale export of American jobs abroad; Wal-Mart's troubling business practices; and how special interests buy off the very politicians who rail against campaign financing practices.
Easy access to porn is influencing our culture and re-shaping the way we see ourselves - and it's not just on the Internet or in ‘adult' material.
Reality Check: Creating Your Own Show
Why do some shows knock it out of the park while others don't make it to first base? Reality pros explore the essential elements for a breakout reality hit. From development and production to distribution and maintenance, learn how to avoid the perils and pitfalls of the “real” world.
Making it as an agent doesn't mean you have to be glib and narcissistic like Entourage's Ari Gold, but it certainly helps if you're fast on your feet, have great business acumen, and don't take ‘no' for an answer.
Sports Media: An Evening with Bob Costas
Conversation with Emmy-award winning Sportscaster and Host of On the Record with Bob Costas; Inside the NFL and the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
Love sports? Can't jump? Try media. Excellent writing skills and a passion for 'the game' are just the minimal requirements - practical experience, good clips, perseverance and a desire to work harder than anyone else will also serve you well. Our line-up of media all-stars knows the score and will walk you through the necessary steps to break into this competitive arena.
The three month-old writers strike side-lined more than 12,000 writers who work in television and movies. What are the long term effects of the sit-out? Our panel of industry pros takes a look at the post-strike television landscape.
What makes a TV show successful? With all the television shows produced and aired what sets one apart from the rest? Why does one show triumph over another even though they start with similar content? Join our panel to learn what goes into the development process, from pitch to pilot, and what makes a hit.
Explore the effects of violent images in media on society, both here and abroad, as we examine the questions: When the media covers conflict, suffering and human disaster, how much “reality” is too much? Why do the American news media shelter us from violent images while movie-makers pile it on for fictional portrayals?
Ready to roll again for what could well be its last season, this ground-breaking dramatic series and one of the most successful and critically-acclaimed television programs ever, HBO's The Sopranos, continues to fascinate and repel with brilliantly -drawn characters, superb acting, and original and unpredictable storylines.
One of the hottest reality shows, Project Runway, has introduced the world to the suave and dashing Tim Gunn. Learn how the show became an overnight success and won this year's coveted Peabody Award - the first reality show ever to do so.
Meet the founders of Roadtrip Nation who, after graduating college, took off across country in search of careers. While on the road, they found their hidden entrepreneurial potential and the result has been a thriving online community, three books on how to get a great job, and a television series.
With state-of-the-art facilities and appealing tax incentives, New York is coming on stronger than ever as a thriving production hub, and producers are scrambling to come up with a fresh crop of dramatic series set in the Big Apple. Join some of the best dramatic series writers and find out how they broke in to the business and wrote their way success.
From the early days of The Tonight Show, to today's roster of after-hours funnymen, New York City has long been home to late-night television. An art form in itself, writing for the midnight hour requires razor-sharp wit and the ability to turn the most mundane daily happenings into nighttime hilarity. Some of television's funniest writers offer tips for getting your foot in the door.
TV: Developing the Next Big Hit
Networks, cable channels and corporate sponsors are always on the lookout for the next Desperate Housewives or American Idol. From award-winning series to hardcore reality shows, learn the stages of development and the various jobs involved in the process of creating a hit.
Video Journalism: Non-Stop News
Breaking into news reporting is becoming easier with ever-evolving technologies, expanded delivery systems and the public hunger for 24/7 on-demand updates. News execs agree that user-generated content is strengthening their coverage and is here to stay. Leading techno newshounds walk you through the steps to getting started.
Writing for this popular and enduring genre takes not only talent, tenacity and team spirit, but a whole lot of stamina. Join our panel of creators, story editors and actors and find out what makes this world turn.
Theater (3 items)
From Stage to Screen, and Back Again
While each takes talent and expertise, play-writing and screenwriting entail different sets of skills and dramatic instincts. A panel who have mastered all genres offer tips and advice.
Theater Publicity: Guerrilla Tactics
Although the theater world has been slow to adopt hi-tech marketing methods, changes are taking place as a younger, tech savvy group of producers, marketers and publicists are introducing new strategies to get people into the seats.
Anyone interested in theater won't want to miss a memorable and revealing evening with, arguably, our greatest living playwright.
Upcoming On Location (7 items)
Each year, one-third of the Center's programs are conducted on-site at a wide variety of leading NYC media companies. Students can take advantage of these rare opportunities to learn, firsthand, how these companies work and to meet one-on-one with executives, designers, writers, producers, editors and many more. Registration is for Undergraduate Students Only.
On-Location: Text 100 New York
On-Location: The Huffington Post
Upcoming Seminars (1 item)
An Evening with Denis Leary and Terence Winter
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Author, No More Mental Barriers, No More 9 to 5 and The 7 Keys to Transformation
Meet the Director: Vincent DﾒOnofrio - Monday, November 22, 2010
Rev up that job search! Joe Nunziata, an internationally known speaker, career coach and bestselling author, uses a unique blend of spirituality, psychology and business sense to create an evolved program to help you find your career path. He is the founder Top Notch Training, a personal development company offering consulting, training and support to get you on your way to a fulfilling career. Nunziataﾒs new bestseller, Spiritual Selling, combines powerful spiritual energy concepts with proven strategies that are being embraced by many entrepreneurs and big corporations in. His other books include: No More Mental Barriers, No More 9 to 5 and The 7 Keys to Transformation. Meet the author and get started on the road to success.
Stage and Screen: Having it All
ynergy between theater, film and television is what makes New York the most dynamic and creative environment in the world. Five superstars talk about how they navigate all three worlds and make it work.