| | | | | | | | . | If you're trying to reach someone, please e-mail us. We'll try to put you in touch. Find the e-mail link on the main Web page. | | | | | | | . | Ted | Adams | / | | Long-time editorial assistant; left the staff in late 2008 during a downsizing. | / | 2008 | . | Roger | Allaway | / | rallaway@comcast.net | Retired since the 2005 buyout. Currently finishing a book and serving since 2007 as historian of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. | / | 1976-2005 | . | Dale | Allen | / | | Left Akron Beacon Journal in 1997 after 17 years as editor/executive editor. Taught for seven years as an adjunct at Kent State's journalism school. Meanwhile, wrote two novels (one trashy and one that needs to be rewritten, neither of which has been published) and am currently at work on a memoir of sorts that speaks more about the folks I worked with through the years than my own accomplishments or lack thereof. All of that comes between spasms of my real passion, fly fishing. | / | 1970-1980 | . | Leslie | Allen | / | | Working for trade pub Automotive News as a technology writer. | / | | . | Peggy | Anderson | / | | Trying to find the perfect hospice nurse w/in easy driving distance for a book profiling her! | / | | . | Rich | Aregood | / | | Made an honorary member of the Class of 72-90 by The Maven. Became Charles R. Johnson Professor of Journalism at University of North Dakota in January, 2009. | / | | . | Jim | Asher | / | | Investigative editor, McClatchy's Washington bureau | / | 1982-1994 | . | Linda | Austin | / | | Editor, Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, KY | / | 1987-1999 | . | Gaiutra | Bahadur | / | | Former immigration reporter, montco courts reporter, jersey correspondent now freelancing in London. Doing book reviews and/or stories for The New York Times, Ms. and The Nation, among others. | / | 1998-1999, 2002-2007 | . | Pat | Banks | / | | | / | | . | Tanya | Barrientos | | | Former features reporter | | | . | Sandy | Bauers | / | | Environment reporter, gardener, bread-baker and chicken-mom. | / | | . | Pam | Belluck | / | | National correspondent for The New York Times. Have a book deal to write about a doctor on Nantucket. | / | | . | Jo | Bennett | / | | Management-side labor and employment lawyer; partner in the Philadelphia office of Stevens & Lee. | / | | . | Dan | Biddle | / | | Returning to the paper after a lengthy book leave [see following] to become Pa. editor ... Previously: "Working on gargantuan book project with Murray Dubin. It's a tale about the forerunners of the modern Civil Rights movement. The book has politics, violence, sex, baseball - and that's just the first 253 pages." | / | | . | Diane | Bielun Wallace | / | | Took the buyout in 1991, worked various fun part-time jobs 1991 to 2005. Now work full-time as the Admin Assist. to the Chief of Police of Medford Township. My personal life includes watercolor painting and a great husband. Life is good. | / | 1981-1992 | . | Mary | Bishop | / | | Found a cozy home, journalistically and otherwise, in the Blue Ridge mountain town of Roanoke, Virginia, where I assumed nothing much goes on and this would be an easy gig. (Bzzzt. Didn't Gene teach us that news-that-oozes goes merrily on everywhere?) Spent 18 happy years at the Roanoke Times investigating killer exterminators, eugenics movement survivors, migrant apple pickers and the still-felt aftershocks of urban renewal. I left the paper to write more about eugenics and about another project, but took time off to move my parents here and, with my sweet husband's help, ease them through their last days. Now I'm back on those projects and looking forward to laying eyes on the most soulful bunch of people I ever knew. | / | January 1979 to June 1982 | . | Buzz | Bissinger | / | | Books, movies, TV, sports commentary | / | | . | Mike | Blackman | / | michael_blackman@baylor.edu | Teaching journalism at Baylor University in Waco; home base still in Fort Worth | / | 75-79 & 81-86 |
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| | | | | | | | . | Amy | Blackstone | / | | Architectural office manager and horse wrangler | / | | . | Len | Boasberg | / | | Retired feature, editorial writer, The Inquirer | / | | . | David | Boldt | / | | Alive and well and living in Bolivia. Retired. Play tennis, ride horses. Writing a blog: santacruzperspective.blogspot.com | / | | . | Ken | Bookman | / | KBookman@gmail.com | Freelance editor and writer | / | 1977-1994 | . | Jane | Bornemeier | / | | Editor at the New York Times | / | | . | Jim | Bornemeier | / | james_bornemeier@yahoo.com | Spent a decade at the LA times (LA and DC), a six-year stint at Pew (public affairs), now a consultant at the Ford Foundation and freelancing. | / | 1980-1986 | . | Neill A. | Borowski | / | james_bornemeier@yahoo.com | Managing Editor, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY | / | 1983-2004 | . | Mark | Bowden | / | | Atlantic correspondent, books, movies, Inquirer Currents column | / | | . | Lorraine | Branham | / | | I have spent the last six years at the University of Texas at Austin as the director of the School of Journalism and G.B. Dealey Professor. Now exchanging halter tops for thermal underwear. Headed to Syracuse University to be the Dean of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communication. | / | | . | Jeff | Brown | / | | I am the chairman and CEO of a vertically integrated global conglomerate, jeffbrownfinance.net, which provides a range of freelance-writing solutions to web-based clients seeking added value through the integration of personal-finance news and analysis to their core publishing enterprises. My wholly-owned subsidiary, Jeff Brown Transport Unlimited, specializes in providing for the travel, shelter and dining needs of a 13-year-old member of the Thunderbirds Lacrosse team. My international headquarters is in Yardley. From Jeff, June 2009: Things are picking up in the gig economy. Today I started a regular blog for The New York Times -- investing topics for entrepreneurs and owners of small businesses. Check it out at http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/ Also, for the past few months I've been writing five personal-finance columns a week for TheStreet.com. For now, I'm working to beef up a sub-site called BankingMyWay.com, which is all things to do with interest rates -- mortgages, CDs, car loans. Still doing plenty of work for Knowledge@Wharton, the online business journal at Penn's Wharton School: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm My topics are the financial markets, the economy and energy. No bylines there, but I have links to my K@W stuff at jeffbrownfinance.net. I'm also available as a speaker. I'd like to build up a business talking to employees about how to get the most out of retirement plans like 401(k)s. | / | | . | Henry | Bryan | / | | Left my editorial writing job in The Last Great Buyout of 2005. Accepted Michael Nutter’s invitation to help him as an advisor-without-portfolio in winning his long-shot victory in ’07, them avoided a City Hall job by taking a part-time consulting position with the Avenue of the Arts, Inc. My focus is on developing North Broad Street between Center City and Temple. Lowering my handicap the rest of the time, or weekending at our retreat near the Delaware Water Gap with my lovely trophy wife. Anna Marie still has several years left on the job. A former nurse, she's now a defense lawyer for doctors, nurses and hospitals. | / | | . | John V. R. | Bull | / | johnvrbull@aol.com | I'm retired and enjoying The Good Life. | / | 1972-2001 | . | Sergio R | Bustos | / | SBustos@miamiherald.com | Currently working as an editor with The Miami Herald, where great journalism is still alive and well. | / | 1987-1995 | . | Susan | Caba | / | | Living in St. Louis, freelancing for various mags, traveling as much as possible and waiting for the kid to graduate high school (2 more years) so I can consider relocation! | / | 1988-97 | . | Louis R | Carlozo | / | lcarlozo@tribune.com | Features Staff Writer/Tempo Section, Chicago Tribune; veteran of the South Jersey Bureau. Lou writes that he owes his "J career to Andy Wallace, who hired him with no experience OR clips for a tryout in Gloucester County Neighbors. ... Later learned Andy coached a boy's soccer team that had not won a game in three years. Now writing "The Explainer" column for the Chicago Tribune and working on a book calling for a renewal of journalism's best practices. Two of the 10 golden rules in said tome are from The Frog's playbook. Still tying to shake off nightmares of Tom Torok yelling at [me] to calculate the municipal tax rate when calling in night meeting coverage. Lead guitarist of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bing Bell Band." Contact: lcarlozo@tribune.com or 312-222-6178. | / | Late '80s | . | John | Carroll | / | | I'm working on a book (a nonfiction narrative) and also trying to help the cause of journalism by participating on various boards, etc. | / | | . | Julia | Cass | / | | Teaching journalism in Botswana, writing a novel, writing reports for the Children's Defense Fund, dancing tango & salsa. | / | 1978-1997 | . | Andy | Cassel | / | | Editor in chief, Moody's Economy.com, W. Chester, Pa. Website is www.dismal.com | / | 1984-2007 | . | Tricia | Cerone | / | | I moved to Northern California in the Fall of 2008. I am a Massage Therapist focusing on Prenatal massage and a birth doula. Not sure what the heck a birth doula is, check it out here http://enablejoy.com/ . Oh, and I am a nursing student. | / | 1998 - 2007 | . | Sharon | Coleman | / | | For The Inquirer: Assistant Editor, Burlington Neighbors; Assistant Editor, Gloucester Neighbors; Editor, Gloucester Neighbors; Assistant Foreign Editor; Assistant News Editor, and Online Editor, Philadelphia Online / Philly.com. Now: "I'm still looking for a gig that pays as well and was as much fun as the newspapers and online ventures of Knight Ridder, Inc." | / | 1989-1999 |
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| / | | . | Chris | Conway | / | | I'm an editor at The New York Times | / | | . | Russell | Cooke | / | rc@phillynews.com | Writing editorials and 'Say What?' blogging (http://go.philly.com/saywhat) at The Inquirer, and maintaining the Inquirer Alumni Network Website. | / | 1980- | . | Dick | Cooper | / | | After taking the November 2005 Buyout, now known as the "Great Escape," I started a media consulting and writing company, Cooper Media Associates, Inc. My wife, Pat, and I moved to St. Michaels, Md., and are now five minutes for our sailboat and two blocks from our fishing boat. | / | | . | John | Corr | / | | | / | | . | John | Costello | / | | Took a voluntary buyout in July 2009, having worked as an Inquirer staff photographer for 25 years. | / | 1984-2009 | . | Denise | Cowie | / | | At the Inquirer: Copy Editor; Assistant News Editor; Features News Editor; Sunday News Editor; Features writer, including regular consumer and fashion coverage; Gardening/Horticulture Columnist. Latest news: Took a buyout in December 2005, just before Knight Ridder sold the chain, including the Philadelphia papers. Since then, I have worked part-time as the coordinator of Greater Philadelphia Gardens, which included writing for its web site, until January 2009; worked part-time for the Camden Children's Garden; and worked as a freelance writer. | / | 3/1982 - 12/2005 | . | Richard Ben | Cramer | / | | Reporter, foreign correspondent. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ben_Cramer | / | | . | Caren | Crockett | / | | Former copy editor, slot, metro news editor, Gloucester County editor, Caren reports: Founder/president of Adrenaline Consulting (Seattle and Amsterdam), which specializes in sales incentive compensation for global tech companies. (You know I can hear you snoring, right?) I live in Amsterdam, where I am now expert at answering my visitors' questions about hookers, coffeeshops and how to avoid being hit by a cyclist. Still fondly remember my years at the Inquirer and the privilege of learning from so many dedicated, talented people. And still conflicted between grief for the profession as it once was and joy that so many people have access to self-publish online. Now the lady who used to call the city desk late at night to let us know the UFO was back can post her own video. I'm sure The Commodore would have loved that. | / | 1988-1996 | . | Mary Jo | Crowley | / | | See Mike Shoup | / | | . | Fran | Dauth | / | | Until mid-November 2008, I was editorial page editor at The Star-Ledger. | / | | . | Jimmie Dan | Davis | / | | I joined Mike Blackman at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in '92. I was an editor in the features section until my retirement in 2005. | / | 1974-92 | . | Clark | DeLeon | / | | "Time it was, and what a time it was, it was / "A time of innocence, a time of confidences / "Long ago, it must be, I have a photograph / "Preserve your memories, they're all that's left you." / And for those of you contemplating suicide after reading that, let me quote from my favorite Simon and Garfunkle song that has sustained me through many a dark night of doubt: "In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade / "And he carries a reminder of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out / "In his anger and his shame, 'I am leaving. . . I am leaving. . .' / "But the fighter still remains!" / Fn' Ay! EVERYBODY! "Li-la-li! Li-la-li-li-li-la-li! Li-la-li! Li-la-LI-li-li-li-li, La-la-la-li-LI. Li-la-li-li-li-li. Li-la, li. Li-li-LI-li-li-li, La-la-la-LI-li. . ." Whatever it was about, it was about all that. | / | 1972-1995 | . | Marguerite | Del Giudice | / | margdelg@aol.com | Our sons (Nathaniel, 19, and Aden, 16) are more or less launched and barely wish to be seen with me in public, so I've been writing articles for National Geographic. | / | 1982-1987 | . | Jim | Detjen | / | | Since I left the Inquirer I've taught journalism at Michigan State University as the Knight Chair in Journalism. I also am the director of the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism. (http://ej.msu.edu ) My wife Connie and I have two sons, Chris and Brad. Chris just graduated from the University of Michigan and is working as an intern this summer in Berlin, Germany. Our other son, Brad, will be a junior at the University of Michigan this fall. He is majoring in environmental engineering. Connie is a teacher at Haslett High School. | / | | . | Rhonda | Dickey | / | | Night business editor, The Inquirer | / | 1988- | . | Ken | Dilanian | / | kdilania@usatoday.com | Investigative team, City Hall Bureau for the Inquirer; at USA Today as a reporter now. | / | 00s | . | Stuart | Ditzen | / | | Working in public information for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (or more officially the Administrative Offices of Pennsylvania Courts). | / | | . | Jere | Downs | / | | Having joined the paper after the cutoff date, I am still confident that you are my tribe. I listened to y'all whine for years about the good ole days and I still love you, every one. Took the buyout and then nursed my boy Georgie back to health after a bout with leukemia. He is 8 now and going strong. These days, I am the labor/auto writer for the Louisville Courier-Journal, a Gannett property. Speed Racer loves to race no matter how corrupt or far gone the racing world is. And I'm still loving the adventure that is journalism. Thanks for organizing the party! See you there! | / | 1993 - 2005 | . | Donald | Drake | / | | After agonizing over the thought of surrendering my press card and identity, I made a seamless switch from being a part-time playwright and full-time journalist to a full-time playwright. Every morning I wake up looking forward to working on my plays. I realized how obsessed I was when I broke my finger on the eve of an ocean cruise and my biggest concern was that I wouldn't be able to type on the laptop I always bring with me. I've had a few productions -- just enough to keep me going. The psychologists call it intermittent rewards -- the most effective way to keep mice moving on the treadmill. You give them pellets just frequently enough that they think they will eventually get some more. | / | |
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| | | | | | | | . | Bob | Drogin | / | bob.drogin@latimes.com | For The Inquirer: Burlington County, Trenton statehouse and environmental reporter. Now: I joined the Los Angeles Times national staff when I left the Inquirer in 1983. I reported from New York for 6 years, in Asia and Africa for 8, and in Washington for 10. I'm now based from home (DC area) as a roving national correspondent. | / | 1981-83 | . | Melissa | Dribben | / | | Reporter, The Inquirer | / | | . | Murray | Dubin | / | | Inquirer experience: wrote, edited and covered lots of stuff from south philly to los angeles. Now writing a book with Dan Biddle about the American civil rights movement among African Americans in the 19th century. Expect to be done this year. | / | 1971-2005 | . | John | Duchneskie | / | | Graphics editor, The Inquirer | / | | . | Tim | Dwyer | / | | Left the Inquirer in 2002 to go to the Washington Post as a metro reporter. In July 2007 I left the Post to become Executive Editor of The Day of New London. | / | | . | Bill | Ecenbarger | / | | Alive and well in coastal Maine, writing as fast as I can | / | | . | Bill | Eddins | / | | orious retirement living: reading (newspapers, books, magazines), doing crosswords, playing golf, watching sports on TV, putting a new roof on the back porch, feeding cats. | / | 1978-2001 | . | Rick | Edmonds | / | | I am the media business analyst at the Poynter Institute, writing a regular blog on plunging revenues, cuts, ownership changes -- and the prospects for it all getting better once of these days. | / | | . | Larry | Eichel | / | | At the Pew Charitable Trusts as of November 2008 to run their Philadelphia research unit. | / | 70s-2008 | . | Maisha | Elonai | / | | Former graphics page designer, now at Penn Law. Find her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maishaelonai | / | | . | Jodi | Enda | / | | I'm the program planner at the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. I also am a freelancer, focusing primarily on politics. | / | | . | Michael | Engel | / | | I am a sports copy editor at The Inquirer. | / | 1984- | . | Aaron | Epstein | / | | For the Inquirer: City Hall Bureau Chief, Washington Correspondent. Now: In retirement, I've been pro bono lawyer, stagehand, adjunct college prof, high school newspaper adviser, senior softball player/manager, reading/writing tutor, and co-leader -- with wife Jackie -- of annual workshops for tutors. | / | 1972-1999 | . | Jerry | Etter | / | | | / | | . | Dawn | Fallik | / | DFALLIK@GMAIL.COM | I'm writing a medical book, teaching full-time and I'm going to the Wall Street Journal this summer to work on their multi-media desk. It's all good. | / | 2004-2008 | . | Charles | Fancher | / | | I've run Fancher Associates, a public relations consultancy in Annapolis, Md., since 2000. I'm also a Lecturer at Howard University in Washington, D.C. | / | | . | Diane Brozek | Fancher | / | | I'm the Special Projects Editor of Stateline.org, a Washington-based project of the Pew Charitable Trusts. | / | | . | Gary | Farrugia | / | | I have been publisher of The Day of New London, Connecticut since September, 2001. The Executive Editor here is a guy you might know named Tim Dwyer. | / | | . | Mark | Fazlollah | / | | Reporter, The Inquirer | / | | . | Mary Jane | Fine | / | Fine@northjersey.com | AME and Features editor of the Herald News in West Paterson, NJ. 7/28/08 Update: I may be job-hunting soon, as the Herald News & The Record are beginning to merge departments, so if you know of any good leads, please share. | / | 1981-1992 |
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| | | | | | | | . | Susan | FitzGerald | / | | I'm a freelance writer and editor and journalism instructor. | / | 1981-2005 | . | Carole | Fleck | / | | | / | | . | Lucinda | Fleeson | / | http://www.wakingupineden.com/ | Well. . um. In 1995 I flew off to the Hawaiian isle of Kauai to work for a botanical garden. Lived in a renovated plantation cottage on five acres, not another house in sight. After 18 months, my boss and mentor, Dr. William Klein, dropped dead of a heart attack while we were traveling in Miami. With his death, the garden slid rapidly back into feudal times. I applied for and received a Knight International Press Fellowship (see, the Knight Foundation lives on, on K-R profits, even if the news chain does not) for a year teaching journalists in Eastern Europe. Fun! And rewarding, but it made me unfit for an office job. I freelanced and did overseas training and writing for a couple of years while blissfully going broke. Now I work for the University of Maryland College of Journalism, both teaching and directing a fellowship program for foreign journalists from the developing world. In March, I took 12 American journalism students to Vietnam for an international reporting course. My book on the Hawaiian plant crisis and my experience working in the botanical garden (as well as surviving mid-life angst) was just published by Algonquin Books. No, really! Friends don't believe this long project is actually coming to an end. [see http://www.wakingupineden.com/] | / | 1980-1995 | . | Robin | Fogel (Avni) | / | | I am Senior Director and Consumer Strategist of Home/Garden/Entertaining for Iconoculture, a Minneapolis-based cultural trend research company providing consumer research, advisory services and outlooks for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Iconoculture: After I left the Inquirer, I joined the Seattle Times in Seattle, WA as the Design Director for their Sunday magazine. I was there for 5 great years and got the online bug (before there was an Internet, remember?) So, beginning in 1995, I joined this little company out in Washington State called Microsoft. I spent over eight years working there leading design teams that helped develop such high-profile products as MSN (including the internet properties), Windows 98, as well as SQL server and Exchange. In 2003, I left Microsoft and founded my own company focusing on lifestyle topics and trends. | / | 1982-1989 | . | Gene | Foreman | / | | Now retired from Pennsylvania State University College of Communications | / | 1973-1998 | . | Tom | Frail | / | | Frail/Schaffer household reports: Tom is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine; Jan is executive director of J-Lab: the Institute for Interactive Journalism, based at American University in Washington, DC. We live in Bethesda, Md., where we are attempting to raise two teenage sons. | / | | . | Sarah | Freligh | / | | A former Inquirer sportswriter, Sara is one of 42 poets to receive a 2009 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. | / | 1983-87 | . | Robert | Frump | / | | Publishing "Two Tankers Down" in August with Lyons Press. Two previous books, one recounting the Inquirer "Doom Ships" story and the other on human-animal conflict in Africa. Was Editor in Chief of UBS Financial Services three days a week, now with Clark Consulting in Dallas. Update: My third book, Two Tankers Down, has shipped to book stores and is on Amazon now. This book tells the story of the U.S. Coast Guard's most famous small boat rescue. For those of you have read my first book, this is something of a "prequel" in that it shows how the first of the World War II surplus vessels split in two because of flawed metal. It also shows an incredible rescue where a young man named Bernie Webber and his crew faced mountainous waves in a small rescue boat, following the Coast Guard motto of the time: ‘You have to go out; you don't have to come back.’ Details on Amazon and at www.twotankersdown.com | / | 1976-1986 | . | Paula | Fuchsberg | / | | Deputy national/foreign editor, The Inquirer | / | | . | Gil | Gaul | / | | Investigative reporter, The Washington Post | / | | . | Joe | Gavaghan | / | joegavaghan@comcast.net | Worked at Broad & Callowhill for 42 years from 1958 as a walking ad messenger for the Inquirer, selling ads for the Daily News from June 1968 until October 1986 when the D.N. Ad Dept. was closed and we merged with the Inq. The next 14 years I sold ads for both papers, retiring Dec. 31, 2000. My late wife ,Jeanne, also was in advertising from 1967 until 1999 when she also retired. | / | | . | Joyce | Gemperlein | / | | I'm still freelancing -- lots of different stuff, much directed to me by former Inquirer colleagues (send more!), living outside Washington,D.C., after 1 1/2 years in NYC and, before that, nearly 10 (?) in California. (I miss the produce, low humidity and some good friends (formerly) at the Merc.) Husband Jonathan (Krim) at washingtonpost.com. Still making Jill's mother's brownies and taking credit for the recipe. | / | | . | Jill | Gerston | / | | After living in Miami, Philadelphia, New York and Detroit we came to Baltimore in 1999 (and by chance moved down the block from Bill & Diane Marimow!!) I stay out of mischief by freelancing. I've stayed in touch with Beth Gillin and Arlene Morgan and look forward to catching up with the rest of the Inky in July. | / | | . | Beth | Gillin | / | | I just bought a condo overlooking the Pacific in Hawaii, on the quirky, unspoiled (okay, cheap) island of Molokai, home to barking deer, roving turkeys, ghostly night marchers, lizard gods, numerous white-haired hippies and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. Plan to move there permanently in a couple of years. Meanwhile, when Damien of Molokai is canonized next year I will be in St. Peter's Square in Rome handing out rental brochures to pilgrims. | / | | . | Beth | Gillin | / | | I just bought a condo overlooking the Pacific in Hawaii, on the quirky, unspoiled (okay, cheap) island of Molokai, home to barking deer, roving turkeys, ghostly night marchers, lizard gods, numerous white-haired hippies and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam. Plan to move there permanently in a couple of years. Meanwhile, when Damien of Molokai is canonized next year I will be in St. Peter's Square in Rome handing out rental brochures to pilgrims. | / | | . | Tony | Gnoffo | / | | Managing Editor of the Knowledge@Wharton Website for the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania; formerly an Inquirer reporter covering energy and technology; before that, Inquirer Business Editor. Tony says that he still expects to see the Inquirer newsroom when he steps out of his office at Wharton. | / | | . | Kevin | Goldman | / | kevin.goldman@nbcuni.com | Even though I worked at the Inquirer a short time, it was my best work experience. I went back to Philadelphia often to visit the friends I made at the paper. | / | 1981 | . | Henry | Goldman | / | | Reporter, Bloomberg News, NYC City Hall Bureau | / | | . | Howard | Goodman | / | | Living and working in China for a year. Blogging about it here: http://web.me.com/hjgoodman/ | / | | . | Jay | Gorodetzer | / | jaygorodetzer@comcast.net | Left the paper in mid-Septemer 2008 in search of new opportunities. | / | 1988-2008 |
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| | | | | | | | . | Harry | Gould | / | harrymgould@hotmail.com | Left PNLLC as a systems analyst, PN Business Systems, on July 3, 2008 after a fantastic,36-year ride. Since then, I've been working as a full-time web developer for a small Lansdale-based software architecture consulting firm (Technotects, Inc.). The office is a five-minute drive from my home. | / | 1972-2008 | . | Margaret | Grace | / | margmg@yahoo.com | Well, I finally took the leap -- away from The Inquirer! Notice of more layoffs came along and the company said they'd take volunteers -- so I did. I figured after 30 years there it was time to move on and try something new. What that is, I don't know -- but I'm enjoying thinking about all the options! And Doug Robinson showed up at my farewell party -- thank you, Pookie! | / | 1978-2008 | . | Don | Groff | / | | Travel columnist, photographer, editor, blogger & biker. | / | | . | Kaitlin | Gurney | / | | Trenton reporter from the '00s | / | 00s | . | Ashley | Halsey | / | | The only person in the building who knows that I'm the weather page editor at the Washington Post is the ombudsman, who fills my days with exciting questions like this one: "Have you considered adding mold counts to weather report?" Yes. | / | | . | Al | Hasbrouck | / | | I'm once again on the Inquirer copy desk, helping Marimow & co. keep the flame alive. | / | 1979- | . | Katherine | Hatton | / | | I'm at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton as VP, general counsel and secretary to the board. And I helped convince Fred Mann to join me there. The surroundings are a bit different than 400 North Broad, but we're having a lot of fun. | / | | . | Gary | Haynes | / | garyhaynes1@verizon.net | The reunion photos look at lot like a bunch of newsroom photos from the 70s, only everybody seems a little older. Wanted to join the group but could not get the planets in alignment in time. Am semi-retired, doing a bit of writing - for money, and photography, and a year from now we're moving, at last, to San Francisco, where we bought a nifty condo a couple of years ago. | / | | . | Rich | Heidorn | / | rich.heidorn@treehouse-media.net | I spent my last two years at the Inky getting an MBA, then left in 1999 for an Internet start up with five former Dow Jones executives. It seemed like a good idea at the time. After pissing through $5 million in venture funding, however, we ran out of cash after 3 ½ years. I was left with little more than a Lucite paperweight with a facsimile of the company's worthless stock certificate. Yet I have no regrets. The start-up gave me experience in sales & marketing, personnel management, website design and business strategy that still serves me today. To pay the bills, I took a job in Washington doing antitrust-type investigations for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Funny how that worked out: When the FERC chairman attempted to squash our case against the Southeast’s biggest utility, I became a whistleblower through the Government Accountability Project and U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman. The Commission ended up reversing the chairman. Even after that, the feds haven’t made me an offer I can’t refuse, so I’m spending Monday-Thurs. in DC and Fridays-Sunday in Bethlehem, PA, shepherding my twin daughters through their last year of high school. Meanwhile, I’m co-owner of a small Spanish-language publishing company, and have begun experimenting with web video production. My current venture is the TreeHouse Media Project, an effort to provide print journalists with the entrepreneurial and multimedia skills to survive and thrive despite the collapse of the newspaper business model. Read my manifesto [re: Google] at www.treehouse-media.net. UPDATE: The TreeHouse Media Project is planning an interactive, multimedia voters guide for the 2008 Presidential race. If you'd like information on the project and how you or your organization can participate, email me at rich.heidorn@treehouse-media.net. | / | 1982-1999 | . | Linda | Herskowitz Kriger | / | linwitz@comcast.net | Then: reporter. Now (9/09): I'm living in Philadelphia with my husband and two sons, ages 15 and 18. I freelance for the Jewish Forward in New York now and then. My life is full and fulfilling. I'm sorry I missed the reunion. It would have been fun to see so many familiar faces more than 20 years later. | / | 1976-1987 | . | Tom | Hine | / | | Writing books, magazine articles and curating museum exhibitions. | / | 1970-96 | . | Leslie | Hoffecker West | / | | I left The Inquirer in 1987 for Kansas City, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Bangalore (India), Sunninghill (UK), Riyadh again, San Diego and Washington, where we've been since 2001. Thanks to a good word from John Carroll, I joined the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau as an editor two weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks -- and left amid Sam Zell's dismantling of the bureau 10 days after Barack Obama's election. (Pretty good bookends, I'd say.) In April 2009 I became news editor at CQ Today, Congressional Quarterly's daily report on Capitol Hill. I'm also volunteering as an editor with the News Literacy Project (www.thenewsliteracyproject.org), a new program, started by a fellow LAT alum, that takes current and former journalists into middle schools and high schools to teach students the critical thinking skills they need to be smarter and more frequent consumers and creators of credible information across all media and platforms. Check it out and sign on to help. | / | 1976-1987 | . | Henry | Holcomb | / | hjholcomb@earthlink.net | Retired in mid-2008, having served as: deputy foreign editor, assistant to Gene Roberts, chief of the Trenton Statehouse Bureau and business news staff writer covering maritime, logistics, railroads, aviation, trucking, commercial real estate and emerging technologies. Also president of the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia 2000-2008; president of Middle Atlantic District Council of the Guild/CWA 2001-2008. Now living happily in Philadelphia area working as a freelance communications and strategy consultant. Also doing volunteer work at church and with agencies that seek to build artistic skills in urban youth and minister to needs of the 60,000 seafarers from Third World countries’ ships that call at Delaware River seaports each year. | / | 1983-2008 | . | Ray | Holton | / | | I left 400 N. Broad in 1985 after 14 years to join The Morning Call (Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton) as Business Editor and columnist. Subsequent posts – Associate Publisher, Managing Editor, Editor – at one of the best little Metros in the U.S. In 2000, Donna and I retired to our sailboat 5 months out of the year. We’re both directors in half a dozen non-profit community service organizations. We visit grandkids in W. Phila and Cascade Mountains, WA. | / | 1971-1985 | . | Arthur | Howe | / | | I'm founder of the largest company that brings news, photos and all other content from newspapers, magazines and other publishers to mobile phones. I work with several thousand publications and the Associated Press. | / | 1978-1989 | . | Ellen | Iwamoto | / | | Volunteered to be laid off in February 2007; now working at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Penn, filling in occasionally on the Inky copydesk; freelance editor | / | | . | Paul | Jablow | / | | Freelancing, Website soon: www.pauljablow.com | / | 1973-2003 | . | Terry | Johnson | / | terryejohnson@gmail.com | Independent consultant; former Communications Director for Public Citizens for Children and Youth (PCCY); board member on the city's public-access TV corporation; aspiring filmmaker. | / | | . | David Cay | Johnston | / | | Author, lecturer, columnist, tax law and business school professor (Syracuse), hope to be TV documentary host and actual board chairman of a tiny company with big ambitions, American Family Resort Hotels | / | | . | Gerald | Jordan | / | | Journalism faculty at the University of Arkansas; summer intern at The Inquirer | / | 1983-1995 |
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| | | | | | | | . | Lini | Kadaba | / | | Features reporter, The Inquirer | / | 1986- | . | Marc | Kaufman | / | | Reporter, Washington Post | / | | . | Hope | Keller | / | hope.keller@gmail.com | I left the Inky in late 1991 to cover the waterfront at the Virginian-Pilot; left there in 1994 to return to Paris to edit the editorial pages at the Int'l Herald Tribune; came back to the U.S. and had my daughter, Emma Angeline, with Paul Moore in 1999. I've been trying to make a living ever since. For two years, until this summer, I was the editor of a 25,000-circulation Baltimore-area women's magazine. It was very popular, except with the publisher. Anyone with any ideas, please write | / | 1988-1991 | . | Nick | Kelsh | / | | I'm a partner in a center city design firm, Kelsh Wilson Design, and have been since 1985. | / | | . | Mary Lowe | Kennedy | / | | Editor at Vanguard | / | 1974-1986, plus freelance editing | . | Herb | Kestenbaum | / | | I took a buyout in November 2005 -- an ideal time, given what has happened since. In glorious retirement, I have been babysitting for grandchildren, volunteering as a reading tutor at the local elementary school, as a helper at a local arboretum and as an editing consultant at the local ACLU office. And my wife and I are traveling extensively. | / | 1974-2005 | . | Donald | Kimelman | / | | I oversee "information initiatives" at the Pew Charitable Trusts, which includes the work of the DC-based Pew Research Center, home to many one-time newspaper reporters. (I chair the center's board and am the main middle man between the 110 folks who do the work and the dozen folks who control the money.) One of the Pew Research Center's initiatives, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, specializes in research on the news business, a pretty grim tale of late.I also oversee all of Pew's work in Philadelphia. Hence my ungainly title: managing director, Information Initiatives and the Philadelphia program. | / | 1979-1997 | . | Maxwell | King | / | | Served as president of the Heinz Endowments, 1999-2008; now part-time, St. Vincent College; Peggy and I are living and working in Westmoreland County, Pa.; two children, one grandchild, one puppy. | / | | . | Julia M | Klein | / | | I am a freelance cultural reporter and critic, writing mostly for magazines as well as the occasional newspaper and Website. | / | 1983-2000 | . | Hank | Klibanoff | / | Hsklib@gmail.com | I'm most easily found these days working from home, writing, lecturing, researching, exercising and enjoying watching as others generate, direct and produce news. | / | 1982-2002 | . | Becky | Klock | / | | Editor, Inquirer features | / | | . | Charles | Knittle | / | | I started at The New York Times in January 2003. For the last two years, I've been the Metro slot -- the same job I had 20 years ago at The Inquirer. Of course, it's not quite as much fun now. But I feel very fortunate to be doing work that I love, in the city of my birth. | / | | . | Andrea | Knox | / | | Since 2001 I've been with the Chester Children's Chorus, first as managing director and now as development director. The chorus provides after-school, Saturday and summer programs in music education, cultural enrichment, and academic enhancement --including summer laboratory science classes taught by Swarthmore College professors. Our members are 100 boys and girls from Chester in 3rd through 12th grades (up from 25 children when I came 7 years ago). The change from observing and recording, to doing, has been a tonic. (Submitted December 2008) | / | 1974-2001 | . | Carol | Knopes Donlan | / | | Director of Education Projects, Radio and Television News Directors Foundation | / | | . | Jeff | Kohler | / | | You all wrote and edited a superb product…and I was proud to deliver the Inquirer until 1995 when I left PNI as the SVP/Circulation to form my own retained executive search firm. For the past 13 years I have been recruiting business-side executives for publishing clients, such as American City Business Journals, the St. Pete Times, the Dallas Morning News and American Lawyer Media. We still reside in the area with our four daughters—one is a graduate, two are in college and the “baby” is now a freshman in high school. | / | | . | Ann | Kolson | / | | Lovelady/Kolson household reports: Ann is still the movie editor of the NY Times, bedeviled daily by 46 emails from studio executives saying "Please review our movie !" (Truth is, she'd rather be at home with Maggie and Zoey, our dogs.) And Steve, after 6 years at Time Inc. and a very fun 2 1/2-year stint at Columbia J-School as a press critic, is blissfully in retirement, enjoying his wife's paycheck. | / | | . | Tony | Lame | / | | President of Information Unlimited, Inc, private investigations agency. | / | | . | Connie | Langland | / | mslangland@aol.com | Best wishes to all! | / | 1977-2005 | . | Dick | Langman | / | | Bettina and I are enjoying retirement and our grandchildren, and are traveling abroad as often as we can. | / | | . | Charles | Layton | / | | Mary and I live in Ocean Grove, NJ, where she’s working on a book (see her entry) and I write sometimes for the American Journalism Review. I’m deep into civic life as a member of the local zoning board, an officer in the Homeowners Association and a member of the Ocean Grove Citizens Patrol. Have lately become an aficionado (syn., “addict”) of the Asian board game Go, which is some 4,000 years old and takes about that long to learn to play properly. Big fan of ice hockey as long as it’s a game in which our grandson Spencer, 8, plays. (Go Glaciers!) Played bar-room jazz piano for a time in the ‘90s but gave it up due to insufficient talent. We travel, bicycle on the boardwalk, go to concerts, eat ice cream. Life is good. Mary and I are always interested in hearing from old friends and colleagues. And if you come visit us, you can sit on our nice front porch and drink ice water.
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| | | | | | | | . | Mike | Leary | / | | Managing Editor / News, The Inquirer | / | | . | Dan | LeDuc | / | | How yew doin'? I'm writing and editing at the Post with some teaching on the side. Wife is happy, kids are growing, job is fine - though nothing will ever compare to Broad Street in the Golden Era. | / | | . | David | Lieber | / | dlieber@star-telegram.com | Everything I learned from my decade at the Inqy from the best minds in journalism have been put to good use in the U.S. Southwest (except camels in newsroom). Have worked as senior metro columnist for Fort Worth Star-Telegram for 15 years. Blessed to have worked for some wonderful editors here! Also own my own publishing/speaking business (www.yankeecowboy.com). My third book, a collection of columns - The Dog of My Nightmares - remains a popular seller here, now in its fourth printing. New book coming out this fall called "Dave Lieber's Watchdog Nation: Bite Back When Businesses and Scammers Do You Wrong." Based on what I've learned through my investigative column - "The Watchdog." I count my blessings and, along with a wonderful wife and three incredible children, the Inquirer is high on the list among them. | / | 1983-1993 | . | Larry | Lewis | / | | I moved back to Maryland when I retired four years ago. My wife Nancy and I have four daughters and 10 grandchildren, from 3 years old to 18. We just came back from Vermont, where we watched the eldest graduate. She is off to MIT in the fall. We travel a lot. We garden, and are certified Master Gardeners through the University of Maryland. Last fall, I wrote a long, and very personal to me, article for a magazine Dick Cooper was editing about the history of my family on Maryland's Eastern Shore and what it was like to grow up on an island in the Chesapeake Bay before there were any bay bridges. | / | | . | Simon | Li | / | | The dismantling of the Los Angeles Times by Tribune Co. became too painful, so I took a buyout at the end of July, 2007. Sam Zell and his cohorts have since polished up the wisdom of that decision to a high gloss. I left the Inky in July 23 years earlier to join the LAT business desk but after 15 months, switched jobs with an editor on the foreign desk. there I stayed for 16 1/2 years, the last 7 1/2 as foreign editor. Then became an AME. After two sets of editors/MEs who found me useful quit in disgust at Tribune, I was left looking at a train wreck from the sidelines, so the buyout was welcome. In retirement, I have time to read, try to be healthier, and to travel, combining fun with obligations to a couple of organizations that put me on their boards. After 19 years at the L.A. County Museum of Art, first as a registrar and then as a curator of Chinese art, June moved to the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. There she is curator of the Huntington's newly opened Chinese Garden, for which she provided cultural, intellectual and aesthetic guidance. Now she's working on the garden's $30 million phase II. See the garden at www.huntington.org, or better yet, come see it in person. | / | | . | Louise Hickman | Lione | / | | Finished out the KRN years at The Charlotte Observer -- features editor and writer along with restaurant-critic and fashion gigs. Retirement has included several years in Rome, where I lived pre-Inquirer, along with a five-month cross-U.S. solo tent-camping trip. Now living in "metro" Roanoke VA near the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway. | / | 1972-73 (Features) | . | Mitch | Lipka | / | mitch.lipka@weblogsinc.com | Former Trenton reporter for the Inquirer and also at the Boston Globe, as of May 2009 at WalletPop.com, which "covers personal finance on the Web with a mix of news, commentary, advice, video, radio and other multimedia content." Officially: Programming Manager at AOL | / | 00s | . | Lynn | Litterine | / | | Copy editing at the Chronicle of Higher Education | / | | . | Vernon | Loeb | / | | Inquirer to the Post to the LA Times to the Inquirer | / | | . | Joe | Logan | / | | | / | | . | Luisita | Lopez Torregrosa | / | | I am working on my second book and playing adjunct professor at Fordham (next year, at Columbia). | / | 1983-1987 | . | Emilie | Lounsberry | / | | After more than 25 years as an Inquirer legal-affairs reporter, Emilie heads to The College of New Jersey in the fall of 2009 to join the journalism faculty in the English Dept. at the highly selective public institution. | / | 1982-2009 | . | Steve | Lovelady | / | | Lovelady/Kolson household reports: Ann is still the movie editor of the NY Times, bedeviled daily by 46 emails from studio executives saying "Please review our movie !" (Truth is, she'd rather be at home with Maggie and Zoey, our dogs.) And Steve, after 6 years at Time Inc. and a very fun 2 1/2-year stint at Columbia J-School as a press critic, is blissfully in retirement, enjoying his wife's paycheck. | / | | . | John | Lubell | / | | Since my retirement, I helped my wife with two documentaries she produced and directed. They both aired on PBS. I've played a bit more golf, finally caught up with the New Yorker magazines and traveled to some interesting places, the latest being Vietnam and Cambodia. | / | 1977-1999 | . | Rick | Lyman | / | | I've been working at The New York Times since I left The Inquirer. At the moment, I'm the Books & Theater Editor. | / | 1982-1997 | . | Alen | Mallot | / | | At The Inquirer | / | 1987- | . | C.S. | Manegold | / | | Just finishing my second book, "Ten Hills Farm," non-fiction (natch) telling the story of 150 years of slavery on a Massachusetts farm first owned by John Winthrop. I've loved it. Will be teaching journo and non-fiction at Mt. Holyoke in the fall. And have returned to the potter's wheel with abandon! | / | 1981-1989 | . | Fred | Mann | / | | I bailed exactly two years ago and landed in a strange and wonderful new world. I run the communications staff at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton. It's the largest health and health care foundation in the country and I leave work almost every day feeling like I've really contributed to social change and making people's lives better -- kind of like journalism was for me before it became laying people off and becoming a slave to KR revenue budgets. I look forward to seeing everybody. | / | 1983-2006 | . | Dianna | Marder | / | | I'm the Weekend section's honorary Shoobie, and the Food section's know-nothing food writer. | / | | . | Bill | Marimow | / | | Editor, The Inquirer | / | 1972-1993 and 2006 - |
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| | | | | | | | . | Bill | Marsh | / | | Married with five cats. My wife, a professor of economics at Stockton College, politely demurred on the reunion, unable to see the appeal of talking shop for several straight hours under a July sun. (Some people just don't get it.) We live in Philly; I work for the NYT Week in Review section. Our second home is 30th Street Station. Looking forward to seeing everyone. | / | | . | Bob | Martin | / | | My main occupation is teaching ballroom and Latin dancing. I also write a periodic column for The Inquirer and fill in on the copy desk. | / | 1986-2005 | . | Michael | Matza | / | | Reporter, The Inquirer | / | | . | Andy | Maykuth | / | | Reporter, The Inquirer | / | | . | Patsy | McLaughlin | / | patsy.mcl@verizon.net | Still writing RealStyle, weekly column on semiology and socio-psycho-politics of self-presentation (what used to be called fashion) for Universal Press Syndicate. Teaching (Style & The Media) in the spring quarter at Drexel's design school. Also growing tomatoes, meaning to clean out the cellar and reorganize the sewing room. | / | 1983-2005 | . | Janet | McMillan | / | | After 2 lengthy stints at the paper, Janet departs at the end of 2008 to pursue other opportunities. | / | 1998-2008 | . | Eric | Mencher | / | | Staff photographer took a voluntary buyout in July 2009, heading out to do freelance work. Photo-blogging most days at http://thisurbanlife.blogspot.com/. | / | 1987-2009 | . | Dale | Mezzacappa | / | | Working for the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, freelancing, teaching a journalism course at Swarthmore. | / | 1979-2006 | . | Virginia | Micke | / | | Assistant Editor - National/Foreign, The Inquirer | / | | . | Bill | Miller | / | | Now an assignment editor at The Washington Post | / | | . | Michael | Mills | / | | Gardening, singing, traveling, tanning | / | | . | Dave | Milne | / | | Thoroughly enjoying retirement and playing lots of golf. | / | 1963 - 2001 | . | Jim | Moffatt | / | | | / | | . | Fen | Montaigne | / | | Finishing book on Antarctica and working at new online environmental magazine at Yale. | / | | . | Paul | Moore | / | pmoore@phillynews.com | In May 2009, Paul returned to the Inquirer as as assistant Metro editor. From 1982 until 1996, Paul was an Inquirer assistant news editor, supervising news editor/Neighbors, assistant managing editor/Sunday and assistant managing editor/features. At the Baltimore Sun, where he worked for 13 years after leaving the Inquirer, he was Sunday editor, assistant managing editor and deputy managing editor. He also was the Sun’s public editor/ombudsman for nearly four years and wrote a weekly column about reporting, editing and the media. | / | 1982 - 1996; 2009 - | . | Carol | Morello | / | | Assignment editor on the city desk at the Washington Post. | / | 1983 to 1997 | . | Arlene | Morgan | / | | Associate Dean, The Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University | / | | . | Wanda | Motley Odom | / | | Being a suburban mom, part-time PR guru and grad student. | / | | . | Peter | Mucha | / | | Reporter, The Inquirer | / | | . | BJ (Barbara Johnson) | Naple | / | | After narrowly escaping a dead-end desk job at a nice little art museum in Albany, I took my BA in Art History (Skidmore class of 2000), and did what most people do: Decided to commit to writing fiction. I completed Miranda's Joy, a literary mystery set at a monastery in Vermont, at 6 p.m. on March 31, 2006. Since then, I've been actively seeking an agent and experiencing enough encouraging near misses to keep trying. I'm working on the sequel and recently finished a social satire/black comedy novella: The Maniacal Scrapbooker: A tale of arts and crafts gone bad. I married a sweet, patient man named Rich Naple in 2000. He is a fine furniture maker and we live a low carbon footprint life in our restored Vermont farmhouse. | / | 1981-1991 |
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| | | | | | | | . | Jim | Naughton | / | swamijim@mac.com | Like Dale Allen, am being badgered by my kids to write down lucid accounts of pranks played, at Inky and elsewhere. Am tinkering with a draft of "Forty-Six Frogs in the Boss's Bathroom." [Positions held at The Inquirer: "Principal tormenter of Gene Roberts and Doug Robinson"] | / | 1977 - 1996 | . | Jonathan | Neumann | / | jneumann2@bloomberg.net | Editor, Bloomberg News. Living in the Princeton, NJ area with Helen and our puppy, Parsnip. | / | 1976-2000 | . | Rick | Nichols | / | | Inquirer food columnist | / | | . | Paul | Nielsen | / | | I left in 89 to go to graduate school. I got my doctorate at L.S.U. in 1995 with a dissertation on why and how Henry James and others write autobiography. I found my way back into journalism in 1996, and have been a copy editor on the Metro desk at The Times ever since. I think wistfully of retirement from time to time, but then I remember my savings (thin) and I get over it. Love New York City. | / | | . | Dwight | Ott | / | | Dwight retired in July 2009 after 33 years at the paper, notably as a cops reporter in Camden. | / | 1976-2009 | . | Michael | Pakenham | / | | I retired in 2004 from the Baltimore Sun, where I had been books editor and columnist since 1994. From 1984-1991 I was editorial page editor of the New York Daily News. In 1990 and 1991 I was concurrently executive editor of the Sunday Correspondent, in London, UK. My time at the Inquirer included early stints as assistant managing editor for features and then for news. From 1972 until 1984, I was the paper's associate editor. Inquirer Titles: Former Assistant Managing Editor Features; AME News, Associate Editor. Also wrote a weekly wine column, 1972-1984. My wife Rosalie are both soundly retired. As Rosalie Wright, she was managing editor of Philadelphia Magazine, then in California for more than 30 years at several magaines and AME of the Chronicle; finally, editor-in-chief of Sunset. We are happily gardening. | / | 1966-1984 | . | Akweli | Parker | / | www.thewordninja.com | Inquirer business reporter, now with the communications staff of the Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church. | / | | . | Lance | Parry | / | | News editor, The Inquirer | / | | . | Michael | Perez | / | | Inquirer photographer; left the paper in the December 2008 downsizing of the Photo Dept | / | 1998-2008 | . | Nancy | Petersen | / | | Reporter, The Inquirer | / | | . | Douglas | Pike | / | pikestuff@aol.com | A former editorial writer for The Inquirer, Doug is running for Congress in Pennsylvania's Sixth District. Website: www.pikeforcongress.com | / | 1987-2001 | . | Dick | Polman | / | | I'm teaching journalism full-time as "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, and writing a daily political blog on the side for The Inquirer. A decent balance. Still haven't cut all my ties to the Truth Tower. | | 1984-2006 | . | Natalie | Pompilio | / | | Former Inquirer city desk reporter. Her freelance work appears frequently on The Inquirer features pages. | | | . | David Lee | Preston | / | | I'm an assistant city editor at the Philadelphia Daily News. I was a senior editor at CNN.com in Atlanta, and taught journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University (an experience enhanced by the generous participation of several folks attending this reunion). | / | | . | Jamie | Preston | / | | | / | | . | Matt | Purdy | / | | Since exiting 400 North Broad, I've been working at The New York Times and living in Montclair, N.J. with Dale and our two sons. I've been lucky to have had a string of interesting jobs at The Times - suburban columnist, investigations editor - but none of them quite as much fun as the Inky in the '80s. | / | | . | Bill | Raftery | / | | Having joined the staff in 1976, Bill retired on Nov. 25, 2008. | / | 1976-2008 | . | Larry | Reibstein | / | | Worked as a business reporter for 3 years, then assistant New Jersey editor one year under the estimable Butch Ward. Left the paper and my hometown for the Wall Street Journal, where I worked for 4 years as an editor and writer. Then to Newsweek as a writer for 10 years before moving to Forbes, where I am now an executive editor overseeing whatever. Married with 2 girls, one in college, one high school. | / | 1980-84 | . | Valerie | Reitman | / | | Left the Inquirer with a heavy heart in 1992 (the paper's first buyout) to join the WSJ in Pittsburgh, covering everything you never wanted to know about detergent, diapers and deodorant -- while squeezing in A-heds gleaned from those in-house history-of-Philly seminars taught by that wonderful Temple prof, such as how Betsy Ross didn’t really sew the flag or live in that tourist trap where someone else’s bones are buried. Moved to Tokyo - home for nearly 8 years -- trailing door-to-door Toyota car salesmen and staking out the ‘Melon Club,” where middle-class school girls turned tricks to fund Louis Vuitton purses. Jumped to the LA Times as a foreign correspondent covering Japan and the Koreas, along with hot spots such as Kosovo and Afghanistan (shared a house in Kabul for several weeks with Zuke and other LAT hacks after the fall of the Taliban… Left the LAT with a buyout last year, hell-bent on doing something to help save our beleaguered profession… am working on a plan (while freelancing etc to pay the rent) to create an online, non-profit newspaper filled with memorable stories -- the type of original reporting that registers regardless of a reader's geography. Its tentative name, ZagNews, is a nod to Gene Roberts’ inspiration. We’d love your input and help – particularly in reporting/suggesting/editing terrific stories for a prototype in the fall. All you frustrated journalists with such a vast reservoir of talent, now’s your chance to tackle those stories you’ve long wanted to do, and help build an organization that values what we do ..... valeriereitman@yahoo.com (213) 215 9684…(p.s still live in LA for the moment, but hope to move back to Philly soon).
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| | | | | | | | . | Gene | Roberts | / | | Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for History for The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff (Alfred A. Knopf) | / | | . | Doug | Robinson | / | | | / | | . | Amy | Rosenberg | / | | Going on 23 years at the Inky, i dqn't even believe that as i write that number, writing for features and doing the philly.com jersey shore blog, go.philly.com/downashore | / | | . | Bob | Rosenthal | / | | Former managing editor of The San Francisco Chronicle | / | | . | Michael | Rozansky | / | | Deputy Arts & Features Editor, The Inquirer | / | | . | Dan | Rubin | / | | Same as it ever was. | / | | . | Trudy | Rubin | / | | Foreign affairs columnist, The Inquirer | / | | . | Inga | Saffron | / | spsalisbury@aol.com | In a previous life was Inquirer Jersey reporter. Went to Europe to cover Yugoslavia, former Soviet Union and their wars. Now reincarnated as the Inquirer's Architecture critic. | / | | . | Stephan | Salisbury | / | | I remember the Wayne Buro, launching point, Roberts told me, to national and international coverage. It catapaulted me to West Chester. That was a long time ago. For many years, I've covered cultural news -- for the city desk and for features. Don't worry. I will turn off the lights and shut the door when I leave. | / | 1979-Present | . | Terence | Samuel | / | | Deputy editor at theroot.com. | / | | . | Bob | Samsot | / | | Went from Inquirer to Baltimore (very briefly) to USA Today and then fled to the Washington Post, where I edited g.a. reporters for the city desk and then to Fairfax. Then came the great fret and the Post's most recent buyout. I took it, then got an email and invite. So we are now in Sarajevo, where I work for the Journalism Development Group - specifically, as an advising editor to the Center for Investigative Reporters and on a new, regional project involving organized crime and corruption in the republics of the former Yugoslavia, and in several other countries. We've been here for a couple months, see staying for a couple of years. They put us up in an apartment with no guest space, but if you get Sarajevo way, shoot me an email at bsamsot@hotmail.com. Beats retiring to watch my retirement fund fade. | / | | . | Don | Sapatkin | / | | Two weeks ago, health video show producer . . . last week, deputy health & science editor . . . this week, medical reporter . . . | / | | . | Denise-Marie | Santiago | / | | Metro Columnist, Rochester (N.Y.)Democrat and Chronicle. A hubby, two kids, a station wagon and a guinea pig -- that about says it all.
| / | 1987-1997 | . | Suzanne | Sataline | / | | I'm the national religion writer for the Wall Street Journal, working out of Boston (for some reason.) God help us. | / | 1995-2000 | . | Chris | Satullo | / | csatullo@whyy.org | After a 13-year stint on the Editorial Board, transitioned to column writing and, as of Dec. 15, 2008, to WHYY radio and TV as executive director of news and civic dialogue. New e-mail will be csatullo@whyy.org. | | | . | Jan | Schaffer | / | | Frail/Schaffer household reports: Tom is a senior editor at Smithsonian magazine; Jan is executive director of J-Lab: the Institute for Interactive Journalism, based at American University in Washington, DC. We live in Bethesda, Md., where we are attempting to raise two teenage sons. (An addendum passed along by Mary Walton: "Jan Schaffer has launched a new media boondoggle funded by her long-time benefactors at the Knight Foundation. It’s called “personal journalism.” Every single newspaper reader will be assigned his or her own reporter. This is made possible, says Jan, because there are now more reporters than there are readers.") | / | | . | Steve | Seplow | / | seplows@aol.com | I'm writing a book with a long-time New Jersey politician about his life and times as a Jersey pol. Other than that, I ride my bike, I root for the Phillies and I rant about Bush. | / | 1971-1977; 1983- 2001 | . | Howie | Shapiro | / | hshapiro@phillynews.com | For the Inquirer: General assignment reporter, education writer, Harrisburg bureau, transportation writer, demographics writer, assistant city editor, assistant national editor, deputy New Jersey editor, Weekend editor, features editor (trends), fine arts editor, Travel editor and, now, theater critic. | / | 1970- | . | Donna | Shaw | / | shaw@tcnj.edu | Journalism professor, College of New Jersey | / | | . | Gerry | Shields | / | | Washington correspondent for The Baton Rouge Advocate | / | 1983-85 |
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| | | | | | | | . | Gail | Shister | / | gailshister@gmail.com | For The Inquirer: TV columnist, general assignment reporter. Resigned from the staff as of June 1, 2009. Plans to teach and write. Says Gail, "Sadly, I didn't leave The Inquirer. The Inquirer left me." | / | 1979-2009 | . | Jane | Shoemaker | / | janeshoe@windstream.net | [Inquirer tenure: Business reporter, New Jersey editor, Investigative reporter, assistant national editor, national correspondent, foreign correspondent, assistant to Gene Roberts, Neighbors editor, suburban editor. Chief desk washer during the long strike of ’85.] After so many years focusing on work, I now focus on non-profits, helping with writing and editing at the Episcopal Church, Hospice, The Salvation Army. I chair two boards, which tells you more about their selection process than my abilities. I have a beautiful mountain house available for friental (that’s for rent with no money changing hands) to any of my Inky friends. Living north of Charlotte, NC. | / | 1972 - 1991 | . | Mike | Shoup | / | | The lovely and talented MJ and I spend eight months of the year tilling our ten acres here in the hills of north-central Pa. and the rest of the time (winter, of course) at a house we have built on the Pacific in southern Nicaragua. Life is, how to say, beddy, beddy good. | / | 1971-1996 | . | Patsy | Sims | / | | In the years since my Inquirer days (1973-74), I have mostly freelanced, writing books (three) and various articles and book reviews, editing an anthology of narrative nonfiction, and working on a documentary. I currently juggle writing with a half-time job directing a low-residency MFA program in creative nonfiction at Goucher College. I live in Washington, DC. | / | 1973-74 | . | Becky | Sinkler | / | | Living in NH and loving it. Just now, I am blogging for the NYTimes Book Review on LIne. New experience. Involved up here in town doings, library, conservation, the usual desultory retirement effort to keep the brain alive as long as the body lasts. But the body is going fast! Can't wait to see all. | / | 1976-83 | . | Marlena | Slowik | / | | Embarked on a new career in the H.R. field, working at a software company in the Plymouth Meeting area and was recently promoted to Manager of Human Resources. It's challenging and rewarding. I also moved to Plymouth last year. My "girls" are now teenagers, Devyn will be 14 in January and Dana will be 18 in February. Hard to believe! Dana is looking into colleges for nursing and Devyn is thinking about high school next year and wants to be a lawyer. Life is good! | / | 1984-2006 | . | Karl | Stark | / | | Editor, health coverage, The Inquirer | / | | . | Steve | Stecklow | / | | Wall Street Journal, Deputy Bureau Chief, Boston | / | 11 years | . | Jim | Steele | / | | Now contributing editor, Vanity Fair; 10 years at TIME magazine before that. | / | 1970-1997 | . | William | Steinmetz | / | | | / | | . | Dan | Stets | / | | Editor at Bloomberg News in NYC | / | | . | Craig | Stock | / | | I'm a principal at Vanguard, the mutual fund company, where I oversee the Corporate Marketing and Communications group. When not at work, I'm likely to be flying a 22-year-old Cessna 172 -- a fun, if expensive, hobby. | / | | . | Susan | Stranahan | / | | Until Fall 2008, I was on staff at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Penn; now freelancing full-time. | / | 1972-2000 | . | Brian P | Sullivan | / | | Still trading on the two years in Philadelphia that changed my life forever. Journal of Commerce 1979-1982. Inky business news 1982-1984. Philadelphia Business Journal 1984-1988. American Banker 1988-1993. Since then, I have published my own newsletters and hosted conferences. The topic? Insurance, the beat that I had at the Inky 20 years ago. www.riskinformation.com. Killed me to miss the reunion. | / | | . | David | Sullivan | / | | Still at The Inquirer running the copy desk. Also have taken V.R.'s role as the "contact this person if you are honked at us" name under the Clearing the Record label. This makes me indispensible, right? RIGHT? | / | 1983- | . | Akira | Suwa | / | | Staff photographer | / | 1977 - present | . | Lil | Swanson | / | | I left The Inquirer to run APME's NewsTrain, a national training project for frontline editors. I got to travel the country and work from 30 newsrooms, none as nice as The Inquirer's. After that, I spent a year at the Detorit News as Online Editor, learning a bunch about multimedia, and now I'm the managing editor of The Rockford (Illinois) Register Star. | / | 1986-2004 | . | Nancy | Szokan | / | | A part-time editor at The Washington Post | / | | . | David | Taylor | / | | Boston-bound after retiring in December 2008 as NJ Projects Editor of The Inquirer. | / | | . | Paul | Taylor | / | | Executive vice president, Pew Charitable Trusts | / | 1973-81 |
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| | | | | | | | . | Lowell | Toenniessen | / | | Lowell says he's enjoying retirement. | / | | . | Loretta | Tofani | / | | I wrote an investigative series, published last year in The Salt Lake Tribune, called "American Imports, Chinese Deaths". The series was supported by travel grants ($13,000) from the Pulitzer Center and a smaller($4,500) grant from the Center for Investigative Reporting. It won the Michael Kelly award, the IRE award for investigative reporting, and the national Sigma Delta Chi award. It also was a finalist for the Goldsmith. Editors at The Philadelphia Inquirer originally had promised in writing to publish the series, but when management changed the deal was off. So it was published in The Salt Lake Tribune. | / | 1987-2001 | . | Lisa | Tracy | / | | Veteran editor's long-awaited book coming out spring 2010. | / | | . | Rick | Tulsky | / | | Reporter at the San Jose Mercury News; formerly a reporter at The Los Angeles Times | / | | . | Tom | Turcol | / | | Political and corporate consulting | / | | . | Reid | Tuvim | / | | Deptuy News Editor - Features - The Inquirer | / | | . | Steve | Twomey | / | | Personal Assistant to the Executive Editor of the A.P. | / | | . | Marian | Uhlman | / | | I head a chain of student-produced elementary school
newspapers that focus on health issues. I developed the concept with a second-grade teacher in Upper Darby, and now work as the project's director
at The Food Trust. We produced a total of 29 editions this year at 10 Philadelphia city and suburban schools, and distributed papers to 5,000
students and their families. I'm looking for assistance as the project continues to expand. If you want to learn more or get involved, contact me at uhlman23@aol.com | / | 1986-2005 | . | Guy | Unangst | / | guyun@comcast.net | Inquirer career included working as sports news editor and assistant Sunday editor to the ‘Great Patel.’ As of September, the address will be 12121 Georgia Oak Court in Jacksonville 72218. Taking advantage, in my modest retirement, of the crashing Florida real-estate market and the plunging interest rate. Two spare bedrooms. Visit. | / | 1976-1986 | . | Lou | Ureneck | / | | Teaching journalism at Boston University and working on a book. My first book, "Backcast," came out last year. I was at the Inquirer from 1997-2003 and this event will give me a chance to visit with some wonderful friends and colleagues. | / | | . | Michael | Viola | / | | Retired photographer | / | | . | Michael | Vitez | / | | Still working at the paper, also wrote a book, Rocky Stories: Tales of Love, Hope and Happiness at America's Most Famous Steps. Doing public speaking to conventions about the Rocky steps and Rocky myth and the people who come and run. | / | | . | Jane M | Von Bergen | / | | Inquirer business reporter | / | | . | Mark | Wagenfeld | / | | Two teenage daughters, old-house projects, lots of school, church and community projects. Plus, three newspapers on the doorstep every morning. | / | 1979-2005 | . | Jim | Wallace | / | | | / | | . | Linda S | Wallace | / | theculturalcoach@aol.com | At the Inquirer: Real Estate Editor, National Correspondent, Business reporter. Now: I'm still having lunch with people, talking about diversity. | / | 1986-1996 | . | Tom | Walsh | / | | | / | | . | Mary | Walton | / | | Not long after he left the Inquirer, Gene Roberts co-authored an essay on “The Press, Protesters, and Presidents” for a history of the White House. For years afterward, he attempted to persuade someone to write a book about suffragist Alice Paul, a New Jersey Quaker, leader of the first people to picket the White House. The women were beaten, arrested, jailed, and, finally, force-fed after they went on hunger strikes. Catchy stuff, but most people told Gene no. I did too until he held me captive during a dinner party. Silent Sentinel: the Remarkable Story of Alice Paul, will be published with lots of footnotes by Palgrave Macmillan in November, 1910, the ninetieth anniversary of female suffrage. (You might say I’m still working for Gene.) In other news, Charles and I have two wonderful grandkids and we have become big fans of kids ice hockey. UPDATE: "A Woman's crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot" is done and scheduled for August 2010 publication. | / | | . | Butch | Ward | / | | Since 2005, I've been on the faculty of the Poynter Institute -- still living in Wallingford and commuting to St. Petersburg a few times each month. | / | | . | Lois | Wark | / | lswark@aol.com | For the Inquirer: Assistant ME for Projects, National/Foreign editor. Now: Enjoying the good life in sunny southern New Mexico. Y'all come! | / | 1976-2000 |
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| | | | | | | | . | Sue | Warner | / | | | / | | . | Rob | Waters | / | | Still a newspaper wretch, unreconstructed. LA Times 1983-94, (Raleigh) News & Observer since then. | / | 1977-1983 | . | Leslie | Wayne | / | | New York Times reporter | / | 1974-1980 | . | Tim | Weiner | / | | I'm a reporter for The New York Times and the author of "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA," which is coming out in paperback soon. Hey, it won the National Book Award last year. Wonders never cease. | / | March 1982 -- Jan. 1993 | . | Sue | Weston | / | | Copy editor, The Inquirer | / | | . | Paula | Wilkinson | / | | Gracious Glory! I've been on vacation since August 2001, you expect me to know what I'm doing. How ‘bout: Looking forward to this REUNION ! GO VOLS ! ! | / | | . | Liz | Williams | / | | Independepence Blue Cross vice president for corporate communications | / | | . | Jan | Winburn | / | janwinburn@hotmail.com | Narratives and Profiles Editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution by way of a decade at the Baltimore Sun and, before that, another decade at the Sunday magazine of The Hartford Courant. One daughter, Ella, who is 17. | / | 1981-83 | . | John | Woestendiek | / | | Job hunting. Got one? | / | | . | Sharon | Wohlmuth | / | | First of all, I can't wait to see my old buddies at the reunion. Life has been delicious ... been doing books ... 2 Hallmark television commercials…speaking tour...but the most important is enjoying my family…hiring a trainer...planting my garden..friends...and making sure my brain stays healthy..almost am able to finish the NYT Sunday crossword puzzle. | / | | . | Martha | Woodall | / | | Still at the Inky covering education but concentrating on charter schools.
| / | 1982- | . | Bill | Wunsch | / | | Retired and living a nice quiet life in the country with two horses, two poodles and assorted other farm beings | / | 1986-2005 | . | David | Zucchino | / | | Trying to survive the demise of dead tree journalism. | / | 1980-2001 |
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