Resume

Current Experience

Sept. 2011 to current:

Secretary, Board of Directors, Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting.

2010 to 2011:

Fellow, Reynolds Journalism Institute, Columbia, Mo.

Led team that launched OpenMissouri.org database catalog; developed and hosted open-government event, attended by more than 70; directed survey of 600 U.S. daily newspaper reporters about their data use.

2002-current:

Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, Mo.

Teach computer-assisted reporting and data mapping to graduate and undergraduate students; speak about CAR, data mapping and access to information to visiting professional journalists and at training events in the U.S. and China.

Academic Adviser, National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, Columbia, Mo.

Manage the Database Library’s collection of 40 federal government databases; edit Uplink, NICAR’s online newsletter; coordinate and train at CAR and data-mapping boot camp seminars; analyze databases for news organizations and journalists.

Author

Wrote Mapping the News: Case Studies in GIS and Journalism, a book showing how journalists have used mapping to uncover information in their reporting. (ESRI Press, 2003); co-author of book chapter about CAR in What Good is Journalism? (University of Missouri Press, 2007).

Previous Experience

1997-2002:

Investigative Reporter, The Providence Journal, Providence, R.I.

Served as CAR specialist on investigative team.

1990-1996:

Computer-Assisted Reporting Editor, Database Reporter and Staff Writer, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.

Established and directed CAR program; supervised database reporter and trained others in the newsroom.

1989-1990:

Business Reporter, The Baltimore Sun Suburban Editions, Bel Air, Md.

1988-1989:

Copy Editor, Stringer Coordinator and Reporter, The Mercury, Pottstown, Pa.

1987-1988:

Reporter, The Free Press, Quakertown, Pa.

Shared Awards:
Won several national, regional and state reporting awards for investigations of child lead poisoning, political corruption and workplace safety.

Academic degree:
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., B.A, Radio-Television-Film, 1984, magna cum laude.