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| Richard Harwood The Harwood Institute Bethesda, MD Richard C. Harwood is founder and president of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, a nonprofit catalytic organization dedicated to helping people imagine and act for the public good. For nearly two decades, he has led the charge to redeem hope in our politics and public life, discovering how to create change in the face of negative conditions. He has developed new kinds of leaders and civic-minded organizations in dozens of communities across the country. Harwood has devoted his energies to spreading a vision for what American society should be and putting innovative practices to use on the ground to turn that vision into reality. |
Peggy Kuhr School of Journalism, University of Kansas Peggy Kuhr is Knight Chair on the Press, Leadership and Community at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. She joined KU in August 2002 after serving as the managing editor for content at The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. She has served on APME's board of directors and led an initiative for the National Credibility Roundtables Project. Kuhr also worked for The Hartford Courant in Hartford, Conn., and the Great Falls, Mont., Tribune. She is a Michigan Journalism Fellow (1981-82) and has degrees from the University of Montana and Gonzaga University. | John Creighton The Harwood Institute Longmont, CO John Creighton joined The Harwood Institute in 2004 as a senior fellow. His
focus areas include news media and society as well as civic engagement and
public agencies. He formerly
served as vice president of The Harwood Institute. In that capacity, he managed key journalism projects with several newspapers. Conocer, the consulting firm Creighton founded
in 1999, works directly with public sector organizations to understand communities
and apply community knowledge to key decisions and programs. The firm
has worked on a range of issues including primary health care, early childhood
education, and workforce development. |
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The Orange County Register Santa Ana, CA Ken Brusic is the senior vice president of content for Freedom Metro Information and editor of The Orange County Register. In this role, he is responsible for all news and information produced in The Register and other Freedom Orange County Information products, as well as for the coordination of shared content among Freedom businesses in Orange County, Colorado Springs and Mesa, Arizona. Brusic joined Freedom in 1989 as projects editor. Since then, he has held various roles, including Sunday and investigations editor, managing editor and executive editor. He was the supervising editor for the Fertility Fraud stories, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. |
| Detroit Newspaper Partnership, L.P. Detroit, MI John X. Miller is the director of community affairs for the Detroit Newspaper Partnership. As such, he manages and directs the Detroit Free Press Charities, works on getting the employees of the Free Press, the News and the Detroit Newspaper Partnership more involved with community volunteering opportunities, organizes and leads quarterly community roundtables and works with marketing and advertising to develop informational symposia for specific audiences. Miller started his new job Aug. 1, 2006. Before that, he had been the public editor at the Free Press since September 1999, making him one of the longest serving public editors/ombudsmen at a U.S. newspaper. His primary responsibilities were handling corrections, and issues of accuracy, ethics, credibility and readership for the newspaper. |
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Project AssistantsFive KU graduate students in journalism and a fine arts student helped develop this Web site.
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