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William K. Rashbaum
Matthew Bishop
Dana Canedy
Ruth Hochberger
Geanne Rosenberg
Terrence Samuel
Winston F. Mitchell
Pamela Frazier
Rachel Sklar
Tim Plummer
David Diaz
Jeff Jarvis
Glenn Lewis
Ron Diorio
Anthony Mancini
Paul Moses
Jessica Siegel
CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN
Michael Arena
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William Rashbaum joined The New York Times in 1999 and served as the newspaper's police bureau chief for three years. In November, 2005, he began covering federal court in Brooklyn and writing more broadly about law enforcement and corruption. He has been in the news business since 1983 and has worked at the Hearst Newspapers, United Press International, Reuters and New York Newsday, where he headed the police bureau until that newspaper ceased publication in 1995. He then spent four years at the Daily News, writing longer-term investigative stories. Since joining The Times, he has written extensively about organized crime, terrorism and a range of other issues. A native New Yorker, he attended the New England Conservatory of Music for a year after high school and with some breaks in his education, eventually graduated with a BA from Sarah Lawrence, after studying a smattering of literature, philosophy, political science and anthropology.
and has also served as its New York Bureau Chief. Mr. Bishop is the author of several Economist special survey supplements, including most recently "The Business of Giving", which looks at the industrial revolution taking place in philanthropy; "Kings of Capitalism", which anticipated and analysed the recent boom in private equity; and "Capitalism and its Troubles", an examination of the impact of problems such as the collapse of Enron. Matthew is the author of "Essential Economics", the official Economist layperson's guide to economics. Before joining The Economist, Matthew was on the faculty of London Business School, where he co-authored three books for the Oxford University Press, on subjects ranging from privatisation and regulation to corporate mergers. Prior to that he was educated at Oxford University. Matthew has served as a member of the Sykes Commission on the investment system in the 21st Century. He was also on the Advisors Group of the United Nations International Year of Microcredit 2005. He has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has been interviewed on numerous media outlets including NPR, BBC World TV and BBC Radio 4 'Today'.
assignment editor for national news at The Times, Miami bureau chief. She joined the newspaper in 1996 as a business and finance reporter. Dana was part of a team that won a Pulitzer prize for national reporting in 2001 for "How Race Is Lived In America," a series on race relations. She is currently writing a book entitled "A Journal for Jordan," which is being published at the end of the year by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House.
she was a criminal defense lawyer for The Legal Aid Society in Manhattan. As the first feature reporter for the Law Journal, she covered trials, court decisions, legislation, law firms, and local legal personalities for the daily professional publication as well as contributed to the National Law Journal. She was founding publisher of Leader Publications, a division of New York Law Publishing Co., which issues monthly professional newsletters for lawyers. As editor-in-chief, she also supervised the Law Journal's magazine for young lawyers, New York Lawyer, and the paper's Web site. She has taught media law and ethics, basic reporting and a seminar on covering courts and trials to undergraduate and graduate students at Columbia and New York universities. She blogs regularly on media matters for The Huffington Post. She has a B.A. in English from Barnard College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.
Prof. Rosenberg is founding chair of Baruch's Department of Journalism and the Writing Professions, which offers journalism education to undergraduates. Prior to teaching at CUNY, she taught as an adjunct at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and at Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She authored and produced Knight Citizen News Network's 
He is a former senior editor at U.S. News & World Report and a New York-based correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer. From 2005-2007, he was director of news programming at AOL Black Voices and continues to write a weekly column for the online edition of The American Prospect. In the winter of 2002, Samuel was a media and public policy fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he examined the roots of the partisan and cultural divide that now characterizes much of our national political discourse. Samuel joined U.S. News in 2000 after 16 years as a newspaper reporter, during which he covered a range of issues, from the proliferation of guns on the streets of Philadelphia to the 25th anniversary reunion at Woodstock to the enormous economic and social problems that confronted post-apartheid South Africa.
focusing on mass transit issues which is broadcast and cablecast into 22 million homes in the New York tri-state area. Mitchell's media career includes managerial and production positions at major networks including Visnews/Reuters, CNN, WABC-TV Eyewitness News/ABC Network, WOKR-TV and WNYE (PBS-TV). He is an adjunct professor at Pace University and has taught all aspects of mass media at CUNY's Bronx Community College and Medgar Evers College; Long Island University and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Telecommunication at Arizona State University. Mitchell has also worked as a communications consultant to major corporations.
the Village Voice, Glamour, New York Magazine, Radar Online, the Financial Times, and numerous publications in her homeland of Canada. She is a frequent guest on networks including CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, with varying degrees of makeup. She is the author of A Stroke of Luck: Life, Crisis and Rebirth of a Stroke Survivor (with Howard Rocket, Canada: 1998) and is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity. She also has essays in the recently-released anthologies, 
of products, and Adobe's technical publishing product line. In his current role as a senior solutions engineer for the education sales team, he works to place Adobe technologies into the context of the needs of higher education customers. Tim has worked in and around higher education since leaving the University of Maine system in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in zoology. He has worked in student life and has taught-as faculty-ways to use Adobe Creative Suite software in an efficient communications workflow. He is an Adobe Certified Expert in Adobe Acrobat 8, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional 7, and Adobe Presenter 7, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software, and uses those tools to support his current passion for eLearning. He enjoys helping people to best extend the reach and effectiveness of teaching through the use of Adobe technologies such as PDF and Flash.
TV. He covered four City Hall administrations and many public policy battles and political campaigns, winning five Emmys and numerous other awards for daily reporting and news documentaries. Diaz is currently a Distinguished Lecturer at City College, taught reporting for television at New York University, and has lectured on media, politics, and ethnicity at various colleges. He's a regular contributing commentator on NY1's Inside City Hall show and has served as moderator at numerous public policy forums. He is a City College graduate and has an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
of collaborative journalism, and is author of the influential blog 
Glenn Lewis is director of the Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree program he created for York College -- where he holds the rank of associate professor in English. An experienced journalist, Lewis' work has appeared in numerous publications including Publishers Weekly, Car & Driver, US, Seventeen, Family Weekly, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
career at the New York Post, starting as a copy boy in college and eventually rising to become a reporter, then an editor. He has also contributed articles to numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, the Washington Post, New York, and Travel & Leisure. In addition to his journalistic work, Mancini has written seven novels, many of which have been reprinted in foreign editions, including in Japanese, German, French and Spanish. His novel Talons was a Literary Guild selection in 1991. Mancini began teaching journalism, composition and creative writing at Brooklyn College in 1980, and has also taught journalism at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. He holds a B.A. in Communication Arts from Fordham University.
New York City edition. He was the lead writer on a New York Newsday team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting and the Society of the Silurians award for breaking news coverage in 1992. He also served as Brooklyn editor, City Hall bureau chief and national religion writer during 17 years at Newsday. Before that, he was a reporter for The Associated Press, covering federal courts in New York and Newark, N.J. He began his daily newspaper career in 1978 at The Dispatch in Union City, N.J. He has written for Commonweal, the Village Voice, America, the Star-Ledger, the Christian Science Monitor and the National Law Journal. He co-authored a book about Pope John Paul II's journey to the Middle East and his essays have appeared in four books. Moses holds an M.F.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a B.A. in Psychology from Brooklyn College.
of publications including The New York Times, Newsday, The Village Voice, Columbia Journalism Review and New Jersey Monthly, focusing on education and the arts. Siegel graduated from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and was a reporter at The Record in New Jersey and managing editor of Electronic Learning, an education and technology magazine. She has taught journalism at Baruch College, the State University of New York at New Paltz and the College of Staten Island.
In a newspaper career spanning more than two decades, Mr. Arena was a special writer and investigative reporter covering government and politics for Newsday and New York Newsday. He shared the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News in 1997 for Newsday's team coverage of the fatal, mid-air explosion of TWA Flight 800 and was previously nominated for a Pulitzer for Investigative Reporting for uncovering police wrongdoing in an unsolved, racially motivated murder in Ozone Park, Queens. Mr. Arena's reporting has been honored by the New York State Publishers Association, The Society of the Silurians and other organizations. As Director of Communications and Marketing, he oversees web-based media and communications tools for the University. He was instrumental in developing CUNY's journalism graduate school, has served on faculty, planning and curriculum committees and chairs the annual CUNY Journalism, Broadcast and New Media Conference and Career Fair, and the CUNY/CBS News TV Boot Camp. He received a B.A. in Political Science from City College in 1980 and has taught journalism at Hunter College.