Yamil Berardis an investigative reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She wrote a four-part series that showed her home county was among the nation’s leaders in municipal-bond defaults because of its authorization of risky conduit bonds. She holds a bachelor’s degree in print journalism with a minor in business administration from the University of Southern [...]
Bill Allison is the editorial director at the Sunlight Foundation. A veteran investigative journalist and editor for nonprofit media, Allison worked for the Center for Public Integrity for nine years, where he co-authored “The Cheating of America,” was senior editor of “The Buying of the President 2000″ and co-editor of the New York Times bestseller [...]
Ron Nixon is a domestic correspondent in the Washington Bureau of The New York Times, where he has worked since 2005. He is the former computer-assisted reporting editor at the Minneapolis Star Tribune and a former training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors. According to his biography on the Great Lakes Media Institute’s board of [...]
Sarah Cohen joined Duke University as its Knight journalism chair in 2009 after 15 years as a reporter and editor, primarily with investigative teams at The Washington Post. She has shared in the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize and other national awards. Prior to the Post, Cohen covered local economics for the [...]
Ilana Lowery has been the editor of the Phoenix Business Journal since 2001. She started at the Journal as a reporter and projects editor in 1995, working her way up to become associate editor and then managing editor. Previously, she was an editor for Independent Newspapers Inc., a community newspaper chain based in Scottsdale. Before [...]
Kathy Tulumello has been business center director of The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com since 2005. She and her staff are responsible for the business news report of the Phoenix paper, its online sites and two business magazines, bizAZ and Arizona Woman. She also has been the sports editor and deputy managing editor/daily at The Republic. [...]
Gary Trennepohl became the first president of Oklahoma State University-Tulsa in 1999. Previously, he served as dean of the College of Business Administration at the OSU campus in Stillwater and held faculty and administrative appointments at Texas A&M University, the University of Missouri and Arizona State University. He has co-authored two college finance texts; contributed [...]
Mark W. Tatge is the Eugene S. Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. Before that, he was the E.W. Scripps Professor, Executive-in-Residence at Ohio University. Tatge was previously Forbes magazine’s Midwest bureau chief and senior editor in charge of Forbes’ Chicago operations, including content development for Forbes.com and the [...]
Randall Smith was named Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism in summer 2009. His 30-year career at The Kansas City Star began in 1979, where he worked on both the news and business sides. Smith started as a copy editor, rising to the positions of business editor and deputy [...]
