August 4th, 2011 • Quill Archives, Member Profile
Member Profile – Sheri Fink
Sheri Fink is a medical doctor and an accomplished investigative journalist. Her work on health, medicine and science has been published in The New York Times, Discover and Scientific American. She has won numerous awards and has taught courses at Harvard and Tulane.
June 1st, 2011 • Quill Archives, Member Profile
Member Profile – Shannon Farhoud
Shannon Farhoud is one of two co-founding presidents for SPJ's student chapter at Northwestern University in Qatar. In her words, Farhoud is considered a "cultural sushi" because of her mixed background. Her father is Syrian while her mother is Portuguese and Indian.
April 4th, 2011 • Quill Archives, Member Profile
Member Profile – Samuel Goldman
Stored in a San Francisco den are the 1941 newspapers by a young boy named Samuel Goldman from when he was editor of Marwedel Summer Camp's newspaper, Redwood Chips, in Mendocino County, Calif. Hanging on the nearby wall above his computer is a November 1933 newspaper photo of an even younger Goldman, at 6 years old, wearing a football helmet, holding the game ball and sitting on the lap of University of California football coach Bill Ingram.
February 2nd, 2011 • Quill Archives, Member Profile
Member Profile – Hank Klibanoff
From covering the emotional farming crisis during the Reagan administration, to his efforts to shed light on the civil rights era, Hank Klibanoff has spent his life telling important stories that have affected people's livelihoods. Klibanoff is well known, along with co-author Gene Roberts, for the book "The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation," which reflects on how the media covered the civil rights movement.
December 2nd, 2010 • Quill Archives
Profiling the President
When President Hagit Limor gave her installation speech at the 2010 SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference, she announced the elimination of the Future of the Media Committee. Why? Because "It turns out the future was already here." "The Future of the Media committee had its place, along with the hundreds of seminars, symposiums and panel discussions by the same name that began some years ago," the award-winning investigative reporter from Cincinnati said.
October 11th, 2010 • Quill Archives, Member Profile
Member Profile: Amber Stearns
In a matter of days, Amber Stearns went from becoming a member of the Society of Professional Journalists to an Indiana Pro chapter board member to the chapter's No. 2 vice president. She didn't even have a chance to pay her dues yet.