NPC Welcomes 43 New Members
The Board of Governors approved 43 membership applications July 19. They include David L. Hunke, president and publisher of USA Today, and five representatives of international media.
Active
Sue Doyle - Los Angeles Daily News freelance reporter; Ingeborg Eliassen - Stavanger Aftenblad - reporter, international affairs; David L. Hunke - Gannett/USA Today, president & publisher; Sumiko Mori - Fujisankei Communications International, Inc., Washington bureau chief - Fuji Television; William Murray - Energy Intelligence Group - Oil Daily, reporter/editor; Sonia Schott - Globovision – Venezuela, U.S. correspondent; Mike Walter - University of Maryland/Walter Media, adjunct professor/production company
Active Reinstate
David J. Lynch - USA Today, staff writer
Active Non-Resident
Victoria M. Gaither - At Home w/ Victoria, TV & radio host; Kathleen Lynn Johnson - University of Oklahoma, McMahon Centennial Professor of Journalism; Sara Brittany Somerset - New York Post, freelance photographer
Active Under 35
Shealah Craighead – freelance photographer; Thomas Paggini - Swiss Broadcasting Corporation/RSI, U.S. correspondent; Brian Scheid – Platts, associate editor; Brooke Williams - The Watchdog Institute, investigative reporter
Active Under 30
Malena S. Caruso - ABC, Inc. Owned Television Stations, temporary field producer; Avery Fellow - Courthouse News Service, Washington, DC correspondent; Sarah A. Jones – CNN, freelancing - Live Production; Devin Symons - Nippon TV, producer
Affiliate
Parichehr Farzam - Voice of America, international broadcaster/journalist; Frank Yee Wang – TECRO, director, press division; Daniel Whitten - America's Natural Gas Alliance, VP of Communications
Affiliate Reinstate
Thomas S. Amontree - America's Natural Gas Alliance, executive vice president
Affiliate Non-Resident 65+
Lisa Elizabeth K. Tracy - author/professor of editing, Random House/Washington & Lee University
Affiliate Under 35
Nicole Alberico - U.S. Department of State, public affairs specialist; Matthew E. Berger - Dezenhall Resources, account supervisor; Karina Coronel - Voice of America, freelance reporter/producer; Lisa Gillespie - Street Sense/Campus Progress, Online editor/staff writer; Andrew Lewis - U.S. Department of State, media relations officer
Associate
Brian Roehrkasse - BAE Systems, Inc., director, Strategic & Digital Communications; Robin Strongin - Amplify Public Affairs, president & CEO; John Suttle - BAE Systems, Inc., senior vice president, communications
Associate Non-Resident
Peter R. Gourlay - Maryland-Asia Environmental Partnership, president
Associate Under 35
Mark Hall – Mediachase, architect; Lindsay Miesko - McFadden/XL Associates, recruiter; Peter P. Yeung – Mediachase, general counsel/general manager
Student
Amanda DeGroff - Wheaton College/Hearst Newspapers, student/intern; Virginia Pasley - University of Missouri/WTOP, Master's student/intern; Kyle Peterson - The Daily Caller, reporting intern; Heather Pulliam - Georgetown University/SunTrust Bank, journalism student/teller 2; Thomas Sandford - New Mexico State University/Air Force Times, student/intern; Kyla Thompson - student/CNN, Georgetown MPS Journalism/production intern; Ayesha Venkataraman - Georgetown University, MPS journalism student
-- Myron Belkind, [email protected]