Sharon Sutker McGowan was named to the Milwaukee Press Club Hall of Fame in November 2019. McGowan was the founding editor of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS), a nonprofit online news organization that covers the central city of Milwaukee. McGowan left NNS in February 2019 to become the Collaborations Leader for the Institute for Nonprofit News.
The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado has asked Rosenberg to launch a podcast series, Grid Talk, to explore dramatic changes in the national energy grid to accommodate surging renewables and more distributed energy sources. Listen in at https://smartgrid.gov/gridtalk/- or subscribe via your favorite podcast platform as Marty talks to thought leaders about offshore wind in Virginia, Tesla batteries in Vermont, innovations in Australia and the wild proliferation of EV charging spots in Kansas City.
Joe Robinowitz, whose career spanned 47 years with News Corp, the last 25 as Managing Editor of The New York Post, retired on April 30, 2020. During his career with News Corp, Joe served as Editor of The Boston Herald, Editor of TV Guide magazine and Vice President / General Manager of WFXT-TV, Boston. In announcing Joe’s retirement, Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman of News Corp, said, “His work ethic, great judgment and skill have been crucial to The Post expanding into one of the most recognized and influential media brands in America.”
Jonathan Addleton (BSJ ’79), former US Ambassador to Mongolia and a 2017 inductee into Medill’s Hall of Achievement, has been selected as the next Rector/President of Forman Christian College in Lahore, Pakistan. Founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1864, Forman offers an American-style curriculum and has an enrollment of more than 8,000. Its alumni list includes former presidents, prime ministers, governors and academics in both India and Pakistan.
Barry Petersen was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the St. Louis Press Club, presented by Club President William Greenblatt. The award recognized Petersen’s more than four decades of work as a CBS News Correspondent, especially his story about his wife, Jan Petersen, and her struggle with Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease that aired on the program CBS Sunday Morning. Petersen also wrote “Jan’s Story: Love Lost to the Long Goodbye of Alzheimer’s”. Jan succumbed to the disease in 2013.
Stuart Gibson has joined the Dutch tax education and research research foundation, IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation) as Chief Editor, US. After retiring from the Tax Division of the US Department of Justice in 2013 (and before joining IBFD), Stuart had worked as Director, International Tax, at Bloomberg Tax & Accounting, Counsel in the Washington, DC office of Schiff Hardin LLP, and Editor of Tax Notes International, at Tax Analysts.