Jenna Bourne won two 2020 Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards, in the categories of “Talent – News – Specialty Assignment” and “Politics/Government – News.” This marks the second year in a row she’s won an Emmy in the “Politics/Government – News” category. Jenna is an investigative reporter at 10 Tampa Bay. She hosts, produces, shoots and edits investigative series “What’s Brewing?” on YouTube channel The Deeper Dive.
The coronavirus crisis gets personal with the recently completed COVID-19 Writers Project (C19WP), a multimedia archive by Medill graduate Clara Zawadi Morris.
The COVID-19 Writers Project is a nod to the Federal Writers Project (FWP) conceived by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that produced the Slave Narrative Collection. These first-person narratives are archived in the U.S. Library of Congress and are considered some of the most important historical records to date.
Similarly, C19WP is a hyperlocal examination of the pandemic through first-person narratives (10 videos, and 10 written and photos essays) from inside one of the virus’s early hotspots – Brooklyn, NYC. The COVID-19 Writers project was supported by The National Geographic Society’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists, ThePulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and The American Medical Association. From the formerly incarcerated, to the struggling college student to the emergency room doctor, these first-person narratives offer an inside view of the pandemic’s diverse impact on America’s everyday citizens, ultimately helping to answer: What is the crisis telling us about who we are as a society today?
A career marketing leader, Gina Mehmert recently joined the team at Kheiron Medical – a tech startup committed to transforming cancer diagnostics through the power of deep learning – as Vice President of Global Commercial Marketing.
Gina will lead the global launch of the company’s first commercially available product, Mia – a breakthrough AI-enabled solution for breast screening that gives every woman, everywhere a better fighting chance against breast cancer.
“The Kheiron team is filled with incredibly smart, talented, driven people,” Gina said. “The culture here is one of passion and collaboration – and I’m thrilled to bring my marketing superpowers to the team.”
Prior to joining Kheiron, Gina held a variety of senior marketing positions with brand leaders such as GE Healthcare, HP, and Poly. After Medill she received her MBA from the University of Bristol in the U.K.
Jennifer Mathieu Blessington writing under the name Jennifer Mathieu, recently visited the set of the MOXIE movie, directed for Netflix by Amy Poehler. The movie is based on Mathieu’s 2017 young adult novel of the same name, published by Roaring Brook Press. Moxie is the fourth of Mathieu’s five young adult novels. Her most recent book, The Liars of Mariposa Island, published in September 2019. Mathieu lives in Houston with her husband and son and continues to work as a high school English teacher in addition to writing novels. The film’s release date is not yet known. Photo: Blessington with Amy Poehler.
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.
Steven Friess and his husband, Miles Smith, welcomed a son, Nevada Ebbess Friess, born Oct. 18, 2019. Friess is a freelance journalist based in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Judy Fahys is the first Mountain West reporter for the Pulitzer prize-winning nonprofit InsideClimate News after a daily news career at the Salt Lake Tribune and NPR Utah/KUER. Not only does she write about climate change, energy and the environment throughout the region, she’s also helping to build ICN’s growing National Environment Reporting Network.
Todd Johnson has been hired as Chief Content Officer of The Grio, a leading news and entertainment site dedicated to providing African-American audiences with compelling stories and perspectives. Johnson first joined theGrio.com shortly after it launched in August, 2009, as a video journalist and reporter. Johnson was eventually promoted to Managing Editor, helping guide the news site through multiple transitions before it was acquired by Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios in 2016. Prior to his return to The Grio as Chief Content Officer, Johnson served as Editorial Director of NBCBLK, a division of NBC News Digital. Johnson will be responsible for elevating The Grio’s voice and branding, its overall editorial strategy and growing its audience.
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