Kristin Thorne (MSJ05) won an Emmy Award for her True-crime series, Missing, which airs on Hulu and across all ABC7NY platforms. Kristin is an investigative reporter with WABC Channel 7 Eyewitness News in New York.
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Marissa Mitchell won the regional Emmy for “Best Host” from the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Mitchell is an anchor/host for FOX 5 Morning and “Good Day DC.” This Fall, Mitchell was also selected to launch and serve as the lead host of the station’s new daytime talk and lifestyle show, “LION Lunch Hour.”
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Danny Li (IMC15)
After leading marketing functions in several global consumer electronics companies for the past few years, Danny co-founded Nisplay, a portable tennis ball machine, aiming to lower the barrier for people to learn how to play tennis.
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Mark Dillon (MSJ86)
Mark G. Dillon ’86 MSJ of Minnetonka, MN was named Chair of the Board of Directors of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International (CGSI), a 2,000-member group dedicated to genealogy research, history and the advancement of Czech, Slovak and Carpatho-Rusyn culture. Dillon also serves on the Scientific Council of Kasigarda, the Museum of Emigration from Slovakia to North America, Tahyna, Slovakia.
James and the team behind FRONTLINE’s Un(re)solved won a 2022 News and Documentary Emmy Award for Best Interactive Media: Innovation. The multiplatform investigation also earned a National Edward R. Murrow Award and two Online Journalism Awards, including one for Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Limited Series. The project examines the U.S. government’s efforts to investigate dozens of cold case murders that date back to the civil rights era.
Seth Bernstein (BSJ 13, MS IMC 20) is a two-time Northwestern and Medill alum with marketing and communications experience across a variety of industries, including financial services, health care, academia and Major League Baseball. He recently began a new role as a Second Vice President and Client Communications Manager at Northern Trust after managing corporate and executive social media channels for 14 months at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Outside of work, Seth runs his own growing social media brand, @EatWithSeth, creating content that showcases local restaurants – and those he visits while traveling – on both Instagram and TikTok.
Chris Gray Faust has been promoted to Executive Editor, US of Cruise Critic. The website, part of TripAdvisor, remains the world’s largest cruise news and information site, even after the pandemic shut down the cruise industry for 15 months, Gray Faust, an award-winning travel writer and speaker, has been working at Cruise Critic for nine years. She lives in Yardley, PA with her husband, Don Faust. Follow her on social media @ChrisGrayFaust.
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Margaret Magnarelli (BSJ, MSJ99)
Margaret Magnarelli accepted a new role as head of marketing and communications at Baldor Specialty Foods, the largest supplier of produce, meat and specialty foods from Maine to Virginia. She was previously executive director of digital strategy at Morgan Stanley.
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Rema Rahman (MSJ11)
Rema Rahman has been promoted to White House editor at The Hill, where she previously served as an associate news editor. She is also an adjunct professor of journalism at American University in Washington.
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Will Mendelson (MSJ12)
Will Mendelson has begun a new role at FOX News Digital as Entertainment Editor. He’s previously worked at Esquire, the Chicago Tribune and Us Weekly.