A Complete listing of Way New Journalism Conference participants


Mike Antonucci

TV writer, reporter, San Jose Mercury News. Frequently uses America Online in reporting and finding stories.

Bob Beyers

Associate editor, Pacific News Service. Board chair of Projects in Education (creators of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Education Week, Teacher Magazine). Former director, Stanford News Service (1961-1990).

Peter Bhatia

Managing editor, Portland Oregonian, whose paper is pioneering new, collaborative ways of covering its communities.

Marcos Breton

Staff reporter, Sacramento Bee.

Bruce B. Brugmann

President, San Francisco SPJ chapter. Founder, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Howard Bryant

Oakland Tribune digital beat specialist.

John Burks

Professor of journalism, San Francisco State University, where he coordinates the magazine writing program. Contributing editor of Multimedia World Magazine, fomer Rolling Stone managing editor, former editor of SF Focus.

Mary Ellen Butler

A 33-year self-described "veteran" of the profession. After 15 years with the features and editorial departments of the Oakland Tribune, she opened her own communications shop as a free- lance editor and writer for newspapers and magazines.

June Cohen

NetSurf editor for HotWired, on-line spinoff of Wired magazine. After graduating from Stanford two years ago, she helped produce a book (currently awaiting publication) on multimedia. As editor-in-chief of the Stanford Daily, she founded Proteus, the first collegiate multimedia magazine, which is a Sunday online supplement to the campus newspaper.

Bill Duke

Digital photo cover illustrator who contributes to Newsweek, Time, Discover, L.A. Times Sunday Magazine, U.S. News and World Report and other publications. Winner of Communication Arts design awards.

Martin Espinoza San Francisco Bay Guardian investigative reporter.

Michael Goldberg

Editor and publisher of Addicted to Noise, the Internet's first serious rock 'n' roll magazine, a web site featuring text, images, sound and video on the same page. He is also a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and a contributing editor at Wired, and has contributed to Esquire and numerous other publications.

Michael Hodgson

Self-syndicated columnist and outdoor writer. Author of 11 books and senior editor of Adventure West Magazine. Won the 1994 National Excellence Award from the Outdoor Writers Association of America.

John T. (Tom) Johnson

Founding editor of MacWeek. A long-time science writer and professor at San Francisco State University, Johnson introduced one of the first two computer-assisted journalism courses there in 1988. Since then, he has taught and lectured on the subject to audiences at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the Nieman Foundation, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Society of Professional Journalists national conventions and IRE conferences.

Bruce Koon

Managing editor of Mercury Center, the online presentation of the San Francisco Mercury News.

Jerry Lanson

Author of Writing and Reporting the News, he is currently a professor at Syracuse University. Lanson was formerly an editor at the San Jose Mercury News.

Liz Mangelsdorf

Staff photographer at the San Francisco Examiner.

Richard Manning

Knight Fellow at Stanford University. Montana free-lancer for the past five years, reporter for 15. Author of Last Stand, Good House and Grasslands.

Frank McCulloch

Reporter, writer and editor (in order of personal importance) for various publications, including Time-Life, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, McClatchy papers and the San Francisco Examiner for more than half a century. McCulloch is not, he reports, writing a book at this time.

Barbara Mehlman

Digital artist, teacher of "artitorial" classes in San Francisco State University's multimedia program.

Don Menn

Editor-in-chief, Multimedia World. Former editor of Guitar Player. Frank Zappa's biographer.

Burnis Morris

Visiting professional scholar, Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, Vanderbilt University. Author of Free Expression on a Toll Road: The First Amendment and the Superhighway.

Howard Rheingold

Click on his name to find out more about our keynote speaker

Rick Sandoval

Reporter, Center for Investigative Reporting.

Reginald Stuart

National president, Society of Professional Journalists. Knight-Ridder correspondent, Washington bureau.

Andrew Sullivan

Developer of Guardian On-Line, the interactive service of the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Jose Luis Villegas

Staff reporter, Sacramento Bee.

Jim Wagstaffe

Attorney with Cooper, White and Cooper specializing in media issues.

Elizabeth Weise

Associated Press correspondent whose beat is the information superhighway.

Bill Wong

Veteran Bay Area journalist. Columnist, Oakland Tribune. Co- author of Newswatch: A Critical Look at News Coverage of People of Color.

Kevin Weston

Yo! magazine staff writer.