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The bureau chief: An alumnus of the College of Journalism, Steve Crane is a former deputy metro editor and statehouse reporter for The Washington Times. He also worked as a reporter for The Parkersburg (W.Va.) Sentinel and The South Prince George's (Md.) Independent.
The grad students:
Kate Alexander, 27, will cover housing and transportation issues and the 2000 Census. She
also will cover Rep. Elijah Cummings,
D-Baltimore. Alexander covered the Republican National Convention with Capital News Service
this summer and recently completed an internship in the Washington
bureau of The (Baltimore) Sun. Before attending graduate school, she was a political organizer for environmental and affordable housing issues in Chicago and
New York. She grew up near Seattle, Wash., and graduated from Cornell University
in 1996.
Elizabeth Cogan, 39, will cover social services and welfare issues as well as Rep. Benjamin Cardin, D-Baltimore.
A native of upstate New York, she earned a bachelor's degree in education from
Cornell University in 1983 and has worked as a teacher and a crisis counselor for
the past 15 years. As a journalism student, she has contributed stories to the
campus newspaper, the Diamondback.
Greg Lamm, 40, is a teaching assistant in the University of Maryland College of Journalism's program for returning
professionals. Most recently, he was city editor at the Skagit Valley Herald, a
family-owned daily newspaper on the rainy side of the Cascade Mountains in
Washington state. He also was city editor for a New York Times Co. newspaper, The
Daily Commercial of Leesburg, Fla. And he covered the environment and politics
for The Tampa Tribune. He will cover business and economic development and
Sen. Paul Sarbanes from the CNS Washington bureau.
Robert F. Patrick, 31, spent the last nine years as an environmental consultant for companies in
Columbia, Baltimore and Silver Spring. He covered the university administration
and the College Park City Council for The Diamondback, the university's student
newspaper, and interned at The (Baltimore) Sun last fall. Patrick, a native
of Clarksville in Howard County, graduated from Atholton High School in 1987
and earned his bachelor's in biology from the University of Virginia in
1991. He expects to graduate with a master's degree in journalism in May and
will cover crime and justice, as well as Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Rep. Roscoe
Bartlett, R-Frederick.
Jonathan Sheir, 27, is covering health care and science
issues, as well as Rep. Albert Wynn, D-Largo, and Rep. Robert Ehrlich, R-Timonium.
He covered the 2000 Republican National Convention for CNS last summer and wrote
for school papers and the Montgomery Journal. He has interned at Ohio Lawyers
Weekly and The Potomac Tech Journal. Born in Toledo, Ohio, and raised in
Moreland Hills, Ohio, he graduated from Case Western Reserve University, where he
earned a bachelor's degree in religion, political science and English and a
juris doctorate.
Richard M. Todaro, 31, will be covering agricultural and environmental issues for CNS this
semester, as well as Rep. Wayne Gilchrest, R-Kennedyville, and Rep. Steny Hoyer,
D-Mechanicsville. Born in New Jersey, he earned a master's degree in
meteorology from the University of Maryland in 1997 and worked as a science
writer and editor at the Goddard Space Flight Center and at the American Physical
Society. The undergraduate:
Arheun Kim, 21, is a senior journalism major and philosophy
minor at the University of Maryland. She interned as a reporter at
Gannett News Service last summer and as a copy editor in the fall. She was also the
Student Government Association beat reporter for the campus newspaper and wrote
briefly for a weekly county newspaper in New Jersey. A native of Gillette,
N.J., Kim will intern at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution after she
graduates in May. She will cover education and the 8th Congressional District for
Capital News Service. Copyright © 2001 University of Maryland College of Journalism.
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