The Multimedia Crew, Fall 2009

Related Link: About Us has info on all the news bureau staffs.

The bureau chief:

In August 2000, Chris Harvey left her job as managing editor at American Journalism Review to rejoin the faculty, focusing attention on the multimedia curriculum. She's worked as a professional journalist since 1980, including as an associate editor at washingtonpost.com in Arlington, Va., in the late '90s, and as managing editor of the Carnegie-Knight News21 project at the university this summer. She served as director of the college's print news bureaus in Annapolis and Washington, and statehouse and congressional reporter for The Washington Times. She's free-lanced for The Washington Post and Congressional Quarterly's "Politics in America."c

harvey@jmail.umd.edu

The graduate students:

Kelly Brooks, 25, is a multimedia reporter and news editor for Maryland Newsline. She'll be looking into criminal justice issues, as well as development in Hyattsville. She conducted database research and produced multimedia content on voting trends during a summer 2009 Carnegie-Knight News21 fellowship. In the 2008-'09 academic year, she designed programs for Maryland's Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. Brooks holds a bachelor of arts in telecommunication arts from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Following graduation, she wrote for two newspapers in metro Atlanta. She can be reached at kellymarieb@gmail.com

 

Lindsay Gsell, 23, is a multimedia reporter and news editor for Maryland Newsline. She'll be building a special report on the green movement, as well as keeping tabs on the Purple Line plans for Metro. She came to the Philip Merrill College of Journalism after completing a bachelor of arts in communication at The George Washington University. Gsell spent the last year as an editorial assistant at American Journalism Review. She also spent time interning in corporate communication in Washington, D.C., and Raleigh, N.C. Gsell plans to graduate in December. She can be reached at lindsay.gsell@gmail.com

Emily Kimball, 22, is a multimedia reporter and news editor for Maryland Newsline. She'll be helping to augment a special report on the economy, building interactives on a Census project and covering development issues around Riverdale Park. Her writing has been published in The Washington Times, on Stateline.org and in HOME & DESIGN magazine. She has also written freelance for publications throughout Utah and Maryland. Her coverage ranges from state law enforcement responses to Mexico's drug war to luxury bathroom fixtures. She holds a bachelor of arts in American Studies with specializations in English and Economics from Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah. She is a candidate in December for a master of journalism. She can be reached at ekimball@umd.edu.

Jon Sham

Rachael DeNale 21, is a multimedia reporter for Maryland Newsline. She'll be creating interactive stories about the Chesapeake Bay and on general assignment topics. She worked as a reporter for The Gazette Newspapers in Maryland on two occasions and worked as a contributing writer for various publications throughout the Maryland and Delaware region. DeNale plans to graduate in December from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. She can be reached at radenale@gmail.com.

Aleita Johnson, 20, is  a senior online journalism major at the University of Maryland, and a multimedia reporter for Maryland Newsline. She'll be creating interactive stories about the Chesapeake Bay and on general assignment topics. She is expected to graduate in May 2010. She interned in the editorial department at the Society for Human Resource Management in Alexandria, Va., from September 2008 to August 2009, mostly writing stories on diversity and technology in the workplace for the Online section. Johnson currently holds the editor in chief position at the Eclipse newspaper, a monthly independent student-run black newspapers on campus. She previously worked as both copy editor and reporter for the Eclipse. And she worked as a general assignment reporter for the Diamondback. She can be reached at belleza3@umd.edu.

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