Education Writers:
Who's Who -- And Where Are They Now?
Clearly, teaching isn't the only field with a lot of attrition. But there's also the question: Do most education writers move on to another beat, or do they stay in education but go to an agency or a nonprofit?
UPDATE: Readers' corrections and additions are noted in red, Wikipedia-style.
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Anyway, I realized that if I posted the list publicly, then I'd have to stop -- and maybe folks would help me with additions and corrections, which I desperately need. (In fact, I just realized that I left former LA Times writer Richard Colvin off the list -- doh!)
Take a look and let me know where else I messed up. (If you want to download a pretty Word version of click here.) And thanks to Lisa Walker at EWA and Matt Maurer at CommunicationWorks for helping me fill in some of the obvious ones I didn't know.
Remember, it's just a list, and this is just a blog -- if you're not on there it doesn't mean you lost your job, just that I'm a numbskull.
Current | Former | Where Are They Now? | |
Assoc. Press | Ben Feller Justin Pope Nahal Toosi | Anjetta McQueen Greg Toppo | NEA |
Gannett | Ledge King | Richard Whitmire Fredreka Schouten | USAT Education Trust |
Bloomberg | David Glovin | Elizabeth Willen | Hechinger |
Stateline | Pauline Vu | Kavan Peterson Eric Kelderman Tiffany Pache | ? ? Achieve |
New York Times | Sam Dillon Elissa Gootman S. Freedman (col) Diana Jean Schemo David Herszenhorn Alan Finder Brent Staples (Ed) Tamar Lewin Karen Arenson Alison Mitchell, ed | Mike Winerip Rich. Rothstein Jacques Steinberg Greg Winter Ethan Bronner Jodi Rudoren Anemona Hartocollis | ? Columbia Media beat ? ? Chicago bureau Metro |
Jay Mathews (col) Nick Anderson Valerie Strauss Lois Romano (?) | Michael Fletcher Michael Dobbs Linda Perlstein Larry Feinberg Michael Fletcher | ? Book leave Freelance NAGB White House | |
LA Times | Joel Rubin Mitch Landsberg Erika Hayasaki Carla Rivera Hemmy So Bob Sipchen (col) Beth Shuster, editor | Duke Helfland Richard Cooper Nick Anderson Elaine Woo Richard Colvin | Political beat ? Washington Post ? Hechinger |
Stephanie Banchero Tracy Dell'Angela Diane Rado David Mendel C. Grumman (ed) Jodi Cohen Lori Olszewski | Mike Martinez Ana Cholo | Other beat Other beat | |
Maria Sacchetti | Anand Vashnav | Press Secty | |
Joshua Benton (col) Scott Parks Kent Fischer Holly Hacker | Robert Dodge | ? | |
Patti Ghezzi Mary McDonald Fran Jeffries (assistant ed) Chris Reynolds Heather Vogell Bridget Guttierez Keith Graham, ed Andrea Jones Laura Diamond Kristina Torres | Kelly Simmons | Edits magazine for | |
National Journal | Siobhan Gorman Brian Friel | ||
Newsweek | Gillian Gillers | ||
NPR | Claudio Sanchez Steve Drummond | ||
PBS | John Merrow Kevin Dando | ||
Greg Toppo Mary Beth Marklein R. Whitmire (ed) | |||
US News | Alex Kingsbury | Tom Toch Ben Wildavsky Ulrich Boser Anne McGrath Mary Lord Al Sanoff | Ed Sector Kauffmann Freelance ? Freelance Freelance |
Justin Fenton Liz Bowie Sara Neufeld Anica Butler Gina Davis Liz Kay | Mike Bowler
Tricia Bishop Hanah Cho Howard Libit Laura Loh Tanika White | USDE Biz writerBiz writer City editor Grad skul Fashion beat | |
Matt Pinzur Peter Bailey | |||
Wall Street Journal | Rob Tomsho Dan Golden | June Kronholz | ? |
Christian Science Monitor | Amanda Paulsen Stacy Teicher Jacqui Goddard | ||
Martha Woodall Rose Ciotta Susan Snyder | Dale Mezzacappa Jim O'Neill | Freelance
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Frank Bass Sanjay Bhatt Bill Ristow Linda Shaw | |||
Freelance | Anne Lewis Linda Perlstein Dale Mezzacappa Ulrich Boeser Andy Mollison Joe Williams Sara Carr Craig Jerald Alexander Russo | ||
Salon | |||
Slate | Anne Hulbert | ||
The New Yorker | Kate Boo | Nick Lemann Sara Mosle | Columbia Dean Book project |
NYT Magazine | James Traub Sara Mosle | Other beats Book project | |
Ed = editorial page writer
posted by Alexander Russo at 7/13/2006 05:49:00 PM
7 Comments:
And not even mentioning the teacher bloggers who have quit teaching.... There are loads of 'em!
Both Colvin and Richard Rothstein (and Gene Maeroff, who should be added) are doing things related to Columbia Teachers College.
Linda Pearlstein used to be a Wash Post reporter. Michael Fletcher is now covering politics and I think Dobbs is GA, possibly international desk? Jim O'Neill, higher ed reporter for the Philly Inquirer, is now at the Dallas Morning News. Mary Lord, formerly US News & World Report, is now a freelance writer. Jodi Wilgoren also covered ed and now operates in New York Times Chicago bureau (and I think she changed her name?)
Sam Freedman's a columnist, much like Rothstein was. He's actually a prof, I think, at Columbia's j-school.
Andy Mollison was formerly Cox News Service's national ed reporter.
Joe Mathews, Jay's son, covers ed (or did) for LA Times.
You forgot Linda Shaw at Seattle Times! unless she left and I didn't hear...what about Nanette Asimov at San Francisco Chronicle, colleague Tanya Scheyvitz and others?
Robert Beck was the higher ed reporter at the Tribune. I think he left recently?
When you list the reporters at big papers who have lots of them, do you want to list all the ed reporters no matter where they are, or only the ones that cover big districts, higher ed and general issues? 'cause AJC, Chicago, LA Times, and other papers have more ed reporters than that. ....For ex., at AJC, there's Fran Jeffries (assistant ed), Chris Reinolds, Heather Vogell, Bridget Guttierez, etc.
Elissa Gootman is another NYT education reporter.
Houston Chronicle
Current: Jennifer Fernandez (K-12), formerly education writer (K-12) at the Los Angeles Daily News
Current: Matthew Tresague (Colleges), formerly education writer (colleges) at the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise
Former: Jason Spencer, now the Chronicle's education editor
Lori Olszewski is another education writer at the Tribune.
Sadly, I just discovered this list while googling myself (pathetic, I know) but I can add a couple of clarifications. Both Eric Kelderman and Kavan Peterson are still at Stateline.org, just covering different beats -- Eric Kelderman
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