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BE THE MEDIA is recommended by the following media professionals and educators:
PEER REVIEW: The following advisors belong to BE THE MEDIA's peer-review board, and will edit specific chapters:
Alexander Hungate: Chief Marketing Officer, Reuters Ltd.
Before assuming his current role, Hungate was Co-Chief Executive Officer, Reuters America, with responsibility for sales to the Americas based Global Accounts, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Legal, Editorial operations and Latin America. In January 2000, Hungate was appointed Co-Chief Operating Officer of Reuters America with joint responsibility for the Americas operations. From 2001 to 2003 Hungate had responsibility for the relationships between Reuters and its largest customers. Prior to this, Hungate held senior sales and marketing positions in the Americas. From 1996 to 1998, he was General Manager of Reuters Marketing Information. In 1994, Hungate helped to found Reuters NewMedia in New York in the early days of the World Wide Web. Before joining Reuters in 1993, Hungate worked on strategy projects at Booz Allen & Hamilton in the United States, Europe and the Far East, advising clients in the media and high technology industries. Hungate graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School's MBA program. He also holds a Masters Degree in Engineering, Economics & Management from Oxford University in England. Adair Lara: Author and columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
Adair Lara is an award-winning newspaper columnist whose column appears twice weekly in the San Francisco Chronicle. Her columns have won awards from the Associated Press, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and the American Association of Sunday and Features editors contest, competing against papers with circulation over 300,000. Adair is the author of five books, including Welcome To Earth Mom; Slowing Down In A Speeded-Up World; The Best Of Adair Lara; Hold Me Close, Let Me Go; Normal Is Just A Setting On The Dryer. Her articles and essays have appeared in Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Parenting, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest and other national publications. Robert McChesney: Professor, author, editor and co-founder of Free Press
Robert W. McChesney is a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author or editor of eleven books. McChesney is the co-founder, President and Board Chairman of Free Press, a non-profit organization working to involve the public in media policymaking and to craft policies for a more democratic media system. Books include the award-winning Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy, and, with Edward S. Herman, The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism, the multiple award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times and, with John Nichols, Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media. Professor McChesney's newest books are The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century, and, with Ben Scott, Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism. McChesney hosts the weekly program, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, the NPR affiliate in Urbana, Illinois. Emanuel Stern: President and COO, Hartz Mountain Industries
Emanuel Stern is President and Chief Operating Officer of Hartz Mountain Industries. He oversees numerous and diverse development projects throughout New York and New Jersey, and manages one of the largest privately held commercial real estate portfolios in the country. Totaling 35 million sq. ft., the Hartz portfolio includes over 200 office, industrial, hotel and retail buildings. Mr. Stern leads the company with a combination of keen business judgment and respect for the organization's family tradition. In downtown Manhattan, Mr. Stern created a market for posh hotels where none had previously existed by developing the SoHo Grand and Tribeca Grand hotels. Mr. Stern also recently embarked on a cutting-edge redevelopment project at the former Ford Motor Company Plant in Edison, NJ that will become a model for converting aging industrial facilities to higher and better uses. Mr. Stern was recently named Director of the New York Historical Society, is a Trustee of the esteemed Citizens Budget Commission of New York City, and is a Board member of the Urban Justice Center and the Jewish Community of Manhattan. An alumnus of New York City's Horace Mann School, Mr. Stern is a graduate of Tufts University, and holds a Master's degree in Public Affairs from Columbia University. From 1986-1999, patriarch Leonard Stern built Stern Publishing, publishers of the Village Voice, the LA Weekly, the Seattle Weekly, the Cleveland Free Press, and City Pages in Minneapolis, into America's leading publisher of alternative weekly newspapers, with a total weekly circulation of more than 900,000. Their publishing interests were sold in March 2000. Kim Weichel: Co-Chair, ACME. Co-founder, Our Media Voice. Radio and TV producer. Author
Kim Weichel is co-founder and Director of Our Media Voice: Campaign for Accountability. She is Co-Chair of ACME, a non-profit national coalition of organizations concerned with media literacy, media reform, and the development of independent media. Kim has produced radio programs for NPR, Voice of America, United Nations Radio, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the UN and Global Affairs Correspondent for the TV show Positive Spin, and is co-producer of Women With Vision. She is the co-author of two books - Inside Crossroads and The Future of the Pacific Rim. She is producing training films about nurturing soul in the workplace. Kim has 20 years' experience in global communications, international projects, citizen diplomacy and cross-cultural training. Kim teaches courses and leads workshops on Peacebuilding, and is launching an Institute for Peacebuilding Education. Sasha Costanza-Chock: Global Communication Project, Free Press
Sasha has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in a major he created called music, technology, and culture. After that he taught audio recording and electronic music workshops in low-income neighborhoods in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a year. He has an MA in Communications from the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied the political economy of media with a focus on transnational social movements and new communications technologies. He worked for many years with youth arts activism, especially hip-hop street theater in the Boston area and in Puerto Rico, as well as with social justice organizations including AgitArte, Education for Action, and Free Palestine Action Network; media activists including the Independent Media Center network and Big Noise Films, and experimental multimedia events including toneburst.com and the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Sasha has helped organize Independent Media Centers (indymedia.org) to cover the WTO, the FTAA and the WSIS. Sasha currently works with the international campaign for Communication Rights (crisinfo.org), he coordinates Free Press media reform network's Global Communication Project, the OURmedia network (ourmedianet.org), and is a member of the FTAAIMC Video Working Group. Arthur Do: CTO Fortify Software
He is currently co-founder and Chief Technology Officer for Fortify Software. Fortify secures software applications from the inside-out, protecting business critical applications from malicious attack. Fortify is backed by a world-class team of software security advisors including Cigital Inc., the internationally recognized experts in software security, reliability, and performance. Fortify is funded by leading venture capital investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, along with investors such as Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Bill Joy. Prior to Fortify, Do was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of the Kinecta Corporation. Do managed the creation of the company's multiple award-winning syndication and aggregation technology, Kinecta Interact, as well as his patent-pending content tracking application, Content Metrics (Application # 09/643,083 Tracking and Recording Techniques for Online Content). The Stellent Corporation, a provider of enterprise content management solutions, acquired Kinecta in 2002. More than 3,500 customers use Stellent for content management, including much of the Global 2000 <NASDAQ: STEL> Early in his career, Do worked with high-tech industry giants such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Do holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Steven Ekstract: Publisher, License! magazine
Ekstract is a seasoned publishing executive, having held senior management positions with VideoPro, Video Review and Previews magazines; Premiere magazine and The Hollywood Reporter before founding License! in 1998.
Ekstract is a recipient of The UJA Federations Licensing Industry leadership award; Advanstar Communications Chairmans Award as well as the Advanstar Communications Chairmans award. He is a member of the United States Tae Kwon Do Association and formerly was a black belt instructor of Tae Kwon Do. Joyceann Cooney: Editor-In-Chief, License! magazine
Having covered mens, womens and childrens categories and interviewed and profiled retailers in all retail channels, Cooney is a frequent speaker on retail business trends and offers property predictions based on trade shows around the globe. She also has compiled annual industry census reports focusing on gross margins and profits across all retail channels. Dr. Sheri Meyers Gantman, Psy.D: Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Host, Cable talk show
A dynamic, motivational speaker, Dr. Sheri conducts numerous workshops and lectures extensively and hosts her own cable interview talk show called "Straight from the Heart." She has appeared regularly as a behavioral analyst and guest expert on national news programs by ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, UPN News, Fox News, Fox Cable News, Extra, Inside Edition, K-Cal News, KTLA News, Good Day LA, Telemundo News, and E! Live. Daryn Grossman, Esq: Partner, Proskauer, Rose
Daryn has extensive expertise in structuring and negotiating complex transactions where intellectual property assets drive the deals, such as outsourcing transactions, corporate partnering transactions, domestic and international joint ventures, strategic equity investments, spin-offs, development, licensing and distribution agreements and sponsored research and clinical trial arrangements. Daryn also counsels venture capitalists and strategic investors in evaluating intellectual property portfolios in connection with private equity investments, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. She has a global practice and advises clients with respect to business partners based in the United States, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, Israel and Canada. Daryn's clients include companies in the software, hardware, telecomm, electronic commerce, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device fields. She represents entities in all stages: from start-up ventures just beginning to assemble IP portfolios to Fortune 500 companies with well-established IP programs. Daryn has led her clients through successful deals with parties such as Microsoft, America Online, Sun Microsystems, Citrix Systems, Pioneer Standard Electronics, Boston Scientific Corporation, Roche Pharmaceuticals, NASD, Reuters, Accenture, Bank of America, Washington Mutual, GMAC, Standard & Poor's, CMGI, Prudential, First Data Corporation, University of Melbourne, Columbia University, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Emory University, the University of Bath, and Duke University. Daryn is a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship and issues related to technology, licensing and intellectual property law. She has a BA, cum laude from Tufts University, and a JD from Brooklyn Law School. Bonnie Hayes: Independent musician, producer
Writing for artists as diverse as Bette Midler, Robert Cray, Adam Ant, David Crosby, Booker T and the MG's, and Cher, Hayes has continued to craft songs one critic described as "sparkling clockwork mechanisms with a tendency to do the unexpected." Hayes has also enjoyed success as a recording artist and producer. In 1984, her pop/punk debut Good Clean Fun was released on seminal LA indie Slash Records to critical raves and national college airplay. In 1995, the Hayes-produced CD Steppin' Out by the Gospel Hummingbirds was nominated for a Grammy. Kristin Thomson: Community organizer, entrepreneur and musician
She left NOW in 1992 to make a full-time commitment to Simple Machines, an independent record label she co-ran with Jenny Toomey. Over the label's 8-year history, Simple Machines released over 70 records and CDs, published the Mechanic's Guide to Putting Out Records, Cassettes, and CDs, and organized three high-profile music festivals in Washington, DC. While running the label, Kristin and Jenny also wrote, recorded and released four highly-acclaimed Tsunami records on Simple Machines, and toured the US, Canada, England and Europe extensively. In 2001, Kristin graduated with a Masters in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the University of Delaware. During her graduate program she was a recipient of a School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy Fellowship, and the Urban Affairs Association Award that recognized her thesis, The Internet as an Agent of Change, as a valuable contribution to the body of usable social knowledge. Currently, Kristin is an organizer and researcher for the Future of Music Coalition and manages projects for the DC-based government relations firm Bracy Tucker Brown. She and Bryan are also the parents of a baby boy, Riley who was born September 2002. Jennifer Toomey: Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
In the past 15 years Jenny has been a composer and performer on at least 12 CDs and dozens of compilation records, singles, and even a musical! These records were released both on Simple Machines and other respected independent labels including Homestead, Sub Pop and 4AD. Her second solo CD, Tempting, was released October 2002 on Misra Records. After closing down Simple Machines in 1998 Jenny worked for three years at the Washington Post as a copywriter. She also wrote music and technology reviews for the Post, Village Voice, CNET and a variety of other music and technology publications. Here she began to understand the potential power of technology to transform the lives of musicians. This fascination with technology, when combined with her work organizing musicians to support the FCC's Low Power Radio initiative, led her to join with Kristin Thomson and Insound.com to create an online forum called The Machine in December 1999. At this site Kristin and Jenny began the process of educating themselves and other musicians about the music/tech landscape. They also began to raise critical questions regarding the artist's role in the unfolding technological revolution. After publishing an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, Jenny pulled together a board that wrote and published the Future of Music Manifesto, thus leading to the formation of the organization in June 2000. In the past two years Jenny has spoken about music and technology at Harvard, MIT, Columbia's American Assembly, South By Southwest, CMJ, Comdex, University of Chicago, Temple University, NARM Convention, CNN International, Tech TV, London's Net Media, Manchester's In The City conference and on NPR. In March 2001 she was named one of Internet Weekly's "25 Unsung Heroes of the Web" and more recently received a special achievement award from the Washington Area Music Association for her activism. Sascha Meinrath: Community Internet Pioneer
Sascha is a policy analyst for Free Press, a Washington, DC-based think-tank, and regularly briefs Federal Communications Commission and Congressional staff on issues related to CWNs. In 2004, Sascha organized the First National Summit for Community Wireless Networks, helping to launch what has now become known as the Community/Municipal Wireless Networking Movement; and, in 2006 organized the Second National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. Sascha completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University and his Masters degree in Psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently finishing his PhD at the University of Illinois, Institute for Communications Research, where he is a Telecommunications Fellow. Sascha's research focuses on community empowerment and the impacts of participatory media, communications infrastructures and emergent technologies. |
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Alexander
Hungate 
Sasha
Costanza-Chock is a media activist and researcher who works on the political
economy of communication, tactical media production, and the transnational
movement for communication rights.
Arthur Do
Steven
Ekstract is a founder and the publisher of License! magazine, the leading
business publication for the licensing industry.
Joyceann
Cooney has been Editor-in-Chief of License! magazine since January
2002. Ms. Cooney comes to License! with a deep retail background covering all
retail channels in a diverse range of industries strong in licensing. During the
past 12 years, she has served as editor-in-chief of Accent; managing editor of
Accessories magazine; senior retail editor of Vision Monday, Sunwear, and
Eyewear magazines; and editor-in-chief of Body Fashions Intimate Apparel and
Global Cosmetics Industry. 
The
songs of Bonnie Hayes have always been extraordinary, from "Shelly's
Boyfriend", the post-punk badgirl anthem that put her on the map to the
authentic passion of "Have A Heart" and "Love Letter," which restored Bonnie
Raitt to superstardom with the multi-platinum, multi-Grammy-winning CD
Nick of Time. 
Kristin
Thomson is a community organizer, social policy researcher, entrepreneur and
musician. After graduating with a BA in Sociology from Colorado
College in 1989, Thomson moved to Washington, DC where she worked for two
years as a national action organizer for the National Organization for Women. 
Sascha
Meinrath has been described as a "Community Internet Pioneer" and is
a well-known expert on Community Wireless Networks (CWNs) and Municipal
Broadband. He is the co-founder and Project Coordinator of the
Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network (CUWiN), one of the world's
leading open-source, ad-hoc mesh wireless projects.