Susan  Anderson,

Adjunct Lecturer

Susan Anderson, the founder and president of S.E.A. Communications, Inc. She brings to Medill the skills and insight gained from more than 20 years of experience as an on-air, award-winning television journalist.

E-mail: susan-anderson@northwestern.edu 

Mark  Brandau,

Adjunct Lecturer

Mark Brandau is the associate editor of Nation’s Restaurant News, the business journal for the foodservice industry. Graduated from Medill with his Bachelor of Science in Journalism, with a concentration in magazine editing and writing.
Email: m-brandau@northwestern.edu

Rebecca  Brown Baldwin,

Adjunct Lecturer

Rebecca Brown Baldwin is vice president and general manager of Zap2it.com. She oversees site operations, strategic planning and product development for the TV and movie information web site owned by Tribune Media Services.

Email: rbaldwin@northwestern.edu

Queenie  Burns,

Adjunct Lecturer, Design Adviser

Burns is corporate design director of Marketing & Technology Group, publisher of Plate magazine, Meat Marketing & Technology, Poultry and CarneTec magazines.

Email:

q-burns@northwestern.edu 

Susan  Chandler,

Adjunct Lecturer

Susan Chandler is an award-winning reporter who has been covering Chicago business and the economy for more than 20 years.

Email: s-chandler@northwestern.edu

Gary  Cohen,

Adjunct Lecturer

Gary Cohen is an experienced magazine writer and editor whose work has appeared in national and regional publications. He is currently an editor at Imagination Publishing and is the former editor-in-chief of Community Magazine Group.

Email: gary-cohen@northwestern.edu

Terri  Colby,

Adjunct Lecturer

Colby has been a reporter and editor for more than 30 years and is now a freelance editor and travel writer.

Email: d-colby@northwestern.edu 

Wendy  Cole,

Adjunct Lecturer

Wendy Cole is the managing editor of REALTOR Magazine, the flagship publication of the National Association of REALTORS.
Email: wendy.cole@northwestern.edu

Donna  Coleman,

Adjunct Lecturer

Coleman teaches Journalism Methods Editing and Newspaper Editing & Writing and is also a freelance editor.

Email: 

donnacoleman@northwestern.edu

Suzanne  Cosgrove,

Adjunct Lecturer

Cosgrove is a former financial editor at the Chicago Tribune. She also has covered commodities and managed funds for Thomson Reuters and was previously the Chicago bureau chief for Market News International.

Email: 

s-cosgrove@northwestern.edu

Maureen  Cotter,

Adjunct Lecturer

Maureen Cotter teaches Methods Editing and is a copy editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.

Email:

m-cotter@northwestern.edu 

Candice  C.  Cusic,

Adjunct Lecturer

Candice C. Cusic has worked as a photojournalist for 20 years, including ten years at the Chicago Tribune.

Email:

c-cusic@northwestern.edu 

Pamela  Cytrynbaum,

Adjunct Lecturer

Pamela Cytrynbaum previously taught new media in Oregon and was a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune.  Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Parent, The Oregonian, and The Chicago Sun-Times.  

Email:

p-cytrynbaum@northwestern.edu

Reginald F.  Davis,

Adjunct Lecturer

Davis is an assistant managing editor at the ABA Journal, the news publication of the American Bar Association.

Email:

rda794@lulu.it.northwestern.edu 

Phone: 312-503-3800

Wynne  Delacoma,

Adjunct Lecturer

Delacoma has been a critic, arts reporter and feature writer for most of her career and now teaches, mainly at Medill, where she has taught for 25 years.

Email:

wdelacoma@northwestern.edu

Phone: 773-528-4669

Thomas  Diemer,

Adjunct Lecturer

Tom Diemer is a journalist, educator, web editor and author. His 2009 book, “Fighting the Unbeatable Foe: Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio, the Washington Years,” drew on his reporting experience covering Capitol Hill.

Email: t-diemer@northwestern.edu

Jim  Distasio,

Adjunct Lecturer

Jim Distasio is a freelance magazine writer and editor, as well as an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Email: j-distasio@northwestern.edu 

Deborah  Douglas,

Adjunct Lecturer

As a vertically integrated, journeyman journalist, Deborah Douglas is solidly grounded in publishing orthodoxies.

Email:

deborah-douglas@northwestern.edu

Michael  Dumke,

Adjunct Lecturer

Mick Dumke has written about race, politics, the environment, economic development, and other social issues for the Chicago Reader, where he's currently an associate editor, the Chicago Tribune Magazine, the Washington Post, and Colorlines magazine.

Email:

m-dumke@northwestern.edu

Robert  Elder,

Adjunct Lecturer

Elder is a regional editor for Patch.com, part of the AOL Huffington Post Media Group. His books include Last Words of the Executed and The Film That Change My Life. Elder’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and many other publications.

Email:

r-elder@northwestern.edu 

Lisa  Fielding,

Adjunct Lecturer

Fielding is a news anchor and reporter for Newsradio 780 with nearly two decades of news and sports, radio and television broadcasting experience. 

Email:

l-fielding@northwestern.edu 

Sarahmaria  Gomez,

Adjunct Lecturer

 Sarahmaria Gomez is a multimedia freelance journalist based in Chicago, Ill.  She is co-owner of Tu Multimedia, an organization that specializes in Internet storytelling through audio, video and photography.

Email:

s-gomez@northwestern.edu 

Chris  Handzlik,

Adjunct Lecturer

Handzlik has more than 12 years' experience in web design, eight of them in online news design and content management.

Email:

c-handzlik@northwestern.edu

Phone: 847-491-5551

Janan  Hanna,

Adjunct Lecturer

Hanna is a graduate of Medill and Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a former reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

Email:

janan-hanna@northwestern.edu

Tom  Hannon,

Adjunct Lecturer

Hannon was Political Director of CNN News Group and led the network’s reporting on national politics from 1988 through 2006. He produced hundreds of hours of network programming and live breaking news coverage of U.S. politics.

Email: t-hannon@northwestern.edu

Michael  Harvey,

Adjunct Lecturer

Michael Harvey is a journalist, documentary producer, lawyer and novelist, as well as co-creator, producer and executive producer of A&E’s groundbreaking forensic series, Cold Case Files.

Email:

harvey-0@northwestern.edu 

Pierce  Hollingsworth,

Adjunct Lecturer

Hollingsworth is director of Custom Media Group, BNP Media, with offices in Deerfield, Ill., where he is responsible for activities relating to custom client media, conferences and research.

Email:

p-hollingsworth@northwestern.edu

Phone: 630-842-2317

Andrew  Hullinger,

Adjunct Lecturer

Andrew Hullinger works with the Magazine Innovation Project and flash storytelling for Medill.  His former experience includes art directing for Leo Burnett Company (Arc Worldwide), and he is the former director of digital for integrated marketing agency Young and Rubicam.

Email: a-hullinger@northwestern.edu 

Melissa  Isaacson,

Adjunct Lecturer

Currently a columnist for ESPNChicago.com, Isaacson was the Chicago Tribune’s principal beat writer for the Chicago Bulls during their championship years of the early 90s and later the Chicago Bears for several seasons.

Email: m-isaacson@northwestern.edu 

Noah  Isackson,

Adjunct Lecturer

Bio coming soon!

Email:

n-isackson@northwestern.edu 

Cheryl  Jackson,

Adjunct Lecturer

Cheryl Jackson’s work experience includes freelancing for CNN and reporting for various local television stations.

Email: cheryl-jackson@northwestern.edu 

Esther  Kang,

Adjunct Lecturer

Esther Kang is the online editor at Chicago magazine, where she writes, edits, designs and shoots photos and video for the magazine and Web site.

Email:

estheryjkang@northwestern.edu

Joshua  Karp,

Adjunct Lecturer

Josh Karp has written for Salon, the Atlantic Monthly Online, Premiere, LA Times Sunday Magazine, TimeOut New York and numerous other publications.

Email:

j-karp@northwestern.edu 

Laurie  Kutsche,

Adjunct Lecturer

Laurie Kutsche has been a Medill faculty member with the Magazine Innovation Project for the past 15 years. She has served as the project's associate director as well as the lead instructor for the business, advertising and marketing classes. 

Email:

kutsche@northwestern.edu

Jennifer  LaFleur,

Adjunct Lecturer

Jennifer LaFleur is the Director of Computer-Assisted Reporting at ProPublica.  She has helped newsrooms around the country utilize modern reporting techniques and is the author of “Mapping for Stories: A Computer-Assisted Reporting Guide.”

Email: j-lafleur@northwestern.edu 

Bob  LeBailly,

Adjunct Lecturer

Bob LeBailly is the market research faculty member for the Magazine Innovation Project.

Email:

lebailly@northwestern.edu

Cynthia  Linton,

Adjunct Lecturer

She spent 20 years in community news as reporter and editor. She started teaching at Medill in 1993.

E-mail

c-linton@northwestern.edu

Phone: 312-944-6516

Mira  Lowe,

Adjunct Lecturer

Mira Lowe is the former editor-in-chief of JET magazine. In 2009, she became the first woman to helm the venerable Johnson Publishing Co. (JPC) publication since its founding in Chicago in 1951.
Email:

m-lowe@northwestern.edu 

Patrick  McNally,

Adjunct Lecturer

Patrick McNally is a Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at the McCormick School of Engineering. His primary research interest is machine generated content built using information extraction techniques.

Email:
patrickmcnally2013@u.northwestern.edu 

David  Mendell,

Adjunct Lecturer

Mendell wrote for several Ohio newspapers before becoming a Metro reporter at the Chicago Tribune, where he worked from 1998 to 2008. At the Tribune, Mendell covered urban issues and politics, as well as breaking national news.

Email:

d-mendell@northwestern.edu

James  Miller,

Adjunct Lecturer

Jim Miller spent 17 years as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, covering a variety of topics including corporate earnings, finance and merger-and-acquisition activity.

Email:

james-miller-0@northwestern.edu 

Lester  Munson,

Adjunct Lecturer

Munson is a writer and producer at ESPN who specializes in legal affairs and investigations in the sports industry.

Email: 

lester-jr@northwestern.edu

Phone: 312-560-3890

Craig  Newman,

Adjunct Lecturer

Craig Newman is an award-winning veteran journalist of more than 20 years, with broad experience in the print and digital arenas.

Email: craig-newman@northwestern.edu  

Sonja  Nordahl,

Adjunct Lecturer

Sonja Nordahl planted her roots in Canadian television, reporting and anchoring for various stations around the country. She spent for years as a commentator, anchor, and business analyst for CTV News in Toronto before joining Medill’s multimedia faculty.

Email: s-nordahl@northwestern.edu 

Bill  Oakes,

Adjunct Lecturer

Bill Oakes teaches classes on online news publications. He is a principal consultant for Digital Directions Online.

Email: boakes@northwestern.edu

Arsenio  Oloroso,

Adjunct Lecturer

Oloroso spent 20 years as a reporter, writer and communications consultant in Chicago after receiving his MSJ from Medill in 1984.

Email:

a-oloroso@northwestern.edu

Phone:  847-491-3634 

Steve  Ordower,

Adjunct Lecturer

Steve Ordower is a producer/director and award-winning editor of dramatic films, documentaries, broadcast programs, corporate videos, and live concerts. He is dedicated to educating people through film, television and music production.
Email: 
s-ordower@northwestern.edu

Matt  Paolelli,

Adjunct Lecturer

Paolelli is a Web content producer for Northwestern University Relations, where he produces multimedia stories about university news, updates the university's news site and maintains its social media presence.

Email:

m-paolelli@northwestern.edu

Jan  Parr,

Adjunct Lecturer

Parr is editor of Chicago Home + Garden, a publication of Chicago magazine, and has 20 years of magazine journalism experience, including staff positions at Forbes magazine and Online Investor, where she was founding editor.

Email:

j-parr@northwestern.edu 

Carrie  Porter,

Adjunct Lecturer

Carrie Porter is a multimedia journalist who reports online, on air, in print and with social media. She has produced news at GlobalPost, The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, BBC and is now a local editor for AOL's Patch.
Email: CarolinePorter@northwestern.edu

Cynthia  Richards,

Adjunct Lecturer

Cindy Richards is a veteran Chicago reporter who spent 15 years as a reporter, editorial writer and/or columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times before heading over the Chicago Tribune where she spent two years as a reporter on the Metro Desk, covering urban issues such as housing and development.

Email:

Cindy_Richards@northwestern.edu

Alison  Scholly,

Adjunct Lecturer

Scholly is the chief operating officer of Chicago Public Radio and the former vice president of interactive for the Chicago Tribune Media Group.  

Email: a-scholly@northwestern.edu

Jim  Sharkey,

Adjunct Lecturer

Sharkey comes from a background of 52 years in the printing and pre-press industry, starting as a craftsman and working his way up to business ownership.

Email: 

jim-sharkey@northwestern.edu

Daniel  Shumski,

Adjunct Lecturer

Daniel Shumski received his bachelor's and master's from Medill and is currently a digital news editor at the Chicago Tribune..

Email:

d-shumski@northwestern.edu 

Andrew  Skwish,

Adjunct Lecturer

Andrew Skwish is a self-employed illustrator/designer whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Rolling Stone, The Harvard Business Review, Die Zeit, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others.

Email:

a-skwish@northwestern.edu

Alan  Solomon,

Adjunct Lecturer

Alan Solomon, a professional journalist for more than 40 years, teaches journalism at Medill Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University.

Phone: 773-528-8854

Email: alan-solomon@northwestern.edu

Ines  Sommer,

Adjunct Lecturer

Ines Sommer is a documentary director, curator, and cinematographer, whose camera work has been featured in numerous award-winning documentaries for broadcast, web and film distribution.

Email: i-sommer-simpson@northwestern.edu

Karen  Springen,

Adjunct Lecturer

Springen spent 24 years reporting and writing stories as a full-time correspondent for Newsweek and is now a teacher and a freelance writer.

Email:

k-springen@northwestern.edu

Phone: 312-938-5508

Michael  E.  Sternoff,

Adjunct Lecturer

Sternoff is an Emmy winning director and videographer from Chicago.

Email: 

m-sternoff@northwestern.edu 

Kenneth  D.  Towers,

Adjunct Lecturer

For more than 30 years Towers was with the Chicago Sun-Times, in positions including reporter, city editor, managing editor and editor-in-chief.

Email:

k.towers@comcast.net

Phone: 773-528-6220

Clarence  Waldron,

Adjunct Lecturer

Waldron is the senior writer of Jet magazine, specializing in the arts, education and health.
Email: c-waldron@northwestern.edu 

Phone: 773-907-0308

David  Weissman,

Adjunct Lecturer

Weissman's work has appeared in several Chicago magazines, including Chicago Social, Windy City Sports and Chicago Wilderness.

Email:

d-weissman@northwestern.edu 

Dan  Weissmann,

Adjunct Lecturer

Dan Weissmann worked from 2007 to 2010 as a host and producer for Chicago Public Radio’s multimedia experiment, Vocalo.org, and has since contributed freelance work to the BBC World Service.
Email: danweissmann@northwestern.edu 

Cassandra  West,

Adjunct Lecturer

Cassandra West is an editor for WomanNews at the Chicago Tribune, focusing on women’s and gender issues.  She is a former reporter of the Chicago Sun-Times and the Kansas City Star.  West also wrote and shot photos for award-winning magazines with Edison Brothers Stores Inc.

Email: c-west@northwestern.edu 

Derek  Willis,

Adjunct Lecturer

Derek Willis is a database developer with a keen interest in making piles of information navigable and interesting to viewers.

Email: d-willis@northwestern.edu

Howard  Wolinsky,

Adjunct Lecturer

Wolinsky has been covering the medical industry since the 1980s and teaches health and science reporting to graduate students.
Email:

h-wolinsky@northwestern.edu 

Aleksandar  Zigic,

Adjunct Lecturer

Zigic has worked for several major media organizations, including CNN, NBC and C-SPAN.

Email:

a-zigic@northwestern.edu 

Phone: 773-339-7301

Adam  Zoll,

Adjunct Lecturer

Adam Zoll has nearly two decades of experience writing and editing for newspapers, the Web, magazines and television. He has worked for the Chicago Tribune, Britannica.com and Newsweek and currently works in the Tribune's news graphics department.

Email: a-zoll@northwestern.edu