TheCitizensJournal.com has gathered a team of educators and leaders in the area of journalism, journalism ethics, and computer ethics to assist in guiding the future of the company and provide support to its website members.

 

Deni Elliott

elliott@stpt.usf.edu
Prof. and holder of Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy
University of South Florida

Deni Elliott holds the Poynter Jamison Chair in Media Ethics and Press Policy at the University of South Florida. She has written more than 100 books, journal articles, chapters and magazine pieces on media ethics for professional, scholarly, and lay audiences.

 

Kelly McBride

kelly@poynter.org
Ethics Group Leader at The Poynter Institute

Kelly McBride is the ethics group leader at The Poynter Institute, where she helps journalists strengthen their ethical decision-making skills and improve their writing, reporting and editing skills. She has been on the Poynter faculty since 2002. In addition to running the Ethics Department, Kelly directs both of Poynter's annual fellowship programs. The Poynter Fellowship for Young Journalists gathers 32 of the brightest entry-level writers, photographers and designers for a six-week program often likened to journalism boot camp. The Poynter Ethics Fellows gathers 16-20 editors, producers and reporters to address the ethics issues of the day. Twice Kelly has traveled to South Africa to lead advanced reporting and writing seminars geared toward reporters working in a young democracy. Before coming to Poynter, Kelly worked as a reporter for 15 years, spending most of that time at The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Wash. She covered crime and courts for six years and faith and ethics for eight years. She gained national attention for a package of stories on gay Christians and a series on the consequences of infertility treatments, as well as several stories on the clergy scandals of the Catholic Church. Kelly has a BJ from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and an MA in religious studies from Gonzaga University. Kelly has a neurotic dog that she rescued after it was abandoned in the Poynter Parking lot, tied to a light pole. More importantly she has three well-adjusted children, who have survived dozens of Poynter parties, a cross-country move and the embarrassment of riding in the car with friends while their mother discusses ethical decisions like whether to name rape victims or air beheading videos.

 

Marguerite J. Moritz, Ph.D.

Moritzm@Colorado.edu
UNESCO Chair in International Journalism Education
School of Journalism & Mass Communication
University of Colorado

 

Patsy G. Watkins

pwatkins@uark.edu
Chair, Lemke Department of Journalism
University of Arkansas

Dr. Patsy Watkins teaches media ethics, as well as courses in computers in news design and graphics, at the University of Arkansas where she is chair of the Department of Journalism. Her professional work has been with newspapers and magazines, in editing, reporting, freelance writing and graphic design. She has done research on war news photography, and the use of design and layout to affect how readers understand a news story. Her degrees are in journalism from the University of Texas, and in American studies from the University of Iowa.

 

Lee Wilkins, Ph.D.

wilkinsl@missouri.edu
Editor
Journal of Mass Media Ethics
Missouri School of Journalism

Lee Wilkins focuses her research on media ethics, media coverage of the environment and hazards and risks. Wilkins is the associate editor of the country's leading academic journal on media ethics: The Journal of Mass Media Ethics. Wilkins has a joint appointment in the Harry S. Truman School of Public Affairs, where she teaches about communicating risk to the public.

 

Marsha Woodbury, Ph.D.

marsha@uiuc.edu
Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marsha Woodbury teaches computer ethics in the Computer Science Department at UIUC and has a background of researching and writing on journalism ethics. Her doctoral work was on the Freedom of Information Act, and her MS is in Journalism. She is the former National Chair of CPSR, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. She travels widely, speaking on ethics issues and runs the listserv cpsr-global.