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Andrea Pitzer, editor
Andrea Pitzer learned at a young age to love all media. Her grandparents owned an independent bookstore, and her mother was a print journalist turned small-town TV news anchor. After four years of coursework and nine years of payments, Andrea received an undergraduate degree from Georgetown University in 1994. She now regularly contributes freelance features on science and society to USA Today, with a particular interest in the history of American eugenics. A painter whose work focuses on narrative gaps in Greek myth, her work has hung in galleries from Rhode Island to Louisiana. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore. In December, she will present on forgotten narratives in Vladimir Nabokov's American novels at the Modern Language Association's annual conference. She has worked on the Narrative Digest in various roles since September 2007.
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Barbara McCarthy, Web communications specialist
After five years in the community newspaper industry—in such positions as writer, copy editor, and managing editor—Barbara McCarthy made the move into the virtual newsroom. Her first online job was at Community Newspaper Company and Townonline.com. When the dotcom bubble burst and layoffs ensued, her online career took her into various marketing opportunities, including software, travel and tourism, and higher education. She's come full-circle at the Nieman Foundation, where she can indulge in her passion for the Web all the while rubbing elbows with successful journalists.
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Thorne Anderson, contributing editor
Thorne Anderson has been covering international news as a photojournalist with Corbis/Sygma since 1999. He has a master’s from the University of Missouri-Columbia and formerly taught Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Bulgaria. Co-author of Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq, he spent the 2008-09 academic year at Harvard as an affiliate of the Nieman Foundation.
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MacGregor Campbell, contributing editor
After a earning a degree in physics, MacGregor taught middle school mathematics in Compton, California, with Teach for America. He spent three years in Los Angeles, then headed to Portland, Oregon, to make electronic music and work in public broadcasting. Currently finishing a master's degree in science writing at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, he also writes for New Scientist magazine. He is excited by journalists and storytellers who take advantage of what the web makes possible. Audio, video, animation, visualization, interaction, games, data, and community—what next?
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Alix Felsing, contributing editor
Alix Felsing loves storytelling in all its forms, and especially appreciates those little moments that ring so true in the midst of a story or movie. She loves a good tale that illuminates the world and transports the reader. She graduated from Michigan State University and has spent most of her career at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, where she has been a copy editor, copy desk slot, national editor, and assigning editor. She spent the 2008-09 academic year at Harvard as an affiliate of the Nieman Foundation.
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Stephanie Mitchell, contributing editor
Stephanie Mitchell is a professional photographer who has worked in the Boston/Cambridge area for ten years. She was raised by her artist parents in Baltimore, Maryland, and studied photography at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, at the Salt Center for Documentary Photography in Maine, and at the Eddie Adams Workshop in the Catskill Mountains of New York. She received her master's degree in Studio Art and Film from Harvard Extension School. For the last eight years, Stephanie has worked as a staff photographer at Harvard University. She has photographed the Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Bill Clinton, Yo-Yo Ma, John Malkovich, Jasper Johns, and countless members of the Harvard community. Her photography was recently included in a National Press Photographers Association exhibition in Las Vegas and has also appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The Irish Times, Der Spiegel, and TIME magazine.