Staff

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Director of the Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington Program

Jody Beck has been director of the Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington Program since 2003.

From 2001 to 2003, she was a lecturer at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at...

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Health and Science Reporter

Lee Bowman has covered health and science from Washington for Scripps Howard News Service since 1992. He was previously an editor and Washington correspondent for The Pittsburgh Press. He got his...

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Texas Regional Reporter

Trish Choate has ridden shotgun in a fire engine, blogged what might have been the world's biggest custody hearing (think Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and El Dorado,...

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Washington Correspondent for the Ventura County Star and the Knoxville News Sentinel

Michael Collins is the Washington correspondent for the Ventura County Star and the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Before arriving in the nation's capital in 2001, Collins was a reporter for The...

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Editor and General Manager

Peter Copeland is the editor and general manager of Scripps Howard News Service and the Washington bureau chief for the E.W. Scripps Company. Since 1917, the Washington bureau has covered the...

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Desk editor

Carol Guensburg is an editor for the Scripps Howard News Service, which she joined in October 2010. As an independent reporter/editor for several years, she edited for SHNS and National Public...

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National Correspondent and Database Researcher

Thomas Hargrove -- born Jan. 9, 1956 -- is a national correspondent and database researcher for Scripps Howard New Service. He is co-founder of the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio...

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Desk Editor/National Reporter

Lisa Hoffman began her newspaper career at the Miami Herald during the "Miami Vice" days of cocaine wars, riots and boat people. She covered federal courts, the FBI and DEA, and assorted local...

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Desk Editor

Desk editor Bob Jones has been with Scripps Howard News Service's Washington bureau since 1981. His previous positions there included night editor, systems manager and clerk-typist.

The...

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Chief Editorial Writer

Dale McFeatters is chief editorial writer and a columnist for Scripps Howard News Service.

He has been with Scripps Howard in Washington. D.C., since 1969, first as a regional reporter and...

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Deputy Bureau Chief and Managing Editor

David Nielsen joined SHNS in October 1996 as a sportswriter/editor. He has reported, edited and helped coordinate the coverage for Scripps at four Olympic Games, four NCAA Final Fours and one...

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Photo Editor

Sheila Person, Photo Editor for Scripps Howard News Service, has been working for Scripps in different capacities for over fifteen years. At the moment, duties include contacting clients to obtain...

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Washington Correspondent for The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal

Bartholomew Sullivan, a native of St. Louis, Mo., has been with E.W. Scripps for almost 19 years, including seven and a half as the Washington correspondent for The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal for...

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Multimedia Journalist

A graduate of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, Kristin Volk
started her career at WTVG, the local ABC station in her hometown of
Toledo, Ohio. She was hired as an assignment...

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National Reporter

Isaac Wolf is a National Reporter at Scripps Howard. Covering consumer issues, Wolf has written about topics ranging from radioactive ladies handbags to spuriously-labeled seafood to the $60...

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Digital News Producer/Website Administrator

Danielle Alberti is the digital news producer for Scripps Howard News Service.

Alberti oversees Scripps Howard's use of emerging technologies for impactful journalism both for the news...

Office Manager

Laurie Hackett