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Generation J Committee
Generation J focuses on helping early-stage pros sharpen their skills and bone up on the importance of journalism advocacy.
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Generation J Committee chair
Lynn Walsh
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Lynn Walsh is an Investigative Producer for WPTV in West Palm Beach, Florida. Previously she worked as an Investigative Journalist for Texas Watchdog, a non-profit online journalism organization in Houston, Texas. She is a graduate of Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. Lynn began her career as a reporter for The Government Channel in Athens, Ohio were she covered city and county issues for the citizens and students living in Athens County. Lynn also served www.thepalestra.net as a general assignment reporter focusing on anything from sporting events to the 2008 general election.
Lynn has appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends,” and has had her work published in a variety of print publications. Ms. Walsh has also put time in at several other media organizations including WSYX/WTTE in Columbus, OH, WRGT/WKEF in Dayton, Ohio, WMAR in Baltimore, and “The Today Show” in New York City.
Lynn has been recognized for her work as a journalist by receiving many awards including the Richard O. Linke Award and the Ohio Broadcasters Foundation Award and being selected as a Knight Digital Media Center Fellow. Lynn is very active in the Ohio University community, working closely with the Ohio University Alumni Association. Lynn also is a member of Radio Television Digital News Association, SPJ and IRE. She is obsessed with news, social media and pop culture and loves spending time with family and friends.
Generation J Committee Members
Claudia Amezcua
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Claudia Amezcua is an Award Winning Freelance Multiplatform Journalist and Production Assistant based out of Los Angeles, CA with experience in Radio, Television and the internet. She is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelors in Communications, Amezcua is currently working on an Associates of Arts in On Air Radio Broadcasting at Mt. San Antonio College. Her previous jobs include reporting, anchoring, and DJ at 90.1 KSAK Walnut, where her award winning story Renaissance Fair Open won numerous professional awards most notably RTDNA 2010 Edward R. Murrow award for “Best Use of Sound”. During her undergrad, Claudia gained much experience through internships with The Fox News Channel, CNN and KTLA.
Currently, Ms. Amezcua works as a freelancer for CNN and the founder of A Chicks Guide to Sports, a blog geared to help women become better acquainted with the world of sports. Claudia is also a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and SPJ. In her free time Claudia enjoys traveling, photography and cheering on her favorite sports teams.
David Brandt
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David Brandt, born and raised in the Atlanta area, is the Web managing editor for the Institute of Industrial Engineers, a global nonprofit professional society based near Atlanta. He writes and edits website content, produces videos and other new media projects, manages social media, and contributes features and case studies for the organization's monthly news magazine.
Brandt earned a B.A. in mass communications from Piedmont College in 2003. Before completing his degree, he began working through various internships and freelance assignments for newspapers around the Southeastern U.S. In 2003, he joined The Times in Gainesville, Ga., as a copy editor and was named named assistant metro editor in 2005. He later held the same post for the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Ga., in 2006. While tackling newsroom management duties, he also did some reporting on local and state government, crime and courts, education and other sectors. In 2005, Brandt traveled to New Orleans to report on the volunteer recovery efforts carried out in the extended wake of Hurricane Katrina. Brandt is a recipient of the James M. Cox Jr. Award for Community Journalism and a 2009 winner of the best feature prize from the Magazine Association of the Southeast.
A recent cancer survivor, Brandt is currently working on a book he hopes will be the most sarcastic book ever written about the experience of battling cancer as well as another book about growing up in the game of soccer. He also enjoys photography, golf, hiking, and playing the songs of R.E.M. as loudly as possible with the windows down while sitting in traffic during rush hour on I-85... because rush hour in Atlanta is truly when everybody hurts.
Mike Brannen
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Mike Brannen is a morning newscast producer for KIRO7, the CBS affiliate in Seattle. He recently received a Master’s Degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and completed his thesis, Motivational Use of Twitter. He previously worked multiple positions at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri during the past four years.
Ryan Broussard
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Ryan Broussard graduated from The University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication with a concentration in Journalism, and is working on his Master’s degree in the same area of study from UL Lafayette.
He is currently freelancing for The Opelousas Daily World, where he covers high school sports, and although he is a print journalist by trade, he teaches a radio production lab at UL Lafayette and has done some stories for the local NPR affiliate. He has also covered medicine, business and written features on a freelance basis for local publications in Lafayette, La.
Jackie Ingles
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Jacqueline Ingles is a multi-platform reporter for KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas. She writes, shoots, edits, fronts her story and then provides
a more in-depth story version on her station's web site daily. She founded the blog In Ingles Please in early 2010. Prior to KXAN,
Jacqueline was employed as a one-woman-band reporter for WCTV, operating their Valdosta, Georgia, bureau. She also worked for MTV in conjuction with the Associated Press
covering the 2008 presidential election from a youth perspective for the State of Illinois. A native of Chicago, Jacqueline received a master's in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
She also graduated Summa Cum Laude from Loyola University-Chicago. She held two internships at WBBM and WLS in Chicago. Her print journalism work
has published in The Northwest Indiana Times, Chicago Syndicate, Beep! and The New Mexico Free Press.
Patrick Kane
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Nikons in hand, Pat Kane covers the stories of the Tri-Cities of Virginia for The Progress-Index of Petersburg. As multimedia editor, on a normal day he'll shoot, write and edit stories while juggling the paper's social media accounts. Pat joined the Virginia Pro Chapter Board in 2008, stepping up to serve as chapter secretary the following year. He chaired the 2011 Region 2 Spring Conference hosted in Norfolk, Virginia.
After growing up all over the globe as a Navy brat, Pat graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. He worked all four years at The Commonwealth Times, leading a team to a first place Mark of Excellence Award for breaking news. Pat began at the paper as a reporter and was promoted to a new position in 2008.
Renee Petrina
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Renée Petrina is a member of the journalism faculty at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. She teaches editing and opinion writing as well as a media survey course for freshmen. A native of Richmond, Va., she graduated from Penn State University, where she was on the staff of The Daily Collegian. She is now a member of its alumni group's board. Petrina intends to complete her master's in Media Studies from Penn State in 2010. She completed five internships during college, including a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing internship at The Washington Post. After graduation, she worked on the copy desk of The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Fla., then moved on to The Indianapolis Star. When she's not in her office or in the classroom, she enjoys volunteering, baking, and relaxing with her pets.
Victoria Reitano
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Victoria Reitano is the Assistant Editor at SDTimes, an enterprise technology trade magazine for enterprise developers and their managers. She is also the publisher of The Giornalista Files, her personal blog and portfolio site where she shares her ideas about being an early career lady journo with anyone who will listen. Reitano feels Bikram Yoga is the perfect compliment to her obsessive need to consume information on a constant basis. Connect with her on Twitter @giornalista515.
Jennifer Nicole Sullivan
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Jennifer Nicole Sullivan is a copywriter at Real Simple magazine in New York City. She's also a fashion, arts and entertainment contributing writer for the weekly newsmagazine Newport Mercury in Newport, R.I.
As a former Newport Mercury staff writer, she reviewed theater throughout Rhode Island and interviewed numerous celebrities, musicians, designers and authors. She began her journalism career as a features reporter at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times daily newspaper in South Texas. Her work has appeared in Rhode Island Home & Design, Military Spouse, SO Rhode Island, Newport Patch, South County Independent and The Tusculum Review. Previous employment includes Mandalay Sports Entertainment in Los Angeles, Calif., and KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas.
For a two-year stint, Jennifer and her husband lived in Yokosuka, Japan, where she taught English to Japanese children and adults. The proud Dallas native graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with degrees in radio-TV-film and theater. She has a master’s degree in English from The University of Rhode Island and is an active member of Society of Professional Journalists. Visit jennifernicolesullivan.com and follow her on Twitter @trendyjenny.
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