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SPJ Cleveland presents:The boardOn Thursday, June 30, 2011, we elected a new board to serve the Cleveland Pro Chapter in the coming year, with three new members (Peter Jedick, Kathy Shaw and Jerry Masek, who is returning to the board after several years' absence) and some returning members who have moved up to executive roles.
First Vice-President and Program Chair: Cheryl D'Mello
Second Vice-President and Membership Chair: Rodney Bengsto Rodney Bengston has worked as a copy editor, reporter and production editor at Sun News. He now works as assistant editor the Sun Post-Herald, West Shore Sun and Sun Sentinel.
Secretary-Trea Tom Moore. Click on the link to Tom's excellent bio and photograph on the WTAM website, where he works as a morning news announcer. Tom has been a vital and essential member of our board for several years, serving as Secretary-Treasurer for as long as most of us can remember.
Immediate Past President: Claudia Taller is a travel and lifestyle writer and has written for many local Cleveland publications, including The Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, West Shore, Northern Ohio Live, West Shore Live Well, and Long Weekends. She i New board members: Kathleen (Kathy) Shaw
Jerome Masek
Returning board members
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President: Carrie Buchanan. After 15 years as a reporter and editor - 12 of those for the Ottawa Citizen,
the major daily in Canada's capital - Buchanan left the newspaper
business in 2000 to pursue an academic career. She taught for seven
years and completed the coursework for her doctorate at Carleton
University's School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, Canada,
before moving in 2006 with her husband to Cleveland. She did volunteer
work at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, SPJ and the First
Unitarian Church of Cleveland while completing her dissertation. She
then was delighted to land a tenure-track faculty position at John
Carroll University, in the Tim Russert Department of Communication and
Theatre Arts. She has taught introductory journalism, First Amendment
law, political communication, media literacy, editing and design,
health and environmental communication, and social issues reporting.
She has been very involved with SPJ for the past three years, serving
in 2009-10 and 2010-11 year as Vice-President, Membership Chair and Writer's Week editor. Carrie's blog, which is about the "sense of place" in newspapers (the topic of her dissertation), is called 
D'Mello has worked for newspapers in Mumbai and in the United States and was a reporter for the Gazette
newspaper in Parma, Seven Hills and Independence for two years. She has
taught English as an adjunct faculty member at Cuyahoga Community
College for several years. She is presently on the editorial team of The Lotus, an Asian Indian newspaper in Cleveland, and writes for the Brecksville Magazine, the Catholic Universe Bulletin and other publications.
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surer: Tom Moore
s a regular contributor to Cool Cleveland, the corporate columnist for Paralegal Today,
and writes on-line lifestyle and travel content for Yahoo. She attained
a B.A. in English Literature and Writing from Kent State University,
interned with the Kent State University Press, and received her
post-graduate paralegal degree from Dyke College. She has worked as a
business transactional paralegal for over 25 years and currently works
as a Senior Paralegal at Squire Sanders. She taught Business
Organizations for several years at Notre Dame College of Ohio and
frequently speaks at professional legal events. She regularly leads
workshops on writing, creativity, and spirituality, and has been a
reading group member and presenter for over 20 years. Claudia owns
Igniting Possibilities, an event and retreat business, as a conduit for
writing and creativity workshops. She is a past president of the
Cleveland Association of Paralegals, immediate past president of
Skyline Writers, and is the current first vice president of Society of
Professional Journalists, Cleveland. She is currently working on an
Arcadia book entitled Ohio's Lake Erie Wineries and a novel entitled Daffodils and Fireflies. Find out more about her at her blog, 
Bureau. In
addition to her writing duties, she produced up to 10 weekly public
affairs radio programs. The shows garnered several awards while airing
on commercial stations including WGAR-FM, WCLV-FM, WHK and WMMS-FM,
WJMO and WZAK-FM, WDOK-FM as well as WCSB-FM, CSU's student
station.Some shows were repeated on cable television.
Jedick
has been a freelance writer since graduating from Kent State University
in 1971. He has written for all the major publications in Northeast
Ohio including The Cleveland Press, The Plain Dealer, The Plain Dealer
Sunday Magazine, Cleveland Magazine and Avenues Magazine. Nationally.
his articles have appeared in World War II Magazine and Baseball
America. He was also a full-time reporter for Sun Newspapers. Jedick is
the author of four books. Two are non-fiction books about Cleveland: League Park and CLEVELAND: Where the East Coast Meets the Midwest. His two novels are HIPPIES and The West Tech Terrorist. The two novels are now available on Kindle and Nook. 
Primary Career: 20 years in newspaper journalism, 20+ years in public sector communications. Now Publications Manager for RTA. 
Rich Exner is the computer assisted reporting editor for The PlainDealer,
responsible for database analysis and using mapping and data programs
as reporting tools throughout the newsroom. He maintains 
Cliff Anthony,
assistant professor of journalism at Lorain County Community College,
served as president during 2009-10. In his 25-year journalism career,
Anthony has worked for newspapers in India, Middle East, New York City,
Washington, D.C., and Greater Cleveland. Locally, he worked for Sun
Newspapers for 10 years and for The News-Herald for five
years, where he served as the Geauga County bureau chief. Anthony is a
recipient of several journalism awards. Prominent among them are three
national awards from Suburban Newspapers of America and five awards
from Cleveland Press Club. He has two master's degrees - one in
journalism from Kent State University and another in English from
Bombay University, India. Before joining LCCC in fall 2008, Anthony
taught journalism at Cleveland State University as a full-time faculty
for three years and as an adjunct faculty for five years. His areas of
teaching include news writing, feature writing, advanced/in-depth
reporting, specialized writing, editing, page design, online editing
and public relations. He also taught English composition and
argumentative writing at Lakeland Community College as an adjunct
faculty for eight years.
Stan Bullard is the senior reporter at Crain's Cleveland Business.
He joined the staff in 1986 and today covers real estate, construction
and related industries. Until 2001, in addition to real estate, he
covered government, law firms, utilities, and small business for
Crain's. Bullard has won more than a dozen journalism awards at
Crain's. He is currently a board member of the Cleveland Chapter of the
Society of Professional Journalists and a past president of the group.
Except for a year spent in public relations, he has worked as a
journalist covering Northeast Ohio since 1976. He is a Cleveland native
and product of Kent State University's School of Journalism and Mass
Communication.
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