Category Archives: Faculty

Brenda Witherspoon

Brenda Witherspoon
Brenda Witherspoon is a teaching professor in the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Her early career included daily news work as a reporter and editor, including at The Dallas Morning News and the Des Moines Register, among others. She lived in New Zealand while studying newspapers’ portrayals…
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Susan West

Susan West
[caption id="attachment_3025" align="alignleft" width="300"] Susan West[/caption] Susan West is a principal at West Gold Editorial consulting, where she has helped launch magazines such as Dwell, trained online editors at websites such as BabyCenter, and advised publications from the New England Journal of Medicine to Cooking Light and Acoustic Guitar. With an M.S. in science journalism from…
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Steve Weiss

Steve Weiss
[caption id="attachment_3022" align="alignleft" width="298"] Steve Weiss[/caption] Steve Weiss is an award winning television anchor, reporter and producer of local and network television sports and news programming who utilizes his experience professionally and in the classroom. Weiss has enjoyed a distinguished broadcasting career of 25+ years as a program producer, host, and analyst for ESPN, TNN,…
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Peter Wayner

Peter Wayner
Peter Wayner is a videographer and writer from Rochester, New York. He grew up hearing stories from his grandfather, a World War II vet who farmed through the Great Depression. In college, and during his tenure at grad school at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Pete began cultivating his own storytelling style. Journalistic storytelling…
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