Alumni News & Announcements
Alumni News
Molly Ball
Molly Ball ’10 joined POLITICO in Washington D.C. as part of the politics team covering the midterm elections. Ball was previously freelancing in the D.C. area.
Bruce DeSilva
Bruce DeSilva ’81 published his first novel, “Rogue Island,” from Forge Books. It was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the ten best debut novels of 2010.
Carol Guensburg ’10S has joined Scripps Howard News Service as a desk editor/ project editor in the Washington bureau.
Mary Lockhart ’98 is now general manager for CreativeNewsGroup in New York, a subsidiary of WNET.ORG that produces public television programs. Previously, Lockhart was supervising producer at Worldfocus, CreativeNewsGroup’s flagship program.
Micheline (Micki) Maynard ’00 left The New York Times to launch Changing Gears as senior broadcast editor. Changing Gears is a new public radio local journalism project that will look at ways to reinvent the Rust Belt.
Joanna Mills
Joanna Mills ’09 has been promoted to editor of the BBC World Service newsroom, overseeing 80 journalists who provide newscasts for BBC World Service radio and content for the BBC’s 30-plus language services. Mills previously served as a duty editor in the newsroom.
Jill McGivering ’10 has published her first novel, “The Last Kestrel.” Currently available in the UK and Canada, it goes on sale in Australia and New Zealand in October.
Jon Morgan ’01 is now editor at large for Bloomberg government at Bloomberg News. Before that, Morgan was senior editor at the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
Jonathan Martin ’09 co-authored “The Other Side of Mercy: A Killer’s Journey Across the Great Divide,” published in September. The book is based on the Seattle Times series that won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. Martin was a reporter on the winning team.
Maureen O’Hagan ’00 and Nick Perry ’11 were also part of the Seattle Times team that took the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. The winning series covered, in print and online, the shooting deaths of four police officers and the manhunt for the suspect.
Kyle Poplin ’10 and his wife Myra Poplin ’10S have launched The Ann, a new monthly magazine and accompanying website dedicated to covering local issues in Ann Arbor.
Tim Wendel ’96 published “High Heat: The Secret History of the Fastball and the Improbably Search for the Fastest Pitcher of All Time” in March, from De Capo Press. The book, Wendel’s eighth, was featured in a June New York Times Sunday Book Review round-up of new baseball books.
Andrew Whitehead ’04 has been named editor of World Service news and current affairs at the BBC. Before his new appointment, Whitehead served as the organization’s editor of Core News.
