Joseph Boven most recently worked as a researcher for Colorado Media Matters, a progressive media watchdog group. In that role he contributed to the monitoring and fact based analysis of Colorado news and commentary across a variety of formats. He has also worked as the editor in chief of Twenty3 magazine, as a freelance writer, morning show director, commercial fisherman, sommelier/wine buyer, and a number of media related positions. Boven, who has lived in Colorado for most of his life, holds a bachelor’s degree in English and psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a fellow at The Center for Independent Media where he works as a reporter for the Colorado Independent.

John Tomasic has worked as a writer and editor at various news, literary and academic publications, including at the Huffington Post, Business 2.0 magazine and Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope All-Story. Most recently he was managing editor at OffTheBus, the Huffington Post’s path-breaking presidential-election citizen-journalism project. Before that, he was managing editor at Pop+Politics, the University of Southern California Annenberg School’s award-winning journalism training program and website. In the early 1990s, he worked as an analyst and editor for the United Nations commission established to investigate war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. As a Center for Independent Media fellow, he is covering Obama-era economics.

John has a master’s degree in European history and has taught at the University of Paris-Dauphine, the University of California-Berkeley and Indiana University-Bloomington. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

David O. Williams worked as an editor and reporter for the Vail Daily for five years before launching a competing alt daily. The Daily Trail and weekly Vail Trail won 40 Colorado Press Awards during Williams’ nearly six-year stint as managing editor, including Best News Story for an article on a Vail man’s death in police custody in Thailand. Williams’ coverage led to disciplinary action against U.S. embassy personnel and changes in the State Department’s relative-notification policy.

Williams has freelanced for publications such as the Rocky Mountain News, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times (even if it was only for the Kobe Bryant sex scandal case), Aspen Daily News, LA Weekly, and others, Williams launched realvail.com.

Jason Hancock wrote for the Des Moines Business Record and Cityview, Des Moines’ alternative weekly, before joining Iowa Independent as a senior fellow. A native of Indiana, Hancock currently lives in Ames. He covers politics and does investigative work.

Lynda Waddington lives in Eastern Iowa with her family of five. She serves on the executive committee for Iowans for Voting Integrity, is publicity chair for Women for Peace Iowa and, in 2006, was elected to represent Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District on the Democratic State Central Committee. She worked for more than a decade as a print journalist before launching her own communications business. She also writes at the blog Essential Estrogen.

David Alire Garcia is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of New Mexico. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Austin American Statesman and Hispanic magazine, among other publications. Prior to joining NMI, Alire Garcia worked stints as staff writer for the Santa Fe Reporter as well as editorial writer and columnist for the Albuquerque Journal. He also co-hosts New Mexico In Focus, a weekly public affairs television program broadcast on PBS affiliate KNME.

Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and the voice behind the popular blog Dispatches from the Culture Wars. He is co-founder of Michigan Citizens for Science and has written for such publications as the Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education. He has appeared as a guest on several nationally syndicated radio talk shows, has addressed many state and national organizations and conferences and has appeared on C-SPAN.

Todd Heywood comes to the CIM with a plethora of experiences. With a long history in journalism, advocacy politics, public relations, politics and even a stint as an elected official, he currently is the Capitol correspondent for the GLBT publication Between the Lines. He holds an associates general degree from Lansing Community College with focuses in history, substance-abuse prevention and intervention and theater performance. In addition to his work in journalism, Heywood, as he prefers to be called, continues to nurture his love of theater by running a small community theater, Sunsets with Shakespeare. Plays he authored have been produced at U of M Basement Arts program, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, local coffeehouses and in St. Louis, Mo. His work in theater won him a Pulsar Award as best community director in 2005, a Player’s Award for his portrayal of Otto Frank in “The Diary of Anne Frank” for Lansing Civic Players and a Barney Award from Riverwalk Theatre for best supporting actor in 1997. He lives in Lansing with his beloved dogs Virgil and Gypsy Rose.

Eartha Jane Melzer is a 1997 graduate of Antioch College with a degree in cross-cultural communications. Her documentary work has appeared in outlets as diverse as Fox News and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. She has worked as a freelance reporter and staff writer for the Washington Blade. She recently returned to her hometown — lovely Traverse City, Mich. — with hopes of covering environmental and social issues in the Great Lakes state. Eartha received an Honorable Mention from the National Press Club for the Hume Award this year, in relation to her investigative reporting on private security company Sovereign Deed.

Andy Birkey is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota with a degree in forestry, urban studies and sociology. He has been active in Minnesota’s LGBT community for the six years he has lived in Minneapolis, and has worked with and volunteered for a number of causes including LGBT rights, HIV prevention and care, transportation issues and environmental research. He has been writing Eleventh Avenue South, a blog about Minnesota LGBT news, issues, and politics, for three years and is a contributor to Metroblogging Minneapolis.

Paul Schmelzer is managing editor of the Minnesota Independent. A freelance writer on art and activism, his interviews with activist Winona LaDuke, architect Cameron Sinclair, and artist Rirkrit Tiravanija appear in the book “Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Reader.” A former editor at Adbusters and the Walker Art Center, he publishes Eyeteeth: A Journal of Incisive Ideas. Also a media writer, Paul won a Frank Premack Award for Public Affairs Journalism (2007) and Society of Professional Journalists’ Page One Awards (2006 and 2007) — the first time in the history of both awards that a journalist from a web-only publication has won.

Marjorie Childress  lives and works in Albuquerque. She is one of the voices behind m-pyre, a local blog founded in 2004. She has a graduate degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of New Mexico, and works for the SouthWest Organizing Project. She primarily writes about land development growth and issues of ethics and accountability in government.

Gwyneth Doland was a columnist and editor at the Santa Fe Reporter and Weekly Alibi before joining the New Mexico Independent. A native of Washington, D.C., she has lived in Albuquerque since 1994. Over the past decade, Gwyneth has written widely on food, politics, and food politics, among other things.

After seven years as a newspaper reporter and editor, Heath Haussamen left behind a stable paycheck in May 2006 to join the Internet revolution. He started Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics, a news Web site covering politics and government in New Mexico that was recently named by the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza as one of the best state politics blogs in the nation. Haussamen also contributes weekly to the Diary of a Mad Voter blog published by the Denver Post’s Politics West and the independent Web site NewWest.net. You can find Heath’s blog at nmpolitics.net and learn more about him at haussamen.com.

Trip Jennings has worked in newspapers for nearly 20 years, including the Albuquerque Journal, where he reported on Gov. Bill Richardson, the New Mexico Legislature and state government. In addition to New Mexico, Trip has worked in Georgia, California, Florida and Connecticut where he covered a governor who went to federal prison for corruption.

Matthew Reichbach is a local blogger who co-founded and writes for New Mexico FBIHOP. Matthew has been blogging about politics since September of 2005 and about New Mexico politics since February of 2006.

Spencer Ackerman is national security correspondent for The Washington Independent. He has reported for Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect and The New Republic.

Rachel Rose Hartman is the senior researcher for The Washington Independent. Hartman joined TWI after years working as a politics reporter for Congressional Quarterly. She previously served as a researcher for CQ’s political staff and worked for the San Francisco Chronicle’s D.C. bureau.

Mike Lillis follows Congress for The Washington Independent. Previously, he has covered health care policy with Inside Washington Publishers, and served as Washington correspondent for Iowa’s Waterloo Courier. He lives in Washington, DC.

David Weigel is a politics reporter covering the conservative movement for The Washington Independent, and a contributing editor of Reason. His work has appeared in The American Prospect, The American Conservative, The American Spectator, The Guardian, Politico and The Economist.

Aaron Wiener is assistant editor of The Washington Independent. He co-edits the blog and runs the Website, in addition to reporting and blogging on energy and the environment. When not glued to a screen, he plays harmonica and rhythm guitar for the folk-blues duo The Mustard Boys.

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