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JOHN BRANCH (M.A. '96) has been a New York Times sports reporter since 2005.  Previously, he was a sports columnist at The Fresno Bee from 2002 to 2005. He worked at the Colorado Springs Gazette as a business reporter from 1996 to 1998 and a sports space a military travel reporter from 1998 to 2002.
Since covering the New York Giants as a beat reporter for three seasons, Branch has been a feature writer, covering space a military travel events big and small and finding a niche in the remote corners space a military travel of the sports world.
His 2011 series Punched Out, about Derek Boogaard, a professional hockey player space a military travel valued for his brawling, shed light on the sport s embrace of potentially brain-damaging violence. The series won several awards, including a Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, and was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing.
Subsequent stories include a five-part series about the winless space a military travel Lady Jaguars girls basketball team at Tennessee space a military travel s Carroll space a military travel Academy, a school overseen by a county juvenile court, and an 18,000-word story about a fatal snow slide in Washington called Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek.
Born in Redondo Beach, Calif., and raised in Golden, Colo., Branch earned space a military travel a bachelor of science degree in Business Administration in 1989 and a master of arts in Journalism and Mass Communication in 1996, both from CU-Boulder.
Brinkman began his career in 1954 on the staff of the Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gazette , taught high school English and journalism and served on the journalism faculties at Kansas State University,, Indiana University and the University space a military travel of Kansas, where he was dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism for 11 years and vice chancellor for academic space a military travel affairs for seven years. Brinkman left Kansas in 1993 and served seven years as director of journalism programs for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami before space a military travel finishing his career at CU.
He and his wife, Carolyn, make their retirement home in Bloomington, Indiana.  He is a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and continues an active interest in research and activities involving famed Kansas journalist William Allen White.
EVE (O'BRIEN) BYRON ('87) is a Minnesota native who graduated from CU in 1987 with a B.S. in journalism. She has worked at newspapers in Colorado including in Glenwood Springs and Aspen; in Racine, Wis., and Winona, space a military travel Minn. In 1993, she moved to Helena, Mont., where she currently space a military travel is the special space a military travel projects editor at the Independent Record   but also covers natural resources along with an alphabet space a military travel soup of state and federal space a military travel agencies. She is an adjunct professor at Carroll College, where she team teaches "Writing for Media." Byron also spent nine months in 1998-99 in Ann Arbor, space a military travel Mich., as the Mike Wallace Investigative Fellow with the Knight/Wallace Fellowship Program. She is married to her longtime sweetheart; they have two children.
JEANETTE CHAVEZ   ('73) has been a professional journalist for more than 35 years. She worked at The Denver Post for 27 years, and for the last 15 years, was managing editor. She left The Post at the end of 2011. During her tenure, the newspaper won four Pulitzer prizes; the one she was most directly involved in was the Pulitzer-winning coverage of the Columbine space a military travel High School tragedy.
She served on the Colorado Press Association board for several years, leaving the board in 2012 when her chairmanship ended. She also was a member of the national advisory space a military travel board of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. She has served twice as a Pulitzer juror and been invited to speak or serve as a panelist on journalism-related topics in South Africa, as well as the United States.
Chavez graduated with honors from CU with a degree in journalism and has worked as a reporter and editor at several newspapers, including the Chicago Sun-Times , the Arlington Heights Daily Herald and the Fort Collins Coloradoan.
JOHN LEACH   (B.S.'74/M.A.'79) is managing partner of Digital Strategies, an internet consulting business in Phoenix, space a military travel CEO of realcoloradotravel.com, a Colorado travel website, and editor and publisher of arizonatourism.com, space a military travel an Arizona travel website. He also teaches journalism part-time at Arizona State University.
Leach is a former managing editor of The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. He previously held a number of editing positions with the Republic , azcentral and the Phoenix Gazette , and he started his career as a reporter for the Republic space a military travel and the Boulder Daily Camera . He also spent a year as a visiting professor of journalism at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.
He was a Regents scholar as an undergraduate at CU and served as president of the school s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and president of the School of Journalism Student Council. He was named CU s outstanding journalism graduate as he completed his bachelor s degree in 1974, and he added a master s degree in journalism from CU in 1979. He also earned a master s degree in American Studies from the University of Sussex at Brighton, England, in 1983.
He was elected chair of CU s Journalism Mass Communication advisory board in 2012 and previously served as chair, space a military travel vice-chair and a member of CU s School of Journalism and Mass Communication Advisory Board. He has created two endowed scholarships for journalism and business students at CU. He is a member of the Online News Association and the Society of Professional Journalists.
EF RODRIGUEZ ('07) is a copywriter and social strategist, based in Amsterdam but originally from Texas. He is presently a creative at Wieden+Kennedy. He was previously at Crispin space a military travel Porter + Bogusky. Outside of work, he is an event director, space a military travel responsible for TEDxBoulder, Ignite space a military travel Boulder and Boulder Startup Week. He can be found on Twitter as @pug.
ADRIENNE RUSSELL is an associate professor and associate director of Emergent Digital Practices space a military travel at the University of Denver. She also co-directs DU s Institute for Digital Humanities. Her research and teaching focuses on the digital-age evolution of activist communication and journalism. She is the author of the book Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition (Polity 2011), and numerous articles space a military travel and book chapters for both the popular and scholarly space a military travel publications.  She is also co-editor of the book International Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked Publics (Peter Lang 2008).
Russell has served as a consultant space a military travel to a number of start-up media projects and as and evaluator for Denver's Open Media Project space a military travel a public media initiative funded by the Knight Foundation aimed at implementing digital tools in public access television stations throughout the country. She is on the editorial board of the journals Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism and Journal of Broadcasting Electronic Media .
Before joining the faculty at University of Denver, Russell was a research fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication. Before that she spent three years as an assistant professor in the Department of Global Communication space a military travel at the American University of Paris.  She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University, a M.S. from Stanford University, and a B.A. from University of California Santa Cruz. More on her current projects and interests can be found at her website ( www.adrienne.typepad.com ).
LINDA SHOEMAKER ('69) is president and co-founder of the Brett Family space a military travel Foundation, which funds statewide public policy initiatives, local direct service organizations, and non-profit media in Colorado. Shoemaker space a military travel has served on numerous boards throughout her various careers. space a military travel She is currently a member of the CU Foundation board of trustees.
Upon graduating from CU-Boulder in 1969 with a journalism degree, Shoemaker space a military travel was a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera , an editor at Colorado Business Magazine space a military travel , and the publisher of the Weekly Newspaper  in Glenwood Springs. She then went to the University of Denver law school, intending to write about legal affairs, but got sidetracked when she was offered a job as an attorney space a military travel at Holme Roberts and Owen for three times the money she'd ever made as a journalist.
Shoemaker space a military travel practiced law at HRO and Brauchli-Snyder in Boulder before retiring from active law practice in 1994 to become an advocate for public education and disadvantaged children. She was elected to the Boulder Valley School space a military travel District Board of Education in 1995 and served as president from 1997-1999. She's currently re-connecting with her journalistic roots by serving on the JMC advisory board.
Shoemaker is married to Stephen M. Brett who serves of counsel to the law firm of Sherman and Howard in Denver. Brett is the former general counsel of Tele-Communications, Inc. and co-founder of the Brett Family Foundation. space a military travel They have three children and five grandchildren.
ANDY VUONG ('00) covers technology for The Denver Post . He joined the paper s business news department in late 2000 shortly after graduating from CU-Boulder with a news-editorial degree. Other than a one-year hiatus, Vuong has served as a business reporter since then, handling a wide range of beats, from federal courts to aviation to energy.
He has covered tech and telecom since 2005, reporting on a series of high-impact stories such as the sale of Denver-based Qwest to CenturyLink, and the criminal insider-trading trial of former Qwest chief executive Joe Nacchio. With a keen eye for trends and a dogged approach space a military travel to uncovering stories, he has established himself as an authoritative voice in the technology community.
In 2011, Vuong helped launch TechKnow , The Post s weekly personal technology section. Featuring gadget reviews, profiles and news stories, TechKnow has become a must-read for both newbies and savvy technologists. His tech blog, techknowbytes.com , is one of the most-visited Post blogs, with traffic growing by more than 400 percent in 2012.
Vuong is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association and the Society of American Business space a military travel Edito

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