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Contributing editor Alix Felsing loves storytelling in all its forms, and especially appreciates those little moments that ring so true in the midst of a story or movie. She loves a good tale that illuminates the world and transports the reader. She graduated from Michigan State University and has spent most of her career at The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, where she has been a copy editor, copy desk slot, national editor, and assigning editor. She spent the 2008-09 academic year at Harvard as an affiliate of the Nieman Foundation.
After five years in the community newspaper industry–in such positions as writer, copy editor, and managing editor–Web communications specialist Barbara McCarthy made the move into the virtual newsroom. Her first online job was at Community Newspaper Company and Townonline.com. When the dotcom bubble burst and layoffs ensued, her online career took her into various marketing opportunities, including software, travel and tourism, and higher education. She’s come full-circle at the Nieman Foundation, where she can indulge in her passion for the Web all the while rubbing elbows with successful journalists.
Contributing editor Thorne Anderson teaches photography and multimedia journalism at the University of North Texas. He spent a decade covering international news as a photojournalist with Corbis/Sygma and has a master’s from the University of Missouri-Columbia. In addition to previously teaching Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Bulgaria, he is co-author of Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq. He spent the 2008-09 academic year at Harvard as an affiliate of the Nieman Foundation.
Contributing editor Stephanie Mitchell is a professional photographer who has worked in the Boston/Cambridge area for ten years. She was raised by her artist parents in Baltimore, Maryland, and studied photography at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, at the Salt Center for Documentary Photography in Maine, and at the Eddie Adams Workshop in the Catskill Mountains of New York. She received her master’s degree in Studio Art and Film from Harvard Extension School. For the last eight years, Stephanie has worked as a staff photographer at Harvard University. Her photography was recently included in a National Press Photographers Association exhibition in Las Vegas and has also appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, The Irish Times, Der Spiegel, and TIME magazine.
Contributing editor MacGregor Campbell earned a physics degree and taught middle school mathematics in Compton, California, with Teach for America. He spent three years in Los Angeles, then headed to Portland, Oregon, to make electronic music and work in public broadcasting. He received a master’s degree in science writing at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology in 2009 and currently writes for New Scientist magazine. He is excited by journalists and storytellers who take advantage of what the web makes possible. Audio, video, animation, visualization, interaction, games, data, and community—what next?
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