Board of Directors

Cynthia H. Augustine is senior vice president of Talent Management at Time Warner. She is also a member of the Executive Committee and senior management team. Augustine came to the Times Company from the law firm Sabin, Bermant and Gould LLP where she was a partner and specialized in the area of employment law. Previously, she was a lawyer in the Times Company's legal department from 1986 to 1993 and worked primarily in the areas of employment relations, labor relations and employee benefits. Augustine began her legal practice in 1982 with the law firm Pittney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch in the employment law department. Born in Columbus, Ohio, Augustine received a B.A. degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1979. While there, she received the Henry Ladd and Helen Alan scholarship. She received a J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School in 1982. She is a member of the New York, New Jersey, and American Bar Association. Augustine is married, has two children and lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Note: Leroy Aarons passed away on November 28, 2004. Read more here.
Leroy F. Aarons is a journalist, editor, author and playwright whose assignments have taken him around the globe, and whose stewardship of the Oakland Tribune helped garner that paper a Pulitzer Prize. He is currently a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School of Communications where he is developing and teaching courses on gay issues and the media. Aarons is also supervising research on press coverage of gay and lesbian issues as director of a new program within Annenberg's Journalism Department.

Aarons is a founding board member of the Maynard Institute. He is also founding president of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, which since 1990 has had a significant impact on how mainstream media cover gay issues and relate to their gay and lesbian employees.

Aarons covered events of the 1960s and 1970s as chief of The Washington Post's New York and West Coast bureaus. In 1982, he spent a year in Israel, covering among other things the Israel-Lebanon war as a freelancer for Time magazine. In 1983, he joined his friend and colleague Robert Maynard, then the new owner of The Oakland Tribune, in the job of features editor. In 1985, he was named executive editor and in 1988 senior vice president for news with corporate responsibilities in addition to news supervision. During his tenure, the Tribune won a 1990 Pulitzer Prize for its photojournalism during the devastating October 1989 earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Frank Blethen is board chair of the Seattle Times Company, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin and the Yakima Herald-Republic. He is the publisher and CEO of the Seattle Times newspaper and president of Blethen Corporation. Frank Blethen joined the Seattle Times in 1968, after graduation from Arizona State University, where he received a BS in business.

Blethen is involved in a number of civic and industry efforts focused on higher education and health and human services. He served as chair of the 1996 United Way of King County Campaign and is a member of the 1997 campaign cabinet. He chaired the major gifts division of Campaign Washington State University. He chairs the Kitchen Cabinet advisory panel for the president of Washington State University. He is also on the Business Advisory Group for the president of the University of Washington.

John L. Dotson, Jr. is publisher emeritus of the Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio) and is now on the board of directors for The Washington Post. Before becoming publisher of the Beacon Journal in June 1993, he was president and publisher of the Daily Camera, a 35,000-circulation newspaper in Boulder, Colo. Previously, he has held positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Newsweek, Newark Evening News and Detroit Free Press.

Dotson is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board of Directors, which chooses Pulitzer Prize winners each year, and the Board of Visitors of the John S. Knight Fellowship Program, which offers working journalists a year's study at Stanford University in California. He is an ex officio member of the Newspaper Association of America and a member of its diversity subcommittee. He is also a co-founder of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education.

Dorothy Butler Gilliam is director of the Young Journalists Development Project at The Washington Post. The project nurtures young people through various journalistic development programs in order to increase the number of Latinos and African Americans choosing a career in journalism.

From 1979 through 1997, she served as a regular columnist for The Washington Post. She wrote columns on local, national and international issues on topics that included education, politics, racial and cultural diversity, gender and social issues. Her journalistic expertise involves broad and extensive coverage on C-Span, Public Broadcasting System's "To the Contrary," Black Entertainment Television, and Howard University's WHMM-TV. In 1993, Gilliam was elected president of the National Association of Black Journalists, which gave her leadership of more than 3,500 members in broadcast and newspaper journalism public relations, advertising and journalism education.

Karla Garrett Harshaw has been editor of the Springfield News-Sun (Ohio) since August 1990. She came to the News-Sun from the Dayton Daily News. Both are owned by Cox Newspapers. Harshaw has served on the board of the American Society of Newspaper Editors since 1995 and is the vice chair of ASNE's 1998-99 Convention Program Committee. She was a 1995 and 1996 member of the Pulitzer Prize Nominating Juries in Journalism. She was a panelist and consultant for the Cox Career Enhancement Seminar and a keynote speaker at the Inland Press Association Convention in 1994.

In April of 1997, Harshaw was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Region VI Hall of Fame. She is a recipient of the 1997 Ohio Associated Press third-place award for editorial writing and received the 1995 "Best of Cox" award for column writing. Her other professional affiliations include membership in the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association of Minority Media Executives and the Ohio Newspaper Women's Association. She was a founder of the Dayton Association of Black Journalists.

Christian A. Hendricks has been Vice President, Interactive Media since 1999. He joined the company in 1992 as Advertising Manager, Marketing for The Fresno Bee, and the following year became its Marketing Director. In 1994 he was named Manager of Technology for McClatchy, and held this position until 1996 when he was promoted to President and Publisher of Nando Media, McClatchy's Internet publishing company. He remained there until taking his current position in 1999. Mr. Hendricks was named "New Media Pioneer" in 2003 by the NAA's New Media Federation. He has served on the federation's board and various NAA committees.

Professor Warren Lerude teaches Media Leaders and Issues (management) and First Amendment and Society (media law) and coordinates the Reynolds School of Journalism's Professional Internship Program. He is a 1977 Pulitzer Price winner in journalism for editorial writing and has served on seven Pulitzer Prize Juries at Columbia University in New York City. Professor Lerude is a member of the National Advisory Committee of The Newseum, a $50 million museum set up by The Freedom Forum. He serves as an international consultant on media management and freedom of information matters and has been a member of the editorial board of USA TODAY, the board of directors of the Oakland Tribune and the board of the Squaw Valley USA Ski Corp.

Professor Lerude is a 1961 journalism graduate of the University of Nevada. After a career as a reporter and editor with The Associated Press in Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas and Reno, he joined the Reno newspapers and rose from reporter to editor, publisher and president of the Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal.

Paula Madison was named president and general manager of KNBC Channel 4 in November 2000 after serving as news director of WNBC in New York for over four years. Madison came to NBC 4 from KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas, where she had been executive news director since 1987. Prior to joining KHOU-TV, Madison had been news director at KOTV-TV in Tulsa, Okla., from 1986 to 1987. For the two years prior to that, Madison served as news manager for WFAA-TV in Dallas. She began her career in television news at WFAA-TV as community affairs director in 1982.

She also serves on the boards of the National Medical Fellowships, Inc., a nonprofit organization that seeks to improve the accessibility of health care to all communities, and the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit journalism watchdog agency. She is on the executive committee of the Campaign to Save Cardinal Spellman High School – her alma mater. A graduate of Vassar College (class of '74), Madison's first news position was as a reporter for the Syracuse (N.Y.). Herald Journal In 1980, Madison joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, as an investigative reporter; she was later assistant city editor at the Dallas Times Herald.

John X. Miller is the public editor at the Detroit Free Press. He writes a biweekly column dealing with accuracy and credibility, responds to readers' complaints and comments, organizes reader forums, and works with the paper's online component to increase the newspaper's interactivity with readers.

Prior to joining the Free Press, Miller was the managing editor of The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, S.C. He had been managing editor of the Sun News since 1996. From 1991 to 1996, he had been executive editor at the Reporter in Landsdale, Pa. He came to the Reporter from USA Today, where he was deputy managing editor for sports. He worked at USA Today from 1982 to 1991 and was one of the original staff members in sports. Previously, Miller worked at the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina as a sports copy and layout editor.

Miller is on the advisory board for the James K. Batten Award for Excellence in Civic Journalism and is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors. He is an active member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the National Association of Minority Media Executives and the National Association of Black Journalists.

A. Stephen Montiel is the director of the USC Institute for Justice and Journalism. He served as president of the Maynard Institute from 1988 through 2000.

Montiel has more than two decades of experience as a journalist, educator and foundation executive. He was formerly vice president for communications of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles and worked as a reporter and editor for The Associated Press in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. During his 10 years of news experience, he was also a reporter in Vietnam for Pacific Stars and Stripes, a staff writer and copy editor at the Arizona Daily Star and a copy editor at the Los Angeles Times. He was a member of the California Chicano News Media Association while in Los Angeles.

From 1979 to 1981, he was assistant professor of journalism at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He directed the institute's Summer Program for Minority Journalists in 1978, 1980 and 1985, the Editing Program for Minority Journalists in 1981, and the institute's 1991 Management Training Center. Montiel has been a member of the Maynard Institute Board of Directors since its incorporation in 1977.

He served as deputy press secretary of the 1984 Olympic Games and as campaign press secretary for the re-election of Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles in 1985. He graduated in 1969 from the University of Arizona with a BA in journalism.

Glenn Proctor is an associate editor at The Star Ledger. Proctor has been a journalist for three decades. Prior to becoming an associate editor at The Ledger, where he is responsible for special revenue projects, training, recruiting, intern programs and several budgets, he was city editor and assistant managing editor/local news. Before joining The Ledger, Proctor was assistant managing editor/metro at the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle; night metro editor and business editor at The Louisville Courier-Journal and a reporter and night city editor at The Akron Beacon Journal.

While in Ohio, Proctor taught journalism part-time at Kent State University, where he is currently a member of the journalism school's national advisory board. Proctor also did editing and reporting stints at the Quad City Times in Davenport, Iowa and United Press International in Philadelphia and worked as a press secretary for former Rep. Dan Mica of Florida. He began his career as a reporter for the Daily Local News in West Chester, PA.

At the Beacon Journal, Proctor was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for coverage of the Goodyear takeover. He was a Pulitzer Prize Juror 2000 and 2001. A former Marine and Vietnam veteran, Proctor spent six years on active duty and six years as a reservist.

Addie M. Rimmer is Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She was the deputy managing editor for news at the Detroit Free Press. She previously was the executive editor and vice president of the Daily Camera in Boulder, Colorado; editor and vice president of The News in Boca Raton, Florida; assistant managing editor and deputy features editor of the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, California; assistant professor of journalism at the University of Arizona in Tucson and held several positions at The Wall Street Journal in New York; a copy editor at The Miami Herald and was a reporter at a financial wire service.

A 1980 graduate of The Editing Program, Rimmer has served as the chair of the Maynard Institute's Editing Program Advisory Committee for several years. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and the City College of New York.

William Schmidt was named associate managing editor for resources and planning in 2003. Previously he had been associate managing editor for personnel and newsroom administration since 1997. He joined The Times in 1981, and spent most of his career at the newspaper as a correspondent based in bureaus outside of New York. He spent ten years working for the national desk, as The Times bureau chief in Denver, Atlanta and Chicago. From 1991 until 1995, he was the newspaper's London correspondent. In 1995, he was assigned to New York as deputy national editor, and helped direct The Times coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 Presidential campaign.

Before joining The Times, Schmidt worked for Newsweek for eight years, the last two as bureau chief in Moscow. For the three years prior to his Moscow assignment, Schmidt was Newsweek's Middle East bureau chief, based in Cairo. He also served as the magazine's Miami bureau chief and was a correspondent in its Chicago bureau. From 1967 until 1973, he was a reporter with The Detroit Free Press.

In 1987 Schmidt was among seven reporters and two editors at The Times who shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for articles about the causes of the Challenger disaster. In 1971 he shared the George Polk Award for national reporting for coverage of the shootings at Kent State University. In 1977 he won an award from the Overseas Press Club for his reporting on the war in Lebanon. Schmidt received a B.A degree in journalism from the University of Michigan.

William Dean Singleton, 54, is Vice-Chairman and CEO of MediaNews Group, publisher of 50 daily newspapers and 122 non-daily publications in twelvestates. He founded the company in 1983 and in its 23rd year, MediaNews is the Nation's 7th largest newspaper company and the second largest privately held newspaper concern. Singleton is also Chairman of the Board and Publisher of The Denver Post , the company's largest newspaper, and Chairman of the Board for the Denver Newspaper Agency, the publisher of The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News . He is also Publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune.

He began his newspaper career at the age of 15 as a part-time reporter in his hometown of Graham, Texas, and bought his first newspaper at age 21. He served on the board of the Newspaper Association of America from 1993 until 2004 and is the former Chairman of the Board. He also serves on the Associated Press Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees for the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center, the National Sports Center for the Disabled Board, The Helen G. Bonfils Foundation, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts and the Winter Park Recreational Association Board. In addition, he is a member of the board of trustees for the University of Denver.

Mark Trahant (Chairman) is an Idaho native and his Western roots and journalistic experience are deeply connected. He is the editorial page editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He served as the Maynard Institute's CEO from January 2001 to December 2002. Previously, with the Seattle Times, he wrote a twice-weekly column on subjects ranging from his Western roots to his views about journalism and society. He joined the Seattle Times from the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow, Idaho, and Pullman, Washington, where he was the publisher. He also wrote a syndicated weekly column, "Letter From Moscow." His journalism career includes work as executive news editor ofThe Salt Lake Tribune, reporter at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, as well as editor and publisher at several tribal newspapers. Trahant writes a twice-monthly column for MSNBC.com.

Trahant is a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe of Idaho and has received numerous honors, including the Elias Boudinot Award for Lifetime Contributions to Journalism and the Hewywood Broun and Paul Tobenkin awards; was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1989. He is past president and a current member of the Native American Journalists Asociation. Trahant is a trustee of The Freedom Forum.