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Dan Pacheco (Jour) is beginning his 11th year as the Peter A. Horvitz Endowed Chair in Journalism Innovation at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He is working on his first book, Experimenting With Emerging Media Platforms: Field Testing the Future, for publication by Routledge in 2023.
Posted Oct. 12, 2022
Michael Davies (Jour’94) spoke with CMCI students before a Buffs game to share his experiences as a senior vice president with FOX Sports. His team was setting up for the Big Noon Kickoff broadcast.
Posted Oct. 20, 2021
Jill Painter Lopez (Jour) was recognized as the 2019 Southern California Sports Broadcasters (SCSB) reporter of the year for her reporting on the Los Angeles Angels and Anaheim Ducks for Fox Sports West. She shared the award with Alanna Rizzo (IntBus’97; MJour’03), who covers the Dodgers for SportsNet LA.
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
Jennifer (Pollice) Darrow (Jour) works for Denver- based production company Citizen Pictures. She is an executive producer on Food Network’s hit series Diners, Drive-ins and Dives and has received four Emmy nominations since working on the show.
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
Jennifer Alsever (Jour) has spent two decades building a career in journalism. She's worked for The Denver Post and worked as a freelance writer for Fortune magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. magazine, Wired and Fast Company. In 2017, she also plunged into fiction, releasing the first two novels in a young adult trilogy called The Trinity Forest Series. Jennifer lives in the mountains just outside of Vail and enjoys reading, writing mountain biking skiing and yoga.
Posted Nov. 15, 2018
Benilda Samuels (MJour) has been promoted to chief operating officer of Nurse-Family Partnership, a national program that serves first-time mothers and their children.
Posted Nov. 15, 2018
Award-winning producer and voice actor David Vincent (Jour) is known for voicing hundreds of characters in animation and video games such as Super Smash Bros. and Street Fighter. David is co-founder and CEO of iOS app Unlocked—the pop culture streaming network, putting fans and celebrities together. David lives in Los Angeles and travels the world greeting fans at comic and Japanese animation conventions. He returned to Denver for Colorado Anime Fest in spring 2018.
Posted Oct. 24, 2017
Lara Karchmer (Comm) is 25 years into her production career in Los Angeles, where she has worked on awards shows, music shows, standup comedy and televised fundraisers.
Posted Aug. 26, 2024
Sean Aronson (Jour), a Ballpark Digest broadcaster of the year award winner in 2016, is calling his 24th season as a Minor League Baseball broadcaster, and 18th season with the St. Paul Saints, the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.
Posted Aug. 26, 2024
David Vincent (Jour) is an entrepreneur and 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry. Known for voicing hundreds of characters in popular animation and video games, he’s also an award-winning producer. After years of signing autographs, Vincent founded Streamily, a platform that allows fans to watch celebrities sign a personalized autograph on any livestream platform, and have it delivered to their door.
Posted Nov. 2, 2023
Sam Flickinger (Jour) is approaching 14 years at ExpertVoice in Salt Lake City, a software as a service company focused on brand advocacy, retail training, generating helpful product reviews and more. After spending more than a decade in print media, today he is a digital storyteller and editor who chronicles the adventures of the organization’s members and connects them with their 500+ brand partners in a verified community of experts online.
Posted Oct. 12, 2022
Jeff Tahler (Comm) is the managing director at Madica Productions. Madica's hit Netflix series Ginny and Georgia is in production for its second season. The company’s YouTube series Brave Mission amassed more than 4.5 million views in the first month of its release.
Posted Oct. 12, 2022
Jeff Tahler (Comm) is the managing director at Madica Productions. Madica's hit Netflix series Ginny and Georgia is currently in production of its second season. The company’s YouTube series Brave Mission amassed more than 4.5 million views in the first month of its release.
Posted May. 4, 2022
Jason Gewirtz (Jour) was in Tokyo to cover his fifth Olympic Games as editor and publisher of SportsTravel magazine. In June, he was named to the board of directors of the Sports Events and Tourism Association.
Posted Oct. 20, 2021
Julie (Dybdahl) Meidlinger (MJour) is program coordinator for Raritan, a quarterly journal of politics and letters based at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
Jason Gewirtz (Jour) will attend his fifth Olympic Games in 2020 for SportsTravel magazine, where he has served as editor and publisher since 2014. Recently, he moderated a session on the economic impact of running events at the IAAF Global Running Conference in Lanzhou, China. He and his wife, Niki (CommDisor’94), live in Centennial with their son, Jonas.
Posted Nov. 12, 2019
After 18 years at 9News in Denver, Cheryl Preheim (Comm) anchored her last newscast for the station in 2016. The Indiana native has interviewed countless newsmakers, including former President Jimmy Carter and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai. Cheryl and her family now live in Atlanta, Georgia, where she works as a morning anchor for WXIA.
Posted Nov. 15, 2018
In June 2017, Alison (Ali) Bay (Jour) was appointed deputy press secretary for Californian Gov. Jerry Brown Jr. She previously served as the deputy director for the California Department of Public Health's Offic eof Public Affairs. Alsion has lived in California for 20 years.
Posted Nov. 15, 2018
David Smail (Advert) is a professor of practice in CMCI’s Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design. Before returning to CU Boulder in 2016, David served as the chairman and executive director of BBDO Vietnam.
Posted Oct. 24, 2017
Tracey Marx Bernstein (Jour) is an executive producer at Yahoo. She creates content in the diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEI&B) space, celebrating different cultures, identities and backgrounds.
Posted Oct. 12, 2022
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