Decade: 2000-09
Brian Connolly, MA ’03
Brian Connolly (MA ’03) has been named Chief Innovation Officer at the National Trust for Local News, where he is developing sustainable new models for community journalism. Brian joins the Trust after a 20-year career at The Buffalo News, where he rose from copy desk intern to Vice President and Publisher of the community newspaper … Continued
Susan (Lowrey) Gill
What do you do? I currently work as the director of project management in the marketing and communications office within Virginia Tech’s Advancement division. How did you get your job? I got this position by having supportive supervisors willing to develop my skills and help me find my place in the organization! One supervisor pushed … Continued
Greg Tepper, BJ ’08
Greg Tepper was recently promoted to Editor-In-Chief of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, the Southwest’s leading football source colloquially known as “the Bible of Texas football.” He becomes just the second editor-in-chief in the publication’s 65-year history, succeeding the late eponymous Dave Campbell.
Patricia Mellen
What do you do? I am a practicing attorney in Colorado. I specialize in real property litigation. How did you get your job? I am a solo practitioner who opened my own practice, Pat Mellen Law, LLC. I went to the University of Denver Law School 13 years after graduating from Mizzou to put my … Continued
Lori Riddle Eberenz
What do you do? I am the Director of Public Affairs for KFC in the U.S. I oversee all external communications, citizenship, and social responsibility work for the brand in the U.S., as well as crisis management. How did you get your job? I spent the first part of my career working at PR and … Continued
Francie Williamson
What do you do? I am the Partner and Community Relations Coordinator at Iowa Lions Eye Bank in Coralville, Iowa. How did you get your job? I switched to marketing communications in 2016 after 15 years as a copy editor, designer and writer at a number of newspapers in Iowa and on the east coast. … Continued
Ashley Lande, BJ ’06
Ashley’s first book, a memoir entitled “The Thing That Would Make Everything Okay Forever: Transcendence, Psychedelics and Jesus Christ”, will be published by Lexham Press in October 9th.
Amy Fiscus, BJ ’03
Amy Fiscus is the deputy national editor at The Washington Post, overseeing a team of more than 120 journalists covering politics, national news and more.
Marlene Neill
Marlene Neill, Ph.D., was recognized with the Teaching Excellence Award by the Media Ethics Division of AEJMC (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication) at their annual business meeting on July 27, 2023. She is an associate professor at Baylor University.