Alaska Press Club Board

The Alaska Press Club board is made up of nine members, appointed in an annual election (as vacancies open) by the general membership and one student member.* Every full member has a vote. Board members serve two-year terms. Officers are named annually.

The Board has the authority to declare Board seats vacant and to appoint members to serve until the next general election.

* The student seat on the Board was created by a vote of membership at an annual Alaska Press Club meeting, April 17, 2004.

Current Members

Rindi White Treasurer

Elected April 21, 2007. Rindi has reported on news in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough since shortly after moving to Alaska in 1999, beginning as a reporter for the Frontiersman Newspaper in Wasilla. Since December 2004, she has covered Mat-Su Borough government news for the Mat-Su Bureau of the Anchorage Daily News. Before moving to Alaska, Rindi worked at her hometown newspaper, the Wolf Point Herald-News in Wolf Point, and at the ASMSU Exponent, the college newspaper at Montana State University in Bozeman.

Janelle Everett Secretary

Elected April 21, 2007. More information to come.

Scott Jensen Board Member

Director of photography, KTUU Channel 2. Elected April 21, 2007, Scott was named NPPA National Photographer of the Year in 2003. More information to come.

Paola Banchero President

Assistant professor, Department of Journalism & Public Communications, University of Alaska Anchorage.

Paola Banchero has taught at the University of Alaska Anchorage since moving to Alaska in fall 2003. She also edits on an on-call basis at the Anchorage Daily News. Before moving to Anchorage, she worked at the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson.

907-786-4194

Brian Patrick O’Donoghue Board Treasurer

University of Alaska Fairbanks Journalism Department

Brian came to Alaska to work at the Frontiersman in 1986. In the years since, he’s held staff reporting or editing positions at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Anchorage Daily News, KTUF-TV and KTUA-TV—and lost a few sled dog races. He is also author of My Lead Dog was a Lesbian (Random House, 1996) and
Honest Dogs (Epicenter Press, 1999).

907-474-6247

Bob Martinson Board Member

Freelance Photographer

Bob graduated with a BA in Journalism from UAA in December 2006. He worked as a reporter/photographer with the Frontiersman in 2005, after serving for three years as a staff photographer and photo editor of UAA’s student newspaper, The Northern Light. He was also the photo editor with UAA’s True North Magazine in 2003 and 2004. Besides selling his photography as art, Bob is a freelance photographer for many media outlets and several private clients. He is also a life-long commercial fisherman on the Copper River.

907-373-2627

John Creed Board Member

University of Alaska
Chukchi College - Kotzebue

John Creed came to Alaska in 1974 to work in Denali National Park. He has been a village teacher, bilingual newspaper editor, and a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reporter. He and spouse Susan Andrews (both UA faculty) founded a cultural journalism project that captured the Alaska Press Club’s Public Service Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. They have published Authentic Alaska: Voices of its Native Writers (University of Nebraska Press). Authentic Alaska II: Voices of the Far North is due in 2007. They have four children: Myles, Tiffany, and twins Trevor and Deirdre.

Johanna Eurich First Vice President

Host / Reporter, KDLG, Dillingham.

Johanna Eurich is a radio producer/reporter with extensive experience throughout Alaska since 1982. She created demos used to get funding for National Native News and Native American Calling while working at the Alaska Public Radio Network, as well as produced the statewide arts program (Alaskanarts - now defunct). She also co-hosted/produced Alaska News Nightly.

(907) 842-5281

Rhonda McBride 2nd Vice President

Freelance reporter

Rhonda McBride was appointed in fall 2006 to replace board member Dimitra Lavrakas, who stepped down. More information to come.

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