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
Kathleen McCoy President
Kathleen McCoy has worked as a journalist in Alaska since 1981, including 10 months at the Nome Nugget and 26 years at the Anchorage Daily News as a reporter, Sunday magazine editor, features editor, senior editor and assistant managing editor for features and interactivity. She left ADN in October, 2008 for an electronic media position at the University of Alaska Anchorage, adding video and audio podcasting to their Web site through the Advancement Office. McCoy obtained her journalism degree from UC Berkeley in 1975 and was a 2007 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
907-248-6662
John Creed Board Secretary
John Creed first came to Alaska in 1974 to work in Denali National Park. He has been a village teacher, newspaper editor, and a staff writer for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He distance teaches throughout Alaska from Chukchi College, the Kotzebue branch of the University of Alaska in Northwest Alaska, where he and his spouse, Susan Andrews, are freelance journalists. They founded a cultural journalism project called Chukchi News and Information Service, from which they published Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers. They have four children.
Rindi White Treasurer, Contest organizer
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.
(907) 232-8599
Aliza Sherman Membership Coordinator
Aliza Sherman is an award-winning author and Web pioneer. She is also a freelance writer, professional blogger and podcaster, radio and TV producer, and Internet and social media consultant. Her multimedia work can be found at MediaEgg.com.
(907) 244-8681
Phil Munger Boardmember since 2008
Composer, music professor at UAA. Independent blogger, Progressive Alaska.
Suzanna Caldwell New Boardmember, 2009
Journalism student, UAA; Executive Editor, The Northern Light, student weekly at UAA.
Will Morrow New Boardmember, 2009
City Editor, Peninsula Clarion
Shannyn Moore New Boardmember, 2009, Second Vice President, Conference
Independent blogger, Shannyn Moore: Just a Girl from Homer
Ben Stanton Second Vice President, Conference
Journalist, KDLL 91.9 FM, covering Kenai, Soldotna, Sterling, Clam Gulch, Cooper Landing, Moose Pass, Ninilchik, Nikiski, Salamatof, Cohoe, Kasilof
Tom Hewitt New boardmember 2009
Journalism student at UAF, professional graphics designer in Fairbanks.
Maia Nolan New Boardmember 2010, appointed to fill vacancy
Maia is the managing editor of Alaska Dispatch. She has a BA in English with a minor in journalism from the University of Portland and an MFA in creative writing from UAA, has been a Rasmuson Foundation artist project grant recipient, is former editor of the Catholic Anchor and a contributing essayist to Portland Magazine, and has appeared in or edited for Alaska publications including the ADN, the Anchorage Press, the News-Miner and Alaska Quarterly Review. Her personal blog is Own The Sidewalk.
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