Barbara Rehm Della Porta (Chairman) As managing editor at National Public Radio from 1996-2007, Rehm played a central role in building NPR into the nation's leading broadcast news operation and doubling its audience to 26 million. She directed NPR's award-winning coverage of 9-11 as well as coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She steered coverage of major domestic stories from Hurricane Katrina to the joint NPR-National Geographic project on Climate Change. A distinguished foreign and diplomatic correspondent for broadcast and wire and print publications, she has also worked for Voice of America, the New York Daily News, United Press International and the National Geographic Society.

Robert Sullivan (Associate) was an associate spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a spokesperson for three U.N. missions; as well as bureau chief and division manager of Worldwide Television News (WTN). He was a foreign correspondent reporting from more than 30 countries, including the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. He has taught journalism and public affairs in the United States, Honduras, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.

Martha Wexler (Trainer) has spent more than three decades as a radio reporter and editor. A fluent Russian speaker, she worked as a producer, reporter, and later News Chief in VOA's Russian Service. In the VOA News Division, she wrote and edited newscasts for broadcast by VOA's 52 language services. She later joined National Public Radio as the editor for Europe and the former Soviet Union, working with correspondents in those regions to develop stories and bring them to air. She also reported from Russia, on stories ranging from Kremlin politics to the aftermath of the terrorist tragedy at the school in Beslan. In 1999, she was the lead editor for NPR's Kosovo war coverage, which won the Overseas Press Club Award. She later became Senior Supervising Editor of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered.

Ms. Wexler now works as a freelance investigative reporter and an occasional senior editor at NPR's Morning Edition. She holds a bachelor's degree in Russian language and literature from Bryn Mawr College and a master's degree in Soviet Studies from Harvard University.

Meghan Collins Sullivan (Trainer) has more than a dozen years of journalism experience as an editor and reporter for some of the world’s top media organizations, including CNN, the Washington Post and National Public Radio (NPR). Meghan was supervising editor at NPR until April 2009, when she relocated to Guadalajara, Mexico. She managed npr.org's team of news and features producers, writers and reporters on coverage that garnered several journalism awards. Prior to NPR, Meghan was assistant managing editor and deputy editor for the Washington Post's Web site, washingtonpost.com. She supervised the site's 20 news producers and editors covering events around the clock. Prior to her work in Washington, D.C., Meghan covered business news and features for CNN.com in New York. She has reported online, in print and on air for organizations including NPR, the Washington Post, CNN and the Financial Times. She earned a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Chicago and a bachelor's degree from Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. She is working as a free-lance reporter/producer in Mexico.

Michael Kovrig (Trainer) was an international journalist working for the Associated Press and other publications before turning to strategic communication and media relations. He had over 100 published articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post and other publications. More recently, he was strategic communications specialist in the Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO) of the UNDP. As such he led and facilitated about 20 training workshops and seminars on strategic communication in a range of program countries, with a specific focus on joint communication involving multiple UN agencies. Kovrig holds a Master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a BBC World Service diploma in journalism as well as an NYU certificate in integrated marketing communication. He is a native English speaker, fluent in French and Hungarian, currently studying Mandarin.

Randy Rieland (Trainer) is a Digital Media Content Strategist with 14 years experience in converting well-known brands into interactive properties by expanding them on to digital platforms. Most recently he was Senior Vice President of Digital Media for the Discovery Channel, directing a triple-digit percentage increase in traffic on the network’s award-winning website and developing content that drove consistent growth in advertising revenue. He also oversaw development of Discovery’s first iPhone application, a free interactive game called Cannon Challenge that was downloaded more than a million times.

Previously, as Vice President of Digital Content, Randy directed the content teams for all of the Discovery Communications websites, including those supporting Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Health and Science Channel. He was also one of the original members of the team that launched the Discovery.com website in 1995.

Prior to switching to digital media, Randy was a professional journalist for 20 years, most recently as senior editor and writer at The Washingtonian magazine in Washington, DC. He also worked as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers in Pittsburgh and Baltimore.

He is the author of The New Professionals, a book about the transformation of Major League Baseball in the 1970s and also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of Ohio University’s Scripps College of Communications.

Katie Juhl (Executive Director) boasts wide-ranging experience in video production, editing and packaging for broadcast, online and mobile. She broke into the business with ABC and PBS affiliate stations in her native Nebraska and moved on to Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour. She later worked as a coordinating producer for ABC News, and later for Reuters Television in Washington, DC. Juhl has taught courses for Syracuse University's Broadcast Journalism Graduate program, Radio Free Asia and VOA TV to Africa.

Camille Mackler (Director and Project Manager Peter Mackler Award) is a New York City-based immigration attorney who represents refugees seeking asylum in the United States and others facing deportation before US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the US Department of Justice, and federal courts.  Ms. Mackler is a graduate of New York Law School and Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.  She has lived and traveled in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States.

Tyler Marshall (Associate) is a veteran Los Angeles Times reporter who has covered conflicts and political change in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He also reported on US foreign policy from the State Department, Congress and the White House, and won an array of awards, including a Pulitzer prize in 2004 for a series on Wal-Mart.

Richard Hornik (Asia Director) has been a journalist for more than 35 years. He served as Time Magazine’s bureau chief in Warsaw, Beijing and Southeast Asia, as national economics correspondent in Washington, and as director of Time News Service. He was also business editor of Time’s European edition and executive editor of Asiaweek magazine.

Patrick Sullivan (Director of Broadcast Services) helped produce some of the world’s top stories for the ABC television network, including the end of the Cold War, the Gulf War, the conflict in Bosnia and the invasion of Panama. He also has had extensive print experience writing for the New York Post and United Press International.

Teri Schultz (Associate) is a 17-year veteran of international radio and television who has worked with some of the world’s top media, including CNN, the BBC, Reuters Television and FOX News Channel. She has covered the US State Department for FOX News since January 2000 and traveled extensively, with long stints in the Middle East.

Roger Norum (Associate) has been a fixture on the radio airwaves for more than four decades, reporting, anchoring and producing. He covered the Vietnam war and Europe for the UPI Audio Network and later worked for RKO Radio Network, WOR-AM in New York and NBC Radio News. For the last 20 years he has been an editor at CBS News/Radio.

Tom Cheatham  (Associate) brings 46 years of print and broadcast news experience to Global Media Forum.  He has reported and produced stories from every continent but Australia and Antarctica.  His first overseas assignment was as a Vietnam war correspondent for United Press International.  As an NBC news producer, the stories he covered ranged from the civil war in Rwanda to the trial of Timothy McVeigh in Denver, Colorado.  Tom also taught at the University of Montana's School of Journalism, and mentors at-risk children.