Local Committee
Back to IRE Conferences: Washington, D.C. 2003


A special thanks to James Grimaldi, The Washington Post, chair of the Washington, D.C., local committee and our hard-working local committee members for their extra efforts:

James V. Grimaldi, The Washington Post (chair)
Deborah Nelson, Los Angeles Times (co-chair, panels subcommittee)
Roberta Baskin, NOW with Bill Moyers (co-chair, panels subcommittee)
Tom Brune, Newsday (chair, Thursday CAR subcommittee)
MaryJo Sylwester, USA Today (chair, specialty panels subcommittee)
Peter Eisler, USA Today (chair, publicity subcommittee)
Jonathan Krim, The Washington Post (chair, business panels subcommittee)
Ellen Shearer, Medill News Service (chair, educational subcommittee)
Jerry Zremski, The Buffalo News (chair, services subcommittee)
Chris Adams, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News
Sandy Bergo, freelance
Rebecca Carr, Cox Newspapers
David Burnham, TRAC
Chris Callahan, University of Maryland
Wendell Cochran, American University
Sarah Cohen, The Washington Post
Peggy Engel, Freedom Forum
Mark Feldstein, George Washington University
Lisa Getter, Los Angeles Times
Jim Haner, The (Baltimore) Sun
Scott Higham, The Washington Post
Sari Horwitz, The Washington Post
Dave Kaplan, U.S. News & World Report
Jennifer LaFleur, Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press
Elisabeth Leamy, WTTG-Washington, D.C.
Laura Meckler, The Associated Press
Jayne Miller, WBAL-Baltimore
Anne Mulkern, The Denver Post
Paul Overberg, USA Today
Maria Recio, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Jonathan Salant, The Associated Press
Liz Szabo, The Virginian-Pilot
Pierre Thomas, ABC News
Sandra Thomas, Dateline NBC
Cheryl Thompson, The Washington Post Marilyn Thompson, The Washington Post
Andre Verloy, Consortium of Investigative Journalists
Margot Williams, The Washington Post Derek Willis, Center for Public Integrity


Ad hoc members:
Shawn McIntosh, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Paul Adrian, KDFW-Dallas/Fort Worth
Barbara Serrano, The Seattle Times
Mike McGraw, The Kansas City Star
Cheryl Phillips, The Seattle Times
Deb Sherman, WTVJ-Miami
Matt Goldberg, KCBS-Los Angeles