2020 NSEMC Speakers
Last Updated on October 14, 2020 by Jessica Clary
Dalia “Lia” Abdelwahab
Dalia “Lia” Abdelwahab is a senior majoring in Multimedia Journalism at the American University in Cairo (AUC), minoring in Writing and Arab and Islamic Civilizations. She has developed a passion for podcasting ever since she took the Audio Production course at university and learned how to produce a podcast/audio feature. She dreams of starting her own podcast in the future, but, until then, co-runs the student news podcast RADUC [Radio-See].
Lia will co-present onProducing a podcast to compliment your student media: A Case Study of “The Caravan” Student Newspaper in Cairo, Egypt
Hugo Balta
Hugo Balta is the premier authority on Hispanics/Latinos in Media. Balta is an experienced, award-winning broadcast and digital media news executive, directing growth and innovation in several platforms, divisions, and businesses in the U.S. and Latin America.
Hugo has served as:
- Senior Producer at MSNBC
- Owner of the Latino News Network
- President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), second term
- Talent Development Coach at the NWT Group
- Senior Management Consultant, Balta Enterprises, LLC
- President of the Hortencia Zavala Scholarship Corporation (HZS)
Currently, Balta is leading, planning, reporting, producing, and editing news content and engagement across all platforms as News director at WTTW, the PBS station in Chicago. He also serves as Executive Producer of WTTW’s flagship news program, Chicago Tonight, and news presenter of the Latino Voices program.
He leads the national board of directors in championing NAHJ’s mission of the fair and accurate treatment of Hispanics/Latinos in newsrooms and news coverage.
Hugo will be a panelist on the session Professional Organizations and How They Can Help Your Career.
Jeff Butera
Jeff Butera is a four-time Emmy Award-winning journalist. A summa cum laude graduate of the University of Florida, he has reported for stations across the country, including in Phoenix and Tampa. He is currently the primary news anchor at WZVN-TV (ABC) In Fort Myers, where his work earned him a coveted Murrow Award for Hard News Reporting.
Jeff will present Write Like You Talk.
April Carty-Sipp
April Carty-Sipp has over 20 years of experience in the television industry leading marketing, branding, creative and programming teams for corporations such as Disney ABC Television Group and Comcast/NBCUniversal. She is currently the Executive Vice President of Industry Affairs for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) and previously served as the Senior Vice President of Television and Radio. Prior to working at NAB, Carty-Sipp was vice president/director of programming at Disney ABC-owned WPVI-TV Philadelphia. In that position, Carty-Sipp led local programming, production and the public affairs departments at WPVI. She also supervised original programming at the station.
Before her five-year stint at WPVI, Carty-Sipp worked for 12 years in the creative and marketing departments at Comcast/NBC Universal. She was ultimately promoted to Senior Vice President of Creative Services and Brand Integration for NBC Regional Sports Networks, which consisted of 14 sports and entertainment networks in 50 million U.S. homes. Earlier in her career, Carty-Sipp worked in senior programming and promotions positions at Paramount Stations Group-owned WPSG-TV Philadelphia. Her first field-related job in television was working for the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium. Carty-Sipp has received numerous awards in her television career, including six Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards. She is a graduate of Rowan University with a BA in Communications, specializing in Radio/TV/Film and serves as Chair on the Rowan University Foundation Board.
April will be a panelist on the session Professional Organizations and How They Can Help Your Career.
Aaron Cummins
Aaron Cummins is a senior producer and the director of digital content for Westwood One Sports, the national radio home of the NFL, NHL and NCAA March Madness. His first experience with radio came at KCOU-FM, the student-run station at the University of Missouri, followed by an internship at Westwood One, a five-year stint at the VH1 Radio Network in New York and now more than a decade with Westwood One Sports. He’s covered 10 Final Fours, 11 Masters, nine Super Bowls, four Stanley Cup Finals and countless other games and events. Once upon a time, he was general manager at KCOU and hosted a weekly punk rock show named after a Black Flag song. Aaron lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Abby, and their two kids and two cats.
Aaron will present Intro to Broadcast Sports Careers.
Millie De Chirico
Millie De Chirico is a film historian and seventeen-year veteran of the programming department at Turner Classic Movies where she co-created and programs the cult movie franchise TCM Underground, now in its fifteenth season. She has contributed curation and writing on the subject of film to A24, Alamo Drafthouse, the University of Southern California, FilmStruck, and more and co-hosts the film podcast, I Saw What You Did.
Millie will co-present How TV and Radio Pros are Working Remotely.
David DeKeyser
David DeKeyser is a digital marketer based in Brooklyn, NY. Since 2016, David has assisted Spinitron with station and industry outreach, including growth and promotion of Spinitron Search. In 2004, David got into radio as a DJ and board member at Boston College’s WZBC. After moving to New York and working with storied DIY venue Death By Audio, David was the National Director of Radio at Mute Records. After a stint as project manager with Secretly Group, David led and revamped CMJ’s radio team as they developed and produced the event College Day On Tour and syndicated podcast The CMJ Show. David has also worked with companies such as NPR, labels DFA Records and Northern Spy Records, tech and music festival Mondo.NYC, and children’s TV show Pancake Mountain. He is currently the Senior Manager of Digital for marketing agency Pascale Communications, as well as co-host of The Dischourse, a podcast dedicated to listening through Dischord Records’ entire discography.
David will present the vendor session Station Relationships — Labels, Promoters, Artists and More.
Craig Dewey
Craig Dewey is an editor and associate producer on the CBS network drama, BULL. Craig has worked in editorial for the past fourteen years on numerous films and television shows, including PETE’S DRAGON for Disney, THE LAST TYCOON for Amazon, TYRANT for FX and MIAMI VICE for Universal. He is also a co-founder of Visceral Content, a commercial production company based in Los Angeles.
Craig will be a panelist on the session Behind-the-Scenes: TV Production Careers.
Arielle Diaz
Arielle is a writer, performer and director who has written for the Emmy nominated series “The Last Man on Earth” on Fox starring Will Forte, the Netflix Original Series “Gentefied” on Netflix executive produced by America Ferrera, and David E. Kelly’s upcoming series, “Big Shot” on Disney+. She is formerly a Google staffer and attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Arielle will be a panelist on the session Behind-the-Scenes: TV Production Careers.
Tom Dobrez
Tom Dobrez has been in radio since his freshman year in high school. From behind the mic to owner of multiple radio stations in the Rocky Mountains, Tom has spent his entire professional life dedicated to his passion for the medium of Radio. He has sold radio commercial time for hundreds of radio stations and networks as the developer of StateNets, the nation’s leading national rep firm. For over two decades he has been an owner of radio stations in ski resort towns of Aspen, Vail and Steamboat Springs. Furthermore, he now owns Cool Radio Streaming- providing streaming service, mobile apps and Alexa skills for hundreds of stations across the country. He has served as a member of the RAB Board of Directors and was awarded the Vision Award by the National Association of State Radio Networks for his decades of service and leadership in the industry. Tom is also the host of Cool Radio Stories a podcast for small market radio stations.
Tom will present the vendor session Is There Radio In Your Future?
Dylan Fagan
Dylan Fagan is a supervising podcast producer for iHeartMedia in Atlanta, GA. During college, he was the General Manager of SCAD Atlanta Radio. Before his time with iHeartMedia, Dylan produced podcasts for HowStuffWorks. His first job after school was editing Storycorps for Atlanta’s NPR station, WABE. Dylan currently produces the podcasts Family Secrets and Mental Floss Presents. He is also an occasional voice and producer on the food and culture show, Savor.
Dylan will be a panelist for Podcast Research and Development.
Erica Farber
As President and CEO of the Radio Advertising Bureau, Erica Farber leads Radio’s advocacy efforts by helping to drive business, grow advertising revenue, and communicate Radio’s digital transition. Farber joined the Radio Advertising Bureau in January, 2012, as Executive Vice President, responsible for membership, services and professional development. She has held nearly every position in Radio Sales & Management including rising through the ranks at the INTEREP Companies and serving as Executive Vice President/Radio Development Director. During the early years of her career she held positions at KRTH-FM, KABC-TV, and KIIS-AM in Los Angeles. Her radio management career grew quickly when she was appointed General Sales Manager and General Manager of WROR-FM in Boston in the same year. Her success then led to an appointment as Vice President/General Manager of WXLO-FM, In New York. In 2012 she was named one of the Giants of Broadcasting by the Library of American Broadcasting.
Erica will co-present The Sales Side and as a panelist for the session Professional Organizations and How They Can Help Your Career.
Kim Fox
Kim Fox is currently a professor of practice in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JRMC) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) in Egypt. She’s the executive producer of the award-winning Ehky Ya Masr (Tell Your Story Egypt) Podcast about life in Cairo. Over the past 10 years her students have won more than 50 international awards and recognitions for their audio projects including NSEMC awards. In March, 2020 she executed, along with her team, PodFest Cairo, Egypt’s first podcasting conference. Kim will moderate on Producing a podcast to compliment your student media: A Case Study of “The Caravan” Student Newspaper in Cairo, Egypt
Jim Glogowski
Jim Glogowski is a broadcast consultant with over 40 years’ experience who has teamed with Widelity to offer clients excellent FCC online public inspection file services. Jim works with Widelity clients to assure that their OPIF’s are up to date and in compliance with FCC rules. Jim and his wife Victoria own LifeBridge Media Group, offering a wide array of services to various broadcast companies. Jim has managed radio stations in 24 of the top 30 radio markets; constructed over 30 radio stations and raised over $600M in broadcast acquisition capital. Jim won awards from Salem Media for managing their business radio format, and their Radio Luz format. In 2018 Jim was nominated by Radio Ink as Spanish Language station Manager of the Year for managing Salem Media’s Radio Luz, Miami.
Jim will co-present the vendor session Are your online public files up to date? How to stay out of trouble with the FCC.
Alex Goldman
Alex Goldman co-hosts “Reply All,” a podcast for Gimlet Media.
Alex will be a panelist for Podcast Research and Development.
Myrriah Gossett
Myrriah Gossett is an independent media producer in Austin,TX. She currently records audio and video at Permanent RCRD Studios as an engineer and teaches introduction to podcasting and audio storytelling at Austin School of Film. Current projects include: the podcast FOGO: Fear of Going Outside, The Rabble Podcast, The BedPost Confessions Podcast, Fat and Black in Texas Podcast, and Black Lives Texas Podcast. She also does digital live show production for Fat Bottom Cabaret, The Pastie Pops, and BedPost Confessions. She has a Masters in Production Management from The New School and in her spare time she co-hosts the Star Trek Discovery Podcast.
Myrriah will present Intro to Podcasting.
Laura Haefeli
2020 saw the worst pandemic in modern history. The most devastating wildfires in California history. A watershed moment in the movement to ensure Black Lives Matter. And Laura Haefeli reported on it all. Armed with an International Relations degree from Syracuse University in 2015, Laura Haefeli earned her journalism chops on the streets of New York City.
As a news assistant for NY1, she gathered stories for reporters, shot, edited and ran live shots to help cover landmark stories: The 2016 presidential election, the Chelsea bombing and only-in-New-York celebrations from the Thanksgiving Day Parade to the New Year’s Eve Ball drop in Times Square.
Her first on-air job was as a reporter for the News 12 Networks in the greater New York City area. There, Haefeli covered breaking stories like the pipe bombs mailed to CNN’s Manhattan headquarters as well as cultural milestones like the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. Simultaneously she worked as a radio reporter for 1010WINS in New York City covering breaking news and feature stories.
In February of 2020 she took a reporter position with CBS13 in Sacramento, California. Two weeks later, the Covid-19 pandemic transformed the country and our news coverage. When the Princess Cruise line delivered the first wave of coronavirus-positive patients to California, Laura Haefeli covered their arrival at Travis Air Force Base and conducted the first ever interview with a COVID-19 positive patient on U.S. soil.
Laura has covered California’s trial by fire. Working to convey the scope of the wildfires even as she herself was flanked by a curtain of flames. She interviewed the firefighters working against time and the locals who’d run out of time to save their homes.
After the death of George Floyd at the hand of Minneapolis police, protests ramped up in California’s capitol city. Laura Haefeli covered the communities’ reaction to his killing from peaceful protests, to damaging riots, to somber memorials.
And when the Golden State Killer was finally sentenced, Laura Haefeli was the only reporter to score an interview with the serial killer’s defense team.
Laura will be on the panel Covering Breaking News during the Pandemic.
Bassel Hanna
Bassel Hanna is a senior majoring in Multimedia Journalism at the American University in Cairo (AUC) with minors in Psychology and Writing. He is currently in his first stint as a producer on the student news podcast RADUC [Radio-See]. He is also working at The Cairo Journal, a new independent publication, as a reporter.
Bassel will co-present on Producing a podcast to compliment your student media: A Case Study of “The Caravan” Student Newspaper in Cairo, Egypt
Peter Haskell
Peter Haskell has been a reporter at WCBS Newsradio 880 since 1994. Since then he’s covered many of the top stories in the New York area and across the country. On breaking news, Haskell has covered 9/11 and its aftermath, the Sandy Hook school shooting, the Miracle on the Hudson, the Haiti earthquake, the D.C. sniper and countless others. He’s also reported on eight national political conventions, more than a half dozen World Series, two Super Bowls, NBA Championships, Stanley Cup Finals, multiple New York City Marathons and ticker-tape parades. Haskell has received multiple awards during his career.
Peter will be on the panel Covering Breaking News during the Pandemic.
Kate Heckman
Kate is a TV writer based in Los Angeles. She holds a BFA in Film & Television from the Savannah College of Art and Design, where she served as the general manager of the student-run TV network. She attended two CBI conferences where she won several awards, one of which still sits on her shelf today. She most recently worked on the forthcoming David E. Kelley series for Disney+ called “Big Shot.”
Kate will be a panelist on the session Behind-the-Scenes: TV Production Careers.
Monica Herndon
Monica is an Emmy-nominated photojournalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She works in a hybrid role, contributing to both still and video coverage. Before moving to the cheesesteak capital of the world, She spent five years at the Tampa Bay Times, in St. Petersburg, Florida. In Tampa she led the newsroom’s photographic coverage of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and covered other local sports teams. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Visual Journalism from the University of Miami in 2014. She has been involved with the National Association of Black Journalists since she was a student and currently serves as the Chair of the Visual Task Force.
Monica will be a panelist on the session Professional Organizations and How They Can Help Your Career.
Abby Jensen
Abby Jensen is currently the showrunner’s assistant on “Big Shot” for Disney+. Previously she was the writers’ assistant for “Harley Quinn” on HBOmax. Before moving to L.A., Abby worked at Coolfire Studios, a reality TV production company in St. Louis, Mo., as a development producer.
Abby will be a panelist on the session Behind-the-Scenes: TV Production Careers.
Katherine Rye Jewell
Katherine Rye Jewell, PhD, is a historian and author of Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century, published by Cambridge University Press (New York) in 2017. A graduate of Vanderbilt University (BA, 2001) and Boston University (MA, 2005; Ph.D., 2010), she studies political and cultural history with a focus on the intersection of culture and politics. She is currently Associate Professor of History at Fitchburg State University. She received the Fitchburg State University Faculty Research Award in 2018, and a year-long visiting fellowship from the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute to work on her current book project, Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio.
Katherine will co-present Activism, Archives and College Radio: Past and Present.
Daniel Kirkpatrick
Daniel Kirkpatrick is a Co-Managing Member at Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth in Arlington, Virginia. He represents clients on a broad range of regulatory and transactional matters, focused on radio and television broadcasters, content producers and distributors. Mr. Kirkpatrick represents broadcast and non-broadcast clients in the context of sale, purchase, and financing transactions, and also counsels clients regarding compliance with a broad range of FCC regulations, including broadcast indecency, underwriting, advertising, and other content restrictions, as well as EAS, closed captioning, and EEO regulations. He has assisted numerous radio and television stations with routine and non-routine licensing matters, including antenna structure siting and registration issues. Mr. Kirkpatrick frequently counsels television stations regarding cable and satellite carriage issues, including the negotiation of carriage and distribution agreements on traditional MVPD platforms and OTT services. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and the College of William and Mary.
Dan will be a panelist for Ask the Broadcast Lawyers.
Dillon Lewis
Dillon Lewis (he/him/his) is the Development & Marketing Manager at NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. In this role, Lewis oversees the association’s communications, marketing and fundraising strategies. He is a 2016 graduate of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University, where he studied political communication and theatre. He was the recipient of the Astere E. Claeyssens Prize in Playwriting. He resides in Washington, D.C. and is proud to be a singing member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington.
Dillon will be a panelist on the session Professional Organizations and How They Can Help Your Career.
Jaleigh Long
As Director of Sales for Cox Media Group, Atlanta, Jaleigh Long leads one of the industry’s most notable and successful sales cluster organizations (WSB, WSRV- The River, WALR- Kiss 104.1, and B98.5). Long is responsible for sales strategy, outpacing the market performance, increasing revenue for a strong bottom line and growing top talent. She has been a leader in small, medium and large markets. Long started her radio career in Indianapolis as an Account Executive for Susquehanna Radio. Her management career grew quickly as she assumed the General Sales Manager position with South Central Media in Evansville, IN. Her achievements led to joining the Cox Media Group leadership team in Atlanta. Long joined CMG in February, 2014, as General Sales Manager and was promoted to Director of Sales in 2017. Long is currently a member of Broadcast Leadership Training program with the National Association of Broadcasters.
Jaleigh will co-present The Sales Side.
Jeff Marks
Jeffrey Marks is a consultant for Widelity in areas related to FCC compliance for radio and television stations. Jeff has worked for broadcast owners including Gray Television, Schurz Communications, Cablevision Systems and Maine Broadcasting, in a variety of roles from reporter to president and general manager. Jeff served as the elected chairman of the Radio-Television News Directors Association. He was inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2015, and holds a degree in telecommunications from the University of Kentucky.
Jeff will co-present the vendor session Are your online public files up to date? How to stay out of trouble with the FCC.
Sarah Marshall
Sarah Marshall is host of the podcast “You’re Wrong About.”
Sarah will be a panelist for Podcast Research and Development.
Matthew McCormick
Matt McCormick has practiced broadcast communications law for more than 39 years. He has extensive experience in all aspects of FCC regulation of broadcasting. Over the years, he has represented hundreds of clients in their dealings with the FCC, including applicants for new commercial and noncommercial stations, licensees faced with renewal difficulties, stations confronted with FCC enforcement actions and proponents of FM and TV allotment changes and changes in communities of license. He also represented clients in hundreds of transactional matters requiring FCC approval. Fun Fact: Matt McCormick was a deejay in the late 1960s on an alternative rock station in Oregon.
Matthew will co-present License Renewal: What You Need To Know.
Terrance Moore
Terry Moore has 30 years of experience representing businesses and individuals in Minnesota and North Dakota in a wide variety of legal matters. His unique background and experience in law and business provide Terry the tools to handle all types of disruptive business situations, from workouts to litigation to transactions. Terry advises broadcasters, authors, musicians and film makers on a wide variety of issues. Terry grew up in radio, becoming an announcer at age 16, a seller at 21, and an owner at 26. He served as general counsel to the Minnesota Broadcasters Association for 25 years. Terry advises business clients in a variety of sectors, with concentrations in media, oilfield services, sports, health care, and real estate, drawing on his industry experience and negotiation skills, as well as his background as an entrepreneur.
Terry will present How to Deal with GMR and serve as a panelist for Ask the Broadcast Lawyers.
Steve Moreen
Steve Moreen is a member of the Los Angeles SBE Chapter 47 and active Amateur Radio Operator. His activities in radio/television broadcasting began in the 1960’s through involvement at high school and college radio stations. Prior to his position with Dielectric, Steve was the owner and General Manager of RF Specialties of California. He has held engineering and engineering management positions at numerous radio & television broadcast stations. Steve graduated from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale with a degree in Radio & Television Production.
Steve will present FM Broadcast Antenna Basics.
David Oxenford
David Oxenford has represented broadcasters on legal issues in Washington D.C. for over 35 years on matters ranging from the purchase and sale of broadcast properties and the negotiation of programming agreements to regulatory matters. In addition to representing station owners, he represents many others involved in the industry, including a number of state broadcast associations and the National Association of Media Brokers. He also represents webcasters and other digital media companies on copyright, music licensing and other issues, having been involved in all of the webcasting royalty proceedings before the Copyright Royalty Board. David is a regular speaker at broadcast and digital music conferences, and he is the principal writer of the Broadcast Law Blog, www.broadcastlawblog.com, which covers legal issues for broadcasters and digital media companies. He also has consulted with the governments of developing countries on the implementation of democratic principles in their broadcasting and media laws.
David will serve as a panelist for Ask the Broadcast Lawyers, co-present Legally Play Music and Pay Artists/Composers on Your Radio Station: Webcasting and More and present Staying Safe Online: Legal Issues in Digital Media.
Eva Papp
Eva Papp hails from Hungary and has lived in the USA for many years. She holds a BA degree from UMass Boston and gained valuable experience in public broadcasting while working at WGBH. As a co-founder she spearheaded the transitioning of Spinitron from a hobby to a prosperous business and has been managing its operation. Today over 250 noncommercial radio stations use Spinitron’s playlist management service.
Eva will present the vendor session Station Relationships — Labels, Promoters, Artists and More.
Travis Ploeger
Travis Ploeger is the Director of the License Management department, which is responsible for the processing of all submissions from licensees for their uses of sound recordings, including payments, Statements of Account and Reports of Use. As the public face for SoundExchange when interacting with digital music services, his team answers questions and provides information regarding statutory licensing. To date, SoundExchange has paid out in excess of $7 billion in royalties to recording artists and rights owners.
Travis will co-present Legally Play Music and Pay Artists/Composers on Your Radio Station: Webcasting and More.
Rob Quicke
Rob Quicke is founder of College Radio Day and co-founder of the fastest growing international college radio movement in the world, World College Radio Day. Rob is also a tenured Professor of Communication at William Paterson University where he also serves as General Manager of the award-winning WPSC 88.7 FM in Wayne, New Jersey. Rob has a PhD as well as a BA & MA from Oxford University and an MA from Goldsmiths College, London University. Rob is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Rob will co-present Freaks and Outsiders Unite! The Impact of 10 years of College Radio Day.
Julia Ritchey
Julia Ritchey is a public radio reporter at North Country Public Radio in Potsdam, NY. Before coming to NCPR, Julia worked at public radio stations in Reno and Salt Lake City, newspapers in Savannah and Asheville, and briefly freelanced in Dakar, Senegal. She’s earned several regional Edward R. Murrow Awards to add to her growing collection of out-of-state license plates.
Julia will present Constructing an Audio News or Feature Story.
Jocelyn Robinson
Jocelyn Robinson is a Yellow Springs, Ohio-based educator, producer, and radio preservationist. An affiliate faculty member at Antioch University in the undergraduate Literature & Creative Writing program, Jocelyn also teaches college level and community-based classes in digital audio storytelling.
She currently serves as Producer for Emerging Initiatives, Education, & Archives at the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO in Yellow Springs. There she served as the station’s first Archives Fellow, producing Rediscovered Radio, a documentary series using archival audio as source material. More recent work includes contributing to the Goethe-Institut USA international podcasts, Fehler and The Big Pond, and serving as project director for WYSO’s West Dayton Stories, a new initiative to gather and share the histories of predominantly Black neighborhoods in Ohio’s fourth largest metro area.
She sits on the African American and Civil Rights Caucus of the Radio Preservation Task Force at the Library of Congress and received funding from the National Recording Preservation Foundation to survey the archival holdings of HBCU radio stations. A member of the Third Coast International Audio Festival community advisory group, she facilitates dialogue for producers who live and work in the vast region between major coastal markets.
Jocelyn will co-present Activism, Archives and College Radio: Past and Present.
Basant Samhout
Basant Samhout is a graduating senior at the American University in Cairo (AUC) studying Political Science and Multimedia Journalism. She is the founder and former head producer of the student news podcast RADUC [Radio-See]. Outside of RADUC, she is a freelance journalist, and always on the lookout for any possible opportunities.
Basant will co-present on Producing a podcast to compliment your student media: A Case Study of “The Caravan” Student Newspaper in Cairo, Egypt
Dana Schaeffer
Dana Schaeffer is a Producer at ABC News Radio in New York City, working with ABC correspondents, digital and radio station affiliates across the nation. Dana began her radio career at William Paterson University, WPSC 88.7FM and helped support the start of College Radio Day. In 2012, she interned for the Scott and Todd Morning Show at 95.5PLJ. After that internship, she called CBS Radio her home for five years, working a variety of stations, before settling in at 1010 WINS as a News Producer. At WINS, she covered live broadcast events — including the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — and was able to expand her knowledge in editing, producing and news writing.
On a whim, she moved to Los Angeles, and for the last three years she did everything from video production to producing The Bill Handel Show on KFI-AM, JoJo On The Radio on KIIS-FM and the globally-syndicated iHeartRadio Countdown. She moved back to NYC in the beginning of 2019 and has been at ABC ever since. You can find Dana at countless radio conferences around the states, and talking about radio history in her free time!
Dana will co-present How TV and Radio Pros are Working Remotely, moderate the roundtable Internships and First Jobs and be on the panel for Professional Organizations and How They Can Help Your Career.
Glenn Schuck
Glenn Schuck began his radio career at Seton Hall University’s WSOU as News Director and Station Manager. Schuck began his professional radio career as a DJ for such stations as WJRZ, PST/Trenton, WAAF /Boston and as morning host in California. In 1995 Glenn started anchoring business reports for CNBC. Glenn left CNBC for Metro Networks.
Then Glenn joined 1010 WINS as a reporter, and the same month was named News Director for Metro. Glenn left Metro News and added anchor duties to his reporting at 1010 WINS. Glenn was the first radio reporter to inspect Ground Zero with Mayor and contributed to an HBO documentary and two books. Schuck has won many awards for his work from the New York Press Club, AP and NY AIR Awards. He has appeared on CNN, NY1 News, MSNBC and more. Glenn also served as President of the New York Press Club from 2009-2012.
Glenn will be on the panel Covering Breaking News during the Pandemic.
Derek Teslik
Derek started his career in media as the Hip Hop Director of KWUR as a student at Washington University in St. Louis in the late 90s. Since then, he has represented communications and media clients before the FCC and state and local regulators as outside counsel. He is Senior Counsel at Gray Miller Persh LLP, a law firm in Washington, DC.
Derek will co-present License Renewal: What You Need To Know.
Daniel Vang
Daniel Vang is TV Literary Manager for 3Arts Entertainment.
Daniel will be a panelist on the session Behind-the-Scenes: TV Production Careers.
Jennifer Waits
Jennifer Waits, co-founder of Radio Survivor, is a San Francisco-based writer, scholar, and radio practitioner with a particular interest in college and community radio. She co-chairs the College, Community and Educational Radio Caucus of the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force and works to evangelize the importance of preserving and saving radio history.
Before the global pandemic, she obsessively toured radio stations all over the United States (and a few in Ireland) and has visited and written up field trip reports for 165 station visits. A long-time college radio DJ herself, she’s hosted a weekly music show at Foothill College radio station KFJC 89.7FM (Los Altos Hills, California) since 1999 and is the station’s Publicity Director.
Jennifer has a Master’s degree in Popular Culture Studies and has written about radio, music, youth culture, and pop culture for a number of publications and websites, including Radio World, PopMatters, Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, Radio Journal, and long-gone beloved teen mag Sassy.
Jennifer will co-present Activism, Archives and College Radio: Past and Present.
CBI is a member-driven organization serving students and advisers of student media. Through events, programs and a network of expertise, CBI fosters experiential learning, professional opportunities and advocacy for the success of student media programs.