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| Gene Gibbons,
Executive Editor | Gene Gibbons
Stateline.org Executive Editor Gene Gibbons covered six presidents and nearly three decades of political developments during a 29-year career as a wire service journalist. He was Reuters' chief White House correspondent for more than 12 years, and before that spent more than 16 years covering Congress, politics and the White House for UPI.
Gibbons served on the board of the White House Correspondents Association and is a past president of the Radio-Television Correspondents Association in Washington. In 1992, he was a panelist in the third Clinton-Bush-Perot presidential campaign debate. It was seen on television by 97 million Americans - at the time, the biggest audience ever for a political broadcast.
Gibbons has also appeared on CNN's Inside Politics, Nightly Business Report, C-SPAN's Journalists' Roundtable and numerous other news programs.
|  | Barbara Rosewicz,
managing editor | Barbara Rosewicz
Stateline.org Managing Editor Barbara Rosewicz is a former Wall Street Journal reporter with wide-ranging experience covering government at the federal and state levels. As a member of the Journal's Washington bureau, she covered energy and environmental policy, and later on White House science and technology policy and NASA.
Before that, she spent three years as a Middle East correspondent based in Cairo, traveling and writing on the geopolitics of a region encompassing 15 countries.
Rosewicz started her career with United Press International, first in Dallas and then at the statehouse in Topeka, Kansas, where she was bureau chief. In 1981, she transferred with UPI to Washington, D.C., to cover the Supreme Court and Congress.
She is co-editor of a book of essays on parenting - "Up All Night: Practical Wisdom from Mothers and Fathers" - that was published in May 2004.
|  | Diane Fancher,
Special Projects Editor | Diane Fancher
Stateline.org Special Projects Editor Diane Brozek Fancher has extensive editing, writing, and newsroom management experience at major newspapers, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun and The Hartford Courant. She has also run an award-winning city magazine as editor and a professional science journal, The Scientist, as managing editor. She was most recently editorial director at the Center for Public Integrity in Washington.
Before that, she was Maryland editor of The Sun, where she oversaw state government and politics coverage, polling and other statewide beats.
Fancher is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, and did graduate studies at Connecticut’s Fairfield University and the University of Michigan.
|  | | Danny Dougherty,
Graphics Reporter | Danny Dougherty
Danny Dougherty has been the graphics reporter at Stateline.org since June 2006. Before coming to Stateline.org, Dougherty worked as a public safety reporter, a copy editor, a page designer, graphics reporter and graphics editor at publications such as U.S. News and World Report and The Columbia Missourian. Dougherty is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, majoring in newspaper journalism and receiving a minor in Art History and Archaeology.
|  | Stephen C. Fehr, staff writer
| Stephen C. Fehr
Fehr joined Stateline.org in June, 2008 from The Washington Post, where he edited Virginia government and politics coverage. As a reporter at The Post, he covered transportation, development and District of Columbia finances. Before joining The Post, Fehr was a Washington correspondent and Kansas statehouse correspondent for the Kansas City Star. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Fehr is a native of Missouri who grew up in the Los Angeles area.
|  | John Gramlich, staff writer
| John Gramlich
John Gramlich joined Stateline.org in spring 2007 to cover homeland security and crime and courts. John has worked as a news producer with the Web site of The Baltimore Sun and in reporting positions with United Press International (Washington, DC), The Prague Post (Czech Republic), The Daily Collegian (Penn State University) and The Express-Times (Easton, Pa.).
A native of Pennsylvania, he earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Penn State University and his master’s degree in journalism from American University in Washington, DC. The first American in a family of Germans, he speaks both languages and returns to Germany frequently. In addition, he worked for two years as a teacher of English in the Czech Republic.
|  | | Pamela M. Prah, staff writer | Pamela M. Prah
Pamela M. Prah is a veteran Washington reporter with some 20 years reporting experience, including stints at Kiplinger, The Bureau of National Affairs, McGraw-Hill and Congressional Quarterly. She has covered legislative, regulatory and political developments affecting states, business, organized labor and education. Her reporting has been cited in The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and C-SPAN. She has a master’s degree in government from Johns Hopkins University and a journalism degree from Ohio University. She also is an adjunct journalism professor at American University.
| |  | | Christine Vestal, staff writer | Christine Vestal
Christine Vestal has 27 years experience in the news business. She started her career at McGraw-Hill as managing editor of energy and environmental newsletters. She then started her own company, publishing newsletters and research reports on telecommunications. After selling her business to Capitol Publications, a diversified newsletter company owned by the Financial Times, Christine became publisher of their energy, finance and telecom group. Christine then joined Post-Newsweek Business Information where she was publisher of a technology wire service and director of Web strategy for The Washington Post Company’s technology magazines. She then became editor-in-chief and vice president of Content for Speakout.com, a Web site launched to cover the 2000 presidential campaign and elections. Before joining Stateline.org, Christine was editorial director for a group of award-winning newsletters on leadership and management issues. |  | | Daniel C. Vock, staff writer | Daniel C. Vock Daniel C. Vock has covered health care for Stateline.org since August 2005. For five years, he covered Illinois government – including the Legislature, state Supreme Court and governors – as the Statehouse reporter for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin. He’s also written on a wide variety of topics as a frequent contributor to Illinois Issues magazine and covered education policy for Catalyst-Chicago. Vock earned a Master’s of Arts in Public Affairs Reporting from the University Of Illinois At Springfield in 2000. He majored in English and German as an undergraduate at the University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign in 1999. Vock’s interest in state government began when he worked at The Daily Illini, where, as a member of the editorial board, he interviewed statewide candidates and wrote editorials on state policy. | |  | | Pauline Vu, staff writer | Pauline Vu
Pauline Vu joined Stateline.org in June 2006 as the education reporter. Her journalism experience before Stateline.org was varied: she was a copy editor at the Vietnam Investment Review in Hanoi, Vietnam; the Washington, D.C., correspondent for The Island Packet in Hilton Head, S.C.; the energy and the civil courts reporter for the Medill News Service in Chicago; a sportswriter for The Sun in Yuma, Ariz.; and the sports editor of The Daily Bruin, UCLA's student newspaper. She also taught English for a year at Shanghai University in China. Vu received a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in December 2004, and earned her bachelor’s in English and history from UCLA in 2001. | |
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