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work: 301.405.6256; lab: 301.314.2696; e-mail: charvey@jmail.umd.edu Have written and edited for one of the top news Web sites in the country, a national magazine, several daily newspapers and a wire service. Have taught reporting and editing for Web and print at one of the nation's most respected journalism colleges.
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The Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park, August 2000 to Present: Full-time faculty member/editor. Hired to revamp and teach an introductory online journalism class, create online teaching modules for a sophomore editing class, and design an online lab and news bureau, which launched in January 2001. Serve as director and editor of the news bureau, where students work as Web producers and reporters, creating and packaging multimedia stories for an online newsmagazine, Maryland Newsline. The newsmagazine was named the top independent student site in the country in 2003 by the Society of Professional Journalists and has won numerous national and regional SPJ awards every year since its launch. American Journalism Review, July 1998 to August 2000 (part time for the first six months; full time for the following year-and-a-half): Managing editor of this 25,000-circulation, 10-issue-a-year national magazine. Edited full-length features, columns and letters, wrote headlines, photo cutlines and stories. Supervised four interns, a half-dozen columnists and numerous freelancers. Coordinated photos and graphics with design team. Wrote Web site blurbs for ajr.org. Taught Complex Writing course in the evenings at the University of Maryland College of Journalism in Spring 2000. washingtonpost.com, full time May 1997 to July 1998, part time May to August 1996, the summer of the site's Web launch: Acting Metro editor/associate editor for the online Washington Post. Led editorial redesign of the Metro section and created a database-driven Community Resources section with detailed listings of nonprofit groups, clubs, schools and government bodies. Hired freelancers and interns to write thousands of searchable entries and edited much of their copy. Also supervised two news producers and a reporter. Coordinated with photo, design and technical teams to create online news packages and interactive quizzes. Wrote and edited breaking news stories. The College of Journalism, University of Maryland at College Park, January 1992 to May 1997 and Fall 1998: Full-time faculty member/editor. Served as director of the Annapolis and later the Washington bureau of Capital News Service, a four-day-a-week wire service staffed by top undergraduate and graduate students. Stories were transmitted to 15 daily newspapers in Maryland and Washington, D.C., including The Washington Post and Baltimore's Sun. Assigned and edited breaking news stories, features and computer-assisted projects, working with students and client editors. In Annapolis, also edited broadcast copy. On Mondays, co-taught a public affairs seminar; during the summer, taught reporting and editing. The Washington Times, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper: Annapolis bureau chief and congressional reporter, November 1985 to January 1992: Spent first two years heading a two-man State House bureau in Annapolis, covering the last year of Gov. Harry Hughes' term and the gubernatorial contest and election of William Donald Schaefer. Spent next four years reporting from Capitol Hill for the national and metro desks, including House Speaker Tom Foley's first six months in that job and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton's campaign for Congress. Occasionally filled in as assistant Metro editor, editing copy and wires and assigning photos and stories. The Globe, AT&T Communications' regional employee newspaper: Associate editor, March to November 1985: Wrote and edited telecommunications stories. The Prince George's Journal, a 40,000-circulation daily newspaper: Staff reporter, March 1984 to March 1985: Covered county government, local elections and planning and zoning. The South Prince George's Independent, a 21,000-circulation weekly: Promoted from political reporter to news editor to managing editor, August 1980 to March 1984: Did layout, editing, photo cropping, headline and editorial writing. Supervised two news reporters, a sports editor, a photographer and stringers. Drafted annual budget. |
| Education: |
University of Maryland, College Park. Graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in
journalism, May 1980. Named to "Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges
and Universities." Tapped to join Kappa Tau Alpha, a national journalism
honor society, and elected secretary of the student chapter of the Society of
Professional Journalists.
Later completed 12 graduate credits at the University of Maryland as an advanced special student: in computer-assisted reporting, magazine writing (independent study), recent American history and American studies. Carrying a 3.75 GPA. |
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| Courses Created and Taught: |
I have created six new courses at the University of Maryland: JOUR 352/652 (Online Journalism); JOUR 655 (Online News Bureau for grad students); JOUR 353 and 355 (multimedia reporting and editing courses for undergraduates); JOUR 502 (Public Affairs Reporting). I have taught six others: JOUR 201 (News Writing and Reporting); JOUR 202 (News Editing); JOUR 728 (Topics in Public Affairs Reporting, co-taught with Christopher Callahan); JOUR 325/625 (Reporting from Annapolis and Washington); JOUR 372 (Writing the Complex Story). |
| Contest Coordinating, Judging and Screening: |
Judge in December 2007 of daily newspaper/feature series entries for a contest sponsored by the Suburban Newspapers of America.
Judge in July 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 and
2003 for the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism,
administered by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the
University of Maryland. Judge in June 2007 for the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors Excellence in Feature Writing Competition. Judge in spring 2007
and spring 2005 of news Web sites
in Florida in a contest run by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors.
Chief judge and contest coordinator in
winter 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2002 for the national reporting awards
program of the Education Writers Association, a national
professional organization of education reporters. Served as a contest
screener in February 2007 and 2001 and a judge in February 2000. Judge of online entries to the
Maryland
Scholastic Press Association contest for high school students, fall 2006, 2005, 2004 and 2003.
Judge in summer 2005 and summer 2002
of entries in a national reporting contest sponsored by The Casey
Journalism Center for Children and Families. Served as a contest
screener for radio categories in several previous years.
Judge in summer 2004 for the
Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Newspaper of the Year contest.
Judge in January 2003 for a national
writing/photography/layout contest sponsored by Copley Newspapers
for its staffers.
Judge of entries for a national contest on
food-section writing sponsored by the Association of Food Journalists
in spring 2000.
Judge of online entries for a news contest sponsored
by the Alaska Press Club in March 2001.
Judge of entries for about a decade for the
Benjamin Fine Awards for Outstanding Education Reporting, most
recently in winter 1999.
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| Awards for Student Work I Edited: |
Since January 2001, I have served as executive editor / assignment editor of the student-staffed online newsmagazine, Maryland Newsline. Every year since its launch, the publication has won national and regional awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence contest -- including seven national first-place awards. The awards for student work on Maryland Newsline are as follows:
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| Publications: |
Before joining the University of Maryland’s faculty, I wrote more than a thousand stories for newspaper and Web site publication, including for washingtonpost.com, The Washington Times and The Prince George’s Journal. While on the University of Maryland’s faculty, I have written free-lance stories for American Journalism Review and for The Washington Post's Metro, Weekly and Home sections. I have also written for Congressional Quarterly's political almanac, "Politics in America"; for the “Maryland Report Guidebook to Maryland Legislators, 1995-1998”; and for Salem Press’ “Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America.” |
| Boards, Memberships, Free-lance Editing, Etc.: | Member of the Board of Editorial Advisors for American Journalism Review. Also creator in August 2004 of a Web-based teachers' guide to AJR, targeted to journalism professors at universities around the country. Continue to be the sole writer/researcher/producer for the guide. Advisory Board member for the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism sponsored by J-Lab: the Institute for Interactive Journalism based at the University of Maryland. Member of the Online News Association and Investigative Reporters & Editors. Free-lance copy editor for the Casey Journalism Center's quarterly magazine, "The Children's Beat," 2002-2003. While reporting at the Washington Times, made TV and radio appearances on D.C.-area talk shows, including WETA-TV's "Metro Week in Review" and WAMU Radio's "Derek McGinty Show." |
| Other Awards: | Honored by the university president in fall 2006 as a faculty mentor to one of the University of Maryland's 2006-2007 Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars. Nominated for university-wide Distinguished Faculty or Advisor award by the University of Maryland Parents Association, fall 2003. Won a Washington Dateline Award for general reporting in 1985 from the Washington Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Won a United Press International best-in-show award in 1983 for a feature series on infertility. Won four Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association awards: Second place in 1984 for a public service series on battered wives; first place in 1983 for a feature series on infertility; first place in 1982 for team coverage of the murder of coed Stephanie Roper; and first place in 1981 for government coverage. |
| University and College Service: | Member of the University of Maryland blog and wiki
committee, meeting in 2006-2007 to select tools for use by university
professors.
Co-coordinator of technology training sessions for College of Journalism faculty, 2006-2007 academic year. Chairman of a College of Journalism committee charged with a national search to hire another new-media faculty member, spring 2006. The search was successful. Member of a university search committee to hire a communications director for the Office of Information Technology, winter 2004/spring 2005. The search was successful. Member of numerous college working committees over the years, including the Faculty Advisory Committee, the Curriculum Committee, the New Building Committee, the Graduate Committee, and more. Leader of numerous open house tours for prospective journalism students. Leader of numerous public sessions on new-media technology, held during Maryland Day, the university's spring open house.
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