The Alaska Press Club board is made up of 11 members, appointed in an annual election (as vacancies open) by the general membership and one student member.* Every full member has a vote. Board members serve two-year terms. Officers are named annually.
The Board has the authority to declare Board seats vacant and to appoint members to serve until the next general election.
* The student seat on the Board was created by a vote of membership at an annual Alaska Press Club meeting, April 17, 2004.
Rosey Robards
President
Rosey Robards is currently the director of the Alaska Teen Media Institute, where teens produce a monthly, public affairs radio show as well as multimedia content for their website. She graduated from the University of Alaska Anchorage with a degree in Journalism and Public Communications in 2005. You might recognize her name from publications such as the Anchorage Daily News, AK This Month and The Northern Light. She also worked at the Anchorage Daily News as an Interactive Content Producer in 2006/2007.
(907) 272-2864 rosey@alaskateenmedia.org
Julia O’Malley
Vice President (Conference)
Julia O’Malley is a metro columnist at the Anchorage Daily News. Over the last 15 years as a journalist, she has written for the Fairbanks News-Miner, the Anchorage Press, The Juneau Empire, PBS.org, and the Oregonian. Since coming to the Anchorage Daily News full time in 2005, she covered the court system and wrote extensively about life in Anchorage, including big changes in the city’s ethnic and minority communities.
Find her work at www.adn.com/jomalley .
Kathleen McCoy
Development Chair
Kathleen McCoy has worked as a journalist in Alaska since 1981, including 10 months at the Nome Nugget and 26 years at the Anchorage Daily News as a reporter, Sunday magazine editor, features editor, senior editor and assistant managing editor for features and interactivity. She left ADN in October, 2008 for an electronic media position at the University of Alaska Anchorage, adding video and audio podcasting to their Web site through the Advancement Office. McCoy obtained her journalism degree from UC Berkeley in 1975 and was a 2007 John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
(907) 248-6662 kmccoy@gci.net
Lynne Lott
Secretary
Lynne Lott is currently an assistant professor in the journalism department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She began her career in the Midwest, where she worked as a producer/director at Wisconsin Public Television. She also worked as a freelance camera operator, sound person and technical director for ESPN, ABC, TNN and FOX Sports. Lott moved to Alaska in 1997 and took a job at KUAC-TV in Fairbanks. In Anchorage, she produced “Inside Alaska,” a nightly newsmagazine at KTVA-TV. She also worked as an independent writer and producer, served as the editor of Anchorage magazine, the managing editor of the Anchorage Press, and has been a regular freelance contributor to Alaska magazine. Her work in television and print has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Alaska Broadcasters Association, the Alaska Press Club and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She has a bachelor’s degrees in journalism and film from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree in northern history from the University of Alaska.
Ed Schoenfeld
Communications Chair
Ed Schoenfeld, 56, is Regional News Director for CoastAlaska, a consortium of public radio stations in Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, Petersburg and Wrangell. He’s also worked as a manager, editor and reporter for the Juneau Empire newspaper and Juneau public radio station KTOO. He’s also reported for commercial station KINY in Juneau and public stations KPFA in Berkley, WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and WUHY in Philadelphia. He’s lived in Alaska since 1979 and is a regular contributor to Alaska Public Radio Network newscasts, the Northwest (Public Radio) News Network and National Native News. He was elected to the press club board in May of 2010.
(907) 723-9004 ed@coastalaska.org
Charles Ward
Treasurer
Charles Ward is the deputy managing editor for the Juneau Empire, a position he’s held since June 2010. He also served as the Empire’s interim managing editor from August to December of 2010.
Prior to working for the Empire, Ward served as Assistant Managing Editor of the Oklahoma Daily, the student-run daily newspaper at the University of Oklahoma. He also worked as a sports editor at the Claremore (Okla.) Daily Progress, the International Falls (Minn.) Daily Journal and the Gallup (N.M.) Independent. He’s also worked at The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City and the Hobbs (N.M.) News-Sun. His other experience includes internships with the NFL Players Association and an Arena Football League team and work at two different radio stations in Oklahoma.
Ward earned journalism and law degrees from the University of Oklahoma. He currently lives in Juneau with his wife Anne, and their dog Coach.
Ted Land
Board Member
Ted Land is a general assignment reporter at KTUU Channel 2 News and KTUU.com in Anchorage. Since arriving in Alaska in 2008, he’s covered everything from a volcano eruption to the legislative session. Land has earned a pair of regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and numerous Alaska Press Club awards for his work.
Prior to KTUU, Land worked as a reporter/anchor in Reno, NV; and as a photojournalist at CLTV/WGN in Chicago, IL.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
(907) 227-0016 tland2@gmail.com
