Walt
Harrington
was a staff writer for The
Washington Post Magazine for
nearly 15 years. His recent book,
The Everlasting Stream: A True
Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship,
and Family, is the story of
what Mr. Harrington, while a city-slicker
Washington reporter, learned during
his many years of rabbit hunting
with his Kentucky country father-in-law
and his friends. Reviewers compared
the book to the fiction work A
River Runs Through It and
the nonfiction classic A Sand
County Almanac. It was praised
in the Washington Post
by President George W. Bush, featured
on NPR's "All Things Considered,"
and named a noteworthy book of
the year by Newsday, the
Kansas City Star, and the
San Jose Mercury News.
Mr. Harrington's book, Crossings:
A White Man's Journey into Black
America, won the Gustavus
Myers Award for the Study of Human
Rights in the U.S. His book, The
Beholder's Eye: A Collection of
America's Finest Personal Journalism,
was published by Grove Press in
last fall.
Mr. Harrington's
magazine articles are collected
in his books, American Profiles
and At the Heart of It,
and appear in the prestigious
anthologies Literary Journalism
and Literary Nonfiction.
His book Intimate Journalism:
The Art and Craft of Reporting
Everyday Life is a popular
text in university nonfiction
writing classes. He is head
of the journalism department
at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, where he
teaches literary journalism.
He earned M.A.s in sociology
and journalism at the University
of Missouri-Columbia.
DISTINGUISHED PANELISTS
Jacqui
Banaszynski
holds the Knight Chair in Editing
at the Missouri School of Journalism
and is on the visiting faculty
of The Poynter Institute. While
at the St. Paul Pioneer Press,
her series "AIDS in the Heartland"
— an intimate look at the
life and death of a gay farm couple
— won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize
in feature writing and a national
SPJ Distinguished Service Award.
Mary
Kay Blakely,
who joined the Missouri School
of Journalism in September 1997,
teaches Advanced Writing in the
magazine sequence. A contributing
editor to Ms. magazine
since 1981 and former Hers columnist
for the New York Times,
she is the author of the critically
acclaimed Wake Me When It's
Over and American Mom:
Motherhood, Politics, and Humble
Pie.
Berkley
Hudson
teaches in the magazine sequence
at the Missouri School of Journalism.
For 25 years he was a magazine
and newspaper writer and editor.
He was a staff writer for the
Los Angeles Times, the
Providence Journal, and
The Bulletin in Bend, Ore.
He edited the Providence Sunday
Journal Magazine. His freelance
writing has appeared in the Los
Angeles Times Magazine, Mother
Jones, Hemispheres,
and Historic Preservation.
Steve
Weinberg
is a professor in the magazine
sequence. His books include Trade
Secrets of Washington Journalists,
Telling the Untold Story,
and The Reporter's Handbook:
An Investigator's Guide to Documents
and Techniques. Weinberg is
currently writing a biography
of Ida Tarbell and the centennial
history of the Missouri School
of Journalism.
