CARPE MEDIA

CRAIG GIAMMONA is the Sports Editor at the Daily Sitka Sentinel in Sitka, Alaska. He got his start in journalism at Maine Public Radio and has worked at weeklies in Portland, Maine and Queens, N.Y. He lost his fear of death the moment Eli Manning’s winning touchdown pass dropped into the hands of Plaxico Burress during the 2007 Super Bowl. Craig is a graduate of Bowdoin College.

BRIAN HEFFERNAN is a writer and fact checker at San Francisco magazine. He worked as an editorial assistant and writer for Inside Columbia and UCM Today magazines, as well as MOVE magazine and the technology beat for the Columbia Missourian. His doctor prophetically misspelled his first name as “Brain” on his birth certificate. (Regrettably, it was fixed.) 

JOHN HENDEL is a Master’s student studying magazine writing at the University of Missouri and has degrees in history and journalism. So far he has written for Inside Columbia monthly magazine, the bimonthly Missouri Life, the local alt-weekly VOX, and on the business beat at the daily Columbia Missourian. He also has experience working political campaigns: the international free expression magazine Index on Censorship in London, and at the literary magazine The Missouri Review.

LAUREN KILBERG is a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia studying creative writing and geography. As a student at Columbia College in Chicago, she was one of the first freshmen allowed to write for its award-winning paper, the Columbia Chronicle. She is currently freelancing for Inside Columbia and Imprint magazines. Lauren is an avid blogger and lover of all things creative; see how she combines her passions at Double Takes.  In her free time she enjoys collecting postcards, maps, passport stamps and freckles.

CHAD PAINTER spent seven years as an arts editor and reporter, and another year as a business writer in Ohio before heading west to learn more about the non-practical side of journalism. He’s currently studying journalism ethics, philosophy, law and history at the University of Missouri. He’d rather have lunch with David Halberstam or Malcolm Gladwell than Bono or Abraham Lincoln, and he’s one of the 14 people left who regularly reads a newspaper. If you’re itching for a fight, he has an opinion about everything and isn’t afraid to share it.

GRETCHEN PRESSLEY is a Master’s candidate at the Missouri School of Journalism; she graduated from Texas Tech in 2006 with a degree in communications. Gretchen currently works as a research assistant for Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). 

ZACHARY SIEBERT has had many adventures and will continue as such. He is currently working as a photojournalist at the St. Joseph News-Press, which covers the large region made up of the northeastern edges of Kansas and northwestern Missouri known locally as the Midland Empire. Soon, he will continue graduate study toward a Master’s degree in photojournalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.

GREG T. SPIELBERG has worked as a publishing assistant at Stop Smiling magazine in Chicago, an assistant city editor at the Columbia Missourian and a copy editor at the Vail Daily. He has also written for Stop Smiling, the Vail Daily, Vail Trail, Three Village Herald, the Columbia Missourian and VOX. He helped start Radio Free Minturn, a community radio station in Colorado, and was vice president of its board of directors. Greg is a 2004 graduate of Bowdoin College and is a Master’s student at the University of Missouri.

EMILY SUSSMAN is the editor, publisher and a co-founder of Carpe Media. She has worked as an editor and staff reporter for several independent newspapers, including the Provincetown Banner and the Cape Cod Chronicle, and also as a writer and editorial assistant at NYLON magazine in New York City. Emily is currently a Master’s candidate at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, where she is researching the social effects of news of crime. She graduated cum laude from New York University in 2002 with a B.A. in philosophy and French. In addition to fast becoming something of a Facebook scholar, Emily is working on a documentary about Columbia’s local music scene. Visit emilywsussman.net for more or email her at ews8tb@gmail.com.