Board of directors

Jacqui Banaszynski

Jacqui has more than 30 years of experience as a newspaper reporter and editor. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for a 1988 series on AIDS in the heartland, and recently served as associate managing editor at the Seattle Times. She now holds the Knight Chair in Editing at the University of Missouri's journalism school, and is a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute.

Stephen Doig

Steve is the Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University. Previously, he spent 19 years as a reporter and editor at the Miami Herald. He has won numerous national journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting on shoddy building construction in the wake of Hurricane Andrew.

Geoff Dougherty

Geoff is the editor of the Daily News and CEO of PublicMedia, Inc. Prior to founding the Daily News, he was an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Before that, he served in similar roles at the Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times. He has 16 years of journalism experience, has won numerous national awards for his work. While at the Miami Herald, he spearheaded the newspaper's effort to review, count and analyze discarded ballots from the 2000 presidential election

Derek Krehbiel

Derek is a minister and social worker with ten years of experience working with community organizations ranging from disability rights groups and low income tenant coalitions to churches and social service agencies. Derek served as co-director of the Housing Advocacy Coalition in Colorado Springs for 3 years. He later attended seminary and served as associate pastor of a small church for two years. He is currently building an ecumenical healing and recovery ministry in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Scott Marvel

Scott is president of Daily Planet, Ltd., a Chicago-based video post-production and motion graphics house.