Global Media Forum

Staff

Barbara Rehm Della Porta (Chairman) As managing editor at National Public Radio from 1996-2007, Rehm played a central role in building NPR into the nation's leading broadcast news operation and doubling its audience. She directed NPR's award-winning coverage of 9-11 as well as coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A distinguished foreign and diplomatic correspondent for broadcast, wire and print publications, she has also worked for Voice of America, the New York Daily News, United Press International and the National Geographic Society.

Robert Sullivan (Associate) was an associate spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as well as three U.N. missions; He was bureau chief and division manager of Worldwide Television News (WTN), and a foreign correspondent reporting from more than 30 countries, including coverage of the Vietnam and Iraq wars.. He has taught journalism and public affairs in the United States, Honduras, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.

Tom Cheatham (Associate) brings 46 years of print and broadcast news experience to Global Media Forum. He has reported and produced stories from every continent but Australia and Antarctica. His first overseas assignment was as a Vietnam war correspondent for United Press International. As an NBC news producer, the stories he covered ranged from the civil war in Rwanda to the tria of Timothy McVeigh in Denver, Colorado. Tom also mentors at-risk children.

Martha Wexler (Trainer) has spent more than three decades as a radio reporter and editor. A fluent Russian speaker, she worked as a producer, reporter, and later News Chief in VOA's Russian Service. She later joined National Public Radio as the editor for Europe and the former Soviet Union. She also reported from Russia. In 1999, she was the lead editor for NPR's Kosovo war coverage, which won the Overseas Press Club Award. She later became Senior Supervising Editor of NPR's Weekend All Things Considered. Ms. Wexler now works as a freelance investigative reporter.

Meghan Collins Sullivan (Trainer) has more than a dozen years of journalism experience as an editor and reporter for some of the world’s top media organizations, including CNN, The Washington Post and National Public Radio (NPR). Meghan was supervising editor at NPR.com until April 2009, when she relocated to Guadalajara, Mexico. She managed npr.org's team of reporters on coverage that garnered several journalism awards. Prior to NPR, Meghan was assistant managing editor and deputy editor for The Washington Post's website. She is working as a free-lance reporter/producer in Mexico.

Michael Kovrig (Trainer) worked as an international journalist for the Associated Press and other publications before turning to strategic communication and media relations. His work has been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications. More recently, he was strategic communications specialist in the Development Operations Coordination Office (DOCO) of the UNDP. As such he led and facilitated about 20 training workshops and seminars on strategic communication in a range of program countries, with a specific focus on joint communication involving multiple UN agencies. He is a native English speaker, fluent in French and Hungarian, currently studying Mandarin.

Randy Rieland (Trainer) is a Digital Media Content Strategist with 14 years experience in converting well-known brands into interactive properties by expanding them on to digital platforms. Most recently he was Senior Vice President of Digital Media for the Discovery Channel. Previously, as Vice President of Digital Content, Rieland directed the content teams for all of the Discovery Communications websites, including those supporting Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Health and Science Channel. Randy was a professional journalist for 20 years, most recently as senior editor and writer at The Washingtonian magazine in Washington, DC.

Camille Mackler (Director and Project Manager Peter Mackler Award) is a New York City-based immigration attorney who represents refugees seeking asylum in the United States and others facing deportation before US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the US Department of Justice, and federal courts. Mackler is a graduate of New York Law School and Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. She has lived and traveled in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States.

Tyler Marshall (Associate) is a veteran Los Angeles Times reporter who has covered conflicts and political change in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He also reported on US foreign policy from the State Department, Congress and the White House, and won an array of awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for a series on Wal-Mart.

Richard Hornik (Asia Director) has been a journalist for more than 35 years. He served as Time Magazine’s bureau chief in Warsaw, Beijing and Southeast Asia, as national economics correspondent in Washington, and as director of Time News Service. He was also business editor of Time’s European edition and executive editor of Asiaweek magazine.

Terri Shultz (Associate) is a 17-year veteran of international radio and television who has worked with some of the world’s top media, including CNN, the BBC, Reuters Television and FOX News Channel. She has covered the US State Department for FOX News since January 2000 and traveled extensively, with long stints in the Middle East.