RSJ News
News vets join faculty
08-20-2009
David Morrow (TheStreet.com), Bonnie Scranton (Newsweek) and Stewart Cheifet (PBS, ABC) join the
Bonnie Scranton, former senior art director at Newsweek, is a pioneer in the use of information graphics. She’ll be a visual journalism assistant professor.
Stewart Cheifet, award-winning international broadcast journalist, is an assistant professor of broadcast and Internet – a job that entails merging “old media and new media.”
David Morrow, who directed TheStreet.com for eight years, becomes the first-ever Reynolds Endowed Chair in business journalism.
“The spirit at the Reynolds School is so collaborative, and I’m thrilled to be a part of that and the entrepreneurship the school has demonstrated over the years,” Morrow said. “The Reynolds School is the perfect environment to create the premier program in Business Journalism. I want the future leaders of the media to be graduates of the Reynolds School, and on top of that, I want the media’s current top executives to seek our help and guidance.”
At TheStreet.com, Morrow supervised a staff of 65 reporters and editors. The site has won numerous honors, including "best enterprise reporting" and "best commentary" from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2008.
Morrow was inducted this year into the Digital Hall of Fame. Before TheStreet, Morrow worked for The New York Times, SmartMoney and Fortune.
Cheifet has produced, directed, written for or reported for 36 documentaries, specials or series produced across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He has worked for ABC News in New York and Los Angeles and CBS News in Paris and London.
Cheifet twice won Silver Gavel awards from the American Bar Association and won many awards for his long-running Bay Area program, Computer Chronicles, the first TV program to be streamed on the Web.
Cheifet also helped launch and manage the original user-generated video site, Open Source Movies, at Internet Archive.
“[It was] the precursor to the You Tube world," he explained.
Scranton has worked with two of the most famous informational-design experts, Edward Tufte and Richard Saul Wurman. She has taught at Yale, the University of Washington and the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine.
Before going to work at Newsweek, Scranton earned a BFA in graphic design at the School of Art at the University of Washington and an MFA in graphic design at Yale. Her portfolio of work at Bonniescranton.com demonstrates graphics that tell complex stories in all sorts of different ways.
