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Silent Treatment: Addiction
in America
is a national, multi-media public
education initiative exploring addiction issues. The
centerpiece is a five-part newspaper series distributed
free through
McClatchy-Tribune
News Service
(MCT) to newspapers across the United States,
enhanced by a project Web site, radio and television
broadcasting and digital outreach.
The
project, including the series, is funded by the
Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the nation's largest
philanthropy devoted exclusively to health and health
care.
The project
was conceived, produced and coordinated by
Public Access
Journalism LLC (PAJ), an independent media company
that examines social issues for the public. PAJ is
directed by Jane McDonnell, a former
KRT managing editor and a journalist with 20 years of
experience. The series was written by current and former
reporters for Knight Ridder (now the
McClatchy Co.), the New York Times and the Wall Street
Journal. MCT also designed a paginated reprint of the
series and was paid a fee for that service by PAJ.
The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation focuses on the pressing health and healthcare
issues facing our country. As the nation's largest
philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health
and healthcare of all Americans, the Foundation works
with a diverse group of organizations and individuals to
identify solutions and achieve comprehensive, meaningful
and timely change. For more than 30 years the Foundation
has brought experience, commitment, and a rigorous,
balanced approach to the problems that affect the health
and healthcare of those it serves. For more information,
visit
www.rwjf.org.
RWJF's address is P.O. Box 2316,
College Road East and Route 1, Princeton, N.J.
08543-2316. Phone: (888) 631-9989
The ad-hoc advisory
board for the Silent Treatment initiative includes:
Susan Aaroma,
Join Together
Chuck Alexander,
Bridging the Gap
Johnny
Allem,
Johnson Institute
Jessica Athens,
Paths to Recovery
Jean Bailey,
National African American Drug Policy
Coalition
Darla Bardine and Celia Asinor,
Rebecca Project for Human
Rights
Paul Costiglio,
The Partnership for a Drug-Free
America, Inc.
Nancy Dudley,
Carnevale Associates, LLC
Alissa Kampner Rudin,
Family Justice Inc.
Thomas McLellan,
Treatment Research Institute Inc.
Marisa Nightingale,
National Campaign to Prevent
Teen Pregnancy
Prabhu Ponkshe,
Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
Mac Prichard,
Reclaiming Futures
Judy Schector & Dennis Tartaglia,
Developing Leadership in Reducing Substance Abuse
Joseph Schmidt,
Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth
Howard Shapiro,
State Associations of Addiction
Services
Helen Stubbs,
The Center for College Health and
Safety
Patricia Taylor,
Faces
and Voices of Recovery
Doug Tieman,
Caron Foundation
Ivette Torres,
National
Recovery Month 2006
Janet Williams,
A Matter of Degree
Jennifer Wheeler & Joe Diament,
New Futures
Public Access Journalism LLC editorial team
Jane McDonnell
President/Project Director, Public Access Journalism
LLC
Jane McDonnell, a former managing editor at the former
Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services (now
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services, MCT), directs
the team for PAJ’s nationally syndicated newspaper
series and public education initiatives. She is an
award-winning journalist with 20 years of reporting,
editing and writing experience. At KRT, she created the
Special Sections department, which delivers
ready-to-publish newspaper pages online to 200 domestic
and foreign subscribers. These popular
“OnePages”
include That’s Racin’, a NASCAR feature, Golf, and
KidNews and Yak’s Corner, for young readers. She
assigned and edited foreign, national, sports and
feature stories, working with editors at more than 100
newspapers across the country. Jane also received Knight
Ridder’s highest accolade, the Excellence Award, for her
work as president of Partners in Journalism, a volunteer
group that helped Washington D.C. public high schools
produce newspapers. As a reporter and editor at three
New Jersey dailies, she focused on state and community
news. She and her husband, Larry, live in Maryland, and
have a son, Max, and daughter, Rachael.
Public Access
Journalism LLC reporters
Thom Forbes, a
fourth-generation journalist, began his career as a
copyboy at the New York Daily News and later became a
reporter and deskman there. He moved to Adweek in 1983,
where he became editorial director of several magazines
before turning to freelancing. Through the 1990s, Thom
covered and spoke about marketing issues, with an
emphasis on writing about and for emerging new media. He
also wrote "What Were They Thinking?" with new-products
expert Bob McMath, and authored "WebWorks: Advertising."
In recent years, he has focused on health and social
issues. He developed
"The Elephant on
Main Street: An Interactive Memoir of Addictions and
Recoveries"
and is writing "Conversations With Dizzy" with Dr.
Harris B. Stratyner, a specialist in co-occurring
disorders of addiction and mental illness. Thom lives in
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. with his wife, Deirdre, a
photojournalist turned addictions counselor, daughter,
Carrick, 21, and son Duncan, 17.
William Celis teaches
journalism at the USC Annenberg School for Communication
in Los Angeles. He was the national education
correspondent for The New York Times and a reporter and
columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He now writes
about social issues through the lens of public education
and is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe. He is
the author of "Battle Rock: The Struggle Over a One-Room
School in America's Vanishing West" (2003). He lives in
Los Angeles.
Jodi Mailander Farrell
has distinguished herself as an education reporter for
eight years at The Miami Herald and for four years at
The Palm Beach Post, having covered two of the nation’s
largest school districts in Miami-Dade and Broward
counties. She won the “best overall coverage” School
Bell award from the American Federation of
Teachers/Florida for six years in a row, as well as
numerous national awards. Her reporting has led to
several systemic changes, including the way special
education is funded statewide and the inclusion of
“biracial” as an ethnic category for student
registration in Florida public schools. She is currently
a part-time travel editor and columnist for The Herald
and a People magazine correspondent. She lives in Miami
with her daughters, Annie and Lucy, and her husband,
Patrick, a photographer for the Herald.
Richard Scheinin
writes about jazz and classical music for the San Jose
Mercury News. For 11 years, he was an award-winning
religion and ethics writer at the Mercury News, and,
before that, a national cover stories writer for USA
Today. He is the author of "Field of Screams: The Dark
Underside of America's National Pastime'' (W.W. Norton)
and has published freelance articles in GQ and the
Washington Post. A former journalism instructor at the
University of California in Santa Cruz's Extension
Division, he holds a Master's degree from the Columbia
University Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in
Santa Cruz, Calif., with his wife, journalist Sara
Solovitch. They have three sons.
Sara Solovitch
is an award-winning magazine writer whose stories have
appeared in Esquire, Wired and Outside. She has been a
staff reporter at several newspapers, including the
Philadelphia Inquirer, and for six years wrote a weekly
column, "Kids' Health," for the San Jose Mercury News.
She teaches journalism to graduate students in the
Science Communication program at the University of
California Santa Cruz, where she lives with her husband,
journalist Richard Scheinin, and their three sons,
Benjamin, Max and Jessie.
Public Access Journalism LLC Community Outreach Team
Project Coordinator
Sherri Roff, Creative
Outreach LLC
Webmaster
Ray Silverio,
Iworks Solutions,
Inc.
Ray Silverio
is Director of
Information Technology at On The Scene Productions, Inc. in
Los Angeles, Calif., one of Internet’s biggest providers in
rich audio/video content. Ray manages a unique team of network
engineers, web developers, and interactive media managers to stream numerous live events/concerts
and on-demand video content in the entertainment and consumer industry over the
web and WAP-enabled devices. He designed, managed and supports a robust and secured
network/systems infrastructure and VoIP environment for the Los Angeles, Chicago,
Atlanta. and New York offices, and also elevated
the company’s technology to Internet broadcasting. He worked
with the company’s top executive and technology team in establishing
partnerships and operations with Yahoo!, MSNBC, MSN, Brightcove, Estee-Lauder, Jive Records, Sony Entertainment, GoTV (Sprint's
On-Demand Provider), and
other major players in the entertainment, healthcare, consumer and
publishing industry. Ray formerly managed IT at California-based iXL, Digital Planet and
is Chief Engineer at LA-based IT firm, Iworks Solutions, Inc.. He lives in Rancho
Palos Verdes, Calif.,
with his beautiful wife, Gwen, and
their two
beautiful children, Skyler and Kaeli, along with their Maltese,
Bella.
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