The Office of News and Information handles media relations on university-wide issues and stories and also represents central administration and the schools based at the Homewood campus, promoting the work of the university, its faculty, staff and students. The office consists of a director and three senior media relations representatives, all of whom are assigned to "beats" roughly analogous to a newspaper reporter‘s beat. The executive director of communications and public affairs also is involved in some media relations activities, particularly where institutional issues are involved. With the explosion of non-traditional media and the decline in audiences for traditional mainstream media, News and Information also is responsible for disseminating news about Johns Hopkins and its people through non-traditional means, including the Web, e-newsletters, video, podcasts and other electronic and social media. The office is prepared to become a partner with GCPA‘s emerging new marketing group, and will seek to emphasize news about Johns Hopkins that tells the "brand story" that emerges from the current brand discovery process. News and Information provides crisis communications counseling and support to the university leadership and often will become involved in crisis communications on issues around the university.
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| Tracey A. Reeves is director of the Office of News and Information. She came to Johns Hopkins in October from The Washington Post where she worked for a decade as a staff writer and chief of the Anne Arundel and Prince George‘s county bureaus before being named assistant Maryland editor in 2007. Tracey has been a Casey Journalism Center Fellow and a Knight Center for Specialized Journalism Fellow. As a Knight-Ridder reporter, she shared in the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for public service awarded to the Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald. She holds a bachelor‘s degree in mass communication from Illinois State University. Full Contact Info |
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| Amy Lunday is a senior media relations representative. She joined the Office of News and Information staff in November 2001, after five years writing for community newspapers (first as a reporter at the daily paper in her hometown in Western New York and most recently at a weekly paper in Baltimore County). Amy‘s beat as a senior media relations representative includes arts, humanities, student life, social sciences and education research. She holds a bachelor‘s degree in English from Nazareth College of Rochester and received an MLA from Johns Hopkins in May 2008. Full Contact Info |
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| Lisa DeNike is a senior media relations representative. She joined the Office of News and Information in May 2004. Her beat includes astronomy and physics, biology, biophysics, chemistry, earth and planetary sciences, public health studies, cognitive science, psychological and brain sciences and the history of science and technology. Lisa previously was a reporter for The (Baltimore) Evening Sun and the Towson Times. She earned her bachelor‘s degree in English from Towson State University. Full Contact Info |
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| Phil Sneiderman is a senior media relations representative. He joined the Office of News and Information in 1996. He covers the Whiting School of Engineering, writing about faculty and student research and other news. Previously, he spent nearly two decades as a magazine editor and newspaper reporter in Chicago and Southern California, including a five-year stint as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. Phil earned a bachelor‘s degree in journalism from Syracuse University and a master‘s degree in writing from Johns Hopkins. Full Contact Info |
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