Colleen Clement
Clement has been with WXYZ-TV since 2000, first as a producer, then as executive producer. Joining Detroit’s ABC affiliate brought her home to Detroit after 10 years. Prior to that, she spent five years at WISC-TV in Madison, Wisconsin, as a producer of the 6 p.m. newscast at the top-rated station in the market. In addition to producing daily news, she worked on “We The People Wisconsin” — a partnership with a daily newspaper, the public television station and the public radio station.
Walter Middlebrook
Middlebrook is assistant managing editor at The Detroit News. He joined The News in February 2007 from Long Island-based Newsday, where he had spent more than 15 years in a variety of editing and management roles. The veteran journalist has been an editor or reporter at The New York Times, USA Today, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, the Boston Globe and the Minneapolis Star. The Memphis, Tenn., native lives in Detroit, is active in community theater and serves on the advisory board of the Metcalf Institute of Science and Environmental Reporting at the University of Rhode Island. He is a former Eagle Scout.
David Sachs
Sachs has been senior copy editor at the Detroit Jewish News since 2001 and before that was a staff writer at the Southfield-based weekly. While studying journalism at Wayne State University, Sachs was a full-time intern on The Detroit News copy desk. He is a graduate of Detroit College of Law and a member of the State Bar of Michigan. He is chairman of the Scholarship Committee for SPJ Detroit.
Jim Schaefer
Schaefer, a graduate of Ohio State University, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at the Detroit Free Press. Schaefer began his career at the Free Press as a copy editor, but switched after a year to cover night cops in the city. He also worked as a page designer, video game critic and was the author of a Sunday feature interview of quirky people. He spent more than three years as an investigative producer for Detroit’s ABC affiliate, WXYZ-TV (Channel 7).
Michael Ramsey
Ramsey is an automotive reporter at The Wall Street Journal who is responsible for covering Asian automakers, alternative fuels and advanced automotive technology. He joined the Journal more than a year ago and had previously covered the auto industry during the historic collapse of GM and Chrysler with Bloomberg News. Earlier in his career he worked as a business and government reporter at The Associated Press and The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. and several other smaller papers. An Ohio native, he graduated from Ohio University and is the past president of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism alumni society.
W. Kim Heron
Heron is editor of Metro Times where he was managing editor from 1997 to 2006. He has also worked as managing editor of the Detroit newspaper workers’ strike publication, Detroit Sunday Journal, and for 20 years as a reporter and copy editor for the Detroit Free Press and the Lansing State Journal. He hosted the jazz shows Destination Out and The Kim Heron Program for more than 15 years on WDET-FM. He has degrees in journalism from Michigan State University and library science from the University of Michigan.
Gloria Grove Olman
Olman retired from Utica High School in 2003 after serving for 33 years as teacher and publication advisor, earning recognition as National Journalism Teacher of theYear. She is a member of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame, she continues to work for student press rights in her retirement. She chairs the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s legislative committee and is currently the treasurer for SPJ Detroit.
Cindy Goodaker
Goodaker is executive editor of Crain's Detroit Business and oversees the publication's news operations. She has been with Crain's since 1985 and in her current position since 1994. Previously, she was a reporter with The Oakland Press in Pontiac where she won a national award for education writing and was the lead reporter in a project that won the Detroit Press Club's bronze medallion for public service. She is a member of the board of directors of the Alliance of Area Business publications, an international trade association of business-to-business newspapers and magazines. She is past chair of Inforum and is part of the Power of 100 Women program of the Michigan Women's Foundation.
Ann Zaniewski
Zaniewski is a reporter for The Oakland Press, a 65,000-circulation daily in Pontiac. She has worked for the paper for seven years and covers courts. A member of SPJ since 2002, Ann has been active in the Detroit Pro chapter since 2006. She has attended the Leadership Conference at SPJ National Headquarters in Indianapolis. Ann works to recruit new members as the chapter's membership chairwoman. She is an Oakland University graduate and lives in Troy.
Jerome Vaughn
Jerome Vaughn, news director at WDET radio, joined the station in 1992 to help chronicle Detroit's comeback and let people know that the city is improving. His interest in news reporting began when he was four years old, when his mom bought him a yellow Panasonic ball and chain radio. He listened to news on it all the time and took inspiration from Walter Cronkite, Charles Collingwood and Eric Sevareid. Vaughn also runs the news department's internship program and serves as a mentor for NPR's Next Generation Radio Project. He joined the Detroit SPJ board in 2007.
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Tom Stanton
Stanton is a journalism professor at University of Detroit Mercy and is a founder of The Voice newspapers in New Baltimore. His guest columns have appeared in many newspapers, including The New York Times. He has earned degrees from Michigan State University and Oakland University. He is the author of four baseball books: Ty and The Babe, Hank Aaron and the Home Run That Changed America, The Road to Cooperstown and the Tiger Stadium memoir The Final Season, which was named best baseball book of the year as winner of both the Casey and Dave Moore awards. He also edited the Detroit Tigers Reader and was named 2008 Michigan Author of the Year by the Michigan Library Association. He is secretary for Detroit SPJ.
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Gina Damron
Damron is a reporter for the Detroit Free Press. She has worked at the paper for more than six years, first covering suburban communities and, now, the Detroit police and fire departments. She grew up in Flat Rock and studied journalism at Wayne State University, where she served as editor in chief of the student newspaper, The South End, and graduated in December 2004. This year, Damron was named SPJ Detroit’s Young Journalist of the Year. She was appointed to the Detroit SPJ board in June 2011.
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Tim Higgins
Higgins writes about the automotive industry for Bloomberg News. Previously, he worked as a reporter for the Detroit Free Press and the Des Moines Register. His work has won several industry honors, including awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. He is a three-time finalist for the Livingston Awards. The Detroit SPJ in 2010 named him Young Journalist of the Year, in part for his work covering the historic bankruptcy of General Motors. Higgins earned a journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia and an MBA from Michigan State University. He traveled through Asia as a Jefferson Fellow with the East-West Center. He joined the Detroit SPJ board in 2010.
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