Marla
Crockett
is the news director for KERA 90.1. She oversees the
station's reporting staff and news content and has been
90.1's local anchor for “Morning Edition” and “All Things
Considered.” For nine years, she produced and hosted
a weekly call-in program, “The People's Agenda,” which won
several awards, including two Dallas Press Club Katies for
“Best Talk Show” and four Texas Gavel awards from the Texas
State Bar.
Crockett
produced KERA's 1994 Election Project coverage, an attempt
to reverse the horse race trend in political journalism
and focus on issues affecting the public. This collaboration
with NPR and six participating stations around the country
earned the project a CPB Gold Award in 1996. She has
won four Katy Awards for reporting and editing and was part
of a KERA production team which won a regional Emmy Award.
Crockett attended the Freedom of Information Foundation
of Texas' First Amendment Institute and serves on the FOIFT
board.
Dr.
Don E. Carleton has been director of The University
of Texas at Austin Center for American History since its
creation in 1991. From 1979 until 1991, Carleton was head
of the University's Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center.
From 1975 until 1979, he served as founding director
of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center.
Carleton
has published and lectured extensively in the fields of
local history, archives, historical research methods and
sources, urban history, the history of broadcast journalism,
and Twentieth Century U. S. political history. He
was a researcher and historical advisor for former CBS newsman
and anchor Walter Cronkite's best selling memoir, A
Reporter's Life. He has served as an historical
analyst for CNN Financial Network and he was an historical
commentator for the PBS documentary “JFK: Breaking
the News.” Carleton has joint senior faculty appointments
in the UT departments of history and journalism and he holds
the J. R. Parten Chair in the Archives of American History.
Cathy
Nelson Hartman is assistant dean for Digital and
Information Technologies at the University of North Texas
Libraries and a fellow at the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge.
She actively participates in issues surrounding government
information policy and digital preservation standards at
both the state and federal levels. Her research and
writing interests include issues related to long-term access
to electronically-published government publications.
Her
recent activities include membership in the OCLC/RLG sponsored
Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS)
working group, serving on the American Library Association
Council and appointment as chair elect of the Texas Records
Management Interagency Coordinating Council. She is
also a past chair of the Federal Depository Library Council,
an advisory body on issues related to government information
access policy.
Her preservation
efforts for electronic government information include establishing
the CyberCemetery in partnership with the U.S. Government
Printing Office and the National Archives and Records Administration
to preserve the Web sites of dead U.S. government agencies
and participating as a Texas Electronic Depository partner
site to preserve Texas state government electronic publications.
Joseph
R. Larsen is a 1990 joint JD/MBA graduate from
the University of Houston Law Center and Business School,
graduating in the top 10% of his law school class.
Larsen, who is licensed in both Texas and Louisiana, was
an editor on the University of Houston Law Review,
a member of the Order of the Coif, and is currently a partner
with the firm of Ogden, Gibson, Broocks & Longoria L.L.P.
His practice includes media law, commercial litigation
and bankruptcy. Larsen and his firm represent media
interests in various matters, including First Amendment
and FOI issues. Larsen has spoken to the Government
Section of the Texas Bar regarding the Texas Public Information
Act and is on the board of directors of the Freedom of Information
Foundation of Texas. He submits articles to the FOIFT's
FOCUS and is a regular volunteer for the FOIFT
hotline and Speakers Bureau.
Greg
Simpson is an assistant attorney general with
the position of division chief of the Open Records Division
for the Office of the Attorney General. Previously
he served as the division's deputy chief for almost six
years. Before his work with the Office of the Attorney
General, Simpson served as public information coordinator
and director of administrative and employment law at the
General Land Office. He also practiced law in the
private sector before joining the state.
Simpson earned
his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in
1986, and he earned his law degree from the University of
Tulsa in 1990.
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