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The Dart Society is pleased to announce its appointment of two new board members. Ochberg fellow Mike Walter and Dart Award-winning editor Tina Croley were chosen among the Society membership to serve full terms on the six-member board. The two relace outgoing Society President Penny Cockerell and Society Treasurer Deirdre Stoelzle Graves, the organization's administrator.
Mike Walter |
Walter has become an inspiring leader within the Society since his fellowship in 2005. While supporting the "Target New Orleans" project earlier this year, Walter envisioned and began working on a documentary to capture the hammer swinging and fellowship of Society members who spent time with the Times-Picayune "Muckrakers" in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. He also led the effort to visually document our first Mimi Award, which recognizes editors who show care and compassion in handling stories about violence and the journalists who cover them.
Walter is currently the Emmy award-winning morning anchor and reporter for WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. As the senior correspondent for "USA TODAY LIVE," he witnessed the 9/11 crash of an American Airlines jet when it hit the Pentagon. Walter has contributed to two books about the terrorist attacks: Covering Catastrophe and Broadcasting through Crisis. Stories he has covered during his career include relief missions in Somalia and Russia, the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and the Northridge Earthquake in Southern California. He has two children, a daughter at the University of Virginia and a son who will be graduating from Robinson High School this year. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
Tina Croley |
Dart Award winner Tina Croley recently joined a Dart Society leadership gathering in Seattle, where she demonstrated the right mix of common sense and leadership needed to steer the Society in the right direction. This group recognizes the need for newsroom editors who can understand and articulate the hardships of covering trauma. Croley, an editor with "heart," is such a leader. Her talents as both an editor and Dart Award winner will also help align those two contingencies with the Society's mission.
Croley is currently a features editor at the Detroit Free Press, where she has worked since 1995. She was the editor of "Homicide in Detroit: Echoes of Violence," the 2005 Dart Award-winning series by Free Press reporter Jeff Seidel and photographer Eric Seals, and edited Seidel's story, "Aftershocks of a Crime Spree," which received the honorable mention in the Dart Award competition in 2004. Croley's reporters describe her as deeply engaged with their stories from the very beginning, agonizing over every sentence and every word and committed to figuring out, after a piece runs, how to improve the process next time.
Croley is a true-crime addict who started her journalism career at age 17 at the Lexington Herald-Leader. She is the mother of Jackie Croley, a college freshman, and the wife of Dick Svendsen.
Formed in 1999, the Society is comprised of Dart Center Ochberg fellows and winners of the annual Dart Award. The Society is part of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a global resource for journalists who cover violence. The group grows annually as new Ochberg fellows and Dart and Mimi Award winners are chosen. Walter and Croley join the remaining board members: Scott North, president; and members Miles Moffeit, Ruth Teichroeb, Gary Tippet and Arnessa Garrett.
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