Hubert Huang
Hubert Huang graduated from the University of California-Berkeley in 1999 with a degree in computer science and spent several years working as an engineer before deciding to make the career change to journalism. Before beginning the Master's Program in Journalism at Stanford, he worked as the sports editor for the newspaper at the City College of San Francisco and as a freelance movie critic for the San Franciso-based arts and entertainment website SF Station. After completing his degree, he plans to write on issues regarding the health care and public school education systems.
Jenny Lim
Jenny Lim has spent four and a half years reporting on the Roman Catholic Church. She covered social policy and Catholic Church laws and leaders for the Texas Catholic Herald , a biweekly newspaper in Houston. She has also written for a Catholic education quarterly in Houston, interned with The Catholic Spirit in Austin and contributed articles to Catholic News Service.
Jenny earned a Bachelor's in Social Work from the University of Texas in 1997. After graduation, she worked in social service ministries in Virginia and Indiana before starting her journalism career in Texas. She looks forward to reporting on religion and public policy after earning her Master's in journalism from Stanford in June 2006.
Ying Shi
Ying Shi was born and grew up in Hangzhou, China. Before coming to Stanford, she was a research assistant for The New York Times Shanghai Bureau and a Cover Story Editor for a Shanghai-based business weekly. She graduated from Fudan University in 2004 with BA in English language and literature.
John Stafford
John B. Stafford is a master's student in the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University. John was born in San Francisco and grew up in Larkspur, California. John attended the University of San Francisco, graduating in 2000 with a degree in United States history. While at USF, John served for four years on the student-run newspaper, The San Francisco Foghorn, becoming editor-in-chief in 1999. His principal interests lie in science and technology reporting.
Francesca Wodtke
Francesca Wodtke was born in Singapore in 1976 and lived in Switzerland, New York and Connecticut all before the age of 5. In the early '80s, she moved to London where she grew up. At 18, she crossed the Atlantic to attend Brown University from which she graduated with a BA in English and American Literature. Upon graduation, Francesca moved to Paris where she worked in the press department of Lalique, a luxury crystal company. The following year found her back in the States beginning her career in publishing at the Condé Nast Publications. Francesca worked for GQ Magazine for almost three years, before moving out to the Bay Area in 2004. In San Francisco, she freelanced for several online media companies as a writer and editor.
Francesca has written for CITY, Glamour, GQ, Modern Bride, Time Out New York, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News. Now a candidate for MA at Stanford University, Francesca regularly contributes to the Cardinal Inquirer, a publication of Stanford's Graduate Program in Journalism.
Alana Kim Dong
Alana Dong is a sophomore at Stanford this year. She is currently pursuing a BA in communications and a minor in international relations. Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, she has an 11-year old brother. At Stanford, she is executive producer for the Stanford Cardinal Broadcasting Network and produces the 'Stanford Spotlight,' a campus television news program. After college, she hopes to enter the world of a broadcast journalism or make documentaries on human rights issues.
Gabriele Koch
Gabriele Koch is a senior at Stanford University majoring in East Asian Studies. She has studied in Japan twice and worked at the Iwate Nippo newspaper as a summer intern in the opinions department, writing one article a week in Japanese for eight weeks. Her intellectual and scholarly concerns include the Japanese and US feminist movements, sex trafficking and sex tourism in Asia, and the health and human rights of women living in refugee camps. Next year she will pursue an M.A. in East Asian Studies at Stanford University, and in the future she hopes to work for either the Economist or Human Rights Watch.
Christopher Pedregal
Christopher Pedregal is a junior at Stanford University and is
majoring in Computer Science and Communication.
And the editor:
William F. Woo
William F. Woo was a reporter and editor for 40 years, and is now interim director of the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University, where he has been a Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Professional Journalism since 1996. From 1986 to 1996 he was editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He also is a visiting professor of journalism and media studies at the University of Hong Kong and for six years was a lecturer in ethics at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many articles on the press, including "Journalism's Normal Accidents," which appeared in the Fall 2003 issue of Nieman Reports and was an analysis of the Jayson Blair incident at the New York Times. Woo was born in Shanghai, and has lectured extensively in Asia on journalism. He is an honors graduate of the University of Kansas, where he majored in English literature. He is a three-times finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - in national reporting, foreign correspondence and commentary.
