Watchdog Committee
Chair: Roxanne Jones - ESPN
Chris Ewell - The Baltimore Sun – .
John Smallwood – Philadelphia Daily News
Marcus Thompson – Contra Costa Times
Neal Scarbrough – America Online
Bryan Burwell – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
David Aldridge – Philadelphia Inquirer
Robert King – ESPN.com
Traci Mack, ESPN
Jason Reid, The Washington Post
David Steele, Baltimore Sun
Justice B. Hill, MLB.com
Scholarship Committee
Chair: Gary Estwick, Fresno Bee
Members: Chris Ewell, The Baltimore Sun
Robert Williams, Newark Star Ledger
Mike Freeman, CBSSportsline.com
Michael Wright, Florida Times Union
Membership Committee
Chair: Sherlon Christie, Asbury Park Press
Members: Bobbi Roquemore, Dallas Morning News
Shannon Owens, Orlando Sentinel
Sports Task Force Scholarship Committee
Chris Ewell – The Baltimore Sun
NABJ Mentorship Committee
Chairman: Freddie Willis – The Houston Chronicle
Keith Jackson – ESPN.com
Kimberly Alleyne - Editor, KASA Media
Jonathan Long – The Tennessean
Gary Estwick - Fresno Bee
Sherlon Christie - Asbury Park Press
Travon McCall - WCTV
Soraya McDonald - Daily Pilot
Program Committee
This group will be charged with planning workshops at the annual convention and developing year-round programming.
Members:
Otto Strong, Senior Editor, ESPN the Magazine
Curtis Silva, CNN
Adena Andrews, Student at USC
Ray Richardson, Reporter, St. Paul Pioneer Press
Kimberley Martin, reporter, The Record (Hackensack, N.J.)
James Hill, TV Reporter
Steven J. Gaither, Student at Winston Salem State University
Justice B. Hill, MLB.com
Convention Sports Committee
This group will be charged with planning athletic activities at the annual convention.
Golf chairs: Garry Howard, assistant managing editor/sports, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Members: George Willis, boxing columnist, New York Post and David Cummings, senior deputy editor, ESPN the
Magazine
Hoops chair: Vacant