{"id":1053,"date":"2013-11-12T10:27:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T15:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralohiospj.org\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2013-11-12T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T15:29:47","slug":"four-directors-appointed-to-chapter-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralohiospj.org\/index.php\/four-directors-appointed-to-chapter-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Four directors appointed to chapter board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past three months, the board of directors made four appointments to replace members who resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Three new directors were appointed at the board&#8217;s Sept. 9 meeting. They are:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Kevin Z. Smith<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, who<\/span> brings more than 20 years of newsroom and journalism teaching experience to his new role as deputy director of the <a title=\"Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kiplingerprogram.org\/kiplinger_program\/index.html\">Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism<\/a> at The Ohio State University. In addition, he has been a longtime leader in the Society of Professional Journalists, serving as national president in 2009-10. He has served as chairman of the national group\u2019s Ethics Committee since 2010 and as aboard member of the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation since 2008.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doug Buchanan<\/strong>, managing editor in charge of digital at <a title=\"Columbus Business First\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/columbus\/\"><em>Columbus Business First<\/em><\/a>, where he directs the paper\u2019s online news coverage and social media. He\u2019s been with the paper for 15 years,starting as a banking reporter before working through several editing posts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Peters<\/strong>, a media lawyer and an assistant professor at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udayton.edu\/directory\/artssciences\/communication\/peters_jonathan.php\">University of Dayton<\/a>, where he teaches journalism and law. He blogs about free expression for the Harvard Law &amp; Policy Review, and he has written on legal issues for <em>The Atlantic<\/em>, <em>Slate<\/em>, <em>The Nation<\/em>, <em>Wired<\/em>, PBS, and the <em>Columbia Journalism Review<\/em>. Peters returns to the board after completing his Ph.D. in journalism at the University of Missouri and returning to Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>And a fourth director was appointed at the Nov. 11 board meeting:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bruce Cadwallader<\/strong> is a long-time SPJ supporter and has held many chapter, regional and national positions with the organization. Cadwallader was chapter president in 1994-95, played a key fundraising role when the chapter hosted the national convention in 2000, and held various positions including Region 4 director and chair of the SPJ Legal Defense Fund. A former <em>Dispatch<\/em> reporter, Cadwallader now is associate director of communications for Franklin County Childrens Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past three months, the board of directors made four appointments to replace members who 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