Terry
Jeffrey
-- Editor-in-Chief
Terence P. Jeffrey started as editor
in chief of CNSNews.com in September 2007. Prior to that, he served for more
than a decade as editor of Human Events, where he is now an editor at large.
Terry was born in San Francisco and raised in the Bay Area, the seventh of
eleven children. Both his parents were doctors of medicine.
Terry earned a bachelors degree in English Literature from Princeton in
1981. In 1984-85, he studied Arabic at the Arabic Language Institute of The
American University in Cairo. In 1986-87, he studied in the Masters of Arts
in Arab Studies program at Georgetown University, but did not earn a degree.
From 1987-91, he was an editorial writer for The Washington Times, which
nominated him for the Pulitzer Prize for his investigative editorials about
then-House Speaker Jim Wright. In 1992, he served as issues and research
director for Pat Buchanan’s first Republican presidential campaign. In
1993-1994, he served as executive director of The American Cause, an
educational foundation. In 1995-96, he was national campaign manager for Pat
Buchanan’s second Republican presidential campaign. Buchanan that year won
the Alaska, Louisiana and Missouri caucuses, placed second in the Iowa
caucuses, and won the New Hampshire primary. Terry writes a weekly column
for the Creators Syndicate and is a regular guest on CNN’s Situation Room.
He and his wife, Julie, have five children and live in the Virginia suburbs
outside Washington, D.C.
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Michael Chapman --
Managing Editor
Michael joined CNSNews.com in 2007.
He has worked as associate editor of Consumers'
Research
magazine; associate editor of Human Events; editorial page editor of
The Lima News; journalism fellow for The Phillips Foundation;
editorial writer and national issues reporter for Investor's
Business Daily; and editorial
director of the Cato Institute. Michael's
reporting has been cited/published in the Wall Street Journal, New
York Post, Investor's
Business Daily, Orange County
Register, Washington Times, Insight, National Review,
Associated Press, Scripps Howard, and Congressional Quarterly,
among other outlets, including the following books: The Vision of the
Anointed by Thomas Sowell; From West to East: California
and The American Scene by Stephen Schwartz; The Venona Secrets:
Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's
Traitors by Eric Breindel and Herbert
Romerstein; Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations
Changed America by Jerrold and Leona Schecter; and the forthcoming
Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Michael graduated with Special Honors in
English (B.A.) from the University of Chicago.
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Patrick
Goodenough -- International Editor
Patrick covered government and politics
in South Africa and the Middle East before joining CNSNews.com in 1999.
Since then he has launched foreign bureaus for CNSNews.com in Jerusalem,
London and the Pacific Rim. From October 2006 to July 2007, Patrick served
as Managing Editor at the organization's world headquarters in Alexandria,
Va. Now back in the Pacific Rim, as International Editor he reports on
politics, international relations, security, terrorism, ethics and
religion, and oversees reporting by CNSNews.com's roster of international
stringers.
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Craig
Bannister -- Communications Director
Craig joined CNSNews.com in July of 2005. Craig is responsible for all CNSNews.com
media relations, public relations, and marketing programs. Prior to joining
CNSNews.com, he served as communications manager for the Intelligent
Transportation Society of America. Craig has spent his career managing
communications, public, media, and member relations for non-profit
organizations such as the National Automobile Dealers Association, the
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and the Ethiopian Community
Development Council.
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Melanie Hunter
--
Senior Editor
Melanie has been with CNSNews.com since November 2000 as an evening editor
responsible for writing, editing and posting stories to the website. She
was promoted to deputy managing editor in 2002, overseeing the radio
production department in addition to her daily editing duties. Prior to
working at CNSNews.com, Melanie served as news director for WKYS-FM, one
of Washington, D.C.’s top-rated radio stations. Ms. Hunter also worked as
a traffic reporter for Shadow Broadcasting in the nation’s capital and
prior to that, as a news anchor/reporter for WAMO-FM in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Her television experience was obtained at several Washington, D.C.
stations. She worked for America’s Most Wanted at Fox affiliate WTTG, the
Creative Services Department of WUSA-TV and the Evening Exchange on WHUT-TV.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in television production from Howard
University.
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Susan Jones
-- Senior Editor
Susan brings to CNSNews.com a strong background in broadcast writing and editing.
She joined CNSNews.com in April 1999, after working for 18 years as a
television producer and news-writer in the Washington, D.C., Denver, and
Greensboro, N.C., television markets. Susan holds a bachelor's degree from
Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern
University.
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Randy
Hall
--
Staff Writer/Editor
Randy brings more than 25 years
of journalism experience to CNSNews.com. An identical twin and native of
northeastern Pennsylvania, he earned his bachelor’s degree in English and
communication from Columbia Union College in Maryland. After serving as a
news and feature writer and photographer for the Herald Record newspaper
in central West Virginia, he attended Andrews University in Michigan,
where he received a master’s degree in communication. He returned to
Maryland to work as assistant editor of the Columbia Union Visitor, a
full-color twice-monthly newsmagazine he helped produce for more than 13
years. His first position with the Cybercast News Service was as evening
editor, and he spent a year writing, editing and posting stories to the
website before being named Staff Writer in January 2005.
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Monisha Bansal - Senior Staff Writer
Monisha joined Cybercast News Service in 2005 as a correspondent and was
promoted to the position of staff writer in January 2006. She has covered
many political and cultural issues in Washington, D.C., and reported on
many other issues developing outside the capital beltway and even
overseas. Monisha previously held news related positions at WSDP-FM radio
in Plymouth, Mich., and WRC television in Washington, D.C. She also worked
for U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.). Monisha has a Bachelor of Arts degree
in journalism from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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Fred Lucas - Staff
Writer
Fred Lucas joined the staff of Cybercast News Service in January 2007 as
an investigative reporter/staff writer after a seven-year career with
daily newspapers. Prior to joining CNSNews.com, Fred worked as a political
reporter for The News-Times in Danbury, Conn. and before that for The
State Journal in Frankfort, Ky., reporting on corruption scandals, state
political campaigns and the 2004 presidential race. He has done freelance
work for The Weekly Standard, Human Events and The American Spectator.
Fred holds an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School
of Journalism.
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Kevin Mooney -- Staff
Writer
Kevin Mooney joined CNSNews.com in July 2006 as an investigative
reporter/staff writer. He has a high level of interest in domestic and
international politics. Since joining the news operation, Kevin has
reported on immigration policy, national security issues, key cultural
trends and religious topics.
Prior to joining CNSNews.com Kevin worked as a
reporter for the Trenton Times and Forbes Newspapers in New Jersey. He
also held editorial positions with Dow Jones and Company and Bloomberg
News in Princeton, N.J. Kevin holds a B.A. degree in Communications and
Political Science from Rider University.
Most recently, he graduated from Regent
University in Virginia Beach with a joint M.A. in Journalism and Public
Policy. Kevin’s graduate work also included a study abroad program at
Hertford College in Oxford University where he studied constitutional law
from British and American perspectives.
Kevin is a member of the Society of
Professional Journalists.
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Pete Winn -- Staff
Writer
Pete Winn joined CNSNews.com in October of 2007 as a staff writer/investigative reporter. For nearly 20 years, he has reported on key legal, cultural, political, scientific and religious topics at the national level for online, magazine, radio/TV and print publications. His work has been quoted by, or appeared in, The Washington Times, ABC News, AP, UPI, MSNBC and The New York Times, as well as in local newspapers and on radio stations around the country.
Prior to joining CNSNews.com, Pete was the associate editor and co-creator of
CitizenLink, a daily public-policy and government-issues e-newsletter/Web site produced by the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family. For seven years, he served as head writer and substitute host for
Family News in Focus, an internationally syndicated radio news-and-issues program heard on more than 1,400 stations in the U.S. and Canada.
With experience as a radio news director in both commercial and public radio, Pete is a former voting member of the Radio-Television News Directors Association of America (RTNDA). He also served as an editor for
Politico: a Journal of Contemporary Concerns. He holds a B.A. degree in Politics & Government and Philosophy from Ripon College, Ripon, Wis.
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Julie Stahl
-- Jerusalem Bureau Chief
Julie joined CNSNews.com in August 1999 as the Jerusalem Bureau Chief. In
that capacity, she has reported on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process,
the subsequent breakdown in negotiations, the Palestinian uprising and
Israel's war against terrorism. Other stories included Pope John Paul II's
historic visit to the Holy Land, the briefly renewed and then suspended
Israeli-Syrian peace process, Israeli national elections and Israel's
unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon. Before joining CNSNews.com, Julie
worked briefly as an editor at the Information Center of Israel's Foreign
Ministry, as an editor and producer for Middle East Television and as a
correspondent for CBN radio. She has a bachelor's degree in theater from
Florida State University and a master's degree in journalism from Regent
University in Virginia Beach, Va.
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Sergei Blagov
-- International Correspondent (Moscow)
Sergei is an independent researcher, journalist and a former newswire
reporter. He spent nearly seven years reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam, during
the 1980s and 1990s.
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Eva Cahen --
International Correspondent (Paris)
Eva is an American journalist living in Paris with 20 years of international
experience in television and print. Her particular areas of interest are
French-American ties and international relations.
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Mark Mayne --
International Correspondent (London)
Mark has written for British and U.S. publications, covering international
issues such as development, terrorism, security and technology.
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Kevin
McCandless -- International Correspondent (London)
Kevin is a long time American resident of the British city. A graduate of
the University of Missouri, he has reported for New York Newsday and a
number of Midwestern newspapers.
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Stephen Mbogo
-- International Correspondent (Nairobi)
Stephen is editor of The Kenyan Spectator, a national weekly publishing from
Nairobi. His main areas of interest are foreign relations, security and
democracy as well as economy and information technology.
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Deepak Mahaan --
International Correspondent (New Delhi)
Deepak boasts two decades of broadcasting experience, is a documentary
filmmaker and contributes regularly to online publications dealing with
politics, foreign affairs, development and sports.
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Eric Pairel
-- Chief Technology Officer
A graduate of
George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, Eric earned a degree in
Communications. Eric is responsible for content management,
application development, design,
and maintenance of the CNSNews.com web site and network. His background includes graphic design, network
administration, and ASP.NET web application development.
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