The JAC meets annually to advise the School on fundraising, marketing and outreach, curriculum and high school recruiting.
Linda Ballew
Linda Ballew has represented journalism advisers as the 2005 Dow Jones national Newspaper Teacher of the Year and as the Journalism Education Association’s 2006 national Distinguished Yearbook Adviser. She has advised at Great Falls High School in Great Falls for the last 30 years. She works with the student staffs of the "Iniwa" newspaper, "Roundup" yearbook and interactive CD and website, iniwa.com.
Marje Bennetts
Marje Bennetts is owner and president of M Bennetts – A Public Relations Firm, a boutique public relations agency she started in January 1994, in Marina Del Rey, California. She has been involved in the hospitality and public relations business since she moved to California and has worked extensively with hotels, restaurants, sports organizations and special events. Marje is a second-generation J-School alum; both her mother and father also graduated from the J-school.
Janice P. Brown
Janice P. Brown is the founder and owner of Brown Law Group, a seven-lawyer law firm in San Diego, California, focused on business and employment litigation. Brown Law Group prides itself in assisting its clients in litigation avoidance strategies, practicing preventative law. Brown specializes in employment law and in general civil litigation. She received her undergraduate degree in journalism from UM, and her law degree from Gonzaga University.
Kellyn Brown
Kellyn Brown is editor in chief of the Flathead Beacon in Kalispell, Montana. He is a J-School alum who spent the last several years covering crime, government and social issues as a writer and editor in the Rocky Mountain region before joining the Beacon. In 2009, he received a first-place award for column writing from the Montana Newspaper Association.
Janet Trask Cox
A 1963 Journalism alum, Janet Trask Cox started Exclamation Point Advertising with fellow-J-school friend, Judy Spannagel. In those years, she was active in the UM Alumni Association (president), Alumni College, UM Distinguished Young Alumna, 1978, and member of the UM Foundation. Since moving to Port Townsend, Wash., 20 years ago, she received an MFA in creative writing in fiction from the University of Washington and participated in UW Rome Center writing workshops.
John T. Cribb
John Cribb is managing director of Cribb, Greene & Associates, the oldest, continuously operated newspaper brokerage in the country. He is the fifth successive principal broker in 80-plus years of service to the industry. Cribb, Greene & Associates has sold thousands of newspapers and other publications since 1923, and Cribb has personally sold hundreds of publications in addition to appraising 40-50 papers each year. He lives in Bozeman, Mont.
Sherry Devlin
Sherry Devlin has been editor of the Missoulian since 2005. Previously she was city editor and reporter at the Missoulian. She has taught adjunct classes for the Journalism School.
Larry Elkin
Larry M. Elkin, has provided personal financial and tax counseling to a client base since 1986. He founded his own firm in Hastings on Hudson, N.Y., in 1992. That firm grew steadily and became the Palisades Hudson organization, which moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002, and expanded to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005. Elkin received his B.A. in journalism from UM, and his M.B.A. in accounting from New York University. He was a reporter and editor for The Associated Press from 1978 to 1986.
Lynn M. Ingham
Lynn M. Ingham is an experienced and professional advertising, publishing and internet executive, charged with leading national traditional and interactive media sales efforts. She is Chief Executive Officer for New West, a next-generation media company dedicated to the culture, economy, politics, environment and lifestyle of the Rocky Mountain West. Until moving to her home state of Montana, Ingham was deeply involved in the San Francisco/Bay Area digital community, as a co-founder, Past President and Chairman of SFBIG.
Kelly Kelleher
Kelly Kelleher graduated from The University of Montana in 1996 with a BA in Journalism. Before moving to San Diego in 1999, she was employed by the Missoulian as a Creative Manager. She served as an award-winning Creative Director at the San Diego Union Tribune for eight years. In 2007, Kelleher joined the then fledgling Brickfish, applying her experience and knowledge in the social media space. In 2009, she became client services director at San Diego Media.
Jonathan Krim
Jonathan Krim is senior deputy managing editor for the Wall Street Journal Online. A 1977 J-School graduate, he was innovations editor at The Washington Post until spring 2010. Krim spent much of his career as a senior editor at the San Jose Mercury News in Silicon Valley, during which time he supervised two Pulitzer Prize-winning efforts. Krim also was executive editor of TheStreet.com, an online financial news and commentary site. He received UM's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1988.
Kim Lucostic
Kim Lucostic, a Missoula native and Big Sky High School graduate, attended Pepperdine University where she played women's college basketball and graduated in 1989 with a BA in Broadcast Journalism. She attended San Diego State University to complete an English degree and her teaching certification; and in 1996, she became a full-time English and Journalism (newspaper and broadcast) teacher at her high school alma mater. The Sun Journal is an award-winning newspaper and her broadcasting students produce a monthly live television show and provide video for the online paper.
Rob McDonald
A 1991 Western Washington University alum, Rob McDonald started out as a reporter and columnist. After nearly 15 years in newspapers in Bremerton Wash.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Spokane, Wash., he made a major career change. In 2006 he was named the Communications Director for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Western Montana. Rob is a tribal member there along with his parents, brother, sister and numerous cousins.
Anne Medley
Anne Medley is a freelance photojournalist and videographer based in Missoula, Mont. She received her MA in journalism from UM and has taught multimedia journalism workshops at the Freedom Forum Diversity Institute in Nashville, Tenn., since 2008. She has taught multimedia journalism in the Democratic Republic of Congo where she also worked on a documentary about prostitution.
Meg Oliver
Meg Oliver is a freelance correspondent at ABC News in New York. She reports for Good Morning America and anchors for ABC News Now. Before ABC, she was Anchor of Up to the Minute, CBS News’ overnight broadcast, and Correspondent for The Early Show. A J-School alumn, Meg began her journalism career as a reporter and anchor at KCFW-TV in Kalispell, Mont., (1993-95). She has earned eight Emmy nominations, including one for "Outstanding Anchor" and two for "Best Reporter."
Penny Peabody
Penny Peabody has worked as a reporter and editor and for local government organizations. She was a founding principal in the firm of Triangle Associates in Seattle where she advised a utility and a port authority on matters involving ratepayers, customers and communities and on public policy and facility siting. She has chaired the UM Foundation Board of Trustees. In 1990, she retired as president of the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County. She received a Bachelor’s from UM in 1961 and her Master’s in 1967. She received UM's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1990.
Jeremy Sauter
In 1986, Jeremy Sauter would have graduated from UM with a Journalism degree. Instead, he was lured away after an internship in Los Angeles turned into a job offer. He worked as a creative director for an ad agency that serviced the motion picture studios. He is former senior vice president of creative advertising for Paramount Pictures in Hollywood, where his responsibility was to oversee the development of advertising campaigns for a third of Paramount’s feature releases. He is now a marketing consultant based in Missoula.
Jonathan Weber
In September 2011, Jonathan Weber was named West Coast Bureau Chief for Reuters. Previously, he was editor-in-chief of The Bay Citizen. Before moving to San Francisco, Weber served as CEO and editor-in-chief of New West Publishing, the Missoula-based media company that he founded in 2005.
Judie Woodhouse
Judie Woodhouse retired in spring 2010 as a 34-year Montana high school educator and award-winning newspaper adviser at Polson High School. She helped organize the Montana Journalism Education Association and served as the president of the fledgling organization. She has also served as head speech, debate and drama coach; yearbook adviser; Polson Education Association President, and English Department Chair.