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SPJ South Florida Leadership
2010 SPJ South Florida Leadership
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President: DARCIE LUNSFORD
dlunsford@bizjournals.com | 954.949.7523
Lunsford is the real estate editor at the South Florida Business Journal and National Secretary/Treasury of the Society of Professional Journalists, overseeing Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama. She served as president of SPJ’s South Florida Pro Chapter from 2004 to 2007. A veteran reporter, Lunsford has spent the past 10 years covering South Florida real estate. She is a former on-air contributor on WPLG Local 10 in Miami, WPBF TV-25 in Palm Beach Gardens and reports stories for the Business Journal on WPTV TV-5, the NBC station in West Palm Beach. Lunsford cut her reporting teeth as a cop and government reporter at the Marietta Daily Journal near her hometown of Atlanta. She moved to Florida in 1993 and went to work for the Boca Raton News and later business the Daily Business Review. She joined the Business Journal in 1997. Lunsford also has penned freelance articles for national magazines such as the American Journalism Review and American Way, the flight magazine for American Airlines.
Executive Vice President: OPEN
Vice President, Programs: SERGY ODIDURO
sodiduro@tribune.com | 954.798.1371
Odiduro is a reporter for the Forum Publishing Group. She began her journalism career as an editorial assistant at the Daily Business Review. She graduated from Bernard M. Baruch’s School of Communication with a bachelor’s in journalism. While in school, she was features and op-ed editor for the campus newspaper, The Ticker. She was also a contributor to Dollars and Sense, Baruch College’s review of business and society. Prior to joining the Daily Business Review, Odiduro interned with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and Radio Soleil D’ Haiti, where she produced and hosted a regular English-language news segment.
Vice President, Membership: DORI ZINN
dzinn3@gmail.com | 954.695.4308
Zinn is currently a communications assistant and contributing editor for Retail Environments, a retail trade magazine based in Hollywood, FL. She also writes a food blog, fatkidsclub.com, that reviews South Florida restaurants and homemade recipes. Zinn graduated from Florida Atlantic University in 2008 with a degree in Multimedia Journalism. During her time at FAU, she worked for the student-run school newspaper, the University Press, where she served as multimedia editor, opinions editor, and senior staff reporter.
Secretary: RACHAEL JOYNER
Rjoyner2@gmail.com | 954.657.9000 ext. 146
Joyner is a staff writer and photographer for Cross International, a South Florida-based charity that supports social development projects in 36 countries. Before coming to Cross, Joyner worked as a staff reporter for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. She has worked as a contributing travel writer for Jazziz Magazine and freelances as a Web designer, photographer, and writer. Joyner graduated from Florida Atlantic University — where she served as editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, University Press — with a bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism and political science.
Treasurer: OPEN
Immediate Past President: JULIE KAY
jkay50@hotmail.com | 954.303.3384
Kay, a freelance writer, is an award-winning South Florida journalist. She previously covered the southeast United States for the National Law Journal. She also worked for the Daily Business Review, where she authored a weekly column entitled “Justice Watch.” Kay is also the Florida consultant for C-SPAN and freelances for People Magazine, the New York Post and Closer Magazine. Previously, Kay worked as a staff writer for the Miami Herald for five years, covering city and county government in Broward County, as well as for the Palm Beach Post. Kay previously served as president of the South Florida chapter of SPJ from 2002 to 2004. She is a former chair of the national group’s Legal Defense Fund committee.
Director: JAKE CLINE
jakecline@yahoo.com | 954.471.9408
Cline is the editor of City Link magazine (Citylinkmix.com), a position he has held since 2000. He graduated from the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications in 1993, but doesn’t give a damn about the school’s football team, so don’t ask him about it. In his spare time, he contributes feature stories and book reviews to Blurt magazine (Blurt-online.com). In the mid-2000s, on a dare, he wrote a satiric weekly horoscope for almost a year under the pseudonym Karen Carpenter that generated more hate mail and angry phone calls than anything else he’s ever written — including the column in which he quipped that attending a Lenny Kravitz concert would be “like reaching into a urinal to retrieve a quarter.” He is a die-hard New York Yankees fan, so feel free to ask him anything about Derek Jeter or Thurman Munson. Finally, he can’t drink milk.
Director: PAOLA IUSPA-ABBOTT
piuspa@alm.com | 305.347.6657
Isupa returned to the Daily Business Review in October 2007 after an 18-month stint at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel where she covered western Palm Beach County. Prior to the Sun-Sentinel, Paola had covered real estate in South Florida since 1998. She initially joined the Review in April 2004 as the transactions reporter, covering residential and commercial real estate deals in the tri-county area. Paola previously reported for the South Florida Business Journal, where she covered real estate in Miami-Dade, and for Miami Today, where she covered local government, real estate and development. Paola graduated from Florida International University in 2000 with a degree in print journalism and mass communications.
Director: LISA LUCAS
kangaluke@aol.com | 561.706.8779
Lisa Lucas, a former child actress, has been working as a professional journalist in South Florida since 2005. She has contributed feature stories to Closer Magazine and Boca Raton Magazine, for which she won a Charlie Award for Best In-Depth Reporting for her story on gangs in Palm Beach County. She was a stringer for the New York Post, People Magazine and Agence France Presse and is currently the main corresponding reporter in Florida for the New York Daily News, covering national news stories from John Travolta to John Gotti to A-Rod and now Tiger Woods.
Director: JASON PARSLEY
jeparsley@gmail.com | 561.706.6646
Parsley is an award winning reporter for the Forum Publishing Group. He has also freelanced for Edge Ft. Lauderdale and the New York Daily News. He graduated from Florida Atlantic University with a bachelor’s degree in communications and a minor in political science. While in school he served as the Editor in Chief of the student newspaper the University Press.
Director: LUCY CHABOT REED
lucy@the-triton.com | 954.525.0029
Reed has been a reporter and editor in South Florida for 20 years. She has worked with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, South Florida Business Journal, CityLink, and New Times. She now is the owner and editor of The Triton, an internationally circulated, monthly newspaper for the folks who earn their living working on luxury yachts.
Director: SAM TERILLI
sterilli@miami.edu | 305.284.8451
Terilli is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Miami. He spent 12 years as the General Counsel of the Miami Herald Publishing Company and 6 years as a partner in a national law firm. Terilli also served on the Miami Herald’s editorial board for six years, writing editorials and columns, and spent two extended assignments in the Herald’s newsroom, once to lead a reorganization of the news operations and once as a working reporting and editor to study the news operations.
Programs:
Chair, Sergy Odiduro, VP Programs
Membership:
Chair, Dori Zinn, VP membership
Student Affairs/Scholarship:
Chair, Michael Koretzky, national SPJ board
Sunshine State:
Chair, Julie Kay, immediate past president
Stacey Singer, SPJ member
Paola Iuspa, board member
Sylvia Gurinsky, former board member and president
FOI:
Chair, Open
Ethics:
Chair, Oscar Pedro Musibay
Professional Education:
Chair, Paola Iuspa-Abbott, board member
Jake Cline, board member
Diversity:
Chair, Open
Bylaws:
Chair, Sam Terilli, board member
Joe Kollin, SPJ member
Jason Parsley, board member
Cathy Wilson, past president
Finance:
Chair, Darcie Lunsford, chapter president and national secretary-treasurer
Michele Boyet, SPJ member and committee chair
Willam Hirschman, former treasurer and past president
Lucy Chabot Reed, board member
Marketing:
Chair, Michele Boyet, SPJ member
Fundraising:
Chair, Lisa Lucas, board member
