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The fifth USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship took place April 22 to May 13, 2006. The 2006 Fellows were:
- Shelley Acoca, The Miami Herald, Features Editor/Arts and Style. Acoca oversees the paper's Arts & Entertainment coverage and assists in planning all features sections and 1A. Recognizing that Miami’s demographics point to an ever-growing immigrant presence, she is rethinking arts coverage to reflect the city’s emergence as diverse and world-class. She edits Pulitzer Prize-winning columnists Leonard Pitts and Dave Barry.
- Karen D'Souza, San Jose Mercury News, Theater Critic. D’Souza joined the newspaper in 2000 and soon became its chief theater critic. She has written a theater blog for almost a year. In 2004, she served on the Pulitzer Prize drama jury and was elected to the American Theater Critics Association board. A former American Conservatory Theatre student, D’Souza’s reviews are defined by an insider’s understanding.
- Daniel Hernandez, L.A. Weekly, News and Culture Reporter. Until February 2006, Hernandez was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times. His stories delving into the worlds of hipsters, Santeria, graffiti, Spanglish and the city’s Mayor appeared on the front page. He also contributed to the paper’s Calendar section. In his new post, he will cover news and continue to incorporate arts and culture in his work.
- Doug McCash, The Times-Picayune, Art Critic and Staff Writer. Primarily an art critic and reporter, MacCash also contributes hard news stories to the paper. During Hurricane Katrina, he distinguished himself by serving the longest, uninterrupted tour of duty of any reporter on the staff. He is an artist, as well, whose milk carton covered with a map of New Orleans and captioned “Missing,” was featured on the Op-Ed page.
- Kevin Nance, Chicago Sun-Times, Visual Arts Editor, Art & Architecture Critic. While planning and editing the newspaper’s visual arts stories, Nance is responsible for his own beat as art & architecture critic. He contributed to team coverage of a natural disaster that won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1997. His recent articles on gay topics captured national attention.
- Carol Powers, Kansas City Star, Deputy Features Editor. Powers plans and assigns the newspaper’s visual and performing arts coverage. Her staff of 14 editors and reporters includes seven critics. She has been rethinking arts and culture coverage in preparation for a redesign that will appear this spring. She spent 16 years at the Los Angeles Times, the last four as deputy travel editor.
- Jeff Weinstein, Bloomberg News, News Editor, culture and entertainment. Weinstein will join Bloomberg in March 2006 to assign and edit international and national news, reviews and features for the wire service’s culture division. For eight years prior, he was The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Fine Arts Editor. His mark is to this day felt at The Village Voice, where for 17 years he was Senior Editor and chief restaurant critic.
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