Advisory Board members provide feedback and training to Chronicle staff, through conference calls, newspaper critiques, on-call advice or on-site training. The extent of board involvement is up to each volume's staff, which meets with the board at the beginning of the academic year.

Board members must be former Chronicle staff members and work in journalism or journalism-related fields. They must serve at least one year and be willing to travel to Durham annually.

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2006-2007 Chronicle Advisory Board members

Rebecca Christie, '95, is defense reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for newspapers in West Virginia, Oregon and Atlanta, and holds a master's degree in public policy from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

Rachel Cohen, '00, covers Texas A&M University sports for the Dallas Morning News from College Station, Texas.

Leigh Dyer, '92, covers business for The Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, North Carolina. She recently traveled to Germany for two months to write about business connections between Germany and the Carolinas. She also occasionally freelances for magazines, including People, Premiere and Filmmaker.

Jon Hilsenrath, ’89, is a news editor at The Wall Street Journal, overseeing mergers and acquisitions coverage, the daily ``Ahead of the Tape’’ column and coverage of bond and insurance markets. He previously covered economics and finance for the Journal in Hong Kong and New York, and earned master's degrees in business administration and journalism as a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University.

Libby Falk Jones, '66, is professor of English at Berea College in Kentucky, where her course offerings include journalism classes. She earned her Ph.D. in English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1979.

Scott McCartney, '82, writes a weekly column in The Wall Street Journal devoted to airlines and travel called "The Middle Seat." Before joining the Journal in 1993, he spent 11 years at the Associated Press reporting news, business and sports. A Dallas resident, he has written three books, and is chair of the Chronicle Advisory Board.

Shannon Mullen, '87, is general assignment features writer at Asbury Park Press in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He also teaches part-time in the Rutgers University journalism department and freelances for New Jersey Monthly magazine.

Bruce Siceloff, '75, reports on transportation issues for The News & Observer, and writes a weekly traffic and transportation column called "Road Worrier.’" In 30 years with the N&O, the Chapel Hill, North Carolina resident has been metro editor, state government editor and online editor, before happily returning to reporting in 2003.

Jim Wilson, '74, has been a photographer and editor at The New York Times for 25 years. A San Francisco resident, he was the Times' chief assignment editor from 1998 to 2004, and the newspaper’s director of photography in 2003-2004, when he returned to shooting. He previously worked for AP, The Charlotte Observer and the N&O.