A veteran reporter and editor, R.B. Brenner teaches in the Graduate Journalism Program at Stanford University. His courses include public issues reporting, digital journalism and long-form storytelling. Along with students and other faculty, he helped launch The Peninsula Press, the program’s multimedia website that partners with professional news organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Previously, R.B. was at The Washington Post, where he started as an assignment editor on the Maryland desk in 2002.

Matt Waite is a professor of practice at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, teaching reporting and digital product development. He is also a graduate of the college, earning his Bachelor of Journalism in 1997.

Prior to joining the faculty, he was the Senior News Technologist for the St. Petersburg Times of Florida and the principal developer of the Pulitzer Prize winning PolitiFact. In 2007, he began working as a hybrid journalist/programmer, combining reporting experience and web development to create new platforms for journalism.

Keith W. Jenkins came to NPR in July 2008 as the Supervising Senior Producer for Multimedia. In this role he oversees the multimedia unit of NPR.org, responsible for the photography and videography throughout the site.

Bill Adair is the Editor of PolitiFact and the Washington Bureau Chief for the Tampa Bay Times, formerly the St. Petersburg Times. He has worked in Washington since 1997 and has covered Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, national politics and aviation safety. Adair is the author of “The Mystery of Flight 427: Inside a Crash Investigation,” a behind-the-scenes account of how the National Transportation Safety Board solved one of the biggest mysteries in aviation.

Jeff Sonderman is the Digital Media Fellow at The Poynter Institute. He focuses on innovations and strategies for mobile platforms and social media in online news.

He previously has worked as the senior community host and managing editor of TBD.com, a local news website in Washington, D.C., and WJLA.com, the website of D.C.-area news station ABC7. Prior to that he was the internet content director and metro editor of The Times-Tribune in Scranton, Pa., and also spent years reporting on health care, business and transportation.

Casey produced multimedia lessons for Navajo students at the University of New Mexico’s Technology and Education Center. He has a master’s degree in media arts and computer science with a concentration in digital audio and video production and a doctorate in organizational learning and instructional technologies. His dissertation concerns the effects of animated characters in Web-based learning environments, and his research has been published in the Journal of Media Psychology.