---
title: "Meet the Local TV News Project Team"
description: "Who Did the Study   Meet the 1999 Local TV News Project Team This study was conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a journalists’ group in Washington, D.C., affiliated with Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The scholar team that developed the methodology for measuring newscasts included […]"
date: "2000-03-01"
authors:
  - name: "Tom Rosenstiel"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
  - name: "Carl Gottlieb"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
  - name: "Lee Ann Brady"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2000/03/01/meet-the-local-tv-news-project-team/"
categories:
  - "Local News"
---

# Meet the Local TV News Project Team

| Who Did the Study |

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**Meet the 1999 Local TV News Project Team**

This study was conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a journalists' group in Washington, D.C., affiliated with Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The scholar team that developed the methodology for measuring newscasts included Lee Ann Brady of Princeton Survey Research Associates; Marion Just, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College; Michael Robinson, Ph.D., formerly of Georgetown University; Ann Crigler, Ph.D., Director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, and Sherrie Mazingo, Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota. Todd Belt of USC developed the system of measuring stations' three-year ratings trends. Ellen Edwards, who is on leave from The Washington Post, edited these articles. Researchers at Princeton Survey Research Associates coded the newscasts and prepared the initial statistical data under the supervision of Brady. Abigail Sturges did the graphics.

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Design Team

The following local news professionals developed the criteria of quality for this study and signed off on major decisions.

**John Cardenas**
News Director, WBNS, Columbus, Ohio

**John Corporon**
Board of Governors, Overseas Press Club

**Randy Covington**
News Director, WIS TV, Columbia, South Carolina

**Marty Haag**
Senior Vice President of Broadcast News, A.H. Belo

**Natalie Jacobson**
Principal Anchor, WCVB TV, Boston

**Alice Main**
Executive Producer, WLS TV, Chicago

**Gordon Peterson**
Principal Anchor, WUSA TV, Washington, D.C.

**Jose Rios**
Vice President of News, KTTV, Los Angeles

**Dan Rosenheim**
News Director, KRON TV, San Francisco

**Jim Snyder**
Retired Vice President of News, Post Newsweek Stations

**Kathy Williams**
News Director, WKYC TV, Cleveland

**Gary Wordlaw**
President and General Manager, WTVH TV, Syracuse