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Vice President
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Steve Allwine has been involved with the Northwest Chapter of NATAS since 2004. Upon the advice of Mr. Sharify, Steve wrangled a way to attend the 2004 Regional EMMY?« Awards by serving cocktails at the pre-show mixer. What a difference a couple years makes. After serving two terms as chapter Treasurer, Steve now serves on the chapter's board as Vice-President. Steve currently works as the Director of Marketing & Technology for Johnson Braund, Inc. The allure of the family profession called to him after what felt like a lifetime in broadcast. An '04 graduate of Central Washington University, and Green River Community College (go Gators!), Steve has been in and out of Seattle's Fisher Communications and Sandusky Broadcasting, working everything from overnight board op at Smooth Jazz at KWJZ, overnight announcer at KOMO 1000 AM, news writer at KOMO 4 TV, to executive news producer at KIMA TV 29 in Yakima. |
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Chapter Administrator
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President of Association Services, Inc., providing event planning and support services to professional non-profit associations, including database management, desktop publishing and specialty mailings and more.?á Executive Director for the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
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Treasurer
Idaho Regional Chair
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Joan Cartan-Hansen has been a producer/reporter/writer for Idaho Public Television since 1988. Joan is the lead producer/host for "D4K and a producer/reporter/writer for "Outdoor Idaho.ÔÇØ In addition, she writes and produces a number of documentaries and occasionally contributed pieces to "The PBS News Hour." Joan has won a number of awards including several regional Emmys, gold medals at the New York Festivals, Tellys, CINE Golden Eagles and Platinum prizes at Worldfest. The National Educational Association and the Council on State Governments have also honored Joan for her educational projects. Joan has a science news blog for kids (http://idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/blog.cfm)
Besides NATAS-NW, Joan is active in several professional organizations: The Idaho Press Club and Capitolbeat. Joan also sits on the Idaho Supreme Courts Media/Courts Committee and is member of the Idaho Supreme CourtÔÇÖs ÔÇ£Fire Brigade.ÔÇØ A native Idahoan, Joan is married with two children. |
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Chris is a dynamic Host, producer, writer, editor and avatar. He's received numerous Emmy awards for "Best host" and many more for his work behind the scenes as producer & editor. Chris's unique brand of humor has earned him roles on television stations like KSTW, Seattle Channel & KING 5's Evening Magazine. He's worked with the Seahawks, Mariners and hosted many live parades and events. Chris has worked nationally as a host and featured actor with The Discovery Channel, CBS & Comedy Central. Chris is also currently a featured performer for the nationally syndicated kids show "Biz Kids." He is also a formidable host, writer & producer for many Microsoft programs & live events. As the host of XBOX LIVE's 1vs100, Chris reached over 20 million subscribers with an interactive social gaming experience that earned him a place in the Guinness book of world records. Currently you can see Chris as the host of MSN's entrepreneur magazine program "News On Main." Chris is also a popular event host & auctioneer. He wanted us to brag about his 2 gorgeous daughters but that would be too sappy for his bio.
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50th Anniversary
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Guy is an Emmy award-winning journalist who's been working in the TV business for 20+ years. Prior to moving back home to Seattle last November, Guy was the host of the live weekday morning talk show, Sacramento & Company, a program he helped launch at the ABC affiliate KXTV in 2005. Before that, Guy was an entertainment anchor at KVWB in Las Vegas. His career has now come full circle, considering he got his start as a reporter/anchor at NorthWest Cable News where he worked for almost a decade. Currently, Guy is hosting and reporting for the Seattle Channel program CityStream and freelancing at KING5. He is also a former NATAS Northwest board member. |
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Emmy?« Awards
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Andrea Flatley is co-chair of the Awards Committee and is a previous Regional Chair. She is the Communications and Social Media Manager at Northwest Harvest. The hunger relief nonprofit works to eliminate hunger across the state of Washington. Before moving to the nonprofit sector Andrea worked as a special projects, magazine and line producer and writer at KOMO, KPTV and KXLY. While producing at those stations she helped launch magazine style broadcasts, a mid-day newscast and field produced for a variety of special projects. Andrea received an Emmy Award in 2008 for her work on a Special Assignment Report, AWOL In Canada and a Community Service nomination for her work with the KXLY Extreme Team Girl Scouts Build. She was also part of the KOMO 4 News Team awarded a 2012 Breaking News Emmy for coverage of a house explosion. Andrea is a graduate of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Broadcast Journalism. She is the Seattle Club President for ASU's Alumni Association. In her free time she writes for the wine, beer & spirit blog WestToast. She has served on the NATAS NW board since 2009.
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Emmy?« Awards Production
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Michael Fox is the web videographer at KIRO 7 in Seattle. He produces entertaining video features and slideshows for the SeattleInsider page on KIROtv.com. Michael graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 2004 with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and Sociology. Michael likes jokes, black labs and jolly ranchers.
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Alternate Trustee
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Holly is the News Director for KOMO-TV, KOMO News Radio and KUNS-TV.
She is also the Vice President of News for KOMOÔÇÖs parent company, Fisher Communications LLC.. Prior to joining Fisher, Holly was the Vice President/News Director for WTXF-TV in Philadelphia. Holly has a bachelorÔÇÖs degree in Journalism from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She has been a broadcast journalist for 28 years. Holly started her career as a writer and researcher at KUSA in Denver and has since worked at 8 television stations from Denver to Washington DC. She covered the bombing of the Murrah building while working in Oklahoma City and the terrorist attacks on 9/11 while working in Washington DC. Holly Currently serves as the Vice Chair of the ABC News Affiliate Advisory Board. In addition to the Northwest Chapter, Holly has served on NATAS boards in Philadelphia and Washington DC. Holly has won several Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards during her broadcast career. |
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Ten-time Emmy Award-winning producer, filmmaker and on-air science/wildlife specialist Michael Harris has used his unique affiliations and interests to help create some of the most imaginative television coming out of the Pacific Northwest. Over the last 20 years, Michael has held staff positions at a number Seattle-Tacoma television stations, but he's truly made his mark in the world of freelance network production and independent filmmaking. He is currently a regular contributor of HDTV ÔÇ£Weekend WindowsÔÇØ for ABCÔÇÖs Good Morning America, and produced material for New Line Cinema, CBS News, ABC News, Major League Baseball, ESPN's SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight, MTV News, VH-1 and the E! Television network.
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Alaska Regional Chair
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Raised in Alaska, Aniela graduated with a bachelorÔÇÖs degree in Broadcast Journalism from Lewis University in Illinois. She then worked as a reporter and producer at a TV station outside Chicago for several years, before moving back to Alaska to work for KTUU. There, she served as an assignment editor, then as executive producer. Since 2011, she has worked as an account coordinator for Bradley Reid + Associates, a full service advertising agency.
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50th Anniversary
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After 15 years on the Board of the Northwest chapter, Jamie is coming around for her second round in the President's seat - serving as co-President with Dick Splitstone. ?áShe is also the Trustee for the Northwest NATAS Chapter, serving as the chapter representative to the Board of Trustees of the National Academy. ?áJamie just completed two terms as Secretary of the National Board of Trustees. Jamie spent nearly two decades as a producer in television news and programming.?á Starting her broadcasting career on the air in radio in Wickenburg, Arizona, she moved into the producer chair at KYMA-TV in Yuma, Arizona.?á She moved to Seattle in 1990 to write and produce for KIRO-TV.?á?á After serving time as a producer of special projects?áat KIRO, KOMO and promotions at KING, Jamie launched her own production company working with various corporations and non-profits on their video and?ámarketing projects.?á She continued?áfreelancing for NBC news and?áseveral Seattle?áTV stations, but turned her focus to fundraising and marketing for non-profits.?á Most recently Jamie served as?áVice President of Development and Marketing at The Hope Heart Institute.
You can currently find Jamie selling real?áestate with John L. Scott Real Estate in the Seattle area, but keeping her fingers in writing and production projects as often as possible. Community service is at the heart of everything Jamie does. She served as Director of Entertainment for the Kitsap County Fair and Stampede, in Bremerton, Washington, and has served on executive committees and as a board member for several Seattle non-profit organizations including: The Woodland Park Zoo Society - Wildkeepers and Rise n' Shine. Jamie joined the Board of the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1995 as Membership Committee Chair. She then served four years as Chair of the EMMY?« Awards Committee,?ábefore serving two years as Vice President and four years as President of the Northwest Chapter. Jamie lives in Kingston, Washington with her husband, 4 dogs, 2 cats and 3 steer (yes, cows.) |
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Oregon Regional Chair
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Silver Circle
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Maria Lamarca Anderson joined KIRO 7 as community relations manager in May 2007. Her previous experience includes shopping center, social service, high-tech and arts marketing and corporate public relations, resulting in a diversity of experiences with a variety of media and awards for her campaigns. She is also a freelance writer and communications consultant. Throughout her career Maria has volunteered with an array of non-profit organizations, at present with Lifelong AIDS Alliance, the Mary M. Gates Guild of ChildrenÔÇÖs Hospital and Seattle WomenÔÇÖs Chorus. She joined the board of the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences as marketing chair in 2004. She is a past president of the Seattle Advertising Federation and served on its board for seven years.
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National Trustee
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50th Anniversary
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News Operations Manager KIRO-TV, Seattle. Scott started his career in Duluth Minnesota in 1972 as a Newsfilm photographer/editor. After working at several TV stations in the Midwest he moved to Seattle in 1980 as an editor for KING-TV. He became Chief Editor in 1981 and then Operations Manager at KING in 1984. He received two Emmy Awards for his editing in the early 80's. As Operations Manager he also produced several News Specials and traveled to Russia, Hong Kong and China for the news department. He also produced the '88 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea and the '94 Games in Atlanta, GA for KING-TV. For ten years 1988 to 1998 Scott was the Northwest producer for NBC News. He produced numberous stories for the Today Show and Nightly News including the Live remote broadcast of the 10 Year Anniversary of Mt. St. Helens Eruption with Tom Brokaw. In 1999 he moved to KIRO-TV as News Operations Manager just in time for the Millennium. At KIRO he oversees the photography, editing and news engineering staff as well as the various newsroom computer systems. Scott is the current National Trustee of the NATAS Northwest Chapter, after serving two years as President and four years as Vice President and Awards Chair.
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Secretary
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Joanne M. Lisosky is a professor of communication and journalism at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma where she teaches classes in communication law, international media and multimedia writing and production. She has served on the NATAS board since 1997. In a previous life she worked in television in Missoula, Montana; Reno, Nevada and Springfield, Missouri. She also dabbled in radio news and newspapers. She was awarded two Fulbright awards in 2003 and 2011 to teach journalism in Kampala, Uganda and Baku, Azerbaijan. Her book, "War on Words: Who Should Protect Journalists?" was published in 2011.
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Social Media
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Tara is a Digital Media Producer with 8-year portfolio of successfully constructing video content and digital content management, for leading providers of digital programming. Instrumental in filming and producing a mobile application program that earned Emmy Award nomination in the Advanced Media Category in 2007, and is currently the Social Media Chair for the Northwest chapter.
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Jerry has worked in television news for 10 years, at WXYZ in Detroit, WJRT in Flint, MI, and KXLY in Spokane, where he currently serves as assistant news director. He's also worked as assignment editor, producer, and writer, and has won Emmys for Best Newscast and Best Series, along with other regional awards.
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Montana Regional Chair
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Jeremiah began his career as a location sound engineer on various films and commercials. In 2002 he started Jereco Studios designing his first commercial recording facility, and in the spring of 2010, he founded a second recording facility, Peach Street Studios.
Today, Jeremiah is responsible for producing and engineering Post Production Sound, Live Sound, Music Recording, and Location Sound to many shows and events nationally and regionally including, Music on Main, Music in the Mountains, and Sweet Pea Festival. In addition, in 2010 Jeremiah was appointed the Audio Director of the 11th & Grant with Eric Funk television series on MontanaPBS. In June 2011, Jeremiah earned an EMMY award for Audio for his work on the 11th & Grant TV show. As a graduate of Montana State University - Bozeman, Jeremiah continues supporting, working, and teaching within the university system. Jeremiah is Adjunct Faculy at the School of Music where he teaches Entertainment Business, Music Technology, and is the Technical Director for the school and Reynolds Recital Hall. |
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President
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Dick is a 37-year veteran of the news business. As an Executive Producer, he was a launch team member of Belo's Local News on Cable, a 24-hour regional news channel in Norfolk, VA, and has worked as a news producer at KIRO-TV in Seattle, WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York and WTOL-TV in Toledo, Ohio. He also worked for a number of years as a radio reporter, anchor and News Director in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Cleveland, Ohio markets. He is currently Senior Executive Producer with NorthWest Cable News in Seattle.
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Brook Stanford is a native of Michigan, and discovered the Pacific Northwest while travelling with the University of Michigan Men's Glee Club to Seattle in 1962. After working radio for several years, Brook went to KGW-TV, Portland in 1968, and moved to KOMO-TV in 1970. While at KOMO, Brook was Sunday Anchor for 9 years, Health/Science Editor 9 years, and 13 years as the People Helper, during which time he raised more than $9 million from viewers to help other viewers in need. People Helper won the Emmy for Specialty Reporting in 1989. Brook retired from KOMO in 2001. In 2004 he was honored by being inducted into the Silver Circle of NATAS. Brook is a 22 year member of the Seattle Men's Chorus.
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