The list of volunteer instructors for the 2009 CSPA workshop is an all-star roster of journalists and educators. It includes reporters, editors, photographers, graphic designers and broadcasters from news outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Daily News, the San Jose Mercury News, the Sacramento Bee, the Contra Costa Times, the Stockton Record, the Tombstone Epitaph, the Associated Press, City News Service and more.
ART AGUILAR (workshop 1967) -- Has held positions ranging from sports writer to editor and publisher of a newspaper chain in Southern California. Art now serves as general manager of the Central Basin Municipal Water District.
JAY BERMAN -- A reporter, an editor and college journalism professor for more than four decades in Southern California. He is a graduate of USC and continues to be a successful freelance writer.
CHRIS CARLSON – Staff photographer for the Associated Press and one of the top news and sports photographers in the country. He’s been the dean of photo curriculum at the workshop since 1993 and was elected to the CSPA board of directors in 2007.
GIL CHESTERTON (workshop 1951) -- Former adviser to Beverly Hills High's weekly newspaper and weekly television newscast. The character, Gil Chesterton, on "Frasier" was named for him. He also heads another journalism workshop at Stanford University.
MIKE DAUGHERTY (workshop 1969) -- A former reporter for the San Pedro News-Pilot for years before he traveled the world, landed in Uganda, Africa, where he started a public relations, marketing and advertising company.
JANET EASTMAN (workshop 1975) – Former fashion writer for the L.A.Times, a board member and longtime CSPA instructor. Former editor of Orange Coast magazine.
TIM FERGUSON (workshop 1971) -- A longtime supporter of the CSPA, Tim is an editor at Forbes Magazine.
RICH HAMMOND (workshop, 1994) – A sports editor for the L.A. Daily News who has also written for the Daily Breeze and Orange County Register. He used to cover the Lakers and knows Kobe Bryant personally.
TODD HARMONSON (workshop 1985) – A sports editor at the Orange County Register after a distinguished career at the South Bay Daily Breeze. Todd is in charge of the second-week curriculum.
SCOTT HARRIS (workshop 1973) – Business teporter, San Jose Mercury News, former freelance author. Formerly worked as a columnist for the L.A. Times, after giving up a promising career as an intern for Field and Stream magazine.
STEVE HARVEY (workshop 1962) – Former columnist for the L.A. Times. Former sports writer for L.A. Herald-Examiner, and a popular teacher at the workshop since 1973.
CAM INMAN (workshop, 1988) -- Sportswriter for the Contra Costa Times. A legendary softball player at the workshop.
STAN KELTON (workshop 1969) -- Huntington Beach attorney and legal adviser to the CSPA. Once worked for the Hermosa Beach Police Department as a coroner's photographer, where he was unable to coax a smile out of his subjects.
CAROL MARTINEZ (workshop 1967) -- Director of Public Relations for Los Angeles Conventions Bureau.
BRADY MacDONALD -- Graphics designer and artist for the Los Angeles Times, former graphic artist for the Orange County Register.
KIM MINUGH (workshop 1999) -- Night cops reporter (and former K-12 education reporter and intern) at The Sacramento Bee. She is a 2003 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with BA in journalism and history.
PAT MOTT -- Former reporter and columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, the Register and the Times, and former editor of Orange Coast Magazine, The Padre (ask him) currently is a columnist and restaurant critic for OC Metro magazine.
LANCE OROZCO (workshop 1975) -- A radio and television reporter, former weatherman for KCBS, has taught at the workshop for more than a decade.
FRED SCHOEMEHL -- Editor of the Tombstone Epitaph. Former editor at the Costa Mesa Daily Pilot.
NICOLE VARGAS (workshop 1995) -- Has written for L.A. Times sports section. Now at the San Diego Union Tribune.
DANIEL THIGPEN is a reporter with The Record newspaper in Stockton, where he covers local governments and regional issues in the suburbs, plus some crime, courts, disaster, state politics and anything else we might need.
LARRY WELBORN (workshop 1965) -- Legal affairs reporter for the Orange County Register. Chairman of the Board, CSPA. Won the National Headliners Award for best series in 2006 for a story he wrote about the mysterious death of Linda Cummings in 1974.
JIM WOLCOTT (workshop 1961) -- Held nearly every editing job at the Orange County Register both in print and online before retiring in 2006. Now is director of content for http://www.cspaworkshop.org//, the CSPA’s official website.
2009 Counselors:
Laura Nelson (workshop 2007) is a metro intern at the Los Angeles Daily News and a rising sophomore at the University of Southern California, where she is the Daily Trojan's news assignments editor.
Matt Hanlon (workshop 2008) From Petaluma, California, an incoming freshman and journalism major at the University of Oregon. Also a sports staff writer for the Marin Independent Journal.
Kelsey Wong (workshop 2007) A second-year comm major at the UC San Diego. Staff writer and Associate News Editor of the campus newspaper, The Guardian
-- Compiled by Steve Harvey, well-known writer
Fresh on the heels of a successful 2009 program, the Board of Directors of the California Scholastic Press Association have established dates for the 59th annual summer workshop recognized nationally for its hands-on, professionally supervised approach to journalism instruction.
