2024-2025 Board

Officers

President

  • Angela Greiling Keane is the news director for Bloomberg Government, where the team she leads covers congressional policy and politics, analyzes legislation and covers statehouses. She joined Bloomberg Government in 2022 after six years at POLITICO. She was POLITICO’s managing editor for states, running policy and politics coverage for regional-based teams and federal policy verticals. She has been a JAWS member since 2003.

    Greiling Keane was the 2013 National Press Club president, where she focused on domestic press freedom and government transparency and elevating women in the news business. She served two years as president of the non-profit National Press Club Journalism Institute.

    Greiling Keane spent nearly a decade at Bloomberg News, as a White House correspondent during the Obama administration and reporter covering auto and railroad policy and freight transportation companies. She has also been an associate editor at Traffic World magazine and a Washington correspondent for the Small Newspaper Group. She grew up in the Twin Cities and graduated from the University of Missouri. She lives in Washington with her husband and has a college-age daughter.

Vice President

  • Linda Jue is editor-at-large for the investigative site 100Reporters and a DEI program consultant for the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. She is also a contracted reporting and writing coach for the Fund for Investigative Journalism as well as a contributing editor for palabra. (sic), NAHJ’s news site. Linda was founding director and editor of the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, which mentored journalists of color, women and youth in public interest and investigative reporting. Linda has been at the forefront of nonprofit and independent journalism for the past 20 years, working on innovative journalism and media projects to strengthen the diversity and integrity of the field.

President-elect

  • Tanya Gazdik is automotive editor at MediaPost's Marketing Daily. She is the chief programmer for MediaPost's Marketing: Automotive conferences held in conjunction with the New York and Los Angeles auto shows. A longtime automotive enthusiast, the Detroit native also freelances for websites including WardsAuto and A Girl’s Guide to Cars. She previously was animal welfare reporter at The (Toledo) Blade, Detroit bureau chief of Adweek, associate editor at Ward's Automotive Reports and Ward's AutoWorld. She started her career at The Associated Press as an editorial assistant and then a newswoman. She has both a B.A. in journalism and a J.D. from Michigan State University and she is president of the board of directors for The State News Inc., the multimillion-dollar nonprofit that funds the independent student media group at MSU. At JAWS, she is the captain of the Detroit regional group. She is a longtime animal lover and fosters animals for Michigan Humane, transports rescue dogs across the U.S./Canada border for Open Arms Transport, and serves on the board of directors for Leuk’s Landing, an Ann Arbor sanctuary and advocacy group for Feline Leukemia-positive cats.


Treasurer

  • As a 30-year journalist, Keeley Webster has worked for publications from small dailies to her current spot at The Bond Buyer, a national financial publication. At this juncture, her goal beyond continuing to practice good journalism, is to mentor and provide encouragement to younger journalists. When she joined JAWS in 2015, she belonged to SPJ, IRE, NLGJA and AZBEE. But once she joined JAWS, attending four national conferences, and many workshops in L.A, her focus shifted primarily to JAWS. She would like to create partnerships with other journalism organizations, and particularly other affinity groups, to ensure that JAWS matches the country’s diversity.

Secretary

  • Gwyneth Doland has been a working journalist since 1999. She divides her time between journalism and teaching courses in newswriting, media ethics and at the University of New Mexico. She has been a staff writer and editor at newspapers, magazines and online outlets, and have worked as a reporter for public radio and public television. Doland started her career as a food writer but has spent the last decade covering government accountability. She is a past executive director of our state freedom of information group. And she was one of the writers of the Center for Public Integrity’s 50-state corruption risk index, which was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Directors

  • Alison Bethel is Founding Editor-in-Chief of State Affairs, a digital media company with reporters covering state houses across the country with an emphasis on how issues and policies impact everyday citizens. Bethel (formerly Alison Bethel McKenzie) was previously Vice President of Corps Excellence at Report for America (RFA). Before joining RFA, she was Executive Director of the Society of Professional Journalists and Executive Director of the Vienna-based International Press Institute. An award-winning journalist, she has served in senior management positions at The Detroit News, The Boston Globe, the Nassau (Bahamas) Guardian, the Poughkeepsie Journal and Legal Times. She has served as a visiting journalism professor at the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media in Bangalore and at Washington and Lee University in Virginia.

  • Barbara Selvin, M.S., is an associate professor of journalism at Stony Brook University, where she is an award-winning teacher. In addition to teaching reporting at all levels, the major’s capstone course, and a course on the economics of the news media in the digital age, Barbara is the School of Journalism’s faculty governance lead and director of internships and careers.

    Before becoming an educator, Barbara was a reporter on New York Newsday’s business desk, writing about economic development, real estate, housing and health-care reform. At Newsday, she proposed and pioneered the company’s first part-time work schedule for newsroom employees, a legacy that outlasted her tenure at the paper. Her freelance work has been published on Poynter.org and in The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and Nieman Reports, and her scholarly work in Grassroots Editor and Literary Journalism Studies. She is a member of JAWS, IRE, the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors and the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies.

    Barbara lives in Port Washington, N.Y. with her husband, Craig Werle. The couple has three adult children and two grandchildren. Her interests include novels, gardening, travel, yoga, beaches and birdwatching.

  • Sana Siwolop is a journalist, editor and story developer.  She started her career as a science writer for the National Cancer Institute before becoming a staff reporter and editor at Discover and Business Week magazines, where she covered medicine, technology and business. More recently, Sana was a regular contributor to the business section of The New York Times for 15 years. Now an independent digital editor and educator, Sana regularly works with early-career writers, shaping content, narratives and new storytelling forms.  As part of that effort, she taught journalism at St. John's University in Queens, New York, for seven years and worked with the Virtual Mentoring Program at the National Association of Black Journalists. In 2018, she served as a Comparative Effectiveness Research Fellow at the Association of Health Care Journalists, where the focus was to produce accurate, in-depth reporting on medicine and medical decision-making. At JAWS, Sana co-chairs the national regional groups committee and is captain of the New York group.


  • Sylvia Snowden is a reporter/anchor/producer at WGN AM 720 in Chicago, IL, where she provides listeners with up-to-the minute information about the most-pressing local and national stories of the day.

    Prior to that, she worked at the city’s public access television network, CAN TV, for more than 15 years. While there, she served as host and producer of the network’s news affairs program, Political Forum. Some of the topics she covered as host of Political Forum include the unique ways Chicago’s West Side youth experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, the battle between Democrats and Republicans over state-wide mask mandates, the 2020 Chicago riots, the legacy of Black women in Chicago politics and Chicago’s 2023 Mayoral race.

    As a native Chicagoan who proudly hails from the city's South Side, Sylvia still enjoys volunteering with many of the community organizations that helped shape her as a young girl, like Target HOPE, a program committed to sending talented inner-city students to college with scholarships.

    Sylvia currently sits on the executive board of the National Association of Black Journalists–Chicago Chapter and serves as chair of the Advocacy Committee. She is also a member of the Chicago Journalists Association and the Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS).

    Sylvia is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is the inaugural winner of the People's Choice Award at the 28th Annual Community Media Awards Presented by Public Narrative. She is the 2nd place winner of the Chicago Journalists Association’s top prize, the 2023 Dorothy Storck Award. She is also the 2023 recipient of the legendary JAWS quilt.

  • Jasmine Aguilera is a senior health equity reporter and editor at El Tímpano, a California Bay Area nonprofit newsroom covering the region’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities. She is also currently a StoryReach U.S. fellow with the Pulitzer Center. Prior, she covered Congress and immigration for TIME Magazine, working from New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. Her work has appeared in KFF Health News, Univision, The New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, and others. She is originally from El Paso, Texas, and currently resides in Oakland, California.operations in Chicago. Before the Post, where she covered tech, obits, politics and hurricanes (not at the same time), she was executive online editor at a now-defunct technology site in San Francisco, started a highly successful online column at the San Jose Mercury News, covered militias in Missoula, Mont., and cut her reportorial teeth in South Florida during the cocaine cowboys era. Pat joined JAWS in 1993, after a John S. Knight fellowship at Stanford. She co-created JAWS first website, chaired our camp at Sundance, Utah, and served as president in 2000.