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Faculty Mason covers Alaska for the Corbis photo agency in New York/Seattle, and is represented by Tony Stone Images/Getty in Seattle/London. His work has appeared in LIFE, Time, Newsweek, Outside, Aperture, The New York Times and GEO. He also has published two children's books, including the award-winning A Child's Alaska. Other books include collaborations with writer Jennifer Brice (The Last Settlers, a black-and-white documentary project on the last federal homesteaders); writer Patti Clayton (Connection on the Ice, about the 1988 Barrow, Alaska, whale rescue); and writer Sherry Simpson (The Way Winter Comes, cover and illustrations). At UAF, Mason runs the Photojournalism Program. He has lived in Alaska since 1984 and has the distinction of having been in the Journalism Department longer than any other faculty member (since 1990). He chaired the department for five years and played a key role in building our state-of-the-art computer and photography labs.
Snifka moved to Alaska in 1997 and took a job at KUAC-TV in Fairbanks. There, she was responsible for the station’s political coverage and fundraising. But because global warming hadn’t yet taken a foothold and she’s a bit of a wimp, Snifka left after her second winter to take a job at the CBS affiliate in Anchorage. In Anchorage, she produced Inside Alaska, a nightly newsmagazine broadcast in Anchorage and throughout rural Alaska. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the program. She also worked as an independent writer and producer and traveling the state from Angoon to Barrow collecting Alaska stories. Also in Anchorage, Snifka served as the editor of Anchorage magazine, the managing editor of the Anchorage Press, and a regular freelance contributor to Alaska magazine. Her work in television and print has been honored by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Alaska Broadcasters Association, the Alaska Press Club and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She has a bachelor’s degrees in journalism and a bachelor’s degree in communication arts, both from the University of Wisconsin Madison. Snifka returned to Fairbanks in 2006 with bunny boots and a small dog. She looks forward to her first semesters at UAF.
Such experiences color O'Donoghue's 20-year career as a photographer, reporter and editor for daily newspapers in Alaska and alternative weeklies in Baltimore, New York and Washington, D.C., and for television coverage of the Alaska Legislature. While most of his assignments have involved politics, the oil industry or military reporting, O'Donoghue is also the author of two non-fiction books about sled-dog racing: Honest Dogs and My Lead Dog Was a Lesbian, recounting his own last place runs in the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod. More recently, he edited photos and provided text for photographer Laurent Dick's book Yukon Quest. In fall 2001, O'Donoghue left his post as editorial writer at the Fairbanks
Daily News-Miner and joined the UAF Journalism team. With Lisa W.
Drew, he runs the News Editorial Program, regularly teaching the department's
keystone news-writing and reporting class, as well as mass communications
and investigative reporting, emphasizing story-telling skills applicable
to every medium and discussions crafted to hone news judgment.
M.A. Northern Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks Charles Fedullo began his professional career as a television reporter and anchor in Philadelphia. Then he made what he considers to be the best decision of his life: to move to Fairbanks. An award-winning broadcast journalist, he worked as a reporter, anchor and news director for almost a decade before coming to UAF. While working in Alaska's three largest cities, Fedullo developed and produced such groundbreaking television as Village Views, a look at issues facing Alaska with a rural viewpoint, and Spirit of Youth, programs highlighting the positive contributions Alaska's youth make to their communities. Fedullo takes pride in the fact that people working for him have moved on to successful reporting careers in markets as large as Seattle, and at ESPN. Formerly a press aide to Gov. Tony Knowles, Fedullo currently runs the Broadcast Journalism program at UAF. With Paul McCarthy, UAF director of libraries, he recently completed an oral history of the Knowles Administration that is stored in the State Archives and at UAF's Rasmuson Library. He also works on multimedia projects for the University of Alaska statewide Health Office and has developed the university system's first Web site that includes on-demand video and audio components.
Libby Casey is a reporter and producer at Fairbanks public radio station
KUAC. Before moving to Alaska five years ago, she interned at WHYY
in Philadelphia and wrote the pilot for a cartoon short on Oxygen
TV Network. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Ed Husted Ed Husted practiced general law in Indiana for almost 20 years before
moving to Alaska in 1982. He then worked for six years as a paralegal
in two Fairbanks law offices practicing workers' compensation law.
In 1988, Husted and his wife formed Lawyer Support Services to provide
contract legal research and written projects for local lawyers. The
following year, Husted began writing and selling weekly summaries
of the opinions of the Alaska Supreme Court. His subscription list
has now grown to more than 125 law firms throughout Alaska and in
Seattle. As a special projects manager at UAF, Eric Muehling works in new media (educational interactive, multimedia CD-ROMs, Web site content planning, development and design). He gives technical assistance and manages projects for a number of UAF departments on short- and long-term projects. For more than 20 semesters, Muehling has created and taught multimedia classes at UAF. His industry experience includes 10 years with the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (photo editor), three years with the Memphis Commercial Appeal and three years with the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (information officer). He also was editor and publisher of Alaska Living Magazine. He has a Macromedia Professional Certification in Flash design, the main software program he teaches in his current multimedia class. Dave Partee Dave Partee, who teaches website design, is communications designer
for the Alaska Sea Grant College Program at UAF,
and before that was Web Coordinator for the UAF
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. Prior to
moving to Alaska in 1996, he pursued the family
business--academia--studying philosophy and music
at the University of California at Berkeley (B.A.).
and was a graduate fellow in philosophy at UMass
Amherst, before being drawn into a career in design and music. Dave's
specialties also include graphics and design applications, such as
Photoshop and InDesign, and digital The lynchpin of our department is Amy Simpson, who calls herself a jack of all trades and master of none. Somehow that doesn't do her justice. Surely Simpson could run the whole university if she set her mind to it. Since graduating from college in 1982 with a B.S. in physics, she has been a bank teller, a bartender, a Department of Justice database quality control editor and an observer for the state on the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup, and that's just a fraction of her work experience. "I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up," she says. But with any luck, and the help of my 9-year-old son, that may never happen. Meanwhile, she enjoys reading and getting out in the woods with her family. Jason Lazarus Jason Lazarus provides our technology-dependant department with its life support, keeping our computers, cameras, recorders, microphones, printers and all the rest of our gear in operating condition. He is a recent graduate of our very own department, with a degree in Photojournalism. Before we were lucky enough to hire Lazarus, he held several student positions at UAF, from sorting mail to completely overhauling the campus recycling program as the school's recycling director. Although Lazarus has a PC background, he says that in this job he has found a deep respect for Apple computers. His hobbies are portrait photography, video gaming and freelance Web site development. He is responsible for the complete redesign of this very Web site in 2005.
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Charles
Mason - Department Head 
Lynne Snifka 
Brian Patrick O'Donoghue 
Charles Fedullo