EWA adds Green and Elliott to board of directors
Friday, March 20, 2009

EWA adds Elizabeth Green and Scott Elliott to board of directors.

The National Education Writers Association is expanding its work in new media by adding two new members to its board of directors - a full-time online journalist and a columnist who was one of journalism's first education bloggers. Elizabeth Green, education reporter for GothamSchools.org, and Scott Elliott, columnist for the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, will join EWA’s board over the next several months their appointments are for two years.

Green covers K-12 topics in the Big Apple. Before working at GothamSchools.org, she was an education reporter at The New York Sun from 2007 until it published its last edition in the fall of 2008. Before working at the Sun, Green reported on education topics for U.S. News & World Report. She speaks frequently on education issues and has appeared as a guest on CNN, MSNBC and the Brian Lehrer Show. Green studied social studies at Harvard University. She is the first full-time online journalist to serve on EWA’s board.

Elliott is a columnist and education reporter at the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, where he has worked since 1998. He is the author of the popular education blog "Get on the Bus," one of the earliest blogs on education in journalism. Elliott has covered national, state and local education issues with a focus on school choice, testing and urban school reform. In 2004-05, he was a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow in Education at the University of Michigan. Elliott and his colleague, Mark Fisher, won the 2005 National Headliner Award for education reporting for a series of stories about testing and No Child Left Behind. In addition, he is the author of Public Schools, Private Markets: A Reporter’s Guide to Covering Privatization in Education, published in 2005 by the Education Writers Association. He has spoken at various journalism conferences, including EWA’s fall 2007 meeting on school choice and charters in Milwaukee and the 2006 and 2008 annual meetings.

“Elizabeth and Scott add additional experience in new media to the EWA board,” said EWA president Richard Whitmire. “As the news industry struggles with the mix of traditional and new media, it is important for EWA and its members to tap new media skills and knowledge. We look forward to having Elizabeth and Scott join the board.”

The appointments are part of EWA’s expansion of its board of directors, a bylaws change approved by the membership in 2008.

Green joins the board immediately, and Elliott will start his term at the end of the 2009 annual meeting.

You can see other members of EWA’s board here.

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The Washington, D.C.-based Education Writers Association is the national professional association of reporters, editors and writers who cover education for newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, online media, blogs and trade publications. For additional information, go to http://www.ewa.org/ or contact publications@ewa.org.