Daily Dispatches Staff

Tom Rautenberg, Publisher
Thomas Rautenberg is managing director of von Rothbard & Co., a boutique investment banking and strategic planning group specializing in corporate and project financing in the entertainment and communications industries. Over the past three years he has served as a senior advisor to James Garrison, president of the State of the World Forum. Tom is also a founder and chief strategist for State of the World Inc., a new global consulting, research, publishing and event production enterprise.

Perfect Pitch Editorial Team:

Phillip Frazer, Editor
Phillip Frazer is president of Perfect Pitch Inc., a New York-based editorial and publishing consultancy firm. He is also publisher of The Washington Spectator, editor of News on Earth and co-editor of The Hightower Lowdown.

Mark Schapiro, Editor
Mark Schapiro is a writer and editor specializing in international affairs. He was the features editor of Transitions magazine, covering the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. His writing on that region and Latin America has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Civilization, The Nation, and numerous other publications. He is a regular contributor to the on-line magazine Salon and co-author of the book Circle of Poison.

Jacqueline Gentile, Manager
Jacqueline Gentile is general manager of Perfect Pitch Inc., and co-director of the Information Network of the Americas, Inc.

Correspondents:

Ana Arana is an investigative journalist who specializes in international criminal organizations in Latin America. She is a senior fellow at the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media at New York University, and a consultant for the Inter American Press Association, in its rapid reaction team which investigates the murder of journalists in Latin America. A regular contributor for Salon, she has also written for the New York Daily News, Colombia Journalism Review, Media Studies Forum, the San Francisco Examiner and other publications. A graduate of the Colombia University Graduate School of Journalism, she was a foreign correspondent in Central America, Colombia and Venezuela for the Miami Herald and the Baltimore Sun. She is a former correspondent for the San Jose Mercury News and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, and headed the Americas program for the Committee to Protect Journalists in 1995. Arana has co-authored two books on the murder of journalists in Latin America for the Inter American Press Association. She is a member of the International Center for Investigative Journalism.

Marc Ian Barasch is the former editor-in-chief of New Age Journal, which won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He is a former contributing editor to Psychology Today and Natural Health magazines, and the author of a dozen books, among them The Healing Path (winner of the 1998 Mind/Body/Spirit Award) and Remarkable Recovery, and the forthcoming Healing Dreams (Riverhead, October 2000). His award-winning 1992 Earth Summit special for Turner Broadcasting System, One Child, One Voice, was broadcast to some 120 countries. He is president of Big World Pictures, and is inaugurating a Web portal for the "cultural creatives."

Mark Hertsgaard is a writer who has most recently focused on environmental issues. His journalism has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Salon. He has written four books, the most recent being Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future (Broadway Books). He is a regular contributor to NPR's Living on Earth program.

Garry M. Leech, an independent journalist specializing in Latin American issues, is the publisher of Colombia Report, a non-profit e-zine that focuses on U.S. foreign policy in Colombia. He has contributed to NACLA Report on the Americas.

Phillip Tomlinson is a graduate of the School of Journalism at Colombia University and is a National Press Foundation Fellow. His work has appeared in print and on television where he has been a correspondent, writer and producer. He was the senior producer and anchor of the Emmy and Polk award-winning PBS newsmagazine South Africa Now, which chronicled life under apartheid. He also worked in various capacities with ABC News, CBS, and United Press International. He is currently a senior editor of Medical Herald.

Kevin Walter is the founding staff writer of Perfect Pitch, Inc. He is an associate editor of the monthly newsletters The Hightower Lowdown and News on Earth, and the associate publisher of The Washington Spectator.