The Quality News Network is an informal association of quality journalists who recognize the vital need for the American people to be fully informed about the circumstances of their society, their government, and the world they share.

Members of the Quality News Network

TONY SETON has written, produced, directed, and reported in live and tape broadcasts for radio and television, both commercial and public, network and local, winning a number of national awards. He has also conducted over a thousand interviews, published five books including "Don't Mess with the Press.." and "The Quality Interview.." and written thousands of essays. Tony is an adjunct professor on media at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Monterey. (bio/site)
STEPHEN PIZZO began his journalism career at 39 when he and a partner purchased a weekly newspaper in Northern California.  After selling the paper in 1988 he went on to co-author the award winning, New York Times best selling non-fiction book on the savings and loan scandal, "Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans." He went on from there work as a freelance investigative reporter. A full list of Mr. Pizzo's gigs can be found here.
ANNABEL LUND has been a journalist for more than 30 years, working in radio, television, and print news media. She built a public radio station in Alaska, working every aspect from board operator to board of directors. She produced and hosted morning and evening radio and television programs. During the height of the unrest, she started a Western-styled youth radio station in the Balkans, She also provided interviews for BBC World News. Annabel’s considerable print experience includes reporting and writing for daily newspapers and magazines and the publication of a half-dozen books.
PETER Y. SUSSMAN spent almost 30 years as an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. Since leaving the paper, he has worked as an independent journalist and author. He is the recipient of numerous journalism awards, many of them for his First Amendment advocacy for news media access to prisoners. He has also been active within the profession on issues of journalism diversity and ethics and was one of the co-authors of the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics, which is widely used in newsrooms and taught in most journalism schools. (site)
  ROBERT SIRKIN
  CAROL POGASH
ALISSANDRA DRAMOV has worked as a news producer, reporter, anchor, and writer at a number of stations throughout the West and Midwest. She has reported live on the El Niño storms, John Denver’s plane crash off the Pacific Grove coast, and President Bush’s unscheduled arrival at Offutt Air Force Base, outside of Omaha, Nebraska on September 11th, 2001. In addition to breaking news and general reporting, Alissandra has covered local and state elections, as well as business, legal, and feature news stories. She is currently writing a book about Carmel-by-the-Sea’s early history and Bohemian culture.
Walter Brasch,  Ph.D., is professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University, syndicated social issues columnist, and author of 17 books. His latest is "Sinking the Ship of State: The Presidency of George W. Bush." Dr. Brasch is president of the Pennsylvania Press Club; the recipient of several scrapbooks' worth of state, regional, and national journalism awards (none of which allowed him to retire--or even have a weekend retreat); the winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Service Award, and the only two-time winner of the Deans' Salute to Excellence at Bloomsburg University. (site)

PEte BREWTON has 15 years of newspaper reporting and five practicing law in the Houston area. He is the author of a book on the savings and loan scandal, "The Mafia, CIA and George Bush" as well as "Lone Star Law," a novel set on the South Plains.'' Currently he teaches reporting, advanced reporting, and mass communications law at Texas Tech. He is also spending a great deal of time writing books and is working on two at the moment. (site)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

 


 

 
the Quality News Network used to be a broadcast operation. It may  return to that at a later time. In the meantime, enjoy the company.
For More information, please contact Tony Seton.