Alison Bethel-McKenzie
Alison Bethel-McKenzie (born January 12, 1966) is an American-born journalist and editor. Alison Bethel-McKenzie is executive director of the International Press Institute (IPI) and the first woman to reach this position since its foundation in 1950. She has over 25 years experience in journalism, as a reporter, bureau chief, senior editor and trainer. From 1995-2000 she was senior assistant city editor at the Boston Globe, supervising a reporting staff that covered City Hall, urban affairs and transportation. In 2000, she joined The Detroit News as features editor, and then became the paper’s Washington, D.C.. bureau chief from 2001 to 2006, overseeing coverage of the White House and members of Michigan’s congressional delegation. She joined the Legal Times in Washington, D.C. in 2006 as executive editor, moving on in 2007 to the Nassau Guardian, in the Bahamas, as managing editor.
Before joining the International Press Institute (IPI) in August 2009, she spent a year in Accra, Ghana, for the Washington, D.C.-based International Center for Journalists, as a Knight International Journalism Fellow, helping Ghanaian journalists improve their reporting skills in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election.
Alison oversees IPI’s strategic vision and is responsible for the overall leadership of the staff in the implementation of IPI’s goals, the overall administration and development of the organization and its press freedom activities, and the financial management of IPI.[1] Since 2009, Bethel-McKenzie has served as executive director of the International Press Institute in Vienna, Austria.[1] She is also on the Advisory Board of the Center for International Media Ethics.
References
- 1 2 "Short Takes". The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. July 8, 2009. Retrieved March 8, 2010.