Vivian
Vahlberg is director of journalism programs for the Robert R. McCormick
Tribune Foundation. She develops, directs and administers two programs
of grants, conferences and initiatives: the $5 million Journalism
Program and the $1.5 million Citizenship Program.
Before joining the Foundation in 1992, she was executive director
of the Society of Professional Journalists; vice president and chief
executive officer of the National Press Building Corporation; assistant
Washington bureau chief for the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma
City Times and Colorado Springs Sun; and adjunct professor
of journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
A native of Oklahoma City, Vahlberg graduated cum laude from Rice
University, with a bachelor's degree in sociology. She attended
the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Vahlberg served as president of the National Press Club in Washington,
D.C. and was inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame.
She was named by Working Woman magazine as one of 300 "women
who have changed the world: 1976-1996." |
