2004 May: Spoke at the "Fourth Estate and Third Sector" fellowship program, sponsored by the University of Mississippi, Department of Journalism. Topic: "Trench Warfare: Getting your first non-fiction title published."

2001 October: Participated in a panel: "The Changing Face of Health Care Providers" at the Association of Health Care Journalists annual convention in San Francisco.

2001 April: Invited to speak to combined journalism classes at Solano Community College, Vacaville, California, about how the Xiana Fairchild/Midsi Sanchez story developed as print news story.

2000  November: Participated in a panel: "Telling the Big Stories" at the National Writers Workshop, sponsored by the Poynter Institute.

2000  February: Spoke to broadcast writing class at Sacramento State University. Subject: "Writing and Delivering Radio News on the FLY."

"It has been my experience that what most viewers and readers are most unhappy about is not that journalists slant the news, but that we don't slant it their way."

--Don Hewitt, executive producer of ``60 Minutes''