Len Lazarick

Len Lazarick is the editor and publisher of MarylandReporter.com. He was formerly the State House bureau chief of the daily Baltimore Examiner from its start in April 2006 to its untimely demise in February 2009.

In the 1980s, Len was State House chief and political editor of Patuxent Publishing, then a chain of 13 weeklies, and in 1997, was senior associate producer at Maryland Public Television for a C-Span-style coverage of State House hearings. He has been an editor at numerous publications large and small, including the national copy desk of The Washington Post for eight years. From 1988 to 1996, he was managing editor of Patuxent Publishing’s nine Baltimore County papers where he headed a staff of 30 editors, reporters and editorial assistants. Len spent eight years as the part-time news editor and political columnist for The Business Monthly circulating in Howard and Anne Arundel counties and was editor of the Trustee Quarterly for the national Association of Community College Trustees.

Len was a regular commentator on Baltimore talk radio (WYPR, WBAL, WEAA and WOLB). For six months in 2009, he was a visiting fellow for the Free State Foundation, a Maryland free-market think tank.

Len also spent a year as an editor at the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He has taught Asian history at Montgomery College, Md., and state and local government at Howard Community College in Columbia, Md.

He is past president of the Maryland Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, and is a member of both the Maryland and D.C. chapters of SPJ, Online News Association, the National Newspaper Association and Capitolbeat.

He can be reached at 410-312-9840 or at Len@MarylandReporter.com.

Barbara Pash

Contributing Editor Barbara Pash is the former associate editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times, where she covered state and local politics, from the governor’s office and state agencies to Baltimore City and County elected officials and departments.

Barbara set up and managed an Annapolis news bureau during the General Assembly sessions. She now writes for several publications and websites on topics as diverse as business, health and the environment. She has won over three dozen awards from professional organizations, including the Maryland-Delaware-D.C Press Association (MDDC), which gave her a 2008 MDDC award for state government coverage and a 2007 MDDC Best-In-Show award in the religion category.

Barbara is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She can be reached at Barbara@MarylandReporter.com.

Cynthia Prairie

Contributing Editor Cynthia Prairie has been a newspaper editor for more than 25 years. She has worked for the Raleigh Times, The Baltimore News American, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Prince George’s Journal and Baltimore County newspapers in the Patuxent Publishing chain, including overseeing The Jeffersonian when it was a two-day a week business publication.

Cynthia has won numerous state awards, including the Maryland State Bar Association’s Gavel Award.

Cynthia is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Glynis Kazanjian

Contributing writer Glynis Kazanjian has been transitioning to a career in journalism since she began freelancing for the weekly Montgomery County Sentinel in 2009. She followed that up with a graduate course in the fundamentals of journalism and editing at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2010. Since then she has done freelance writing and photographing for MarylandReporter.com and Patch.com, part of AOL Huffington Post.

Glynis’s previous experience include work as a licensed Realtor specializing in residential land transactions and as a communication manager for a higher education lobbying firm in Washington. She has also been an assistant conference planner for an education association and a hotel catering sales manager. Glynis has also been a volunteer handling communications for Republican women’s organizations in Maryland and for political campaigns.

Glynis grew up in Virginia and graduated from George Mason University with a degree in political communications. She lives in Montgomery County with her husband and three children.

Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundations Interns

The Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation of Oklahoma City is supporting the hiring of paid post-graduate interns to write and report about Maryland state government and politics.

Daniel Menefee

Daniel Menefee is a 2000 graduate of the University of Baltimore’s School of Communications Design. He also completed some graduate work in journalism at the University of Maryland. He is currently working on a master’s degree in publications at the University of Baltimore.

Dan has freelanced with small online publications since 2003 and most recently worked for the Chestertown Spy on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Before working as a reporter, Dan held positions as an educator and a nonprofit administrator. He can be reached at Dan@MarylandReporter.com.

Justin Snow

Justin Snow is a journalism professional with experience in print and online journalism. He is a 2011 graduate of the University of Maryland, where he studied history and rhetoric.

Justin served two years as opinion editor of The Diamondback in addition to working as a columnist and reporter. In 2010 he was awarded second place for collegiate column writing in the Mid-Atlantic region by the Society of Professional Journalists and was part of the editorial staff that helped The Diamondback win first place for best daily student newspaper.

Justin has also written for The American Prospect and The Baltimore Examiner and is a contributor to Baltimore magazine. He can be reached at Justin@MarylandReporter.com.