Dan Gainor, the T. Boone Pickens Fellow and Vice President of Business & Culture for the MRC, is a veteran editor with more than two decades of experience in print and online media. Gainor regularly appears on the FoxNews.com’s “Strategy Room,” an online news program. He has also appeared a number of times on the Fox Business Network and writes for The Fox Forum. He has served as an editor at several newspapers including The Washington Times and The Baltimore News-American. Mr. Gainor also has extensive experience in online publishing – holding the position of managing editor for CQ.com, the Web site of Congressional Quarterly, and executive editor for ChangeWave, published by Phillips International. He has worked in financial publishing in his last two positions, launching new services for ChangeWave and Agora Inc. Mr. Gainor holds an MBA from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and a master’s in publications design from the University of Baltimore. As an undergraduate, he majored in political science and history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Mr. Gainor lives in Maryland and volunteers as a media and issues speaker with the Close-Up Foundation.

Gainor has made hundreds of radio and TV appearances. In addition to the Fox Business Network, his appearances include: CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes” and “Fox & Friends,” as well as CNN’s “Paul Zahn Now.” He has appeared on local or national radio shows in every state including: the Jerry Doyle Show, the Chuck Harder Show, Battleline with Alan Nathan, The Right Balance, Janet Parshall’s America, the Thom Hartmann Show, Money & More, the G. Gordon Liddy Show, America at Night, Dateline Washington, the Lars Larson Show, the Jim Bohannon Show, Home Talk USA, The Weekend, Mancow, Money Dots on Main Street USA, American Family Radio, and Entertainment USA.

He has been published in a wide variety of publications, including: Investor’s Business Daily, The Washington Times, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Orange County Register, the New York Post, the Baltimore Examiner, Canada’s National Post's Financial Post & FP Investing, the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Augusta Free Press, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette, the Port Clinton, Ohio Beacon, Contacto Magazine, the Caribbean Voice, the Newtown Bee, the Frederick News-Post, The High Point Enterprise, the Easton Star Democrat, the Midland Daily News, the Findlay, Ohio, Courier, and the Simi Valley, Calif., Acorn.
dgainor@mediaresearch.org

Matt Philbin, the Managing Editor for the Business & Media Institute, has been a writer, reporter and editor for more than 15 years. A veteran of business-to-business publications, his most recent position was Director of Editorial and Marketing for the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association in Washington D.C. Prior to that he was Senior Editor of the American Foundry Society in Hoffmann States, Ill. Philbin holds a BA in English from Salve Regina University. A native of Huntington, N.Y., he currently resides with his family in Fairfax, Virginia.
mphilbin@mediaresearch.org

Julia A. Seymour is an assistant editor/analyst for the Business & Media Institute. She edits daily stories, writes biweekly articles for The Balance Sheet and contributes to special reports including Debt: Who’s Responsible? and Global Warming Censored. Seymour is also responsible for the BMI Web site. Seymour has been a guest on the G. Gordon Liddy Show and has been interviewed by radio stations in Iowa, Tennessee, Michigan, Connecticut, Florida, Colorado and New York. She has a weekly interview with her hometown radio station in Elmira, N.Y. Her work has appeared or been mentioned by radio host Mark Levin, The Drudge Report, WorldNetDaily, USA Today and MSNBC’s Motley Fool. Prior to joining BMI in September 2006, she was a staff writer for Accuracy in Academia where she wrote daily articles about bias in lower and higher education and contributed to the book “The Real MLA Stylebook.” She holds a B.S. in Mass Communications: Print Journalism from Liberty University. Seymour is a Big Flats, N.Y. native, but now lives in Northern Virginia.
jseymour@mediaresearch.org
 

Jeff Poor is a staff writer at the Business & Media Institute. His work has been mentioned by Rush Limbaugh and linked by Drudge Report. Prior to joining BMI in May 2007, Poor was a student at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Ala., where he graduated with a B.A. in Communications: Print Journalism. While at USA, Poor was Editor in Chief of The Vanguard, the University’s student newspaper, and a columnist for Lagniappe, Mobile’s Alternative Bi-Weekly publication, covering local politics. Poor also holds a B.S. in Building Construction from Auburn University. He is originally from Pelham, Ala., and resides in Falls Church, Va.
jpoor@mediaresearch.org


 

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