Dan Gainor, the T. Boone Pickens Fellow and the Vice President of the Business & Media Institute, is a veteran editor with more than two decades’ experience in print and online media. Gainor regularly appears on the Fox Business Network as part of the “Blasting Biz” segment of “Fox Business Live.” 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 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 Gordon Liddy Show, America at Night, Dateline Washington, the Lars Larson Show, the Jim Bohannon Show, Home Talk USA, The Weekend, Mandow, 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, OH, Courier, and the Simi Valley, Calif., Acorn.
dgainor@mediaresearch.org

Amy Menefee  is managing editor for the Business & Media Institute. A journalist by training, she is a frequent commentator on radio and television and writes op-eds on economic issues in the media.

Menefee has appeared on the Fox News Channel, the Fox Business Network, and the Christian Broadcasting Network's "Newswatch" program. She has done more than 145 radio interviews in cities such as San Antonio, Tucson, Jacksonville, New Orleans and Seattle. She has appeared on the nationally syndicated "Michael Medved Show," "The Lynne Breidenbach Show," "Dateline Washington" and "The Martha Zoller Show." She has a weekly guest spot on Greenville, N.C., station WTKF, discussing media bias on business issues. Her op-eds have been published in Human Events Online, The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, FrontPage Magazine and the Texas Insider.

She edits all BMI publications, including daily stories, Special Reports and the weekly e-mail newsletter, The Balance Sheet http://www.businessandmedia.org/email/email.asp. She also writes Special Reports and does research and writing on a regular basis. When she's not doing media appearances and managing content, she's out representing BMI and the MRC at the Conservative Women's Network, Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and meetings with policy groups. In 2007 she led a seminar on the media at the International Bottled Water Association conference in Las Vegas, Nev.

Prior to joining BMI in March 2005, Menefee covered federal, state and local government. Her reporting experience includes Congressional Quarterly's CQ Homeland Security, a daily Web-based publication, and The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. She worked as a reporter and assistant editor in the state Capitol bureau of The Columbia Missourian and also as a research assistant with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc.

She holds an M.A. in public policy journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism (Columbia, Mo.) and a B.A. in journalism/mass communication from Samford University in Birmingham, Ala. Menefee is originally from Macon, Ga., and resides in Alexandria, Va..
amenefee@mediaresearch.org
 

Julia A. Seymour  is assistant editor/analyst for the Business & Media Institute. She edits daily stories, writes biweekly articles for The Balance Sheet and works on special reports. Seymour is also responsible for the BMI Web site.

Seymour has been interviewed on KGLO-AM Mason City, Iowa; WPWT Tri-Cities, Tenn.; and WDRC-AM Hartford, Conn. 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 on 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 and interned with The Lynchburg Ledger in 2005. Seymour is a Big Flats, N.Y. native, but now lives in Northern Virginia.
jseymour@mediaresearch.org
 

Nathan Burchfiel is assistant editor for the Business & Media Institute. He edits daily stories, writes biweekly features for The Balance Sheet, and works on special reports and other long-term projects.

Burchfiel joined BMI after more than three years as a correspondent and staff writer for Cybercast News Service, most recently as a Capitol Hill reporter. He has also worked on the national desk at the Washington Times. Burchfiel has been interviewed for talk radio broadcasts hundreds of times and has appeared on Fox News Channel five times since 2006. His work has been cited by The Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity among others.

He graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a B.A. in print journalism from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. While in college, Burchfiel edited The Terrapin Times, a monthly student newspaper funded in part by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Collegiate Network. Burchfiel is a lifetime Washington, DC-area resident. He was born and raised in Fairfax, Va., and currently resides in Arlington, Va.
nburchfiel@mediaresearch.org
 

Scot Christenson is the director of communications for the Business & Media Institute. He joined the organization after gaining more than 10 years of media experience which included working as a broadcast journalist for a network affiliate, running the PR department for a zoo, managing the national outreach efforts of government agencies and editing a public policy magazine. He began his career as a public relations specialist at Walt Disney World. At BMI, he focuses on networking with conservative organizations, business, industry groups and Capitol Hill while promoting all of BMI’s products and publications. A navy brat, Christenson grew up in the U.K., attended high school in Florida and graduated from Old Dominion University with a B.A. in mass communications.
schristenson@mediareseach.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
 

Paul Detrick is a Researcher at the Business and Media Institute. He has been mentioned in the "Inside Politics" section of the Washington Times and Chris Roush's blog, "Talking Biz News", from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the Carolina Business News Initiative. Detrick has also been linked to by the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development, Rush Limbaugh and the Drudge Report. Detrick graduated from University of California, Irvine, where he studied Political Science and English. While in college he wrote for the Irvine Review, a publication funded by the Collegiate Network, and contributed to Moxie, a political magazine distributed to college students all over California. He is originally from Lakewood, Calif., and resides in Washington, D.C.
pdetrick@mediaresearch.org
 

Genevieve Ebel is an intern at the Business & Media Institute. Ebel graduated with a degree in History from Furman University in Greenville, S.C. Before working at BMI, she was the legal marketing intern for Williams Mullen Law Firm in Richmond, VA. One of Ebel’s first few articles with BMI also appeared on the Drudge Report and Free Republic Web sites. Genevieve is originally from Richmond, and now resides in Alexandria, Va.
gebel@mediaresearch.org

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