The UNH Journalism Faculty

Sue Hertz, program director

Sue Hertz is the author of Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion's Front Line. Her articles have appeared in Parenting, New England Monthly, Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, House Beautiful, The Walking Magazine, and other publications. A former feature writer for the Hartford Courant, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Herald in Everett, Washington, Hertz specializes in social issues.

You can reach her at smhertz@unh.edu or (603) 862-3966

Lisa Miller, internship director (beginning fall 2008)

Lisa Miller is the author of Power Journalism: Computer-Assisted Reporting, which is used by journalists and journalism students and has been translated into Korean. Her nonfiction has appeared in textbooks, Quill, Greenprints, and Kettle of Fish. Her poetry has appeared in Conscience, CQ, and Bitteroot. She came to UNH from the Gloucester Daily Times, where she was a reporter and senior news editor. She has served as a writing coach for several newspapers and won a teaching fellowship through the Gannett Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. She received the 2005 Excellence in Teaching Award at UNH.

You can reach her at lcm@unh.edu or (603) 862-0251

Andrew Merton, English Department chair and internship director for summer 2008

Andrew Merton has been a reporter for the Gloucester Daily Times, a reporter and columnist for The Boston Herald Traveler, and a contributing editor of Boston Magazine. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, Ms., New Age Journal, Yankee, The Boston Phoenix, and elsewhere. He has written two books: Enemies of Choice: The Right to Life Movement and Its Threat to Abortion, and a textbook/anthology called In Your Own Voice: A Writer's Reader. His poetry has appeared in The Bellevue Literary Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Powhatan Review, Paper Street, Cranky Literary Journal, and elsewhere. For nine years he wrote a weekly political column for the New Hampshire edition of the Boston Sunday Globe.

You can reach him at andrew.merton@unh.edu or (603) 862-3967

Dave Howland has reported and edited for newspapers in California and New England and was an Associated Press reporter in Boston.  As a reporter he focused on local government, crime and environmental issues; as a freelancer, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall.  He is the author of Global Warming, the Ozone Hole, and the Fourth Estate, a book about news coverage of climate change.  He has a Ph.D. in environmental studies from UNH and a B.S. in political  science from Penn State.  You can reach him at david.howland@unh.edu.

Sandy Marsters spent 20 years as a reporter and editor at several Maine newspapers; he was managing editor of the Journal Tribune in Biddeford. For two years he was the full-time adviser to the Free Press, the student newspaper at the University of Southern Maine. In 1998 he and a friend founded Points East, a boating magazine, which they ran for 10 years before selling it. He has been teaching at UNH on and off since 1994.  You can reach him at andrew.marsters@unh.edu

Jane Harrigan has left the building.
Really! She's freelancing and enjoying life after 23 years of enjoying UNH. You can reach her in Atkinson, N.H., or at jane.harrigan@yahoo.com   She welcomes your memories in her journalism scrapbook here: janeharrigan.ning.com