At its November meeting, the board chose the following members to fill these executive committee roles:

President: Marty Fischhoff
Marty is the director of community engagement at Detroit PBS, part of the station’s award-winning journalism team. After 30-plus years as a working journalist, he took a slight detour in his career to serve as Managing Director of the University of Michigan’s Taubman Medical Research Institute. Before that, he was an assistant managing editor of The Detroit News, where he worked for 20 years, and executive editor of Detroit Monthly magazine. (see profile)

Vice President: Mark S. Lee
Mark S. Lee is President & CEO, The LEE Group (TLG), MI LLC, an independent integrated marketing consulting firm focused on providing marketing, branding and communication solutions to clients. Additionally, TLG provides training & development to organizations in the areas of branding, re-branding and communications and has advised on how to effectively implement in an integrated fashion. (see profile)

Vice President: Rob Davidek
Rob Davidek has been the news director at WWJ Newsradio 950, Michigan’s only all-news radio station, since 2007 and picked up the additional duties of brand manager in 2013. He joined WWJ in July 1993 as a part-time producer and have been promoted to full-time jobs of morning drive producer, assignment editor and assistant news director. Before WWJ, he worked at WKZO in Kalamazoo and WMSH in Sturgis. (see profile)

Treasurer: Walter T. Middlebrook
Walter Middlebrook, the Foster Professor of Practice at The Pennsylvania State University, is a former assistant managing editor at The Detroit News. The award-winning journalist joined Penn State in 2019, after a career that included editing and management stints at The New York Times, Newsday/New York Newsday, USA Today and the St. Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press. (see profile)

Secretary: Peg McNichol
Peg McNichol is a Pontiac-based journalist reporting for The Oakland Press. Her previous print work includes The Southeast Missourian, The Macomb Daily, The Royal Oak Daily Tribune, The Holland Sentinel, Crain’s Detroit Monthly Magazine, among others. In broadcast: morning news anchor at WHTC-AM; overnight producer at WWJ-AM; morning-news producer at WXYZ-AM. (see profile)