BMI Staff Directory
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 trend pieces for BMI’s weekly newsletter,
The Balance Sheet, and has co-written Special Reports including Debt:
Who’$ Responsible?, Global Warming Censored and UnCritical Condition.
Seymour has appeared on Fox Business Network, the Christian Broadcasting
Network and has been a guest on the G. Gordon Liddy Show. She has also
done over a hundred interviews on a wide-range of topics with radio
stations in 23 states as well as nationally syndicated programs. Her
work has appeared or been mentioned by radio host Mark Levin, The Drudge
Report, WorldNetDaily, USA Today, CNBC.com, MSNBC’s Motley Fool and
“Ted, White and Blue” by Ted Nugent. Prior to joining BMI in 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 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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