Kurt Greenbaum is online news director for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he oversees the newspaper’s web site, STLtoday.com. His job includes coordinating the work of the site with that of the newsroom at large, as well as the sales, marketing, technology and design departments of the web site operation. Since Kurt’s arrival in St. Louis, STLtoday.com has undergone a front-to-back redesign, with traffic to the site doubling year-over-year and a marked increase in the newsroom’s support of the site. Kurt wears another hat as newsroom coordinator of the paper’s multimedia partnerships with local broadcast media. Kurt has a journalism degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He worked for 13 years at the Sun-Sentinel in South Florida as a reporter, where his beats included education, courts, municipal government; assignments included coverage of hurricanes Hugo (1989) and Andrew (1992). He was also founding editor of the newspaper’s web site. For 2 1/2 years, Kurt was editor of the online business news network LocalBusiness.com in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he built the editorial staff from three to 80, gaining national attention for coverage of small-cap and emerging, venture-backed companies from publications such as Hoovers and Fortune. Later, after a brief stint as a general manager for a group of Media General’s web sites, Kurt returned to the Midwest to work at the Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com. Kurt lives in Chesterfield, Mo., with his wife, Janis, and two children, a daughter and son.

Kelly Hatmaker, KMOX Radio and kmox.com

Kelly Hatmaker was named assignment editor at KMOX in September 2002 and was promoted to managing editor in 2003. Since joining the "Voice of St. Louis," Hatmaker has shared a national Edward R. Murrow award for continuing coverage, and has earned individual awards for series, documentary and newscast production. Hatmaker began his journalism career as a newspaper reporter in New Hampshire out of high school, before going on to attend the Newhouse School
of Public Communication at Syracuse University. He landed his first broadcast job at WSTM-TV in Syracuse, producing for the city's top-rated morning news show. He went next to WDTV in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he was named senior producer, and later worked as a newscast and features producer at WTNH-TV in New Haven, Conn. Hatmaker came to St. Louis in 1996, when he was hired by KSDK-TV as a newscast producer and was later named special projects producer. He left the area to work as executive producer of special projects at WBNS-TV, in Columbus, Ohio, where he shared the Child Welfare League of America's Anna Quinlend Award for a documentary on youth violence. Kelly and his wife, Susan, live in Lake St. Louis with their two sons.

Tim Wolff, ksdk.com

Tim Wolff was named online executive producer for ksdk.com in May of 2005. He has been at KSDK since August 2001, working as a producer before being promoted to his current position. He was also a producer at WHTM in Harrisburg, Penn., and a writer at KTVU in San Francisco. He began his media career at KOMU-TV and KBIA-FM in Columbia, Mo., where he was a producer and reporter. Wolff is a graduate of St. John's College in Santa Fe, N.M., and Annapolis, Md. He holds a masters degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. Wolff and his wife, Christine, have one child who is not quite one year old. Their hobbies include running, sports, and chasing their child.


Kurt Greenbaum	Kelly Hatmaker	Tim Wolff