About PublicSource

Sharon Walsh is the editor of PublicSource. She has worked as an investigative reporter and an editor at The Washington Post, a business editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer and a senior editor at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Most recently, she was enterprise and investigative editor for The Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky.

During her 17 years at The Washington Post, she won the Morton Mintz Award for Investigative Reporting and the Washington Dateline Award for Investigative Reporting. She was nominated four times by the Post for a Pulitzer Prize. In addition to establishing the white-collar-crime beat as a business reporter at the Post, she served for four years as a Wall Street and investigative reporter in the Post's New York City bureau. Her reporting teams at the Herald-Leader won an Associated Press Media Editor's Public Service Award and two McClatchy President’s Awards under her guidance.

She has been a writer in residence at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and at Duke University and was the recipient of a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan.

She has twice served on the board of directors of Journalism and Women's Symposium and is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Charlie Humphrey has been Executive Director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers since 1992. Pittsburgh Filmmakers is one of the oldest and largest media arts centers in the United States. Before joining Filmmakers, Humphrey was editor and publisher of In Pittsburgh, an alternative weekly paper. Prior to that he was a public radio producer and announcer, and still does occasional voiceover work for film and other media.

In addition to his role at Filmmakers, Humphrey is Executive Director of Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, assuming the dual positions after the Center closed amid a financial crisis in August of 2004. Filmmakers and the Center for the Arts are now legally merged.

Humphrey sits on the Board of Directors of the Quantum Theater, the New Hazlett Theater and GPAC. He is a past president of the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture and past chair of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Alliance. Over the last decade he has been on the boards of Silver Eye Center for Photography, The Andy Warhol Museum, The Mattress Factory, funding panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Heinz Family Foundation and the Heinz Endowments’ Small Arts Initiative.

Emily DeMarco is a PublicSource fellow. She has been an independent journalist for Rustbelt Radio and worked in non-profit advocacy and media relations. She is originally from Pittsburgh and graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in fine arts.

Halle Stockton is a PublicSource fellow. She was a staff writer at the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune before joining PublicSource. The Erie, Pa. native is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where she served as managing editor of the independent student-run newspaper.

Bill Heltzel is a senior investigative reporter at PublicSource. He has worked as an investigative reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Press and Hammond Times. Most recently, he trained reporters and editors across North America to do business and finance research, working for Bloomberg LP in New York.

Alexandra Kanik is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art where she studied web and graphic design. She specializes in Drupal web development, the open source content management system that runs the PublicSource website you are looking at right now.