[CW:MONTHLY] Members in the Spotlight: Geoff Dankert & Edward Alwood

Geoff Dankert has been named assistant news director for WFLD FOX Chicago. Most recently, Dankert was the managing editor for FOX News Chicago, where he helped launch the station's late-evening newscast, "The Ten." He joined WFLD-TV in 1999 from WXYZ-TV in Detroit, where he was an executive producer. Dankert, the recipient of a Chicago/Midwest Emmy and a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, began his broadcasting career more than 20 years ago as a radio reporter and anchor in his home state of Michigan.

"Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press" by Edward Alwood has been named Best Book of the Year 2008 by the Connecticut Press Club. Alwood, a former CNN correspondent, is a professor of journalism at Quinnipiac University. He is a founding member of NLGJA and authored "Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media."