Dan Gainor, the T. Boone Pickens Fellow and the Vice President of the Business & Media Institute, is a veteran editor with more than two decades’ experience in print and online media. Gainor regularly appears on the Fox Business Network as part of the “Blasting Biz” segment of “Fox Business Live.” 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 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 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, OH, 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.

Julia A. Seymour is an assistant editor/analyst for the Business & Media Institute. She edits daily stories, writes biweekly articles for The Balance Sheet and contributes to special reports including Debt: Who’s Responsible? and Global Warming Censored. Seymour is also responsible for the BMI Web site.

Seymour has been a guest on the G. Gordon Liddy Show and has been interviewed by radio stations in Iowa, Tennessee, Michigan, Connecticut, Florida, Colorado and New York. She has a weekly interview with her hometown radio station in Elmira, N.Y. Her work has appeared or been mentioned by radio host Mark Levin, The Drudge Report, WorldNetDaily, USA Today and MSNBC’s Motley Fool. Prior to joining BMI in September 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 is a Big Flats, N.Y. native, but now lives in Northern Virginia.
jseymour@mediaresearch.org

Nathan Burchfiel is assistant editor for the Business & Media Institute. He edits daily stories, writes biweekly features for The Balance Sheet, and works on special reports and other long-term projects.

Burchfiel joined BMI after more than three years as a correspondent and staff writer for Cybercast News Service, most recently as a Capitol Hill reporter. He has also worked on the national desk at the Washington Times. Burchfiel has been interviewed for talk radio broadcasts hundreds of times and has appeared on Fox News Channel five times since 2006. His work has been cited by The Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity among others.

He graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a B.A. in print journalism from the Philip Merrill College of Journalism. While in college, Burchfiel edited The Terrapin Times, a monthly student newspaper funded in part by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Collegiate Network. Burchfiel is a lifetime Washington, DC-area resident. He was born and raised in Fairfax, Va., and currently resides in Arlington, Va.
nburchfiel@mediaresearch.org
 

Scot Christenson is the director of communications for the Business & Media Institute. He joined the organization after gaining more than 10 years of media experience which included working as a broadcast journalist for a network affiliate, running the PR department for a zoo, managing the national outreach efforts of government agencies and editing a public policy magazine. He began his career as a public relations specialist at Walt Disney World. At BMI, he focuses on networking with conservative organizations, business, industry groups and Capitol Hill while promoting all of BMI’s products and publications. A navy brat, Christenson grew up in the U.K., attended high school in Florida and graduated from Old Dominion University with a B.A. in mass communications.
schristenson@mediareseach.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
 

Paul Detrick is a Researcher at the Business and Media Institute. He has been mentioned in the "Inside Politics" section of the Washington Times and Chris Roush's blog, "Talking Biz News", from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and the Carolina Business News Initiative. Detrick has also been linked to by the Institute for Trade, Standards and Sustainable Development, Rush Limbaugh and the Drudge Report. Detrick graduated from University of California, Irvine, where he studied Political Science and English. While in college he wrote for the Irvine Review, a publication funded by the Collegiate Network, and contributed to Moxie, a political magazine distributed to college students all over California. He is originally from Lakewood, Calif., and resides in Washington, D.C.
pdetrick@mediaresearch.org

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