Mary Ann Hogan
http://Mary Ann Hogan of Boca Raton, Fla., has been a career coach for the Chips Quinn Scholars program since 1997. She has been a writer for more than 25 years and a mentor to hundreds of students and young journalists during that time. Hogan started as a freelance correspondent for The Washington Post and the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News. For nine years, she was an award-winning reporter for The Oakland (Calif.) Tribune. When she left the newspaper, she created her own features syndicate. From 1991 to 1996, her stories were distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. She was a primary writer for the Newseum’s original news history exhibit in Arlington, Va., and for the Newseum book “Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists.” Today, Hogan conducts workshops for news professionals in newsrooms and online.