The Foundation Supports Local Students and Journalists
The Front Page Foundation is a non-profit corporation chartered in 2015 to raise funds benefiting journalism in all news media – print, electronic, and digital – through scholarships, professional development activities, and educational programs for the public on vital issues in journalism.
Chartered with the support of the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists, the Front Page Foundation partners with ETSPJ in supporting programs that educate the providers and consumers of news, encouraging professional excellence and public understanding of the role of the press.
The Foundation considers journalism ethics, diversity, freedom of information, open records and meetings, and government transparency to be essential for a functioning and thriving democracy. A free press and well-informed public are vital to democracy.
Our Board
David Winstrom
President
David Winstrom is the Managing Executive Producer at WVLT-TV CBS in Knoxville. He’s been in the broadcast journalism field for more than 40 years. He’s been a manager in various news operations for 30 of those years.
Annie Carr
Vice President
Annie Carr is an Executive Producer at WBIR. She’s also a lecturer for the University of Tennessee’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media and a UT alumna.
Don Lindsey
Secretary
Don Lindsey is retired after 39 years as Knoxville AAA public affairs director. He is active in traffic safety education, fall prevention efforts, drug abuse prevention, and other community service activities.
Joe Creed
Treasurer
Joe Creed, the Assistant News Director for WATE-TV, had plans to be a radio DJ after college, but swerved into TV news. He has been at the station for 29 years, starting as a photographer and working on the assignment desk and as Assignment Manager before taking on his current position.
Kay Brookshire
Board Member
Kay Brookshire is a freelance writer and media consultant. She is a former reporter for the Cincinnati Post and the Kentucky bureau of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Allie Clouse
Board Member
Allie Clouse is an account executive with MoxCar Marketing + Communications. She is a former reporter for Knox News..
Fatima Hyder
Board Member
Fatima Hyder is a technical editor for Aerostar SES LLC, an Oak Ridge environmental consulting and construction-management company. She is a previous recipient of the ETSPJ scholarship, now given by the Front Page Foundation.
Katie Inman
Board Member
Katie Inman is an anchor and reporter at WBIR. She loves reporting at the station she grew up watching. Katie earned her multimedia journalism degree at Middle Tennessee State University.
Melanie Staten
Board Member
Melanie Staten spent years in Washington, D.C., on Capitol Hill, at the White House as deputy assistant press secretary and at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She was a reporter at WBAL-Baltimore and for the Manassas, Virginia, Old Bridge Observer. She was manager and a performer in the Front Page Follies.
Georgiana Vines
Board Member Emeritus
Georgiana Vines is a longtime Knoxville News Sentinel political writer. She has worked as a reporter, feature writer and editor with various newspapers during her 50-year career in journalism.
Alan Williams
Board Member
Alan Williams has been a radio and television news/sports anchor in the Knoxville market more than 40 years. He was a 2017 Front Page Follies honoree.
Bob Yarbrough
Board Member
Bob Yarbrough has worked more than three decades in broadcast journalism, co-anchoring the WVLT-TV morning news for most of his 22 years there. He gave up his early morning alarm clock and moved to NewsTalk 98.7, WOKI-FM, where he is Program Director and a midday talk show host.
How to help
Support the Front Page Foundation by making a donation.