John Merline

According to a brief biographical profile supplied to the National Journalism Center Merline attended a course in fall 1984 and has subsequently been "editorial writer, USA Today, Washington bureau chief, Investor's Business Daily, editor, Consumer's Research, assistant editor, Times of the Americas, published in Washington Post, San Diego Union, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Slate, National Review, Weekly Standard, Tech Central Station, published by Competitive Enterprise Institute, appeared on Jim Lehrer NewsHour (PBS)". 

External link
National Journalism Center, "John Merline", accessed November 27, 2003.