After more than 11 years in various roles with Alliance Wake Magazine鈥攖he last three years as Editor-in-Chief鈥Garrett Cortese (Jour)听has moved on to a new opportunity and adventure. At the start of 2017 Cortese began his new job as the Editorial Director of Watersports for the Bonnier Corporation in Winter Park, FL. His biggest duties will be to oversee the creation and production of Wakeboarding Magazine and WaterSki Magazine, both of which he read as a child growing up in California. Aside from the magazines Cortese will also help produce digital content, special issues, and brand extensions for each.
Posted Oct. 24, 2017
Robert Barba (Jour)听is deputy spot news editor for听The Wall Street Journal. He focuses on real-time coverage, including stories on mergers and acquisitions, executive changes, and quarterly results. Before his appointment at听WSJ, he held financial reporting positions at Bankrate, American Banker and Tresaure Coast Newspapers.听
Posted Nov. 15, 2018
Beth McDowell Cleveland (Jour) is a partner at the creative communications firm Praytell, a two-time winner of PRWeek鈥檚 Agency of the Year and the only agency to ever win Best Place to Work every year in business. She helped start Praytell in 2014 and has grown the company to six offices across the U.S. and London. She lives in the San Francisco area.
Posted Jun. 3, 2019
Sarah Bruckner (Comm)听moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2017 and works as a global communications manager for BASF. She also volunteers for her local Make-A-Wish chapter.听
Posted Nov. 14, 2019
In March 2018,听Chrissy Wolfram Taylor (MJour)听听joined the Chicago Tribune as managing editor of audience. Previously, she spend eight years at the听Hartford Courrant. Chrissy and her husband,听Jonathan (Film'04), have two children.听
Posted Nov. 14, 2019
Rachael (Shapiro) Lipton (MJour'04) is the copy chief of features and entertainment at the New York Post, where she has worked since 2004. Rachael edits famous gossip columnist Cindy Adams and contributes celebrity items to 鈥淧age Six.鈥 She's hired a staff of copy editors and reports directly to the managing editors.
Posted Aug. 5, 2020
Tucker Gilmore (Comm) is a vice president with CPA Global, a leading IP management, technology and services company. He lives in San Diego with his wife and 2-year-old son. They carve out time to watch the Buffs on TV as much as possible.
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
Patrick Gleason (Comm) is the Baltimore Ravens鈥 vice president of public relations. He has spent 15 seasons with the organization, including its 2012 Super Bowl- winning campaign. Patrick has also assisted with NFL communications at multiple Super Bowls and served as the AFC鈥檚 PR director at five Pro Bowls. He began his career as a student assistant in CU鈥檚 Sports Information Department.
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
Dan Hyatt (Jour) hosted and produced a number of radio shows in Denver and St. Louis between 2004 and 2008 before being hired as the production manager and associate director for Fox Sports Midwest鈥檚 broadcast
of St. Louis Cardinals games in 2007. In addition to his work with the Cardinals, he is a researcher and statistician for many other MLB and NBA broadcasts, including the baby直播app Rockies, Denver Nuggets and Indiana Pacers. He is based in Denver.
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
Rachael (Shapiro) Lipton (MJour) is the copy chief of features and entertainment at the New York Post, where she has worked since 2004. Rachael edits famous gossip columnist Cindy Adams and contributes celebrity items to Page Six. She's hired a staff of copy editors and reports directly to the managing editors.
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
Brent McHenry (Comm, Bus) is a director and producer based in Los Angeles. Since earning his MFA in cinematic arts at USC, Brent has helped produce numerous commercials, PSAs, music videos, and short and feature-length films. His most recent production, 40 Minutes Over Maui, was an official selection of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and over 40 other national and international film festivals. Most recently, he directed an ad campaign and brand anthem video for the clothing company UNI/FORM, founded by his longtime friend and fellow Buff Pat Allen (Comm鈥05).
Posted Oct. 16, 2020
While at CU, Grant McGilvray (Jour) was a member of the BuffVision family. After college, he won two technical achievement Emmy Awards while at Root Sports Rocky Mountain. He鈥檚 now creating next-generation broadcast and distribution ecosystems as an engineering architect for NBCUniversal while living in Denver with his wife, Jessica (Psych), and two sons.
Posted Oct. 20, 2021
Zach Kouwe (Jour) just celebrated his 11th anniversary at Dukas Linden Public Relations, one of the largest independent financial communication firms in the industry. His work in PR came after more than a decade as a financial journalist, including time as a staff reporter for The New York Times.
Posted Oct. 12, 2022
In April 2022, Robert Barba (Jour) joined the U.S. news desk of The Wall Street Journal as a news editor. Joining the WSJ in 2018, Barba was also part of a team named as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for a package on the 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre.
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Posted Oct. 12, 2022
Mike Bachmann (Jour) produces shows for the Cleveland Guardians and has won nine local Emmy Awards for his work. He has been married for 13 years and has three children.
Posted Aug. 26, 2024
Anthony Barbe (Comm) is a partner at the Wheeler Trigg O鈥橠onnell LLP law firm in Denver, where he chairs the firm鈥檚 recruiting committee. He is listed as a top legal talent and lives in Denver with his wife, Tara Yack (ArchEngr), and their son.
Posted Aug. 26, 2024