Knight Center Staff

Jodi Enda became program planner for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism in 2005. She is also a freelance journalist writing about politics and government from Washington, D.C. Previously Ms. Enda was a Knight Ridder national correspondent covering the White House, Congress and the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns. For nine years she was a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, where she covered government and politics in Washington, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Earlier Ms. Enda wrote about politics and government for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the Rocky Mountain News. In 2004 she worked as newsroom manager and editor in Boston University's Washington Journalism Center. Ms. Enda is past president of the Journalism & Women Symposium, known as JAWS, and is a former member of the board of directors of the White House Correspondents' Association. In both 1999 and 2000 she won the Merriman Smith Award for White House deadline reporting. Ms. Enda earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

Sean Mussenden joined the Knight Center in July 2009 as the digital & research coordinator. He came to the center from the Washington bureau of Media General News Service, where he covered Congress, the White House and the 2008 presidential campaign as a senior multimedia reporter.  Previously, he reported for the Orlando Sentinel, where he covered the statehouse, hurricanes, Tigger’s arrest and Pluto’s death.   Mussenden has bachelor’s degree in public policy and history from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Maryland College of Journalism.

Tom Davidson became program consultant for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism in July 2009.  He advises start-ups and academic institutions on digital strategies and product development.  Previously, he was the vice president of interactive content for the Tribune Company’s northeast markets, managing Internet properties for four newspapers and three television stations. Davidson worked for more than a decade for Tribune Interactive, also serving as general manager – responsible for all content and business operations - for Tribune’s Sun-Sentinel.com in South Florida and dailypress.com in Hampton Roads, Va. From 1988 to 2000, he served a variety of newsroom roles at Tribune’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel, including three years as the paper’s Broward Metro editor.  In 1998, he was awarded a year-long Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, where he studied media economics and the impact of the Internet on journalism. Davidson grew up in Minneapolis, and received a bachelor’s degree from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.