Mr. Strouse brings a wealth of experience in multimedia journalism and an appreciation of South Florida to the student-staffed South Florida Media Network and the classroom. He has worked at the Miami Herald, South Florida Sun Sentinel, Los Angeles Times and – for two decades – at Miami New Times and New Times Broward Palm Beach as editor-in-chief. He is fluent in Spanish and Russian, with an honors degree in Russian Studies from Brown University and a Masters in Spanish-Language Journalism from FIU. Strouse has been a Knight International Press Fellow in Albania and consulted for non-profit media groups across the former Soviet Union on founding a free press. He has reported from two dozen countries and spent eight years on the board of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.