Categories newsmakers | 1970sPosted on 2013/11/13Barbara Roessner ’75 Barbara Roessner ’75 has been selected, along with 11 other U.S. journalists, as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University for 2003-04. As a Knight Fellow, Roessner will examine the relationships between politics and the visual arts, such as film and photography, through the program’s independent course of study and special seminars. Currently a deputy managing editor at the Hartford Courant, Roessner previously worked as a reporter and editor at the Meriden Record-Journal and as a columnist for the Courant’s Life section, Northeast magazine, and op-ed page.