Steering Committee
Michael
Stoll, TPP project director,
journalism
instructor – San
Jose
State
University
David
Cohn,
director – Spot.us
Deepti
Gottipati, technology
entrepreneur
Tom
Honig, retired
editor – Santa
Cruz
Sentinel
Steve
Jones,
city
editor – San
Francisco
Bay
Guardian
Leslie
Katz,
editor – CNET.com
Lila
LaHood,
independent
grant
writer
and
journalist
Tom
Murphy,
editor –
RedwoodAge.com
Marc
Smolowitz,
technology
chair –
Full
Circle
Fund
Michael
Winter,
freelance
online
editor
Suzanne
Yada,
page
editor,
Visalia
Times‐Delta
Louise
Yarnall,
former
Los
Angeles
area
reporter,
grant
writer – SRI
Staff
Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, news editor
Local Volunteers, Supporters, and Contributors
Bea
Ahbeck,
freelance
photojournalist
Cristina
Azocar,
director – Center
for
Integration
and
Improvement
of
Journalism,
S.F.
State
University
David
Barreda,
photojournalist – San
Jose
Mercury
News
Chris
Borden,
voice over
artist
Rebecca
Bowe,
reporter – San
Francisco
Bay
Guardian
Lindsay
Bryant,
former
managing
editor –
The
Spartan
Daily,
San
Jose
State
University
Heather
Cassell,
freelance
reporter
Samuel
Chapman,
freelance
journalist, reporter – World
Affairs
Council
Lisa
Chung,
former
columnist – San
Jose
Mercury
News
Rene
Ciria Cruz,
associate
editor – California
Lawyer
magazine
Christopher
Cook,
freelance
writer
and
author –
“Diet
for
a
Dead
Planet”
Rhyen
Coombs,
student – UC
Berkeley
Graduate
School
of
Journalism
Desiree
Cox,
webslinger – Quiddities
Malkia
Cyril, director – Center
for
Media
Justice
Bethany
Fleishman,
freelance
journalist
Louis
Freedberg,
director – California
Media
Collaborative
Neal
Gorenflo,
online
strategist – Smartlife
Matthew
Hirsch,
freelance
writer
John
Hornberg,
managing
editor –
The
Spartan
Daily,
San
Jose
State
University
Monica
Jensen,
freelance
photojournalist
Holly
Kernan,
news
director -
Crosscurrents
on
KALW
Radio
Ambika
Kandasamy,
student –
Boston
University
College
of
Communication
Dorothy
Kidd,
professor
– University
of
San
Francisco
Tim
Kingston,
freelance
writer
Richard
Knee,
freelance
writer
and
member
of
San
Francisco
Sunshine
Ordinance
Task
Force
Josh Koltun,
First
Amendment
lawyer
Mack
Lundstrom, journalism
instructor – San
Jose
State
University
David
Mathison,
author – “Be
the
Media”
Pam
MacLean,
California
bureau
chief –
National
Law
Journal
Susan
Mernit,
social
media
entrepreneur,
director – 2008
Knight
News
Challenge
Brian
Moore,
designer – 499
Commute
Chris
O’Brien,
director – Next Newsroom
project,
columnist – San
Jose
Mercury
News
Matt
O’Brien,
reporter – Bay
Area
News
Group
Brenda
Payton,
freelance
writer
Jeff
Perlstein,
program
coordinator
for
media
policy – Grantmakers
in
Film
&
Electronic
Media
Lisa
Pickoff White,
student -
UC
Berkeley
Graduate
School
of
Journalism
Kevin
Rand,
former
editor –
The
Spartan
Daily,
San
Jose
State
University
Jon
Rochmis,
journalism
instructor,
San
Francisco
State
&
City
College
of
San
Francisco
Jonathan
Rowe,
founding
co‐director -
West
Marin
Commons, contributing
editor – Washington
Monthly
Maritza
Schafer,
online
strategist,
Green
for
All
Lisa
Sculati,
writer
and
radio
journalist
Norman
Solomon,
director – Institute
for
Public
Accuracy
Mike
Strickland,
photojournalist
and
editor – SF
Civic
Center
blog
Luke
Thomas,
photojournalist
and
editor,
FogCityJournal.com
Lorri
Ungaretti,
freelance
writer
and
editor
Venise
Wagner,
journalism
department
chair –
San
Francisco
State
University
Jim
Welte,
freelance
reporter
Carmel
Wroth,
multimedia
producer
Josh
Wolf,
reporter – Palo
Alto
Daily
Post
Bernice
Yeung,
freelance
writer
Jonathan
Zuk,
multimedia
producer
National Journalist Advisory Board
C.
Edwin
Baker,
professor
of
law – University
of
Pennsylvania, author –
“Media
Concentration
and
Democracy:
Why
Ownership
Matters”
Bill
Briggs,
director –
School
of
Journalism
and
Mass
Communications,
San
Jose
State
University
Chris
Daly,
professor
of
journalism – Boston
University
Bill
Densmore,
director –
Media
Giraffe
Project,
University
of
Massachusetts –
Amherst
Ted
Glasser,
professor
of
journalism – Stanford
University
Linda
Jue,
executive
director –
New
Voices
in
Independent
Journalism
Joe
Mathewson,
professor
of
journalism – Medill
Journalism
School,
Northwestern
University
John
McManus,
project
director –
GradeTheNews.org
James
Naughton,
former
president – Poynter
Institute,
former
editor – Philadelphia
Inquirer
Ricardo
Sandoval,
president –
Society
of
Professional
Journalists (Northern California Chapter), assistant
city
editor –
Sacramento
Bee
Martha
Steffens,
professor
of
journalism – Missouri
School
of
Journalism
Tom
Stites,
contributing
editor –
Center
for
Public
Integrity
David
Wallis,
founder
and
editor –
Featurewell.com,
author
of
“Killed:
Great
Journalism
Too
Hot
to
Print”
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