San Francisco free-speech poster child Josh Wolf, who was alternately defended and attacked as an “anarchist and activist” for refusing to disgorge to the authorities his video of a protest — and paid the price by serving 226 days in federal prison in 2006 — is now a “real” journalist, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. His job at the free-circulation Palo Alto Daily Post, requires him to write several “just-the-facts” reports, such as police blotter. Wolf now “files 10 to 15 stories a week written in standard newspaper style, devoid of personal analysis, and most of his stories are only a few hundred words long and fail to include what Wolf calls the ‘significant nuances’ of his reporting,” writes the Chronicle’s Justin Berton.

Michael Stoll is senior editor and co-founder of the San Francisco Public Press. Formerly executive director, he has also been a reporter and freelance writer for local and national outlets, including the San Francisco Examiner and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has taught journalism at two Bay Area universities, and researched media ethics at Stanford.