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Michael Stoll is a journalist, media critic and journalism
educator. He teaches editing and reporting classes at San Jose State University's School
of Journalism and Mass Communications, where he previously served as associate director of Grade
the News, an award-winning independent watchdog project. He is also a freelance writer
specializing in environmental and political reporting, and
a First Amendment activist.
Recently Stoll has been active developing the Public Press project, an effort to build a noncommercial Web-print newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area.
His staff and freelance work has appeared in newspapers and
magazines nationally, including the Philadelphia Inquirer,
the Christian Science Monitor and the San Francisco
Examiner. He has also written for the Hartford Courant,
the San Jose Mercury News, the Miami Herald,
the San Francisco Bay Guardian, E/The Environmental
magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Quill and SF
Weekly. In the late 1990s he reported as a stringer for
the Metro section of the New York Times.
His work at Grade the News has received recognition
from Columbia Journalism Review for exposing
the deceptive practices of local television news producers
in San Jose and across the country.
In 2006, Grade the News won two national journalism awards:
the Mongerson Prize
for Investigative Reporting on the Media from
the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
and the Professional Freedom
and Responsibility Award, presented at the annual conference
of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
in San Francisco.
Stoll has given talks on journalism ethics to professional
groups and students in the San Francisco Bay Area. A May
2004 story he wrote for Grade the News inspired a panel
discussion at the Center for California Studies' "Envisioning
California" government reform conference in October
2004 at Sacramento State University.
In March 2006 he appeared on a televised panel at a symposium
for the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts department
at San Francisco State University. The panel was titled "The
Newscast of 2015: How Technology May Change the Definition
of News."
His San Jose State classes are Information
Gathering (Journalism 132) and Editing
and News Management (Journalism 133).
He is an active member of the Bay Area freedom-of-information
community, an adviser to the non-profit online news project
Newsdesk.org, and secretary
of the board of the Society
of Professional Journalists' Northern California chapter.
He is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia
University. He lives in San Francisco.
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