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Photo:
Rich Dagel,
San Francisco Magazine
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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, 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. He was recently invited to write an imaginary retrospective of the project from five years in the future for Columbia Journalism Review.
His staff and freelance work has appeared in newspapers and
magazines nationally, including the Columbia Journalism Review, Earth Island Journal, 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.
From 2003 to 2006 he served as associate director of Grade
the News, where his work 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.
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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