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EXPERIENCE:

The Public Press -- 10/07-present
Project director -- Lead an effort to start a noncommercial, subscriber-funded and advertising-free daily newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area. More online at http://www.public-press.org.

San Jose State University -- 8/06-present
Journalism lecturer -- Teach classes on editing and investigative reporting techniques.

Grade the News, Stanford & San Jose State University -- 5/03-8/06
Associate director -- Wrote critiques and designed content analyses on Bay Area news media for Web-based research project affiliated with Stanford University's Graduate Program in Journalism and based at San Jose State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communications. www.gradethenews.org.

The San Francisco Examiner -- 11/00-11/02
City editor -- Directed and edited staff of 10 metro reporters, selected stories daily for page one; editorial page editor -- Wrote editorials, convened editorial board, edited letters and solicited op-eds; investigative reporter -- Produced in-depth projects, concentrating on environment and public policy.

The Philadelphia Inquirer -- 3/99-11/00
Suburban staff writer -- Reported on local government and schools for regional section and the front page.

The Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y. -- 6/98-3/99
Enterprise reporter -- Covered congressional race and environmental stories for upstate New York daily.

The New York Times -- 9/97-5/98
Stringer -- Gathered local news (during graduate school) in collaboration with Metro Section staff writers.

KPFA Radio, Berkeley, Calif. -- 11/96-8/97
Reporter -- Recorded original news segments for listener-sponsored station's evening broadcast.

The Hartford Courant -- 7/95-7/96
Correspondent -- Covered two-town beat in a bureau for Connecticut's largest newspaper.

FREELANCE:

SF Weekly, E/The Environmental Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Quill Magazine, Media File, Newsdesk.org, San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, The Christian Science Monitor.

EDUCATION:

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York
Master of Science, 5/98. Thesis on anti-nuclear activism on Long Island.

Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
Bachelor of Arts, 5/95. Double major: international relations and Latin American studies.

The Wesleyan Argus student newspaper -- editor in chief -- 1993
The Wesleyan Argus Magazine -- founder and editor -- 1995

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS:

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
2008 award for reporting trip to northern Guatemala to produce a multimedia package of published reports on conflicts among environmentalists over how to save the last roadless jungle areas while acknowledging human settlement and agriculture. Video/audio/print reports pending. See project blog at www.futureofpeten.com.

Punch Sulzberger News Media Executive Leadership Program
2008 Columbia University fellowship in media management, a yearlong series of seminars and consultations to advance the Public Press project.

Common Counsel Foundation
June 2007 writer in residence at the Mesa Refuge, Pt. Reyes, Calif.

Mongerson Prize for Investigative Reporting on the Media
2006 special citation to the two-person Grade the News team awarded by Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award
2006 award to Grade the News from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources
T hree weeklong expedition-style environmental reporting fellowships: "Acadian," Maine, 1998; "Savannah River," Georgia, 1999; "Golden Gate," California, 2000.

Ford Writing Fellowship at Wesleyan University, 1994-1995.

SKILLS & INTERESTS:

• Board member, Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter
• Proficient in Spanish, familiar with French
• Computer-assisted reporting, photography, Web design, radio
• Member: Investigative Reporters and Editors, Society of Environmental Journalists

REFERENCES:

Available upon request.