Michael Stoll is the project director for the Public Press. He has been a reporter for the Hartford Courant, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Francisco Examiner, and written freelance for SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Quill, the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times. He was previously associate director of Grade the News (www.gradethenews.org), a media watchdog group for the San Francisco Bay Area. He lives in San Francisco.

A techie by profession caught in the corporate world, I am looking to transition into the non-profit side. I am here to learn and contribute in this endeavor.

During his three decades in journalism, Tom Murphy has been a writer, editor, manager and entrepreneur with an emphasis on real-time and interactive media. He's worked with The Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and MarketWatch.com, where he was founding Managing Editor. He's served as Editor-in-Chief at RedHerring.com, Emerging Business magazine, Revenue magazine and Montgomery Securities. Murphy is currently Editor-in-Chief and Chairman of the national news site RedwoodAge.com and a member of the board of the Society of Professional Journalist in Northern California. He has served as an advisor to The Public Press since its inception.

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"Webmaster." It's the latest title I've acquired since meeting Professor Michael Stoll. Before, it was student, friend and intern (in no particular order).
I will be working closely with Michael and Kevin Rand, the executive editor at the Spartan Daily, on improving the Web site, designing prototypes for the Public Press and working on any tasks assigned.
I will graduate from SJSU in May with a degree in print journalism and a minor in political science. In June, I am moving to Colorado to intern on the sports copy desk for the Denver Post.

I am a 26-year-old graduating senior at SJSU, who is working on a print journalism degree. Though relatively green with regard to media and media studies, my interest piqued as soon as began studying journalism about 4 years ago. I consider my self forward-thinking, though I am usually skeptical, or at least questioning, of anything considered authoritative.

After graduation, I plan to continue to work in media, but I am still searching for that perfectly comfortable niche in the field.

My strengths are in reporting and writing. I've always considered myself a natural at gathering information.

Anyone, feel free to contact me at my listed e-mail address.

I have been a print journalist/copy editor and a writer/associate producer for documentary, educational and corporate film and video productions. I currently work with individuals and non-profit organizations to get news of their events into the mainstream San Francisco Bay Area print and electronic media

Tom is an editor, entrepreneur and writer with a passion for strengthening journalism and democracy.

As an editor Tom has supervised reporting that has won an array of major journalism awards including the Pulitzer Prize; as an entrepreneur he has been the founding publisher of two print magazines, a newsletter, and an on-line magazine. His writings and speeches on strengthening democracy and on journalism have won a respectful following.

Positions he has held include managing editor of The Kansas City Times; national correspondent, national editor, and associate managing editor for project reporting at The Chicago Tribune, and night national editor of The New York Times. Most recently he served for a decade as the editor and publisher of UU World, the national magazine of the Unitarian Universalist religious denomination.

Currently Tom is a consulting editor for the Center for Public Integrity. He is working on a book about power and the conscience.

Tom grew up in Kansas City and attended Williams College. He has taught in the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and conducted seminars at several journalism schools. In 2006 he was a Resident Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.