Resume

Experience

Independent journalist

Veteran print journalist with diverse experience in daily news coverage as well as long-form investigative takeouts in a wide variety of subject areas. Edited and produced the former Bay Area Observer, a website focused on San Francisco Bay Area media, politics, culture and locale. Contributor to several magazines, including San Francisco and the late California Lawyer.

Staff Writer, SF Weekly

2002 - 2008

Staff Writer, New Times Los Angeles

1996 - 2002

Adjunct journalism instructor, Santa Monica College

1995 - 2002

Staff Writer, Los AngelesTimes

1987-1995

Staff Writer, Memphis Commercial Appeal

1973-1982

Staff Writer, Mid-South Magazine

(Sunday magazine of the Memphis Commercial Appeal)

1980 - 1982

Education

University of Southern California

Los Angeles

Master of Arts in International Journalism, 1987

John M. Olin Fellow, USC Center for International Journalism

Fellow, El Colegio de Mexico

Mexico City
1986-87

UCLA

Los Angeles

Master of Arts in Latin American Studies, 1986

UCLA

Los Angeles

Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies, 1984

Certificate, summer language institute

National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1983

Mexico City

Attended University Of Memphis

Memphis

1982-83

Selected Awards & Honors

Pulitzer Prize for spot news (shared) / Los Angeles Times
Investigative Reporters and Editors / finalist
Silver Medallion for Excellence in investigative reporting / State Bar of California
Food News Reporting, first place / Association of Food Journalists
Award for investigative reporting/ Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN)
Malcolm Law Award for feature writing / Tennessee AP-Managing Editors Association
five-time finalist, Penney Journalism Awards (Missouri Lifestyle) / University of Missouri School of Journalism
awards for investigative reporting, feature writing, headline writing / Los Angeles Press Club
writing and reporting awards / San Francisco Peninsula Press Club