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Jon is a veteran journalist who has worked for the Los Angeles Times, Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Daily Journal and two community weeklies, The Montclarion and The Piedmonter. He's currently one of the contributing editors for SF Public Press.

Monica Jensen, the multimedia editor at SF Public Press, is also a volunteer at the “Crosscurrents” news program on KALW Public Radio. She has been documenting a collective art project titled “Welcome to the NeighborHood” in Bayview-Hunters Point. The project has been exhibited in the Sargent Johnson Gallery in the African American Arts and Culture Complex, and will be displayed at Zeum and Art 94124. Jensen is also the winner of an honorable mention from the National Press Photographers Association Best of Photojournalism award.

Michael Stoll is executive director of the Public Press (www.sfpublicpress.org), a startup nonprofit news service for the San Francisco Bay Area fashioned on the public broadcasting business model. He has been a reporter at the Hartford Courant, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the San Francisco Examiner, and written freelance for Columbia Journalism Review, Earth Island Journal, SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Quill, the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Times.

Erin is a first-year journalism major at San Francisco State University.

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A journalism major at San Jose State University, Kevin is interested in combining his loves of writing, photography and videography into becoming a multimedia journalist after he graduates. He will be the Multimedia Editor for the Spartan Daily for the Fall 2010 semester before heading out into the world.

Richard Pestorich is a longtime Bay Area journalist who spent nearly 22 years as an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. He is currently a freelance editor and the news editor of SF Public Press.

Ambika is a multimedia reporter who specializes in arts, culture and global nonprofits. She has contributed research and stories on microcredit, stem cell politics and earthquake safety to the SF Public Press. She received her master's degree in Journalism from Boston University.

Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig is an award-winning journalist who resides in the Bay Area. She is currently an independent journalist for several local publications including being News Editor for SF Public Press. Fitzhugh-Craig is President of the Bay Area Black Journalists Association and a board member with the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

Andrew Page has been providing strategic planning, database design and support, organizational development and fundraising for nonprofits for over 20 years. A former associate director of MAPLight.org, Page continues to consult for nonprofits in the Bay Area. He is deeply concerned with the public lack of appreciation of the costs associated with independent news coverage of local government.

Gianmaria Franchini is a freelance writer and journalist who specializes in culture and arts. His writing has appeared in GT Weekly, SF360.org and NOVO magazine. He has contributed research and writing for stories on public health in Alameda County, underground farmer's markets, and public art for the SF Public Press. He has a degree in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he edited the Arts desk for City on a Hill Press. He lives in Oakland.

Jerold has written stories for The Oakland Tribune, San Mateo County Times and San Jose Mercury News. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in journalism.

Kristine Magnuson, a longtime resident of the Outer Sunset, has an awful sense of direction but a strong sense of pride and ownership in her community. She's a sometime high school English teacher who currently manages SF Engage, a community engagement initiative of SF Public Press.