Jeremy Adam Smith, Author at San Francisco Public Press

Jeremy Adam Smith

Jeremy Adam Smith’s coverage of <a href="https://sfpublicpress.org/schooldiversity">racial</a> and <a href="https://sfpublicpress.org/news/2014-02/how-budget-cuts-and-PTA-fundraising-undermined-equity-in-san-francisco-public-schools">economic</a> segregation in San Francisco schools has won numerous honors for the Public Press, most recently the Sigma Delta Chi Award and the Education Writers Association National Award, both for investigative reporting. His work has also twice won the John Swett Award from the California Teachers Association and he’s worked on three Public Press projects that won excellence in explanatory or investigative journalism awards from the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He writes about behavioral science for the <a href="http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/">Greater Good Science Center</a> at UC Berkeley. Before joining the GGSC, Jeremy was a 2010-2011 John S. Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University. He is the author or coeditor of four books, most recently <a href="http://www.beacon.org/Are-We-Born-Racist-P820.aspx">“Are We Born Racist?”</a> and <a href="http://secure.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=361">“Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood.”</a> You can <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremyadamsmith">follow him</a> on Twitter.

Labor

Half of Bay Area newspaper jobs gone in last decade

05.23.2011

By Jeremy Adam Smith, Freelance writer and Michael Stoll, Executive director

MEDIA CENSUS: Newspapers hardest hit, losing nearly 4,000 workers
This article appeared as part of the Public Press’ Spring print edition media package of stories.
State and federal labor statistics show that employment among Bay Area media workers fell 43 percent since 2001, a result of massive restructuring at local news outlets whose financial losses measured in the billions of dollars. Newspapers were hit the hardest, shedding upwards of 4,000 employees. As dozens of papers merged in an effort to cut costs, reporters who used to compete for scoops found their jobs redundant. While employment appears to have risen in the television and radio sector over all, journalists among them did not fare so well, state employment data suggest.

Labor

One million missing stories

05.11.2011

By Jeremy Adam Smith, Freelance writer

POST PINK SLIPS: Displaced journalists see opportunities to cover community on their own
This article appeared as part of the Public Press’ Spring print edition media package of stories.
Since 2000, metro newspapers across the country have laid off an estimated 14,000 (out of 56,400) editors and reporters — a number that does not include journalists working for wire services, weekly newspapers or other media, all of which have suffered their own losses — according to blogger Ken Doctor, who writes the influential Newsonomics blog for the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard. There are simply fewer trained eyes on city halls, police departments, schools and corporate boardrooms. As Doctor writes on his blog, “That news-gathering … is what’s key to community information and understanding, fairly prerequisite in our struggling little democracy.”

Environment

Can Treasure Island realize its ecotopian dream?

06.25.2010

By Jeremy Adam Smith, Freelance writer

The Treasure Island redevelopment, which aims to be the most ecologically sustainable community in the world, delivers a positive self-image of San Francisco as a forward-looking, avant-garde, socially and environmentally responsible metropolis. Nothing excites the utopian impulse more than a blank slate — and Treasure Island’s 486 acres have been semi-abandoned since the Navy shut down its base in 1997.