Susan Mernit relays a question from one community member in Oakland. According to the available data, the answer appears to be a resounding “no.”
Tag: Oakland
On IdeaLab: Reporter-turned-blogger covers the island of Alameda
Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, I interviewed Michele Ellson, editor and publisher at The Island, a local news site devoted to covering the city of Alameda, which sits to the west of Oakland in San Francisco Bay. (Yes, it’s an island.)
Michele left newspapers in 2007 and launched The Island in early 2008, continuing a 17+ year journalism career. I worked with Michele on the regional desk at ANG, before it became BANG, but you know it more informally as the cluster of newspapers in the Bay Area owned by MediaNews. Back then, she was an investigative/enterprise reporter winning awards for a long series on the failures of group homes for young people and the developmentally disabled.
I talked with Michele about moving from a print-focused newsroom to a Web-only culture where she is the reporter, editor, community manager, and communications officer of her own organization:
“That’s another thing that I think was a shock for me in moving from print to online – the shift in what your readers want and expect from you in terms of their psychic needs (which shift from information to attention-getting, sometimes) and the kind of engagement they anticipate. I figure it’ll take a lot of work for me to fine-tune that engagement level.”
The Island of Alameda
Local news blog in the East Bay by a former MNG reporter.
4/29truth.com
Genius. Get the truth about the freeway collapse. Before it gets you. via Josh R.
Peninsula Press Club: Reynolds named ME of Oakland Tribune
Way to go Martin!
Oakland Tribune to Abandon Downtown – East Bay Express
The Trib without the Tower? Ugh.
Layoffs Imminent at Major East Bay Dailies – eastbayexpress.com
My theory for months has been that only the higher-paid reporters at ANG would get classified as redundant, but the latest internal memo makes things sound ugly for my friends in the East Bay.
Layoffs Imminent at Major East Bay Dailies – eastbayexpress.com
BART Station Maps and Timetables
BART/Google Map mashup. Totally necessary.
In search of the transcendent taqueria – SF Chronicle
The best Bay Area burritos, although he doesn’t go any further south than Half Moon Bay.