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. Currently he teaches journalism at San Jose State University. He lives in San Francisco.

A technologist by profession, Deepti Gottipati has more than five years of experience in application development and system design. A foray into the journalism field brought her in touch with The Public Press and she is now engaged in its organizational growth and fundraising efforts. She is looking to transition into business development, specifically in the nonprofit sector.

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 Research. 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 Journalists in Northern California. He has served as an advisor to The Public Press since its inception.

David Cohn has written for Wired, Seed, Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. While working toward his master’s degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cohn worked as the editor at Newassignment.net, which focused on citizen journalism and ways news organizations could explore the social web. Since moving on and co-organizing the Networked Journalism Summit, Cohn won a grant from the Knight Foundation to start Spot.Us a nonprofit project to pioneer community-funded reporting. See also www.digidave.org.

10 years daily newspaper reporter in Southern California (Ventura County, Santa Monica)

5 years freelance writer, LA Times, NY Times

8 years education researcher with experience writing grants and managing research projects relating to educational reform and technology in teaching multiple subjects

Tim Porter is a photographer and writer with an extensive background in newspaper and magazine journalism. An editor at large for Marin Magazine, his work has also appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the American Journalism Review. A former assistant managing editor at the San Francisco Examiner, he is the co-author of Organic Marin, Recipes from Land to Table and of News Improved, How America’s Newspapers are Learning to Change. He lives in Corte Madera, Calif., and Oaxaca, Mexico.

"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.

Marc Smolowitz is an Academy Award nominated documentary film & television producer (The Weather Underground '03, Trembling Before G-d '01), published writer, and media/marketing professional with 17+ years of diverse professional experience across all aspects of the entertainment business. He is currently the Producer at TellyTopia, an Internet/TV/Broadband Media company based in the Silicon Valley where he oversees all creative, production and marketing endeavors. In 2008, he serves as Chair of Technology Circle at Full Circle Fund. He has also been the Co-chair of the Community Technology Network (CTN) of the Bay Area since it was founded in 2001 and serves on the Professional Advisory Committee for Digital Filmmaking, Web Design & Interactive Media at the Art Institute of California-Sn Francisco. Other current involvements include: Advisory Board, The Public Press, an innovative Bay Area journalism project; Grant Maker, Cultural Funding Panels, City of Oakland & County of Alameda. From 2002-2007, he was the Development Director & Senior Staff Producer at Access SF - Cable Channels 29/76, the nonprofit that manages community access cable television for the City and County of San Francisco. In this role, he oversaw all aspects of fund raising, marketing and business development and regularly developed quality television programming with local nonprofits partners. From 1995-2001, he was the President/Founder of Turbulent Arts, Inc., an international film and television company that served as a producer, distributor and sales agent for quality independent films from around the world. Notably, the company released LILIES, the film by John Greyson that won the Canadian Genie (Oscar) for Best Picture. In 1998, Turbulent Arts was ranked the 26th largest film company in the United States entertainment market, the 14th among independents (Source: The Hollywood Reporter.) Elsewhere in his career, Smolowitz has served as Executive Director of Petaluma Community Access TV, Programming Coordinator at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Founding Programmer at the Sacramento Festival of Cinema, among other key positions in the media, film, television and not-for-profit space.

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