Walking
Gregor,
a jaguar,
at
age 14.
Journalism Awards
1991
- Society of Professional Journalists —
Outstanding Young Journalist
Awarded by Northern California chapter for body of work (under 35 years old; all media except daily print) - Peninsula Press Club — Third Place, Serious
Feature
Article on media coverage of the Persian Gulf War and the Project Censored media criticism project (all newspapers)
1990
- Peninsula Press Club — Second Place,
Newspaper Series/Team Effort
Primary writer, researcher and project editor for special issue devoted to the link between land use patterns and transportation problems in the San Francisco Bay Area (all newspapers) - National Newspaper Association — Second
Place, Freedom of Information
Special issue on how exemptions have weakened California's open-meetings and public-records laws (all newspapers) - California Newspaper Publishers Association
— First Place, Special Issue
Project editor and primary writer for special issue on corruption in the California state Legislature (major weeklies)
1989
- Peninsula Press Club — Second Place,
Newspaper Series/Individual Effort
Investigative report on San Francisco's lack of preparedness for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake (all newspapers) - Peninsula Press Club — Third Place,
Newspaper Series/Group Effort
For 1989 special issue on legislative corruption (all newspapers) - National Newspaper Association — First
Place, Freedom of Information
Special issue on the fight to guarantee public access to computerized government records (all newspapers) - National Newspaper Association — Third
Place, Business and Economic News
One of two writers for series on San Francisco budget crisis (weekly division)
1988
- California Newspaper Publishers Association
— First Place, Resource Coverage
Joint award for special issue on the state of the Bay Area environment (major weeklies)
Under my leadership, the San Francisco Bay Guardian received a dozen awards for excellence in writing, news reporting, design, and arts and lifestyle coverage. My work was recognized four times by Project Censored, a national media criticism program, and three times by Bay Area Censored, a San Francisco program modeled after the national project. Reporters working under my editing and direction have won several major awards.