On Tuesday there was a News Forum featuring editors from local news organizations. The panel consisted of Eugenia Chien from Muni Diaires, Lydia Chavez from Mission Local, Michael Stoll from SF Public Press, Pueng Vong From Yahoo! News and Queena Kim from Bay Citizen News. The forum gave students a chance to read real perspectives from real people in the journalism industry.
Chien is a San Francisco State graduate that started Muni Diaries as in her reporting class and blossomed into a website with mostly user-generated stories about transportation. Vong was an advocate for citizen journalism allowing anyone to report stories within their neighborhood.
The San Francisco Public Press, represented by Stoll, was very different from the other publications in their approach to journalism. It mostly uses interns and students to create their content. In contrast to Yahoo! News, The San Francisco Public Press vigorously fact check and are a non-commercial publication. They model their publication after public broadcast.
Chavez says that Mission Local's is also mostly student generated. Chavez says that Mission Local is mostly used as training for journalist in the Berkeley and the rest of the Bay Area. However, she doubts how the publication will be doing in a couple of years if they don't find funding for the program.
Kim says that the Bay Citizen has greatly benefited from corporate sponsorships to keep their publication funded. However, she still hesistates to recommend going to graduate school for journalism. She argues that unlike law school, an advanced degree will not yield the return you would expect to pay back for school.
Overall, the forum gave students a chance to learn more about the current status of the industry and network for future opportunities for internships and jobs.
Where am I?
The view from here
Doorway
Where is it? Is it in your neighborhood?
Gino
Corner of Haight and Octavia
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