Won Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards (11/16/18): Newspaper Profile, First Place: “The Extremity of Love: Wu Han and David Finckels Chamber Music Odyssey... Third Place: “Midori is in the Zone” ... Non-Commercial, Feature Story / Serious Nature. Second Place: “In an Age of Ultra-Nationalism What Happens to Music," San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV.org)Won Greater Bay Area Journalism Award (11/16/17) for Digital Media, Columns-Features: First Place: “Van Cliburn and the Cruelty of the Piano,” San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV.org)Representative essays and features published in SFCV.org include:"The Orpheus Effect Revisited" (2018)"The Omnivorous Mind of Pamela Z" (2017)"The Homecoming of Mohammed Fairouz (2017)"In an Age of Ultra-Nationalism, What Happens to Music?" (2017) "Midori in the Zone" (2017)"Can Music Bring the Bluegrass State Together?" (2017)"Philip Glass's Quest to Build a Cultural Center in Big Sur" (2016)"Terms of Engagement" (2015)"Can Sacramento Ever Become Brooklyn? (And Would It Want To…)" (2015)"Clocked In … Or Locked Out at the Metropolitan Opera" (2014)"In Colleges, Content Warnings Trigger a Debate" (2014) "Balancing Rights: The Future of Copyright in the US" (2012);

Write nonfiction book abstracts. Most recent abstracts include: Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Heretic, Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now and Yuval Harari's Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind

A Discovery Channel project called "Vanity Fair Confidential" features 60-minute documentaries produced by True Entertainment. The docs are based on true-crime stories that have appeared in Vanity Fair magazine. A piece I wrote in 1990 involved a serial killer on death row at San Quentin. I have long argued there is reasonable doubt in his case and the man needs a new trial. The documentary, based loosely on the original article, played on the Discovery Channel on January 30th 2017.

Throughout the years have written for various publications, including, among many others, Nautilus, Salon, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Magazine, 7X7, California Lawyer, West Magazine (San Jose Mercury News), The Miami Herald, The International Herald Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and USA Today, where I served as the Northern California news correspondent. I was also a staff writer at San Francisco Magazine. For the last six years I've been a senior writer with San Francisco Classical Voice.Have written straight news stories, features, investigative pieces, profiles, previews, reviews, and essays. Topics include Culture, Business, Science, Sports, and Crime.As an editor have worked at these publications: Designers Illustrated, editor-in-chief, associate publisher, 1997-1999; Sequoia Inter-faith News Magazine (nonprofit), editor, 1991-1994; Tropic Magazine, (The Miami Herald), contributing editor, 1984-85; Dade County Citizens’ Crime Commission (“Mentally Ill Criminals”, A Report), project editor, 1985; Miami Magazine, managing editor, 1981-1984.While living in Morocco, 2004-06, was a stringer for Newsweek, wrote for Salon.com, Narrative.com, Tingis, a Moroccan literary magazine, and also The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). I also sold an investigative piece to ABC Australia on proselytizing by conservative Christian church groups, which is illegal in Morocco, and worked as a field producer on that project.

Full-time consultant:• Overall responsibility for news content on this major aggregator lead by Louis Borders;• Development of micro-communities formed around single topics; • Assisted engineers in developing advanced online tools for editors, including QA; • Collaborated on messaging and branding;• Helped to develop strategies to deliver related-content blocks to media publishers.* Recruited and lead a dozen volunteer topic editors to maintain taxonomy.

• Taught courses on Communications and Rhetoric;• Initiated specific curriculum for journalism courses;• Gave seminars exploring Fourth Estate themes for graduate students

• Equivalent to corporate communications director. Reports directly to DA;• Represented the office, on radio and television, as well as through press releases;• Initiated ‘fire-side chats’ with the DA, as part of a strategy to serve as a bridge not a battlement;• Orchestrated community outreach events;• Conducted a seminar for all attorneys on how to deal with the press;• Wrote a series of op-ed pieces under the DA's name, along with press releases and speeches;• Revolutionized the DA’s website by writing daily blogs of noteworthy trials.• Served in the DA's kitchen cabinet during his run for a third term.

Highlights:• "Diary of the Dog-Mauling Trial" (06/02)• "Tookie's Angel" (04/01)• "The Strange Life & Death of Margaret Bodfish" (06/00)• "Basic Instincts" (10/98)• "The Mystery of Margaret Lesher" (10/97)

• 2000 Gold Award, Writer of the Year, City and Regional Magazine Association (CRMA); • Highlight: "Love or Betrayal?", an investigative piece about tough-love camps for teens.• 1999 Maggie Award: Best Interview or Profile, "When the Dealin's Done"