Vicki Haddock Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California Area

CalMatters is a rapidly expanding 6-year-old nonprofit journalism venture committed to explaining how California’s state Capitol and government works and why it matters to the vast array of Californians.The environment, education, health care, criminal justice, economic inequality – the debates on these issues and others have a profound impact on the lives of 38 million Californians and beyond. Yet, mirroring trends across the country, there has been a significant decline in the number of journalists covering the Capitol in Sacramento. This has meant fewer eyes on decision makers, and a public that feels disconnected from its state government.Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives. To ensure we reach many Californians, we freely share our work, which appears in nearly 200 newspapers, online, on public radio and TV stations across the state. Our work has been honored with awards including an ONA award for news features, Editor & Publisher's EPPY award for journalism innovation, and multiple awards from the National Press Foundation, Best of the West, NorCal SPJ and top general-excellence honors from the California News Publishers Association.Find our work at calmatters.org. If you believe in quality journalism, please consider becoming a member and donating to support our work. And if you want to practice quality journalism, please apply at calmatters.org.

California, United States

Bekeley, Ca

California Magazine is an award-winning general-interest magazine and website to provoke the exchange of cutting-edge ideas about politics, culture, science, law, technology, business, the arts and more. It is an independent journalistic operation supported by the Cal Alumni Association, UC Berkeley. Achievements: —Sharpened and deepened the editorial vision of the online operation —Increased website article traffic 1,200 % in two years, adding 2 million page views —Stories linked to or shared by New York Times, NPR, re/code, HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Huffington Post, Yahoo News, The Browser —Developed hundreds of assignments for deadline news, in-depth analysis and features —Average reader time spent on each article page has grown to an average of 6 minutes —Recruited and collaborated with an expanding pool of top-talent California freelance writers —Coordinated with editors of the print magazine to develop complementary topic treatments —Edited, coded and produce at least a dozen new story packages each month —Managed the CMS for californiamag.org's landing page, topic pages and story pages —Marketed each story to appropriate readers via Facebook, Twitter, blogs, aggregators, etc —Produced and managed operating budget of website —Served as evangelist for California Magazine from SXSW to University of California events

Freelance journalist, with articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times, California Magazine, San Francisco Magazine, Parenting, Chicago Tribune, Kansas City Star, Newsday, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Toronto Star. 2008 to 2013Co-author, "Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism" -- the memoirs of broadcasting pioneer Belva Davis. 2011 PoliPoint Press (paperback due Jan 2012, Berrett-Koehler)Writer, Keybridge Communications, Washington D.C. Contracted to ghost write dozens of op-eds signed by political figures, former Cabinet secretaries, CEOs, labor union executives, policy activists and other opinion leaders, for placement in The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, local newspapers, etc. 2009 2011Grant writer, A Home Away from Homelessness -- a Bay Area nonprofit serving hundreds of homeless and formerly homeless children and youth. 2008 to 2013

San Francisco

San Francisco Bay Area

General assignment reporter, state political columnist, assistant city editor. Received "Best in the West" award and work was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize

Education record

Activities and Societies: Digital Media Skills certificate

Bachelor Of Journalism